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Old 02-20-2019, 01:26 PM
 
Location: From Sunny Honolulu to Rainy Puget Sound Area
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I grew up in Hawaii where the concept of Daylight Savings was not observed. So when I moved to California after high school to attend college, I was really skeptical and not used to changing the time one hour behind in November, and one hour ahead in March.

After learning about changing our clock time after having worked in various cities, Chicago, Indy, DC and Bay Area, I got used to changing my time during these times of the year.

Recently, WA lawmakers are debating whether WA needs to observe daylight savings time.

I honestly hope and pray that WA does get RID of observing daylight savings. I quite frankly, do NOT like daylight savings time.

I always get tired for about one week after having to change my clock time. Even if it is for one hour time difference.

What do you guys think about this daylight savings time concept?

Here is an article regarding WA lawmakers debating today about daylight savings time from King5 website.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/l...f-f2ad7b07e960
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Old 02-20-2019, 01:34 PM
 
Location: WA
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I honestly hope and pray that WA does get RID of observing daylight savings. I quite frankly, do NOT like daylight savings time.
I agree.
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Old 02-20-2019, 01:40 PM
 
Location: From Sunny Honolulu to Rainy Puget Sound Area
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I agree.
Exactly!

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Old 02-20-2019, 03:01 PM
 
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I'm fine either way but our winter days are very short in December and would be even shorter without daylight savings time. Looks like OP plans to return to Hawaii so why does it matter?
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Old 02-20-2019, 03:22 PM
 
Location: North Seattle
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I'm fine either way but our winter days are very short in December and would be even shorter without daylight savings time. Looks like OP plans to return to Hawaii so why does it matter?
Winter days are not affected by Daylight Saving time. That is unless we switch to permanent DST, which means winter days' sunset would be one hour later, i.e. today's sunset time would be 6:40 pm instead of 5:40 pm, so I'm not sure what you mean either way.
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Old 02-20-2019, 05:02 PM
 
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Don 't really know which is which, but would prefer sunset at 6:40 instead of 5:40
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:11 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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I'm fine either way but our winter days are very short in December and would be even shorter without daylight savings time. Looks like OP plans to return to Hawaii so why does it matter?
What? The winter days would be the same as they are now. It's the summer days that would get dark at around 9 pm instead of 10 pm, which is fine by me. Just curious: does Alaska have DST? If so, what on earth for??
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Old 02-20-2019, 06:38 PM
 
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What? The winter days would be the same as they are now. It's the summer days that would get dark at around 9 pm instead of 10 pm, which is fine by me. Just curious: does Alaska have DST? If so, what on earth for??
Yes, I flipped it. However, you live in New Mexico, right? Aren't their days fairly equal?
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Old 02-20-2019, 09:08 PM
 
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Having lived in Hawai'i and Arizona (only the reservation changes time), I'm totally on board with this idea and frequently thought that after moving here about 5 years ago.

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Yes, I flipped it. However, you live in New Mexico, right? Aren't their days fairly equal?
Having also lived in New Mexico, the days weren't fairly equal where I was (northern half of the state). They were much more equal in Hawai'i, with about an hour's difference between winter and summer sunset times.
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Old 02-20-2019, 09:35 PM
 
Location: Seattle area
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I'm fine either way but our winter days are very short in December and would be even shorter without daylight savings time. Looks like OP plans to return to Hawaii so why does it matter?
Wrong. Summer days would be "shorter". It would get dark at 8:30. I would support daylight savings all year which means it would get dark at 5:30 in December which makes days feel longer.
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