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Daylight hours are already back to where they were in late October when we were still on DST but late solar noon's would cause sunrise times to be too late if we did the switch now.
They used to do year-round Daylight Savings Time during both World Wars and during the energy crisis in 1974 and 75. I remember reading somewhere the extension was repealed in '76 because there was a sharp increase in auto accidents and fatalities caused by cars hitting students walking to school and waiting for their buses in pre-dawn darkness.
They used to do year-round Daylight Savings Time during both World Wars and during the energy crisis in 1974 and 75. I remember reading somewhere the extension was repealed in '76 because there was a sharp increase in auto accidents and fatalities caused by cars hitting students walking to school and waiting for their buses in pre-dawn darkness.
I would still prefer we do DST year-round, get rid of Standard Time and just shift school hours an hour later from November to March lol. If we didn't change our clocks the sunset time we're getting now would have happened in December instead and it be setting closer to 7pm at this point.
I would still prefer we do DST year-round, get rid of Standard Time and just shift school hours an hour later from November to March lol. If we didn't change our clocks the sunset time we're getting now would have happened in December instead and it be setting closer to 7pm at this point.
Year round DST would work for places in the eastern half of their respective time zones, but not for places like Boise, Bismarck, Louisville, and Grand Rapids which would all see sunrises in December-January at 9:15-9:20am. Even where I live, under year-round DST our sunrise would be at 8:40am during early winter. Though I would prefer year-round standard time, I would compromise and have one final 30 minute shift in between DST and Standard time and make that the new standard along with adjustment to time zone boundaries to avoid abnormally late sunrise times. I would even compromise with having DST at the old start/end dates at the last Sunday in April/last Sunday in October. I miss having 5am sunrises during the spring and having a more gradual transition from winter to spring, rather than being thrown into evenings that have similar sunsets to late summer in early March when we still have snow on the ground.
Year round DST would work for places in the eastern half of their respective time zones, but not for places like Boise, Bismarck, Louisville, and Grand Rapids which would all see sunrises in December-January at 9:15-9:20am. Even where I live, under year-round DST our sunrise would be at 8:40am during early winter. Though I would prefer year-round standard time, I would compromise and have one final 30 minute shift in between DST and Standard time and make that the new standard along with adjustment to time zone boundaries to avoid abnormally late sunrise times. I would even compromise with having DST at the old start/end dates at the last Sunday in April/last Sunday in October. I miss having 5am sunrises during the spring and having a more gradual transition from winter to spring, rather than being thrown into evenings that have similar sunsets to late summer in early March when we still have snow on the ground.
I'm the total opposite. I can't stand early sunsets or anything before 7pm and love that they extended DST into March. As it stands now, I only have to wait another 3 weeks for the sunset to be past 7pm again instead of 7 weeks which was the old way before 2007.
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