Ah. DST begins and Spring is here

Just one more thing "they" thought they have some sort of control over and tried to fix while expecting great results.

 

I don’t care which they settle on, just quit changing it. Personally I’ll keep the early daylight hours to hunt or get chores done before work rather than after

 

I believe the real time is what we just exited. Any state can choose to stick with that but it requires an act of congress to allow states to stick with the time we are in now. The only thing congress can agree on on is giving themselves raises so I'm not holding my breath.

 

Exemptions and opting out are already built into the current regs. States can do what they want, is how it should be. Southern states closer to the equator don't benefit much of anything from DST and may actually be costing them with an "extra hour of A/C".

 

States can choose to stay with the actual time, not the other way around.


Why doesn't every state have Daylight Saving Time?
Daylight saving time was enacted as a legal requirement by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Under the act, states can exempt themselves from daylight saving time. They do not require permission from the Department of Transportation to opt out from daylight saving time. While states can opt out of observing daylight saving time, they cannot choose to be on permanent daylight saving time.

 

Yes. They can opt out but cannot stay on permanent daylight savings time.

 

I understand how you all feel but I love light at 7pm

 

Its only the older semi retired farmers that wait for daybreak to start...and even then, only some of them, the rest have half a "factory shift" in before daylight!

 

They called it: Time to make hay.


The U.S. experimented with year round DST in 1970. Not too many people liked it and many people absolutely hated it in the mid of Winter. I used to have to be to work for 6AM back then and I don't remember it. I guess I didn't give a rat's posterior back then either.

 

Next thing you know, they'll want to add more hours to the day or more days to the week......heck, even an extra month to make up for all of those paid holidays!

 

Most people I know hate normal time but they think they hate DST.

 

Standard time is the time it is supposed to be normally as dictated and assigned by the nature and the earth's rotation.

Daylight savings time is the adjusted time (what we just switched to....spring, summer, fall) and is the time dictated by man trying once again to overcome what is natural.

First one is real, second one is fabricated by man.

 

We tried DST year round. People hated it in the Winter.
And yet some states /regions want to try again.

Standard time year round (like some states and territories practice) might make more sense.
Some states are considering year round standard time and opting out of DST.

The EU is getting closer to ending DST and whn/if they do that may give a nudge to efforts here, although the full-time DST lobbyists will certainly have their say and spend their monies to stop it.

In the meantime, the opposing groups will continue to squabble and I will
Any changes will yield the same and I will

 

Yep! And trying to get the kid/s to go to bed when it's still light out is a chore...