OT: Daylight or Standard Time

[Hankster]

There's a proposal to end Daylight Savings Time. But that has led to confusion about whether it's really ending the switch and keeping DST all year. It was tried once before in the early 70's and people hated it. We might hate full-time Standard time even more. What do you want to see happen?

You have a great memory. I don't recall that happening in the 70's. I was stationed in Germany from mid 70's. So I might have missed. I have been done with DST for years. Hate it.

 

[BuffaloHusky]

Keep one or the other but stop switching. Anyone with young kids knows how much of a hassle the two changes are every year.

 

[QuickDraw]

I'm all for EST, some seem to not care about what time the sun rises but for those of us with day jobs having sunrise at 8:30 is a non-starter for me, 9:30 on the western side of the same time zone.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I ____ing hated the time zone living in Boston. In summer it was light at 5 am, which did nothing for me, but didn't have much light past 8 pm in the best of circumstances.

Winter was brutal, dark at 4 pm.

That’s with DST. Here in metro Boston if we go to Standard time we have sunrises closer to 4:00 AM. Summer sunsets only a bit after 7:00. Hence the last option. Standard time on Eastern time here would be horrible most of the year.

I should have included the half hour shift option. As you can all see, where you live makes a huge difference. Sunbelt locations are less affected no matter what is chosen. In the north it’s a big impact and how close you are to the edge of a time zone matters quite a bit too. There’s no good answer for everyone.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'd much rather it be light out in the summer until 9pm than it be sunny at 4am and dark at 8pm.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

If one enjoys getting in some golf after work, DST is great. I could play until close to 9pm in CT. And in Pittsburgh, it's close to 10pm the two weeks before and after the equinox. It's a beautiful thing.

That’s a simple fix .,since you have an extra hour of daylight in the morning start and end work an hour earlier ..in reality during DLST you’re really going in a 7 not 8 because your pretending it’s later than it really is .
The Day never actually changes it’s a man made illusion

 

[ctchamps]

There's a proposal to end Daylight Savings Time. But that has led to confusion about whether it's really ending the switch and keeping DST all year. It was tried once before in the early 70's and people hated it. We might hate full-time Standard time even more. What do you want to see happen?

If the rest of us get as confused as you were yesterday about the location of the Jayhawks game I think a study should be done to determine if there is a correlation between confusion and time change.

Personally Dr. Who subscribes to the theory that time is “more likely a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey … stuff”.

My only recommendation is we shouldn’t cross our timelines.

 

[bcisco]

I don’t understand how anyone over the age of 8 doesn’t know the difference between the two. How soft of a society are we becoming where we can’t handle an hour of time change twice a year. Living in CT my whole life I welcome the extra hour of sunlight in the warmer months when we can actually go outside and enjoy it.

 

[alphasigko]

DST all the time for me!

 

[WillB4]

Like that ad back in the day, “Set it and forget it”.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I'd much rather it be light out in the summer until 9pm than it be sunny at 4am and dark at 8pm.

This is the way.

 

[dog bone]

Keep it the same as it is now... I enjoy all the whining twice a year

 

[HooperScooper]

Keep it the same as it is now... I enjoy all the whining twice a year

Plus how would we know when to change the batteries in our smoke detectors?

 

[jdb50]

Spring ahead 1/2 hour this Spring and leave it there.

 

[87Xfer]

Coming from a state that doesn’t have DST
for an excellent reason . Only an absolute idiot would suggest adding an hour of daylight at the hottest part of the day at the expense of the coolest The desert cooling allowed me to golf every summer day in comfort .
In fact I think there would be financial benifit to businesses setting the clocks back an additional hour in the summer.in AZ
As for the rest of the country i also personally prefer the two hour difference vs the 3 for events and family contacts . I realize these are personal interests snd I’m interested in hearing a case for DST in Notthern states .

You realize it doesn't add an hour of daylight, right? It's just a different time on your clock.

 

[HuskyHawk]

You realize it doesn't add an hour of daylight, right? It's just a different time on your clock.

Yeah, obviously. I see some "experts" pushing standard time all year as the best for us health wise. They scoff at concerns about 4:00 AM sunrises and say, you'll just get up at 4:00 AM and work a 5:00-2:00 workday. Sure Jan.

Time didn't mean anything in our agrarian past. Fine. But our norms are now pretty well set and we need to pick the time that fits our norms the best. The current switching probably does that. Not everyone is aware that we moved from the six months to now just 4 months of standard time and 8 months of daylight time.

 

[bmayuc]

whatever solution means i never change my clocks ever

 

[TheRealKBuks]

I forget which is which, but give me the one that grants me more time with the sun up in the evening.

 

[HCCForever]

You have a great memory. I don't recall that happening in the 70's. I was stationed in Germany from mid 70's. So I might have missed. I have been done with DST for years. Hate it.

Here is a link to that time reversal back during Ford's presidency. As the article mentioned, they reversed it due to safety issues for kids going to school. IMO, we should keep the current DST and ST change.

Time Change in the 70s

 

[huskeynut]

Plus how would we know when to change the batteries in our smoke detectors?'

Don't worry. Your smoke detector will start beeping in the middle of the night when the batteries need to be changed.

And - my vote is DST. I like the extra sunshine and light after dinner.

 

[huskiesNhoos]

When my kids were younger and sleep was at a premium I hated it...now that they're a bit older I don't really care anymore

 

[ecasadoSBU]

There's a proposal to end Daylight Savings Time. But that has led to confusion about whether it's really ending the switch and keeping DST all year. It was tried once before in the early 70's and people hated it. We might hate full-time Standard time even more. What do you want to see happen?

It would be nice to have an extra hour of sun when you get out of the office even if it means potentially walking out of home in darkness in the AM

But I find leaving the office at 5PM after sunset kinda depressing.

I'll gladly take DST all-year-round aka. shift our time zones by one hour permanently

 

[navery12]

I just want sun after dinner, no idea what option that is