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Post by hikerjer on Mar 12, 2016 19:25:54 GMT -8
Thanks. I like DST. Love that extra hour of light at the end of the day.
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Post by Lonewolf on Mar 12, 2016 19:31:59 GMT -8
When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’
If it's so damn good, why don't we keep it all year?
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Post by hikerjer on Mar 12, 2016 19:33:24 GMT -8
why don't we keep it all year? Stays dark too late in the morning. Parents don't like their kids walking to school in the dark. |
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Post by desert dweller on Mar 12, 2016 19:35:20 GMT -8
Wait. What? How quaint.
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Post by Lonewolf on Mar 12, 2016 19:44:37 GMT -8
A 2010 Article published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health claims, "Recent research indicates that DST does not substantially reduce energy consumption and may even increase it. The research has also shown that transitions into and out of DST cause minor jet lag symptoms such as sleep disruption, fragmentation of the circadian rhythm, and fatigue. Since DST does not serve its original purpose and also causes a variety of disruptive symptoms, it is debatable whether there is any reason to maintain the practice." StandartTime.com, an organization dedicated to ending the practice of Daylight Saving time, claims this change has, "cost US companies billions to reset automated equipment, put us further out of sync with Asia and Africa time-wise, inconvenienced most of the country, all in the name of unproven studies that claim we save energy." "...there is a proven increase in accidents and injuries immediately following the time changes." STANDARDTIME.COM when they suggest, "If we are saving energy let's go year round with Daylight Saving Time. If we are not saving energy let's drop Daylight Saving Time!" www.discoversouthside.com/daylightfoolishtime.asp |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Mar 12, 2016 20:51:55 GMT -8
why don't we keep it all year? Stays dark too late in the morning. Parents don't like their kids walking to school in the dark. And, of course, there's nothing schools could go do to alter their start times. Oh. Wait. |
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Post by hikerjer on Mar 12, 2016 22:27:04 GMT -8
And, of course, there's nothing schools could go do to alter their start times. But then parents would have to alter their start times for work. It's never that easy. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 1:14:59 GMT -8
Yesterday's news. Heh, heh.
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Post by Lonewolf on Mar 13, 2016 5:31:37 GMT -8
Parents don't like their kids walking to school in the dark. In the northern US, this change increases the morning dark time by about 6 weeks to get to where it was yesterday. In Alaska, night is so long in winter that kids walk to and from school in the dark. What's the gain again? Oh... right... at the end of the day when kids are already out of school. So that excuse doesn't help the kids walking to school. In the southern US, there's not enough difference between dark and light during the year for this to make a difference. So DST only "benefits" the middle of the country. Maybe. Many businesses operate 24 hours so changing the clock doesn't do a thing for energy savings and causes shift problems. In 24/7 places, the graveyard shift has to work an extra hour in fall and loses an hour now. How does DST help them? It might have made sense in the past when businesses used a lot of natural light but doesn't now. Cease the clock changes and stay with one or the other. I don't care which, just pick one. |
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 13, 2016 14:58:44 GMT -8
Agree with Lonewolf. The switch just causes trouble. I like daylight time (keeps the sunrise in summer from being too early), and frankly, the darker mornings don't matter that much. Nobody but me ever lets their kids walk to school anyway, so that's a pathetic excuse. For most people, I'm pretty sure the extra light in the afternoons is better (maybe fewer lights on sports fields, etc?), but most of all, I want to stop dealing with the jet lag. I combined it last night with a headache that prevented good sleep, so I feel like carp today.
P.S., I grew up far enough north that it didn't really matter. Through the winter we went to school in the dark, and came home about dark, regardless. Actually, I guess year-round DST might have helped--maybe we'd have had a little light after we got home (bus rides meant we didn't get home from grade school until after 4).
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Post by hikerjer on Mar 13, 2016 15:20:14 GMT -8
Nobody but me ever lets their kids walk to school anyway, We always let our kids walk to school by themselves and home as well. Never has an issue. Guess it just depends on where you live. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 18:40:15 GMT -8
Year-around standard time would work for me just fine. Mountain Standard Time lags Universal Time (UTC, or Greenwich) by 7 hours. Daylight Saving Time lags by only 6 hours. I occasionally need to know UTC for something, and I have to stop and think about the different conversions at different times of year sometimes for something as simple as a weather report. To each his or her own, but DST is not my cup of tea.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 14, 2016 8:29:29 GMT -8
We always let our kids walk to school by themselves and home as well. Never has an issue. Guess it just depends on where you live. Yeah, but you're even older than me. Modern parents are too scared to let the kids outdoors. (I know that's a gross over-statement, by the way. But true way too often, especially around here). To each his or her own, but DST is not my cup of tea. Preference for Standard or Daylight time may have to do with where one sits in their time zone. I think the thing we all agree on is that switching is a pain! |
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Post by red dog on Mar 14, 2016 8:42:45 GMT -8
If it's so damn good, why don't we keep it all year? They tried that in 1974. It was supposed to be a 2 year 'test run', but after the first year there was a dramatic increase in school bus accidents/incidents so they dropped the concept. |
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Post by amaruq on Mar 14, 2016 12:23:14 GMT -8
Officially.
Canada may be a metric country, but I'm equally well versed in what we call US units. So much in fact that I can better visualize an inch than a cm, or a pound than a kilogram.
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