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rrlund

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Daylight savings time. If they put it to a vote and said no more changing the clocks,we'll go to one or the other and keep it there.
Would you vote for standard time or daylight savings time?

Kinda like back in the 1700s when they left about 3 weeks out of the calendar one year to bring the calendar closer in line with the actual seasons.
 
There is no "one size fits all" solution. Depends on the individuals circumstances.

I vote for the way it is set up now, standard time in the winter, DST spring, summer and fall. I can adapt.

Living in a metroplex area, I adjust my schedule to minimize "stuck in gridlock" time anyway.

But I do like DST better. I get a lot more enthusiastic about taking on afterwork projects instead of coming home sitting in the recliner!
 
If this country was a true democracy, we would vote on issues that affect us.
Beings its a representative republic we don't git to vote on such issues.
One of our founding fathers said that democracy is the worst form of government thar was.
If we had a true democracy the fringe groups would have to pack their bags and leave. The ones I'm talking aboot are the minority that make the most noise.
 
I prefer DST. I was still in school that one year they made it year-around and I liked it.

BUUTTT in the grand scheme of things, if it was made permanent, then places would just adjust to the new time. Like instead of opening @8am they'd just change and open @9.
 
I vote daylight saving time, heck I live in Kentucky and wish they would at least put the whole state on the same time. The east is on Eastern and us here in the south central are the same as west KY., Central time. Just my 2 cents worth but just answer me why???
 
I think we kinda did vote on it. I like it, living up north in the summer it aligns the clock with the daylight, gives the working man time to do something when they get home.
It has been proven it saves a lot of energy and a few lives!
 
I would go with standard time.

Like the Indian said, DST is like cutting an inch off one end of the blanket and sewing it onto the other end and thinking that you made the blanket longer.
 
The only purpose of Daylight Savings Time is because restaurants, retailers, and golf courses want people to stay out an extra hour in the evening and spend money.
 
I'd like to have sun up around 530 am, sunset around 830 pm or so and an extra day between saturday and sunday.
 
Well, fortunately, I am retired, and don't have a heard of animals that have their own time clocks. So tomarrow won't be a bummer, and mad rush to get to work on time. It will take me all next week to adjust, wink, and I kinda like the change a couple of times a year, especially in the fall when I gain an hr. HeHe.
Loren
the Acg.
 
that sounds good,,,had my truck for 7 years,still have to get the manual out to see how to change the clock,,,you think I would remember how to do it,,,,but,,,I Dont
 
DST for sure, as I said when we were discussing it before I think a lot of it rides on WICH side of the time zone you are on. Kind of a hardship on the Eastern part of a time zone right now but on the Western side makes it nice
 
Indiana voted years ago leave on so called fast time. Governor last convinced the state lawmakers to go with DOUBLE fast time. Now we are TWO hours ahead of when I was young. Course that was a few years ago.
 
I'm not sure which is better, I just wish they would pick one and stick with it year around. I put myself thru college many years back by working the midnight shift in a hotel. Since those days I have never been good at sleeping thru the night and just about the time I should be getting up, I want to fall into a deep sleep. I am fine and can work myself into a schedule, but twice a year they come along and f*** it up for me. One year I refused to change my clock. That was fun.
 
Where my daughter was in Afghanistan, on one of her deployments, they actually were a half hour off of GMT standards. Years ago I had a neighbor who didn"t like DST- said it should stay on "God"s" time.
 
My first choice would also be to put it in between the two times and leave it that way year around.

My 2nd choice is the current DST system.

I would not want STD year around though at all.
 
The day we change the clocks always reminds me I have to play this Grandpa Jones song. There is a lot of truth in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQbCTebC20
 
How about putting noon 1/2 way between sunup and sundown (set according to the equinox) and leave it there?
 
(quoted from post at 14:38:42 03/08/15) If this country was a true democracy, we would vote on issues that affect us.
Beings its a representative republic we don't git to vote on such issues.
One of our founding fathers said that democracy is the worst form of government thar was.
If we had a true democracy the fringe groups would have to pack their bags and leave. The ones I'm talking aboot are the minority that make the most noise.
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Harvey I'd like to agree with you but look at CA. A lot of the things they pass are by referendum on ballots. That is the biggest reason they can't get their state budget under control. Too many folks out there with their hearts or wallets as it is without any knowledge of the issues. And you can't make someone turn off the game, latest reality show or whatever other garbage they are watching and make them watch the news.

Rick

Rick
 
I was raised on a farm and my folks said dst was created so city folks would have more time to play golf after work. My wife was a city girl she said her dad said dst was for farmers so they could work later. Who is right? lol.
 
I've always said that we should change the clocks one minute per day for 60 days, like sun-up changes about that rate. A lot less shock to the system. Actually, why not a minute a day for 59 days, then every few years skip a Tuesday.
 
when you have to run on the Mans schedule ,, yes time change is a shocker for a week or so ,, all in all it does make sense for modern RATRACE society ,but it don't affect me much anymore since I sidetract the rat race ,and gone full time farm,,. however , since I have hung up my tool apron from the home improvement days , I get up at 1st lite regardless of what the clock says, unless I have aspecial need to go earlier , and I am usually puttering around til past dark ,back when I drove nails,when the time changed , we changed are start time a half hour at a time , sin ce the weather was also changing, ,w hen it got hot ,we would work til1 1 or 2 pm ,with out lunch and go home and eat , then go , bale hay , now ,I take a 2 hour siesta from 2-4 pm rite after lunch ..
 
Randy, correct me if I am wrong but it seems to me that is why we have it. Somewhere in the back of my mind it seems that we voted for it years ago. Tom
 
I say if they put it to a vote, the time should be changed to reflect the vote. For example if the vote was 50/50 to change to DST, then the time should be moved 30 minutes. If the vote was 72% in favor of DST, then move the clocks 43 minutes, 12 seconds, and so on.

That oughta screw everybody up...
 
I've always had to go to work in the dark and I like it but hated coming home in the dark; Daylite savings time was perfect for me I had daylite to do yard work (2 acres)when I got home after a 12 hr or longer shift. I'd like to see it year round.
 
only reason I can see for dst is so the kids don't have to get on the bus in the dark. may save some hurt kids that get hit. but then again the school could just run from 8 to 4. instead of the whole world changing clocks just for that. I vote for no dst, just leave it alone. I solve the truck/garage/basement clock problem by just leaving it alone and knowing that it is off by an hour. when spring comes it is kind of a treat to have my clocks be right again.
 
I like it as things are now. For me, the twice a year time change is a minor inconvenience compared to the benefits.
 
How about a "Metric Clock" (10 hours per day) for Canada, but not the USA.

Then have Daylight Savings Time in both the USA and Canada; now try to figure out the flight schedules!

Could we vote on this?
Metric Clock
 
That's how it used to be for most of Indiana until a few years ago. Most of Indiana didn't change its time either, which meant that half of the year we were on Eastern Time with Michigan and Ohio, and half of the year on Central Time with Illinois. It was great. Half of the time was inconvenient, and half of the time was perfect. Can't make everyone happy all the time, but used to make everyone happy half of the time. THEN...it happened. After decades of that, some goofball politician decided that we needed to join something that no one really has an answer for, because every time that one reason goes away for DST, its replaced with some new reason that never existed for DST to keep it going, and now we are permanently on Eastern time in Indiana when we are far closer (next) to the Midwestern financial center of Chicago. I don't know who ever came up with the idea of DST, but if I ever meet that guy...I'm going to punch him square in the nose because now I'm screwed up ALL of the time instead of only half of the time.

Mark
 
Benefits ? What you smoking? If it's light out you work and if it gets dark you turn on the light and work some more.I have to work daylight to dark and then some just make ends meet anymore.
 
Having thought some more

DST is actually their penultimate delusion

The biggest one now is that they're in control of climate
 
If we put it to a vote... I'd vote to slap them. LOL.

Hate struggling to awaken now... then in the fall, equally hate waking an hour before the alarm goes off. Wahhh!
 
Put me in with the ones who say split the difference and leave it alone !!!!!!
I have always said this as long as I can remember.
 
Don't vote on it. You're just feeding fodder to the politicians. Christians and Jews alike have altered the calendar to suite their own needs. DST is a small way to change the calendar. Changing the clock does not benefit any religion only the politicians time to go to work (sic). Go back to the Wheel Of The Year which is based on a Celtic calendar and is correct for farmers around the world. The sun and moon will always rise at the same time depending on the position of the earth.
Actually the sun does not rise.
 
I too am on the western side of time zone just west of Louisville ,come early july it is still twilite at 10 pm ,,folx here get up early and run late ,,to make the most of it each day , alittle afternoon nap in the heat of the day goes along way,, if the days demands allow it ..
 
It makes it so that they have to start getting back on the bus in the dark again after finally being able to get on in the light.
 
That is neat, but are there 10 metric hours in a day or 20? Must be 100 metric minutes in a metric hour. Why didn't someone come up with this a long time ago?
 
That's because in AZ in the summer they start work in the very early morning to escape the worst of the heat. Many people adjust their work schedule to accommodate the weather. DST just gives everyone a consistent change. If The AZ people weren't so independent they would conform to the rest of the country.
 
That's like cutting 10 feet off one end of a rope and tying it on at the other end and then trying to tell people you have more rope. They should just leave it alone, at the winter standard time. Now I have to drive to work in the dark all over again.
 
Can't answer you on that one.
There is a "definition" on Wikipedia.
Too much reading there for me.

I put this up as a joke, but why is there such a thing on Wikipedia?

This rumor was going around some time in the past as an April Fool's joke, that Canada was changing to a Metric Clock!

........... but in Canada, you never know. Maybe it is "Politically Correct" to have EVERYTHING metric!
Metric Time
 
Indiana voters did vote by ballot some years ago. so called fast time was voted in year around. Mitch Daniels convinced the legislation to over ride the wishes of the voters.
 
The spoof metric clock is funny!

However, the metric system uses the same 12 hour, 60 minute, 60 second clock that we do.
 
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