Author Topic: daylight savings all year! YES (Read 9050 times)

Lumpy Idle · « **on:** March 08, 2018, 05:32:02 PM »

i saw a story posted on boing boing today about full year daylight savings time. florida and arizona are moving to inscribing full time daylight savings. i am all for it. i happen to be one of those who absolutely dreads it when the clocks roll back in the fall. i always see the daylight savings rollover as the advent of hope and renewal and time to pull my sorry ass out of the cave, get the tools out and start breathing life into dusty bike projects. let's have daylight savings all year. hell we can give the kids headlamp flashlights to go to school in the winter mornings. i'm easy - let's budget for that.

Lannis · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2018, 05:36:01 PM »

Quote from: Lumpy Idle on March 08, 2018, 05:32:02 PM

i saw a story posted on boing boing today about full year daylight savings time. florida and arizona are moving to inscribing full time daylight savings. i am all for it. i happen to be one of those who absolutely dreads it when the clocks roll back in the fall. i always see the daylight savings rollover as the advent of hope and renewal and time to pull my sorry ass out of the cave, get the tools out and start breathing life into dusty bike projects. let's have daylight savings all year. hell we can give the kids headlamp flashlights to go to school in the winter mornings. i'm easy - let's budget for that.

Not sure it would work like that ... the world constantly adjusts. If kids are going to school in the dark, then the schools will shift their schedules so they AREN'T going to school in the dark, and businesses will gradually follow suit, and we'll be right back where we were ....

DST - making a blanket longer by cutting off one end and sewing it onto the other ....

Lannis

Mayor_of_BBQ · « **Reply #2 on:** March 08, 2018, 05:37:50 PM »

Spring Forward & never look back!

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2018, 05:48:02 PM »

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Ncdan · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:00:23 PM »

Personally I like the natural time, that means in the cold winter months I can be in bed by 6dark- O’clock:)

Mayor_of_BBQ · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:02:43 PM »

I am pretty much consigned to working toward late evening, so I like it. If I never had to get off work again in the winter & it was already dark... I'd be a happy man. Sunset at 4:45pm sucks

bad Chad · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:07:29 PM »

Standard time is for the dead. Bring on year long DLS!

oldbike54 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:09:54 PM »

Year round DLS means it won't start getting light until about 9:30 AM in January .

Dusty

Guzzi Gal · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:13:44 PM »

We moved to Arizona our in 2001 and haven’t adjusted a clock since (excluding travel). It’s a beautiful thing!

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:15:32 PM »

Quote from: Guzzi Gal on March 08, 2018, 06:13:44 PM

We moved to Arizona our n 2001 and haven�t adjusted a clock since (excluding travel). It�s a beautiful thing!

True. Indiana used to do that until.. dang.. Dusty just said no political rants. <shrug>

rodekyll · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:42:42 PM »

Does the daylight really vary much in AZ? Just curious.

RinkRat II · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2018, 06:51:03 PM »

I've lived in Arizona 44 years now and am used to the "short " winter days and long summer days. Winter about 10 hours daylight is the shortest,
really no big deal and we don't have to worry about resetting the sundial.

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Does the daylight really vary much in AZ? Just curious.

About 4 1/2 hours winter to summer
Paul B

twowings · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2018, 07:01:20 PM »

I'm just not that into time, man...

Turin · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2018, 09:20:39 PM »

Daylight savings serves no real purpose anymore anyway. As another Arizona resident, I can tell you it would be great to have a permanent time zone instead of switching from mountain to pacific every year.

LowRyter · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2018, 09:27:33 PM »

I really don't care what time it's settled on, I would just ask that we don't change it twice a year.

I could care less otherwise. (But I USED to be very annoyed about changing it twice a year BEFORE I retired.)

(Now I am just moderately annoyed and only slightly amused.)

wavedog · « **Reply #15 on:** March 09, 2018, 03:36:50 AM »

I don't mind the time change from DST to standard and back. It means that I get to experience time travel twice a year.

Darren Williams · « **Reply #16 on:** March 09, 2018, 07:13:46 AM »

Quote from: twowings on March 08, 2018, 07:01:20 PM

I'm just not that into time, man...

I remember being told time was invented so sh!t didn't happen all at once.

And I would rather keep it one way or the other so the clock setting thing twice a year is over with. Our company used to have regular hours and summer hours, summer hours being an hour earlier to change a hot hour for a cool morning one. You can adjust operation hours easier than resetting clocks?

wheaties · « **Reply #17 on:** March 09, 2018, 07:14:19 AM »

I really dislike seeing the sun go down at 4:30 in the afternoon. I'd be happy to stay on DST all year. Actually, we did for a year or two during the '70's energy crunch. I stood at the morning bus stop in pitch black that winter.

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Zoom Zoom · « **Reply #18 on:** March 09, 2018, 08:49:23 AM »

Quote from: wavedog on March 09, 2018, 03:36:50 AM

I don't mind the time change from DST to standard and back. It means that I get to experience time travel twice a year.

I like that!

As for setting clocks, not such a big deal as it used to be, at least to me. With the exception of the coffee pot, all my clocks in the house self adjust. Yes, I have to set the clock in the car and on the bikes. Personally, I like it. It is the harbinger of Spring to me.

John Henry

PS: DO NOT ask Chuck about this. I made this mistake with someone in Indiana once............... ................... ............(Not Chuck)............... Oh wait, that is the Time Zone thing. Don't ask Chuck about that.

Lannis · « **Reply #19 on:** March 09, 2018, 09:00:33 AM »

Quote from: Zoom Zoom on March 09, 2018, 08:49:23 AM

PS: DO NOT ask Chuck about this. I made this mistake with someone in Indiana once............... ................... ............(Not Chuck)............... Oh wait, that is the Time Zone thing. Don't ask Chuck about that.

Can't take this antipathy toward time manipulation TOO far before Copernicus smacks you down!

DST is one thing - it's silly and artificial and doesn't really do anything as I'm sure Chuck will tell you although I don't know what he thinks is behind it ...

BUT the Time Zone thing is sorta due to the fact that the Earth is round and turns on its axis ... ? Not much you can do about that .... ? Some things you gotta just sigh and say "All right then".

Lannis

Mayor_of_BBQ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 09, 2018, 09:01:27 AM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on March 08, 2018, 06:09:54 PM

Year round DLS means it won't start getting light until about 9:30 AM in January .

Dusty

DOn't care! I'm at work at 9:30 am... I'm more worried about 5:30-6:30 when I get off!

Zoom Zoom · « **Reply #21 on:** March 09, 2018, 09:04:44 AM »

Lannis, you need to look at the dividing line through the state for the time zone there.

John Henry

Lannis · « **Reply #22 on:** March 09, 2018, 10:56:31 AM »

Quote from: Zoom Zoom on March 09, 2018, 09:04:44 AM

Lannis, you need to look at the dividing line through the state for the time zone there.

John Henry

So I did. Yep, that's pretty bad ... Chuck, I take it back, your antipathy toward time zones is natural, given that some counties to the EAST of Eastern Time Zone counties are on CENTRAL time .... People can bollix a piss-up in a brewery when they're "motivated" to ....

Lannis

twowings · « **Reply #23 on:** March 09, 2018, 11:48:37 AM »

Quote from: Darren Williams on March 09, 2018, 07:13:46 AM

I remember being told time was invented so sh!t didn't happen all at once.

And I would rather keep it one way or the other so the clock setting thing twice a year is over with. Our company used to have regular hours and summer hours, summer hours being an hour earlier to change a hot hour for a cool morning one. You can adjust operation hours easier than resetting clocks?

Let's just say f*** it and go riding! That's my way of ignoring time...

ITSec · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2018, 12:39:42 PM »

"Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anyone really care (about time)?
If so, I can't imagine why -
We've all got time enough to cry..."

- Robert Lamm

rocker59 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2018, 12:53:45 PM »

Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on March 08, 2018, 05:48:02 PM

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I've always wondered why we don't all just work off of GMT.

One time for everyone!

rocker59 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2018, 12:55:24 PM »

Quote from: kirby1923 on March 09, 2018, 10:10:38 AM

Time is relative no?
For the last 40 or so years I have set my watch to Greenwich (ZULU,GMT) and relate the zone I'm in to that. Almost all my professional work is done with that reference.

Helps w/ trans time zone events and circadian rhythms.

Works for me.

oldbike54 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2018, 01:18:28 PM »

Then you have the very Western end of the Oklahoma panhandle , which officially is in Central time, ignored by the folks in Kenton where they set their clocks to Mountain time . Of course that only matters to about 40 people , so ...

Dusty

LowRyter · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2018, 01:25:47 PM »

I contend that the CONUS could get along fine with 3 broad time zones rather than 4. The Pacific Times Zone should be eliminated IMO. But the remaining three should be broadened, not just Mountain Time.

twowings · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2018, 02:06:34 PM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on March 09, 2018, 01:18:28 PM

Then you have the very Western end of the Oklahoma panhandle , which officially is in Central time, ignored by the folks in Kenton where they set their clocks to Mountain time . Of course that only matters to about 40 people , so ...

Dusty

The official population is 17...can you name them?

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