Time change

wheat straw · Mar 8, 2020

Just riding on the Got Me thread down below. I was milking cows in 66 or 67 whenever they first went to dlst. Didn?t like it then, don?t like it now. I remember the early 70?s when they left us on dlst all winter. Some congressman are
talking about leaving us on dlst year around. There
not old enough to remember what it was like to
have savings timer in January. I remember the fear
of driving up on young kids standing on the side of
the road in pitch dark to catch a bus. Congress
changed it back after I think only one year. Year
round dlst just ain?t gonna work. We gust gotta deal
with short winter days. Can?t move the sun.
Just my grumbly complaints.
Andy

Olliejunkie · Mar 8, 2020

Kids going to school in dark wouldn't be a good thing. That's valid point for sure.

Tony in SD · Mar 9, 2020

It was suppose to save energy but with all the early darkness the number on security/yard lights increased thus using more energy. Still don?t know why we can?t leave the clocks alone and just start work an hour early? Is that too hard to figure out?

Bruce from Can. · Mar 9, 2020

My kids got on the bus in the dark in the winter at ten minutes before seven, and got home at four o?clock, most of a hour on the bus. The practice of Day light saving time started during WWi, over 100 years ago. Maybe then , it made some sense. Not much in the way of lighting things up back then. Very little electric power in many towns, and rural world was in darkness. Now days people leave home in the dark and drive 1 or2 hours to get to work and arrive in the dark. Work all day and drive home in the dark, do you really think it matters anymore?

Steve@Advance · Mar 9, 2020

Tony, what they are trying to do is get everyone on the same page.

If it were up to each individual, or each business, the schedules would be all over the place!

Things like delivery schedules would be chaotic. Bus, train, plane schedules would be impossible to manage.

Even the way it is now, confusion is added because some states, even some cities operate on different times outside of the established time zones and DST outlines.

There is no one size fits all solution, but the more together we can get, the easier it will be for all.

P. Coltrane · Mar 9, 2020

Takes about 5 minutes to change clocks, twice a year. Not a big deal when during the summer it's light out till past 9. Nice trade off if you ask me.

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 05:07:08 03/09/20) Takes about 5 minutes to change clocks, twice a year. Not a big deal when during the summer it's light out till past 9. Nice trade off if you ask me.

Better than having it be daylight at 4AM in the summer, or having the sun not come up until 9AM in the winter.

This thing about it being for energy savings, or for the farmers, is all garbage. It's all about having the daylight hours situated where town folks will get out and spend money.

Crazy Horse · Mar 9, 2020

Some Googling tells me that time-keeping inventions have been around over 700 years in a variety of forms. That leaves a LOT of years on the planet before that where we didn't have anything telling us what time it was. I know times have changed (pun not intended) but survival is possible without knowing what time it is. But you might lose your job of miss your flight if you're late.

Kickinbull · Mar 9, 2020

The idea of DLST was from Benjamin Franklin.

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 9, 2020

If you want to go full Wikipedia about the subject, the whole idea of modern DST was so a guy would have more daylight hours after work to collect bugs.

1948CaseVAI · Mar 9, 2020

(quoted from post at 21:57:19 03/08/20) Kids going to school in dark wouldn't be a good thing. That's valid point for sure.

You are kidding, right? People can simply teach their kids to not stand in the damned road. Problem solved. Someone drags that old BS up every year about kids standing on the road in the dark and it is just BS unless the kids are not able to learn to stand well back.

The number of folks who seem to be able to repair equipment but are unable to set a clock amazes me every year.

moresmoke · Mar 9, 2020

We were just getting to where the kids could get on the bus in daylight. Now they are back in the dark.

Summertime, I prefer to go out and do things before work. Get going at 4 am, have 3 hours and still get to work for 8. Too dang hot after work to do anything outside. Dusk at 10:30 pm really doesn?t gain me anything.

I grew up so close to a time zone border you could measure the distance in feet. Never really bothered anyone. You just knew one side of the line was an hour ahead of the other. Everybody still went to work at the same time, some started at 8 others at 7.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 9, 2020

Yea people love to wave the children,old folks and cripples Bloody Flag about things they don't like.When I was in school I'd of loved to started very early so I'd have some daylight to do things after school.In college in Norfolk VA I tried to have most of my classes early in the day so I could go over to VA Beach in the afternoon.

Leroy · Mar 9, 2020

Standing on the road MEANS anything from 15-20feet back from edge of pavement, not directly on pavement and they should not have to be walking out a long drive in the dark with varments around or deranged people to kidnap them. Teanagers would be a lot safer than a 6 year old that you would not let out of your site in any store. So your post is BS. It is still dark when bus unloads at school Remember daylight comes an hour earlier on east side of time zone than west side like I am.

Rich'sToys · Mar 9, 2020

Still don?t know why we can?t leave the clocks alone and just start work an hour early? Is that too hard to figure out?

Seems to be.
If they passed a law that everyone should go to work at 7:00 instead of 8:00, people would have a royal fit! So instead they said, "Go to work at 7:00 anyway, but reset your clock so it says 8:00!" Suddenly THAT'S OK and everyone says 'what a wonderful idea!' Go figure!!

wheat straw · Mar 9, 2020

Like Nixon?s 55mph it was sold to us for energy savings.

1206SWMO · Mar 9, 2020

I love DLST...I wish that they would leave it on all year..When I both worked in town and farmed it sure helped things out..

caterpillar guy · Mar 9, 2020

Wheat straw where do you get the Nixon thing. Carter had the 55 to save fuel. Nixon was before that.

jimg.allentown · Mar 9, 2020

Don't forget that ever present busload of orphans.

DWF · Mar 9, 2020

I used to live in Northern Mn and remember the DST all year in the 70's. It never really got light before 9AM for about 2 months. In the northern states DST like now is not too bad. It gets light in the summer usually before 5AM, if no DST it would be before 4AM. In the summer now it's light till 9PM so without DST it would be 8PM.
DWF

huntingreen2day2 · Mar 10, 2020

Where did you get Carter imposed the 55 speed limit. It was Nixon and Clinton removed it.

Leroy · Mar 10, 2020

Where I am at in western Ohio 30 mile from Indiana border sunrise is 7:56 this morning. Before the change it would have been 6:56. So now when school starts at 8:00 it is still dark when kids are entering the school so that means no mater how they get there they are still going to school in the dark. If you have to be at work at 8

o you are driving to work in the dark and a lot of acidents are from lack of being able to see due to darkness. Now if you are on the eastern edge of the time zone by being on the ochen then it is a different factor.

wheat straw · Mar 10, 2020

That was some history I lived.

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