ForsythSnow
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Same, if they're going to do this, I prefer being back an hour and staying there. Also means we have to wait an extra hour for weather models in the winter, who wants that?
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I think we can all use an extra hour in the winter time in the evening... Maybe they could do an agreement take 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes and afternoon
No I want two more hours in the evening.
I wonder if we could slide the EST line a hundred miles west.
It is horrible in Alabama in the winter because it's on the edge of the time zone.
Not gonna bother me, it’s barely sunlight when I get to work, But this gives me an hour of daylight when I get home nearly all winter.
NoSnowATL
Member
Yes!!!
Yeah I get that and understand but I'm going to get work before sunrise and still not have any daylight when I get home. It's just those few weeks in Dec that's going to really suck
How long before someone says the extra hour of sun in the evening messes up snow accumulations
lexxnchloe
Member
I hate daylight savings time. Too much light at night.
DST:
“How are people going to feel at 7 o’clock in the morning in December, when they put their kids out on the street to catch the school bus, and it’s dead, flat dark?” Hoyer said.
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The last time there was year round DST was in 1974-5 and it failed largely due to increased danger to children waiting in the dark for school buses. Thus it soon got reversed:
www.washingtonian.com
“While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported.”
Will the same concern later come into play? Or will it go differently this time. Assuming the House also passes it and it is signed into law, it wouldn’t happen til November of 2023 meaning one more winter on standard time, regardless. So, one last winter to enjoy the models coming out an hour earlier.
“How are people going to feel at 7 o’clock in the morning in December, when they put their kids out on the street to catch the school bus, and it’s dead, flat dark?” Hoyer said.
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The last time there was year round DST was in 1974-5 and it failed largely due to increased danger to children waiting in the dark for school buses. Thus it soon got reversed:
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian
The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black"...
www.washingtonian.com
“While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported.”
Will the same concern later come into play? Or will it go differently this time. Assuming the House also passes it and it is signed into law, it wouldn’t happen til November of 2023 meaning one more winter on standard time, regardless. So, one last winter to enjoy the models coming out an hour earlier.
I remember getting on the bus when it was dark when I was in middle school. And I lived in the middle of nowhere.DST:
“How are people going to feel at 7 o’clock in the morning in December, when they put their kids out on the street to catch the school bus, and it’s dead, flat dark?” Hoyer said.
——————————
The last time there was year round DST was in 1974-5 and it failed largely due to increased danger to children waiting in the dark for school buses. Thus it soon got reversed:
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian
The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black"...
“While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported.”
Will the same concern later come into play? Or will it go differently this time. Assuming the House also passes it and it is signed into law, it wouldn’t happen til November of 2023 meaning one more winter on standard time, regardless. So, one last winter to enjoy the models coming out an hour earlier.
And that was without year round DST since it has been 48 years since it last was in place. With this, it would be worse for the kids obviously.
The outcry of parents was very loud due to this issue. As a kid then myself waiting in the dark, it didn’t bother me though. I do remember it making news headlines quite often. I don’t know if it will make a difference but there was of course no internet back then for people to discuss this. We’re in a very different time vs the 1970s, no pun intended. So, history may not repeat.
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I think a lot of parents take their kids to school now more so than when I was in school too.
NoSnowATL
Member
Somehow it will turn into a race thing… just watch.
You may get a kick out of this:
It's time to admit that Daylight Saving Time is an instrument of the patriarchy and inherently racist - NPC Daily
Ask yourself one simple question: Why is Daylight Saving Time (DST) not observed in most countries near the equator? Anyone with a modicum of social awareness will feel a keening sense of discomfort when contemplating the answer to the question posited above. The NPC Daily editorial staff is...
GeorgiaGirl
Member
All for standard time going away.
I don't think it going away would be a big issue in this era.
I don't think it going away would be a big issue in this era.
Shaggy
Member
My kids bus comes at 6:40 every morning
HSVweather
Member