I wish they'd quit screwin' with the time.
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I would like it we could move the clocks forward another hour in the winter. So summer would be Plus one hour and winter plus 2 hours from standard time.
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I still interact with people working normal hours and I like being able to do things with them. Also I work part time a few days a week and with DST I have more time to take a longer route home on days I ride my bike in to work.
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At my latitude (32 degrees), sunrise varies by about +/- 1 hour during the year, and the change between daylight and standard times cuts this by about 1/3, which seems reasonable to me. As others have mentioned, I do not consider the decision to stay with the current setup or to switch to daylight-only or standard-only to be one of the burning issues of my life.
We also don't have much of a dusk. The sun is in the sky and it's light, and 5 minutes later, it drops below the mountain horizon and it's dark.
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Daylight savings time always screws up my life for the first week or so. My 71 year old body can't adjust like it used to. Got up late yesterday because we stayed up late (according to the "new" time) Sunday night. Got up too late today for our yoga class. It starts in 15 minutes. Not sure if I'm going riding either.
Why can't our "leaders" just pick one time or the other and leave it?
Why can't our "leaders" just pick one time or the other and leave it?
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I think China has the right idea. A single time zone for the entire country. After all, the government knows what's best for us.
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ADD businesses. I HATE it when businesses keep making these webdesign changes. When nothing be wrong with the website at all. Leave the webdesign/website alone. It was great the way it was --- before it got altered. Besides, these changes are charged to the customers.
I speak of companies like Ebay, on top of the list --- who makes changes more frequent than any other. These cycling businesses put a LOT of $ into their webdesigns.
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And the same study found that accidents decrease by about the same amount in the fall. So overall there was no significant difference between states that observe daylight saving time and those that don't.
I think China has the right idea. A single time zone for the entire country. After all, the government knows what's best for us.
I think China has the right idea. A single time zone for the entire country. After all, the government knows what's best for us.
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They should just make daylight savings time the new norm and stick with it. Changing times is so agrarian.
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OK, this is totally click-worthy.
Welcome to Standard Time
Welcome to Standard Time
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Daylight savings time always screws up my life for the first week or so. My 71 year old body can't adjust like it used to. Got up late yesterday because we stayed up late (according to the "new" time) Sunday night. Got up too late today for our yoga class. It starts in 15 minutes. Not sure if I'm going riding either.
Why can't our "leaders" just pick one time or the other and leave it?
Why can't our "leaders" just pick one time or the other and leave it?
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I dont mind the extra hour at the fall setback. It's deer season here and getting an earlier sunset is nice.
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You are NOT a deer hunter, is that right?
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I used to dislike losing the hour of daylight in the winter evenings because it prevented me from riding after work...
but now that I'm no longer doing the office thing, it doesn't matter.
but now that I'm no longer doing the office thing, it doesn't matter.
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In a way one small group seems to have dialed (no pun) this time thing in pretty smartly.
The state of Quintane Roo, which is the easternmost state in Mexico, and includes the tourist destinations of Cancun & Cozumel Used to be on central time, and go to central daylight with the rest of eastern and southern Mexico.
However, two years ago, they created their own time zone, matching Eastern Standard time year round and no daylight time change. This puts them in sync with the cruise boats during the tourist season, and lets the rest of Mexico catch up when they switch to daylight time come Spring. (FYI, in case you missed my point --- Central daylight and Eastern standard are the same time).
The state of Quintane Roo, which is the easternmost state in Mexico, and includes the tourist destinations of Cancun & Cozumel Used to be on central time, and go to central daylight with the rest of eastern and southern Mexico.
However, two years ago, they created their own time zone, matching Eastern Standard time year round and no daylight time change. This puts them in sync with the cruise boats during the tourist season, and lets the rest of Mexico catch up when they switch to daylight time come Spring. (FYI, in case you missed my point --- Central daylight and Eastern standard are the same time).
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Today when I turned the clock back one hour, I set my alarm back one hour as well. So I'll be getting up at the same time on Monday as I did on Friday.
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Anyway, good hunting, don't shoot any mtn bikers.
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