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Daylight Saving time might become permanent -- this year!

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posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 04:47 PM
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a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

Good, they should have done it long ago.


Surveys from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) have found that about 63% of Americans would prefer to eliminate DST, and 55% experience tiredness following the switch. But the time transition does more than just inspire mixed opinions, grogginess, and foul moods. Researchers say that the change has long-term negative consequences for our bodies and minds.
John Hopkins





posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 05:47 PM
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a reply to: schuyler

So what? Software update? It ain’t exactly Y2K.
Just say, “hey clock, don’t change.”
Be like Jamaica, Mon…



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 06:21 PM
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a reply to: MykeNukem

Maybe they never should have started in the first place.
If they would just leave everyone on Standard Time, that would work for me.
The only good DST day is the one where we go back to standard time



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 06:27 PM
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originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: MykeNukem

Maybe they never should have started in the first place.
If they would just leave everyone on Standard Time, that would work for me.
The only good DST day is the one where we go back to standard time


I like the DST side, lol.

We have so much dang gloomy winter here, I crave sun all year.

But I get your point, it's also about the body's rhythm, I'd still be happy with Standard, at least we wouldn't have to change.

They claim it's for reduced energy usage, but I don't get it. We're just robbing from Peter to pay Paul, really.




posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 06:54 PM
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I’ve always hated this stupid time change, but I hate it even more with an eight month old. It’s really messed with him more than I thought it would. He’s been extra dickish this week. The time change is stupid and outdated.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 07:03 PM
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a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

I've had this dialogue with a few people, daylight savings doesn't mean a damn thing to people who use electricity like it's oxygen. Initially it meant people used less oil, we get up earlier to take advantage of daylight and go to bed earlier so we can reduce consumption. Now appliances are ubiquitous and constant so there's no real conservation of energy happening. The only way to optimize daylight savings is cutting off the meter and that's not viable.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 07:12 PM
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originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
Not only is it inconvenient, but it messes up our natural body rhythms for about a week after each change.


I agree. It didn't seem dark enough last night to start getting ready for art class, but when it was the usual level of darkness I've been used to lately, I looked at the clock and noticed I had already missed half of the class. The time change really messes me up.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 07:42 PM
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originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

I've had this dialogue with a few people, daylight savings doesn't mean a damn thing to people who use electricity like it's oxygen. Initially it meant people used less oil, we get up earlier to take advantage of daylight and go to bed earlier so we can reduce consumption. Now appliances are ubiquitous and constant so there's no real conservation of energy happening. The only way to optimize daylight savings is cutting off the meter and that's not viable.

My son looked it up. It began in 1918, as a way to save oil during WW1. And like a bad STD, its never gone away since.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 07:49 PM
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I am sick of them saying this year we MAY stop the change from Spring to Autumn shiz. This is in the UK. It never happens, media say it MAY happen every year.

It's annoying as f###.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 08:14 PM
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originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
IMVHO we should not ever, ever move the clocks.
I really, really, REALLY am not a fan of DST!!!!!!
I hate it being daylight at 9PM!


Heh, oh my. You'd really hate it where I am in Alberta. Sun is still up well past 10 pm. Sun is also up around 5 am in the summer. I love it.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 08:35 PM
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i heard it passed in the senate but stalled in the house. But i agree with you ..finally they are doing something .That is a plus in my books.a reply to: AndyFromMichigan



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 08:42 PM
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I need help figuring this out. Not sure what is what.

Now High noon is when the sun is right over head, is that regular time or Daylight savings time that it occurs?

For millennium high noon was twelve o'clock but this could cause problems if things get rough and high noon is actually one o'clock. Missing the gunfight can be confusing.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 09:53 PM
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originally posted by: rickymouse
I need help figuring this out. Not sure what is what.

Now High noon is when the sun is right over head, is that regular time or Daylight savings time that it occurs?

For millennium high noon was twelve o'clock but this could cause problems if things get rough and high noon is actually one o'clock. Missing the gunfight can be confusing.


That's a good one! But, I wouldn't worry about "High Noon." That was just Communist Propaganda.

One more thought to add:

Watch John Wayne's rebuttal to "High Noon" in "Rio Bravo." Great movie.
edit on 15-3-2023 by TrulyColorBlind because: Added an afterthought.



posted on Mar, 15 2023 @ 11:23 PM
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originally posted by: marg6043
I hope we get the time thing once and for all, tired of fixing the time twice a year


I was trying to be nice for a group of co workers and I only ,let me reiterate this, ONLY changed the hour ( it is digital). Today they told me that the minutes were 2 min off and if I could fix that too! I did. Did not like being blamed for the mins tho. The people who were annoyed were not there. It was a person from another room.
Imma say next time set your own clocks!



posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 01:51 AM
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Well, maybe the clowns in Washington D.C. will tackle those mind bending time zones next. Or is it a world wide thing that is out of their hands?

I don't know about anyone else, but I really HATE getting a phone call from someone in California because it is 9pm out there but midnight in my neck of the woods and they don't realize the time difference. Or a customer service representative who is in China where it is 3am there when it is 3pm here.

Anyone know the history, purpose, and logic of setting up these time zones across the world? Also, who had the authority to do such a thing?



posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 01:17 PM
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originally posted by: Rich Z
Well, maybe the clowns in Washington D.C. will tackle those mind bending time zones next. Or is it a world wide thing that is out of their hands?

I don't know about anyone else, but I really HATE getting a phone call from someone in California because it is 9pm out there but midnight in my neck of the woods and they don't realize the time difference. Or a customer service representative who is in China where it is 3am there when it is 3pm here.

Anyone know the history, purpose, and logic of setting up these time zones across the world? Also, who had the authority to do such a thing?


It's set up like this because the sun rises and sets on an hour by hour basis.



posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 02:07 PM
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originally posted by: Rich Z
Well, maybe the clowns in Washington D.C. will tackle those mind bending time zones next. Or is it a world wide thing that is out of their hands?

I don't know about anyone else, but I really HATE getting a phone call from someone in California because it is 9pm out there but midnight in my neck of the woods and they don't realize the time difference. Or a customer service representative who is in China where it is 3am there when it is 3pm here.

Anyone know the history, purpose, and logic of setting up these time zones across the world? Also, who had the authority to do such a thing?


You want to do away with time zones? That might be a costly endeavor to say the least...

Maybe just turn your ringer off?





posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 02:40 PM
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Time zones were essentially created by the railroads. That was the first point in history when it became necessary to coordinate the time across multiple cities.

In the days before modern transportation, it simply didn't matter what the time was in some far-away city.



posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 02:45 PM
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That and drilling us oil, they're doing alright.



posted on Mar, 16 2023 @ 03:30 PM
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originally posted by: Subrosabelow

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
IMVHO we should not ever, ever move the clocks.
I really, really, REALLY am not a fan of DST!!!!!!
I hate it being daylight at 9PM!


Heh, oh my. You'd really hate it where I am in Alberta. Sun is still up well past 10 pm. Sun is also up around 5 am in the summer. I love it.


i suspect you would hate living in an area where you pretty much get 12 hours of daylight, and 12 hours of night, all year, and the the start of day/night only being an hour different through the entire year. it was weird adjusting to that, then weird again when i moved back home to the north, where we get such radical changes in the day night cycle.

we need to go to permanent standard time, unless every other country decides to go with savings time, which is rather doubtful, since most of the world has never even done daylight savings, which makes it hard to figure out and remember, what time it is, somewhere else. such as what i had to deal with living overseas. like are we 12 hours ahead, or are we at 13 hours ahead of home, when needing to contact people and businesses. a giant pain in the ...




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