Permanent Daylight Savings Time

[IMADreamer]

Fantastic. Let's get it signed.

[JoeMcKim]

It'll be nice around Fourth of July when you go to go watch firetworks and that they'll start shooting off the fireworks an hour earlier.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Apparently, this has been done before.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/1 ... -hated-it/

By August, though, as the Watergate scandal caused the Nixon administration to crumble, the country was ready to move on from its clock experiments. 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. Seven days after President Nixon resigned, US Senator Bob Dole of Kansas introduced an amendment in August that would end the DST experiment. It passed.

The downside, especially for the northern most states (as well as those just on the wrong side of the time zone lines), is there is increased energy consumption in the morning as businesses open an hour 'earlier' in the darkness and an increased safety risk for kids walking to school...though, not sure how many kids still do that and/or if darkness is as dangerous as it was back then.

I like it, hope it happens, but it's not as cut/dried as it seems.

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Fantastic. Let's get it signed.

Make up your mind, farmers!

This is a no brainer. It will make people happier. It will give me more daylight hours with my kids. Winters get so gloomy here, so when your daylight is like the 40 minutes of gray or rain you spend outside during a normal workday, it gets a little sad. I'm happy about this.

[ghostrunner]

I just find it so hard to believe that many people flipped on it. I do believe it since it obviously happened, but - what were they expecting? I can conceive of it being dark at 8:45 in the morning and its not great but I'll take it over the alternative.

I get the issue with kids. That's a tough one. We actually just had a kid killed here at a bus stop right after the time change. Hit by two cars and one of them fled the screne. 6 years old. Mom was in the hospital having just given birth again. No idea if it would've happened in the daylight or even how dark it was at the time - supposedly he just ran out in the road but this is all reported by other kids.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I just find it so hard to believe that many people flipped on it. I do believe it since it obviously happened, but - what were they expecting? I can conceive of it being dark at 8:45 in the morning and its not great but I'll take it over the alternative.

I get the issue with kids. That's a tough one. We actually just had a kid killed here at a bus stop right after the time change. Hit by two cars and one of them fled the screne. 6 years old. Mom was in the hospital having just given birth again. No idea if it would've happened in the daylight or even how dark it was at the time - supposedly he just ran out in the road but this is all reported by other kids.

Oh man that's terrible.

[Leroy]

Can we wait until after the metric system takes hold?

[Popeye_Card]

How have we never developed metric time? There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 100 seconds per minute, 32 minutes per hour, 24 hours in a day.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

How have we never developed metric time? There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 100 seconds per minute, 32 minutes per hour, 24 hours in a day.

That's more confusing than the 60/60/24

[Popeye_Card]

How have we never developed metric time? There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 100 seconds per minute, 32 minutes per hour, 24 hours in a day.

That's more confusing than the 60/60/24

No. We need a metric minute. Get rid of hours and you just have 864 metric minutes per day.