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Daylight Savings (DST) starts March 8, 2020

Arcadian

Arcadian

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I'm team abolish DST. I hate it. My husband works weekends and will be grumpy with a bit less sleep. But hes too stubborn to go to bed early lol.
 
Yay!
 
I also wish it would be abolished. Seems pointless.
 
I agree on getting rid of it. Traffic accidents go up afterward cause people are sleepy and unadjusted.
 
I know you guys need the daylight too especially after some of your winters but this thread is so depressing :cry:

I think daylight saving should be all year round - just start school a bit latter in the winter
We love it
it only takes a few days to get used to it
i hate getting home in the dark and kids can play outside after tea (dinner) because its still light

We have a few more weeks to go but its dark by 8.30 now and its pitch black at 6am
And it's getting chilly in the middle of the night - which is nice but its also cold first thing in the mornings now
The camilia buds are getting fatter and my Japaness maple has changed colour already - way too soon

Enjoy the longer days up there
 
Quite a few Eastern states want to move to AST.

Per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Time_Zone
All six of the New England states in the northeastern U.S., currently in the Eastern Time Zone (with daylight saving time), have considered legislation to shift to UTC−04:00, equivalent to Atlantic Standard Time (with no observance of daylight saving time) or Eastern Daylight Time. Virtually all of this region is west of the theoretical western border of the zone at 67.5°W; only a small portion of Maine lies east of that meridian. A Massachusetts commission concluded in 2017 that the benefits of changing to Atlantic Standard Time year-round would outweigh the disadvantages, provided that a majority of northeastern states made the same change.[5] In May 2017, the Maine Senate approved a change to AST, on the condition that there would be a referendum, and that Massachusetts and New Hampshire decided to make the same switch.[6] Also in 2017, the New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill in favor of a regional change, but this was voted down by the state's Senate.[7] Similar bills have been put forward in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Vermont.[6][8]

In 2018, Florida enacted into law the "Sunshine Protection Act", under which the state would observe daylight saving time year-round. Most of the state would permanently keep Eastern Daylight Time, which is equivalent to Atlantic Standard Time; the state's panhandle region would move to year-round Central Daylight Time / Eastern Standard Time.[9][10] However, the change cannot take effect until it is passed into federal law by the United States Congress.[10]
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Booooooooo Hissssssssss I hate the change. It takes my cats 6 mos to adjust. Oregon voted to either keep DST or stay to standard time but won't enact the law until Washington and California decide what to do. Booooooooo Hisssssss. I don't care what the final outcome is, I just don't want to have to change.
 
Oh my goodness its like your all a bunch of dairy farmers :mrgreen2:

Any other lovers of daylight savings out there ?
 
Daylight savings is like second Christmas morning, the kids are still up at 5am ready to go and the adults are all like "just one more hour".
 
NooOOOoooOOO. My body never adjusts to DST.
 
I never know which is which, DST or that other time period, the name of which I can never remember because it doesn't mean something obvious.
They should use names like ST for summer time, and WT for winter time.
That makes sense, requiring no thought, figuring out, or memorization.
But no! the geniuses have to cook up some friggin random name that the expect us all to just memorize. :angryfire:

Oh, and you're not "saving" time.
The daylight last however long it lasts regardless of what the stoopid Einsteins name it.

Anyway besides wishing the time didn't change twice a year I don't shive a git which they leave us on all year ... as long as it never changes during the year.
Let's see what should we call it?
Oh, I know, just, "Time".
 
HI:

I don't give 2 two straws (recyclable, paper, of course) one way or the other.

cheers--Sharon
 
Send all those extra daylights hours you guys don't want to me :mrgreen2:
 
I prefer it. I get up super early so now it will be less super early. Instead of 3AM I will be waking at 4AM. Sweet indeed.

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Daisys and Diamonds said:
I know you guys need the daylight too especially after some of your winters but this thread is so depressing :cry:

I think daylight saving should be all year round - just start school a bit latter in the winter
We love it
it only takes a few days to get used to it
i hate getting home in the dark and kids can play outside after tea (dinner) because its still light

We have a few more weeks to go but its dark by 8.30 now and its pitch black at 6am
And it's getting chilly in the middle of the night - which is nice but its also cold first thing in the mornings now
The camilia buds are getting fatter and my Japaness maple has changed colour already - way too soon

Enjoy the longer days up there
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I agree - and we don't even need to start school later. We had DST though the winter at some point in the 70's (something to do with the energy crisis). I remember walking to school in the dark (I think it was uphill in a blizzard both ways :lol: ) and we all survived!
 
Loathe the time change. Gotta be up at 4am for work tomorrow aaaaaand just lost another hour of sleep!
 
I am with the group that did DST all year in the 70’s during the oil crisis. I was in HS and did just fine. Let’s keep it all year round.
once the change is made everyone will not be grouchy any more and traffic accidents won’t go up. We will have more light in the evening here in the Midwest. Winter the sun goes down at 4:15 and we are all depressed. It will then extend to 5:15 giving workers a peek at the sun they currently don’t get.
 
I wish changing of the clocks could be synchronised.

North America including Canada where my mum and brother are based, changed their clocks this Sunday; whereas UK where I am based does not change ours until the last Sunday of this month!

DK :roll2:
 
I wish it could be Daylight Savings Time all year for everyone so we could all be synchronized and also I prefer it lighter out later vs early in the AM when it is aways dark for me anyway. What is one more hour of darkness vs an extra hour of light in the evening. Give me longer days re lighter evenings and I would be a happy camper. Not literally (I don't care for camping lol) but you kwim.

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I’d also like not to have to spring forward or fall back! I think I’m in the minority and would rather it be light in the early morning! But I’d take anything it to have to change.
 
I would prefer Daylight Savings Time all year. When the time changes in the fall and winter is coming on, the darkness is a killer for me! It is dark by 5:00 p.m. and the nights are so long. I care more about daylight in the evening than I do in the morning. I agree with others though; the switching back and forth is maddening!
 
I'd love it to be British Summer Time (BST) year round. London is about level with Newfoundland and winters here are miserable, though much warmer than Canada. The sunset in December is 3:50pm and it's dangerous. The rate of road traffic accidents goes up and children and cyclists are more frequently killed. For about 3 months of the year it's dark by 5pm here. Pushing that back just a bit would really help so much.

We also change clocks much later than the US does. Our Spring forward is 29th March, 3 weeks later.

No GMT! No Fall back!
 
missy said:
I wish it could be Daylight Savings Time all year for everyone so we could all be synchronized and also I prefer it lighter out later vs early in the AM when it is aways dark for me anyway. What is one more hour of darkness vs an extra hour of light in the evening. Give me longer days re lighter evenings and I would be a happy camper. Not literally (I don't care for camping lol) but you kwim.

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Nothing worse than sleeping in if your tenting
and i love the tent
But its boiling hot about one minute after the sun wakes up
 
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