| LIFE Daylight Saving Time

[PurlJam]

So it has passed the senate but it's getting hung up in the house. Drive to work in the dark or drive home from work in the dark... either way your driving in the dark. I would rather have more sunlight in the afternoons, especially the weekends. By that time of the day I'm usually fairly conscious .... what say the Bama masses?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Folks up north are not going to be happy during their shorter winter days. Rubio in South FL gets almost an hour and a half more sunlight on the Winter Solstice than folks in the northern reaches of the U.S.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Folks up north will be very unhappy when the sun does not rise until almost 10 AM. We will get a few of those after 9AM sunrises too.

 

[bama alum]

I'll be that person... I am that person, so flame all you want. It's Daylight Saving Time, not Savings...You're not saving sunshine in a rainy day account. It's a pet peeve that makes this old man yell at a cloud like you see in The Simpsons' meme.

That said, I'm indifferent to this. Yes, it sucks to lose an hour of sleep one evening of the year, but if the sun stays out til 8:00ish each summer night, then that's something good. Right now, I'm driving to work in the dark at 6:30 each day. Eh...Win some, lose some.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

Just gonna remind folks that we tried this before. It didn't last the two years it was supposed to last.

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

 

[planomateo]

Lots of scientists are saying we're doing this wrong, it should be forward not backwards.

As a result of one of the articles i was reading, I stumbled on some weird relationship between western edge of timezone and an increased risk of cancer.

Longitude Position in a Time Zone and Cancer Risk in the United States

Abstract. Background: Circadian disruption is a probable human carcinogen. From the eastern to western border of a time zone, social time is equal, whereas solar time is progressively delayed, producing increased discrepancies between individuals' social and biological circadian time...

aacrjournals.org

 

[PurlJam]

I'll be that person... I am that person, so flame all you want. It's Daylight Saving Time, not Savings...You're not saving sunshine in a rainy day account. It's a pet peeve that makes this old man yell at a cloud like you see in The Simpsons' meme.

That said, I'm indifferent to this. Yes, it sucks to lose an hour of sleep one evening of the year, but if the sun stays out til 8:00ish each summer night, then that's something good. Right now, I'm driving to work in the dark at 6:30 each day. Eh...Win some, lose some.

FIFY....

 

[bama alum]

I'll take my Geritol and head to the early bird special now.

Thanks

 

[PurlJam]

Just gonna remind folks that we tried this before. It didn't last the two years it was supposed to last.

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

Little different era... kids actually walked to school if it was in the 2 to 3 mile range. Today you can't take a risk on them to walk a half a block.

 

[PurlJam]

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I'll take my Geritol and head to the early bird special now.

Thanks

If you start running low let me know..... I know a guy.

 

[Hardkore]

Won’t matter to me. I will still be going to work in the dark and home in sunlight, 4am to 1pm.