https://www.houstonchronicle.com/op...-get-rid-of-daylight-saving-time-13582001.php https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/S...Eliminate-Daylight-Saving-Time-506957551.html The Texas legislature is looking at putting this on the ballot for November. How does everyone feel about this? How would you vote? Note: I would think this is something that would not matter if you lean right or left.
as a moderate I vote for splitting the difference, roll the clock back a half hour and be done with it
I like DST and the longer afternoon with sunlight to do things after work (mountain bike, golf, etc). I don't have an issues with waking up the hour early. Wasn't one of the reasons for the change was also to help school kids avoid going to school in the dark?
Why would people want it dark earlier? I'd keep DST year round. I hate that it gets dark early in the fall/winter. The complaint about the loss of sleep is silly because it's temporary and only related to days after the time change. You adjust. If there's no longer a change, there's nothing to adjust to and lose sleep.
I want it to get light early and dark early in the summer when it's hotter than hell. I'm selfish like that. The joys of working outdoors....
How about we swap them? Standard time in the warmer months and DST in the cooler months. People in the north would probably love that since it's dark well before they get out of work in the winter. I honestly don't know how they deal with that up there. It's cold as hell and they don't get to be in the daylight at all.
In the end, I don't really care. I hate springing forward because I lose an hour of sleep. I love falling back because I gain an hour. They voted on it here in California as well. I will not have a problem adjusting to whatever is decided. The only thing I will say is that I hope everyone chooses the same thing. It's odd when sometimes one place has a 3-hour difference and then at another time they only have a 2-hour time difference.
I would like us to go to Greenwich time and just stick to it year-round. It's just a number; people will adjust their schedules to something reasonable. So, when I get out of work, instead of it being 5 pm CT, it'd be 10 pm GMT. The daylight will be the same.
Arizona does not recognize it. Since they almost always have triple digit heat in the summer, they want as much cooler dark hours as they can get.
I had to be in Maine some years ago during the month of November. You're not kidding, it started getting dark there at 3:00 in the afternoon, it's so far east. So we probably need eight or more new time zones as well.
As for my choice on this, I wish they would just stick with one of them. Although I voted to stay on standard time in the poll I will add that even though spring forward is much harder to get used to I would have no issues if we just stayed that way.
The fact that they recently adjusted the end/start date of DST in the GWBush administration, without much uproar or backlash, shows how flexible and truly asinine/meaningless this outdated practice really is. We only observe the extra hour for over 3 months now... the other 9 months of the year is the time that we're in currently, where it does stay brighter later in the day. Just keep it there year round. There's more and more complaints about the switch back/forth (for a now less amount of duration) than there are comments supporting it. Even when somebody gets the extra hour of sleep... it is usually followed with the complaint of how depressing it is that its now dark at 5:45pm, at a time of year (early November) where there are still some nice outdoor days.
Old people love standard time. Wake up when it's light outside and go to bed in the dark. Prior to the Tuesday vote, Larson told me he envisions robust campaigns if this gets on the November ballot. “The parent groups are for standard time,” he said. “They want their kids who are waiting for the bus (in the morning) for it to be light outside.” Larson also has heard from another demographic in favor of how standard time provides more daylight in the morning. (And don’t blame me if you’re in this demographic and are insulted by this notion. I just report the news.) “A lot of the older folks that have contacted our office said they like standard time,” Larson said. “They like to go to bed when it’s dark, and they like to wake up when it’s light.” “Recreational folks,” as Larson, R-San Antonio, calls them, like more daylight for evening recreating. “I’m agnostic,” he said. “Pick standard or pick daylight. We’ll all adjust. But it’s idiotic for a society as modern as we are that we continue to switch our clocks to try to gain an advantage. It’s the same amount of daylight. Let’s quit switching the clocks.” Despite his professed agnoticism, I pressed Larson for which time he’d back if this indeed makes it to the ballot. At first, he sounded like the kind of guy who’d want more daylight in the evening. “I’m as much of an outdoorsman as anybody in the House,” he said. “So I like the idea of spending more time hunting and fishing. But the reality is in the summer months the fish bite better in the morning so if I’d have an extra hour of time to fish in the morning and instead of being dark, it’s light.” “The reality is that would be better from a fishing standpoint,” he said, adding, “Late in the evening, that’s for consuming alcoholic beverages.” https://www.statesman.com/news/2019...voters-pick-time-and-stick-with-it-year-round
I regularly work with an auditor for our company that lives in Phoenix. She was the one that told me it was based on the temperatures. There may be other reasons????
