Daylight Savings Time

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Lots of talk about how to adjust. It’s an hour. It’s not like you’re flying to Israel. I don’t get all the fuss.
 
We don’t adjust our clocks where I live.
I always have to keep track when west coast is the same time we are or an hour earlier and when my friends east of where I live are one hour or two hours ahead of me!!! I wish we didn’t have daylight savings time.
 
Hi Vasallus 👋

Just a note: in the “News” forums, all threads must begin with a news article:
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Link to forum rules: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=508814

I’m adding an article for you, which will (hopefully!) allow your thread to stay up. 🙂 Also, this article may help to explain some of the “the fuss” about DST:
Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea back in 1784, as a way to economize on sunlight and burn fewer candles during winter mornings and nights, but the practice did not become steadily official in the United States until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, with the same intention of saving energy.
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Whether or not the practice actually shrinks energy bills seems to vary from state to state and remains up for debate today. What seems more certain, however, is that the subtle time shift can take a noticeable toll on the human body. Here are the five strangest ways that daylight saving time, and the ending of it, affect human health:
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Full story here: livescience.com/40903-daylight-saving-time-affects-your-body.html

If you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t struggle with DST, well … consider it a blessing, and pray for those who do struggle. 👍
 
In the UK, we move forward an hour on March 29th. I absolutely love that day, as it’s the start of Spring as far as I’m concerned.
 
Here in the Australian state of Queensland, we held a referendum on weather to accept daylight saving after a trail of a couple of years, it was rejected,the majority didn’t want it,
And thank God it was, because if your self employed, you actualy work longer hours,
But,every year it’s the same thing,the minority want it,while the majority still reject it,
I just wish they all just go away and accept the majority disission , because if it were the other way around , then we that hate it would be told to accept the majority disission,
 
7_Sorrows said:
We don’t adjust our clocks where I live.
I always have to keep track when west coast is the same time we are or an hour earlier and when my friends east of where I live are one hour or two hours ahead of me!!! I wish we didn’t have daylight savings time.
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Saskatchewan, eh? I enjoyed the changing of the clocks when I lived there. It allowed me to watch TV shows that were on too late the rest of the year.
 
I like the fall change, but not the spring change, so as a compromise between those who like it and those who don’t, I suggest the compromise of only changing the clocks in autumn 😃
 
On the eastern seaboard of Australia the Daylight Saving Time has a bad hiccup at the border between Queensland and New South Wales. Queensland doesn’t “do” Daylight Saving, and NSW does. The state line runs East/West through the centre of a city, in a heavily populated area. People often have to cross the stateline for work, and for 6 months of the year the clocks don’t align. The closest international airport for northern NSW is in Queensland,. and for 6 months of the year you have to allow for Daylight Saving Time in flight schedules and pick-up times. The state line runs through the airport.
 
I hate losing an hour of sleep this time of the year.

It was worse when I was in grade school and that meant bedtime came an hour sooner since the clocks had been changed. That means the old 7:00 meant it was now 8:00 which meant time to get ready for bed or at least make sure to get your homework done and then bedtime/

I prefer fall back.

yes, the extra light is nice…but changing the clock isn’t fun. Ipads and cell phones change automatically…but stove clocks, microwave clocks and wall clocks don’t 😛
 
Vasallus said:
Lots of talk about how to adjust. It’s an hour. It’s not like you’re flying to Israel. I don’t get all the fuss.
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You obviously don’t have small children.

It’s a major disruption to their body clocks, and not a very nice one.
 
I’d be fine with permanent DST, but it would have to be nationwide. Dealing with Arizona and a few other places during the summer is a pain in the butt.
 
I love daylight savings time. The longer days just make life a WHOLE LOT BETTER on every conceivable level.

I reconcile the fall back thing by telling myself that we get an extra hour that weekend. Spring forward I justify by looking forward to the longer days. And I do hate losing sleep in the morning; I don’t change the clock until I have been up a couple hours. I just lose the hour so to speak later in the day. (I honestly don’t know; am I still “losing an hour” in terms of sleep; how so?)
 
Falco said:
On the eastern seaboard of Australia the Daylight Saving Time has a bad hiccup at the border between Queensland and New South Wales. Queensland doesn’t “do” Daylight Saving, and NSW does. The state line runs East/West through the centre of a city, in a heavily populated area. People often have to cross the stateline for work, and for 6 months of the year the clocks don’t align. The closest international airport for northern NSW is in Queensland,. and for 6 months of the year you have to allow for Daylight Saving Time in flight schedules and pick-up times. The state line runs through the airport.
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What a pain! That would add to the stress level of one’s life!
Where I live, the Navajo Reservation is the only area of our state that is on Daylight Savings Time.
I have heard of a study that says it is bad for one’s body to go through that twice a year.
 
No big thing; I just deal with it. But personally; I’d like to keep EST all year.
 
Book_Worm said:
You obviously don’t have small children.

It’s a major disruption to their body clocks, and not a very nice one.
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A number of years ago, Newfoundland experimented with “Double-daylight savings”…clocks went ahead 2 hours.

One of its flaws appeared shortly after the spring-ahead and before the fall-back, when you had rural kids waiting for the school bus on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway in pitch-darkness.

Side note: I had a cool clock-radio – that is, I have a clock-radio that used to be cool – it automatically goes forward/back on the proper day.

For Canada, that is.

Now that Canada succumbed to American chronological imperialism, I have to set the clock ahead or back manually on the new change dates, and then back or ahead on the “old” dates to correct for the clock’s automatic function.

I must be one of the few people around who has to change a clock FOUR times to account for DST. :rolleyes:
 
Vasallus said:
I’d be fine with permanent DST, but it would have to be nationwide. Dealing with Arizona and a few other places during the summer is a pain in the butt.
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If you lived in Arizona in the summer where it can be 117 degrees or more you don’t want an extra hour of daylight! You have had enough sun for the day! The dark cannot come soon enough so at least by midnight it has cooled down to 90 degrees.
 
Pick one time regime and stick with it! We don’t gain or lose an hour of daylight by changing our clocks, that’s just nonsense, orbital physics could care less about what idiocy prevails on any planet. The days and nights will be just as long or short as they have been for millennia regardless of what inconvenience we impose on ourselves by tampering with the clock.
 
baliano said:
Pick one time regime and stick with it! We don’t gain or lose an hour of daylight by changing our clocks, that’s just nonsense, orbital physics could care less about what idiocy prevails on any planet. The days and nights will be just as long or short as they have been for millennia regardless of what inconvenience we impose on ourselves by tampering with the clock.
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7_Sorrows said:
If you lived in Arizona in the summer where it can be 117 degrees or more you don’t want an extra hour of daylight! You have had enough sun for the day! The dark cannot come soon enough so at least by midnight it has cooled down to 90 degrees.
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But I don’t, so I like my extra daylight during DST
 
baliano said:
Pick one time regime and stick with it! We don’t gain or lose an hour of daylight by changing our clocks, that’s just nonsense, orbital physics could care less about what idiocy prevails on any planet. The days and nights will be just as long or short as they have been for millennia regardless of what inconvenience we impose on ourselves by tampering with the clock.
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Nobody actually thinks the days are longer. Sheeesh.
 
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