Off Topic » Daylight Savings Time

It's that time of year again. Turn your clocks back at midnight tomorrow. Maybe someday this nonsense will cease. We can hope.

I didn't realise you had it that side of the pond.

Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #1

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Maybe someday this nonsense will cease. We can hope.

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Being a morning person, I love Standard Time. I always get up at 5am so I can get on the road before the crazy sport car clubs and H-D riders wake up and start tearing up or clogging the mountain roads (take your pick). For me, the more light in the morning the better.

Does the whole of the US do DST? I guess it’s all or nothing otherwise time zones would get really confusing. I expect in the south it seems absolutely mad to do DST, but up on the border with Canada it makes more sense. But even on the Canadian border you’re further south than the UK.

Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #5

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Does the whole of the US do DST?.

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Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #6

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Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #5

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Does the whole of the US do DST?.

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Quote from Google

Do all states observe daylight saving time?

Apparently, there are a number of people who've already been sleeping that extra hour. Not all states and U.S. territories participate in daylight saving time.

Hawaii and Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) do not observe daylight saving time, and neither do the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Why do certain states not observe daylight saving time?

Arizona doesn't follow daylight saving time because the state decided there wasn't a good reason to have the sunset an hour later during the hottest months of the year. The only parts of Arizona that do follow daylight saving time are those within the Navajo Nation.
Hawaii doesn't follow daylight saving time because of its location near the equator. Since it's so close, the amount of sunlight during the day doesn't vary much during the year.

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Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #6

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Zitat von Becksy im Beitrag #5

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Does the whole of the US do DST?.

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Arizona doesn't follow daylight saving time because the state decided there wasn't a good reason to have the sunset an hour later during the hottest months of the year.

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Mom went and adjusted all the clocks before going to bed. I then reminded her that we go an hour back, not forward. She was not happy.

I just finished adjusting all the clocks. As another morning person, I'd stay with standard time all time if I could.

Only 4 months until astronomical spring. I'm gonna hibernate, along with my RS.

(((((Being a morning person, I love Standard Time. I always get up at 5am so I can get on the road before the crazy sport car clubs and H-D riders wake up and start tearing up or clogging the mountain roads (take your pick). For me, the more light in the morning the better. )))))

So here in the west at 39.74 degrees north, day light savings was liked by most back in the day. It moves an extra hour of daylight to the evening in the summer, where you are more likely to use it. In June especially most folks are simply going to sleep through that sunrise at very early times of the AM, unless you move the hour to the evening where it can be used for all sorts of fun.
The rub comes in during the winter when start times for work are going to be in the black unless you move that hour back to the morning, which makes a huge difference at the dead of winter. Yes it would be nice to have more daylight after work like always but there isn't enough of it to do that ... This has a lot of implications because no one wants to start later as traffic becomes impassible after 6:30 am or so it also effects things like temporary lighting on construction jobs and all sorts of things like that ..... They have been moving the switch in DLS to later and later in the year here which seems to work out but I never understood why people hate it, I think they just don't realize the implications I guess ....

The reality is...the natural world doesn't look at a clock. Humans do, and they can't leave well enough alone. With time, or anything else. Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. "If it ain't broke don't fix it", which seems to have evolved into "If it ain't broke, keep fixing it until it is".

I think that in today's world, Daylight Savings Time is an anachronism. But we hang onto it for whatever reason. It must be good...right? We do everything else so well - politics, war, fiscal and monetary policy, food production, etc., why not DLS?

Humans are "sentient", but what if sentience is a characteristic of life that arose from an unintended mutation? I've yet to see a squirrel consult a clock...lol!

Zitat von paleolithictech im Beitrag #12

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They have been moving the switch in DLS to later and later in the year here which seems to work out but I never understood why people hate it, I think they just don't realize the implications I guess ....

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Zitat von paleolithictech im Beitrag #12

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(((((Being a morning person, I love Standard Time. I always get up at 5am so I can get on the road before the crazy sport car clubs and H-D riders wake up and start tearing up or clogging the mountain roads (take your pick). For me, the more light in the morning the better. )))))

So here in the west at 39.74 degrees north, day light savings was liked by most back in the day. It moves an extra hour of daylight to the evening in the summer, where you are more likely to use it. In June especially most folks are simply going to sleep through that sunrise at very early times of the AM, unless you move the hour to the evening where it can be used for all sorts of fun.
The rub comes in during the winter when start times for work are going to be in the black unless you move that hour back to the morning, which makes a huge difference at the dead of winter. Yes it would be nice to have more daylight after work like always but there isn't enough of it to do that ... This has a lot of implications because no one wants to start later as traffic becomes impassible after 6:30 am or so it also effects things like temporary lighting on construction jobs and all sorts of things like that ..... They have been moving the switch in DLS to later and later in the year here which seems to work out but I never understood why people hate it, I think they just don't realize the implications I guess ....

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