Should the USA end Daylight Saving Time Permanently?
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If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will serve us right. -- Alistair Cooke
If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will serve us right. -- Alistair Cooke
Yes, and everybody else should too (Score:2)
The EU would already have done it, were its legal bodies not that lethargic.
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Okay, but I'm still annoyed with the missing options. "Hell, yes" and perhaps "Whatever time Cowboy Neal says!"
As a Canadian, yes! (Score:2)
Missing option... (Score:2)
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Why not simply get up earlier? That seems simpler than asking countless people and organisations to deal with a confusing time shift.
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What's "confusing" about it?
You go to bed. You wake up. Life goes on.
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Ditto, but then other locations would complain. :(
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There is an argument for making it permanent in that daylight savings is in effect most of the year. There is also an argument for the opposite, which is that Arizona and Hawaii do not observe Daylight Saving Time (DST). The US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas, and the US Virgin Islands also do not observe DST. So you'd be opting into permanently being an hour off from these regions if they are normally the same timezone. It's messy imo.
Not to mention people don't actu
We did it before, and it was disliked (Score:2)
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They did it to reduce energy consumption and it didn't work. And all the people in their 9 - 5 jobs had to go to work in the cold and dark. Sucked.
We're talking about doing it for health and comfort. And few of us work strict 9 - 5 schedules any more; our hours are more flexible and technology makes it easy for employers to adjust schedules if that's what their employees want, without needing an overarching government mandate.
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Pretty sure this is not the case - as witness rush hours that still exist, financial market trading hours, and pretty much any expectation of business hours that reflect the ~8-~5 schedule still being firmly entrenched for the majority.
but the proof will be in the pudding - either this doesn't pass, or it does pass and gets repealed, or it doesn't get repealed. I personally don't care that much, I love the fall back but detest the spring forward so it
Re: We did it before, and it was disliked (Score:2)
Not just yes (Score:1)
But hell yes
I might not have cared when I was younger, but as the years go by, the "spring forward" change is more and more disruptive and for a longer span of time.
I've been able to mitigate it somewhat by setting my alarm incrementally earlier in the weeks prior to make the adjustment gradual, but it is still quite stressful and irritating, and the reasoning behind it is outdated and pointless (in my book).
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I'm guessing you don't live in a latitude where it makes a huge difference.
The named victim (Score:1)
Jezz, not this shit again... (Score:2)
a) What's the problem in having two extra interesting days per year?
b) Everybody who lives in non-affected latitudes doesn't even get an opinion. There's latitudes where it makes a HUGE difference.
No (Score:2)
1. Because, as others have pointed out, the question is stated stupidly. Most people favor ending standard time, and making so-called daylight saving time permanent.
2. On the chance the question is actually stated as intended, I think we should keep it, just so we still have something to regularly bitch about on slashdot twice yearly.
No! (Score:1)
YES (Score:1)