**** daylight savings
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Article about this on Reuters yesterday. Couple interesting facts, 1. It is a federal law but states have the right to opt out, which everyone knew. 2. States only have the option to stay in standard time year round and not DST, thought it was interesting
Got caught up a bit in that tonight. Was bagging some leaves under the driveway lights. Had in my head it was still light till 6:00.
It’s already pitch black when I drive my kids to school. DST does zero for the morning commute. It’s a waste of sunshine.
Give me permanent dst. I can turn a light on in the morning in the winter. Long day light in the summer.
Chicago is most beautiful when you can't see it.
KidSilverhair
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Awful lot of complaining about something we’ve literally been doing as long as we’ve been alive. I’ll also remind those who weren’t around in the 1970s that we tried year-round DST, even passed a law to do it for two years …but that first winter was so dark in the mornings that everybody hated it and the country ended that experiment early after only one year.
But look on the bright side, the sun will be up in the morning before my alarm clock goes off!
DST forever.
The experiment was addressed earlier in the thread.
Complaining about complaining sounds about right.
Hey people.....There is only about 9 hours of daylight today. In June there is over 15 hours of daylight. Its not the clock you hate, it is the seasonal cycle of the earth.
What about the kids that walk to school?
You must take your kids to school awful early as my local school does not allow kids in building before 7:45.
I would say you driving your kids there is less of a safety risk than for those kids walking, in the dark. But part of the push says driving in the dark is more dangerous than light, so that is the push to make DST year round so it is daylight for more people commute home, but they forget that would make more peoples morning commute in the dark, just robbing Peter to pay Paul.
9 hours of daylight is all we got, in the winter, regardless of what the clock says.
Summer you have 15 hours of daylight to work with.
Yeah @alarson I know the Earth's seasonal cycle is dumb, but unless you want to move south to near the equator, where it has about 12 hours per day of daylight year round, you will have to deal with it.
But then if you move there you still will have to deal with about 12 hours of daylight in the summer instead of 15 you get here.
Im sure you have stayed up more than an hour past your normal bedtime in the last month and didnt ***** about it. But an hour time change twice a month is the end of the world.
You seem to lack reading comprehension as to people's actual problem with not being on DST, and instead resorted to a straw man no one was arguing against.
I'm remembering why you used to live on my ignore list.
LOL, straw man.
People are complaining about an hour, because they cant figure out there are literally 6 hours less daylight in the winter than in the summer. And somehow think magically Not switching the clock would make the day longer.
I dont want my kids going to school in the dark, I dont want them going or coming in the dark. Is that too much to ask. Or because someone elses kids have to then all of them should argument work.
I get it you dont have kids, I get it you dont care, I get it you want to have time to go outside and do things after work, in JANUARY. I get it because it is good for you, it should be great for everyone else. I get you think you are the smartest person on this site. But hey maybe in a few years when your balls drop you will learn a few things.
No one is arguing this. Multiple people have explained to you.
Most kids end up going to school in the dark regardless of whether we're in DST or not. I did. This has always been the dumbest argument against permanent DST.
lol. Now I definitely remember why I had you on ignore. You're the one talking down to people as if they don't understand the scientific realities.
Now, back to the ignore list I think you go.