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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 18, 2022 11:48:45 GMT
Yes sometimes our sun isn't up until almost 8:30 am in the winter. On the flip side though in summer it is light out until almost 10pm. When you think about how big the US is with not that many times zones (in the lower 48), we are all going to have such different experiences depending on where we sit in that time zone. My cousins in MN often have sunlight until 9:30 pm. So jealous. I think our latest sunrise is shortly after 7 am. I have a really hard time with the time changes. I'm a pretty regulated 9pm-5am sleeper. So it takes me about a week to adjust to a time change. But I don't want to stop the time changes. If we stayed on standard time in Michigan, the sunrise would be before 5 am. Daylight savings time, though, is good for tourism in our state. I mean, you can literally get in 18 holes of golf after work here because of our late sunsets in the summer time. Our night is long in the winter and short in the summer. I mean that's just how it is when you live so far north. For where I live, the time change is the best option IMO. |
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 19, 2022 15:17:03 GMT
Thought this was really interesting. The bill passed because no one objected in a sneaky move by Rubio & Sinema. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/18/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-accident/
The Senate approved legislation making daylight saving time year-round. There were no hearings, no discussion, no debate, and no vote. It just happened, because nobody objected — in large part because many senators didn’t even know it was happening.
It took just 14 seconds to approve an order moving Americans’ clocks an hour ahead, permanently. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) rose, requested that S. 623 be “discharged” from the Senate Commerce Committee, which hadn’t approved it, then said: “I ask unanimous consent that the Rubio substitute amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered read a third time and passed, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.”
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), the presiding officer, was complicit in the scheme. She quickly declared “without objection, so ordered” and then, in her latest breach of decorum, stage-whispered “yes!” into the microphone and pumped two celebratory fists.
Rubio and Sinema had pulled a fast one. A proposal with only 18 co-sponsors cleared the body in a New York minute. Neither the Democratic whip nor the Republican whip in the Senate knew it was happening. And the Senate has no way to claw back the bill, so it goes to the House — which hopefully will be a bit more deliberative before messing with Father Time. |
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Post by katlady on Mar 19, 2022 15:23:18 GMT
aj2hall People already think it is a done deal. There will be so much uproar if the House doesn’t pass it. I don’t like the way it was snuck through the Senate. I do hope the House studies it more and not give in to pressure to pass it.
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Post by Gem Girl on Mar 19, 2022 17:36:13 GMT
As if I needed another reason to despise Sinema.
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Post by prettyprettypaper on Mar 20, 2022 23:23:13 GMT
This topic is always so interesting to me because we actually don't observe Daylight Savings Time in Hawaiʻi. We just have to adjust the time difference when dealing with people outside of our state. I donʻt think Iʻd like having to adjust my sleep schedule twice a year either, though. LOL! One Aunt will always forget that we are now 3 hours ahead instead of 2 and will call my mom so late. It drives me crazy when people forget we're behind everyone else. I had one company in San Diego who kept calling at 6 in the morning. I don't get up until 6:30 or 6:45. They did this even after I informed them that Hawai'i and San Diego are in different time zones! I eventually blocked their number so they have no way to contact me other than email. |
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Post by melanell on Mar 21, 2022 12:00:50 GMT
I don't really care what time they stick to as long as they stick to one time. I would rather they stick with Standard Time, but I absolutely agree, that if it's DST forever, or switching back and forth forever, I'm fine with just keeping DST. |
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Post by twinks on Mar 21, 2022 13:31:20 GMT
I have been laughing about this sense it passed. Especially in light of how it got passed and by who sponsored the bill. Sarcastically thinking to myself that this is another “mandate.” What happens is I don’t like this mandate? What happens if I want to protest because my individual “freedom” is taken away for the good of all. I don’t want to change and I don’t like DST so I will just stay at Standard time. We have had some humorous discussions regarding this thought. Showing up for an appointment an hour late and just announcing that you are on Standard time because you don’t agree with the “mandate” or “the science.” Basically just my mind taking off. It isn’t how I feel about it one way or the other.
Personally I like the standard time. I have found that if you are a morning person, you like standard. If you have the tendency to be a night person, you like DST.
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