I have struggled last two days with my internal clock. What time is it? Jean Ann went to the beach with her sister. She always changes the clocks. There are clocks on the microwave and stove I can’t seem to figure out. I change them and they revert. Then they seem to be right. Then revert. And I forget which ones I change.
There are three alarms in bed room. Some are right, but I don’t understand the one she uses that is way too fancy. To compound things we had a power outage while I was in Fayetteville that messed up some clocks. But not others.
Please come home Jean Ann.
On another matter, I’m going to say this fall back on time probably effected the two players on Dickson Street. They prob thought it was only midnight.
Currently there are only 2 states that don’t do DST… Arizona and Hawaii. If multiple states opted out of DST it would create a lot of confusion. I can remember back in the day getting on plane to Indianapolis and landing before I left.
I understand the business side. For instance, if you have a business in those two states and have accounts nationwide, you have to have people in the office at 7-8 am to service those states.
Not sure what the cons are, other than people like my late great-grandmother who used to call it “God’s Time” (standard) and “Roosevelt’s Time” (DST).
We had a trial of year-round DST about 40 years ago to try to conserve energy during the oil embargo and there was enough opposition that they went back to six months on, six off. It was later amended to eight months of DST, four of ST.
One con I can think of is that some people didn’t like their kids waiting for their morning school bus in the dark. Not sure how much of a factor that is now. And in more northern states that’s going to happen anyway.
There are studies that the end of DST results in decreased economic activity as measured in credit card purchases, by up to 4%. Robberies during the extra hour of evening daylight also decreased.
At one time parts of Indiana skipped DST so that the entire state would be in the same time zone; right now a chunk of western Indiana is in Central, the rest in Eastern. But now the entire state observes DST.
Sunday was the longest day of my life lol My wife found a meme on Instagram that read “It feels like it is 1 million o’clock right now and it isn’t even the kids’ bed time yet.”
In FL we voted to stay on DST year-round, but apparently states can’t do that without federal approval. States can decide to stay on standard (winter) time year round on their own, but not on summer time.
They tried that continuous DST in 1974. Nixon signed it into law for 2 years. Popular at first until kids were starting school in pitch black darkness in mornings.
Gerald Ford reversed it after only 1 year.
Better to just leave it at standard time like other parts of the world.
I think you seriously underestimate the popularity of DST. The entire European Union uses it. So does Israel, a few South American countries, the two most populous states in Australia, New Zealand, and even parts of Mexico near the U.S. border. Of course the Southern Hemisphere nations have it in our winter (it started in early October in Australia).
Nobody has gone to permanent DST yet, but we’ll see if the House takes up the so-called Sunshine Protection Act (which, if you were wondering, was introduced by a member of the minority party in the Senate).
