We could always start a letter-writing campaign to the God Emperor asking him to executive order this outdated tradition away.
The idea lives would be saved completely ignores people who have to be out exercising in the early morning, or school kids waiting for the bus. Some of us do not wake up well and driving in the morning in the dim area before sunrise, or right when that sun comes over the horizon makes it even harder. I am on autopilot a lot of times, and many people are cuddling with coffee, snacks, reading books, tweeting, putting on make up, or my favorite was playing the flute while driving to work. Driving in the evening is much easier with pedestrian traffic around here because people are all over the road during morning rush, but in evening rush there are not so many. Aside from that I am all for not bothering with changing all the clocks.
I ould have to totally agree here. Trump is probably our best chance for having a president make a decision to eliminate this. Every other president would overthink it and probably not do it, but he does not care what anyone thinks. he do what he wants!
The thread title is redundant. I don’t mind switching back and forth, but if they were to pick one time I’d vote for Daylight Saving Time to be year ‘round.
Meh. As someone who can end up with a first-degree burn if I go out in strong sunlight for five minutes without sunblock, I wouldn't mind DST all year round if the banks and post offices would accommodate, IOW, stay open an hour later than they do currently. In the height of summer, I often do my errands - supermarkets, pharmacies, etc. - after the sun goes down. But "banker's hours" make me crazy. What's that you say? "Get up an hour earlier"? As if. ETA: USPS used to pick up from my house. Lately they claim they do, but a package can sit there for days until I schlep it to the post office. As for banks, most of what I do can be done through ATMs or direct deposit, but I've got a couple of Luddite clients who insist on paying me with actual paper checks, sent through the mail, that have to be deposited. Then there's the endless need of quarters for the laundry room. Can't get those after hours. Bah, humbug.
And yet, there four links in that paragraph pointing toward actual data. If we also started school later (especially high school), it would help your morning commute as well.
There's some decent research that says most kids (especially teenagers) would benefit from starting school later in the day, as they need more sleep than adults.
Not quite more sleep, it's more that their circadian rhythms shift later. They might get eight hours of sleep, they just feel sleepy from 11-12 until 7-8, when right now we force them to get up at 6.
Anyone who has cats knows that they show up at the food bowl at exactly the same time (their time) every evening. If they're accustomed to being at the food bowl at 5 p.m., they will be there. When you turn your clock ahead in the spring and feed them at 4 p.m. (their time), they're thinking "Oh, cool. Got this one trained." When, in the fall, you try to make them wait until 6 p.m. (their time), they will sabotage you. "Oh, yanno that wicker chair you're really fond of? It's in shreds right now, Mofo. FEED ME!"
I’m hoping one of mine will let me sleep in tomorrow. He wakes me up half an hour before my alarm goes off to be fed.
Wife works graveyard shift at the hospital. She gets paid for 12 hours and works 11. I helpfully pointed this out, and she said, "Yeah, I have to do 12 hours work in 11."
On it. Uh, after I deliver the letter banning Packard. Shit. I put it in Dayton's mail box. Welp. Whaddyagonnado.
Yup. The sun rises at 8:30 in Tibet and Xinjiang, because we all follow the one true timezone, Beijing.
