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Daylight savings time. Don’t forget to move your clocks one hour ahead tonight at 2:00am so you won’t be late for church tomorrow.

I understand that they are trying to make it permanent. It is in the Senate now. Last year they passed a bill to make it permanent, but when it got to the House, it went nowhere. Thanks a lot Nancy. Maybe, this year it will be successful. Jim Patrick

good reminder for a good reason. Thanks Jim

I've always said I don't really care so long as they'd quit changing back and forth, although standard time would make more sense where we live. On time for church is the best reason for minding the change, although it doesn't much matter to me otherwise. I have furry alarm clocks that get me up first light, and critters that demand fed same time every day, no matter what the clock says !

Time changes twice a year have been going on as long as we have been breathing so get used to it, and I don't mean breathing.

Not so, Robert. Many of us were breathing quite some time before 1966 when this twice-annually change began. I never did get used to it.

About time to advance to the 5th grade.

I would like Southern California to move forward 1/2 hour or split the state east and west at around Santa Barbara. The problem here is that we are only 100 miles from the Arizona State line. The northern part of the state is farther west and also farther north so they have more daylight anyway.
Norm

I will stick with standard time. Hate seeing kids going to school in the dark. Too easy to get hit. I always had bus, so I could miss it on purpose and walk. Get to school about noon.

I HATE the switch to Daylight SAVING time..(sorry fellas, but no "s" in the term)...any way where we live so close to central time going D.S.T. permanently would be better. And the east coast could almost use another time zone of their own. I can't fathom waking up at 0430 to full sunlight like they do in NYC in the summer.

Forgot this! See this time change affects my thinking!

Tim
You and I would live in the central time zone rather than EST if the lines were proprly set. I am happy to have the extra hours of daylight due to wrong time zone and daylight saving time. At 630 PM we can start a 50 mile tour inckuding an ice cream stop and get home before dark.

Art Mirtes

Rich P. Bingham wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:56 pm

Not so, Robert. Many of us were breathing quite some time before 1966 when this twice-annually change began. I never did get used to it.

Actually, Robert is closer to being correct. The time change began March 31, 1918. During WW2 and again for a couple of years during the 70s we moved away from it. Rich gets some points though - from WW2 until 1966 there was no federal law regarding DST vs standard time, so the states could do what they wanted. Rich could have lived in a state that did not switch back and forth.

I've always thought it was funny when dairy folks said the change confuses the cows.
The cows aren't the least bit confused. They know what time it really is.

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:40 pm

I've always thought it was funny when dairy folks said the change confuses the cows.

Were they serious, Steve ? Around here that was dairy barn humor when we had many neighbors milking 40-50 head. Now it's all moved to mega-dairies in Magic Valley milking several hundred head around the clock. I'm pretty sure those cows are confused !!

With “smart” technology clocks should just update daily in small increments instead of just one big leap to screw things up. Each time zone optimized for its lighting difference. The cows will be happy! I will be happy
Bryant

From many moons ago. Jim

John Codman responded a few posts up.. and thanks John, you know your history !

You young whipper-snappers!!! Kids today!!
I remember when if you went to a nearby town that was 20 miles away, they had a different time. All over the U.S. nearly every town had their own time.

It wasn't until those durned-tootin railroads got together and demanded time-keeping be simplified so their locomotives wouldn't tip over and fall right off the tracks because they didn't know what time it REALLY was, that we got a unified time system.

Gosh durn it, I liked it a LOT better when I decided what time it was!! I was never late for anything, because the time was what I SAID it was!

This modern stuff is a bunch of hooey! Next thing you know, they'll want to put steering wheels on the L/H side for EVERYONE, when sensible people like ME know that the steering wheel should be on the right side, so it's convenient for the driver to get out of the car right on the curb.

Rassum-Frassum!!!