TIME to ADJUST (Daylight Saving Time)

[mamselle]

At some point's I've just gotten up 10 min. earlier each day the week before, or for two days at a time for two weeks before.

I meant to mention that as a helpful approach earlier, but forgot.

Maybe I fell asleep earlier the night I meant to do so...

;--}

M.

[dismalist]

The US Senate approved by voice vote a bill to have year-round daylight saving time.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/

The House is thimking about it.

Some reasons given are good, but downplayed in the article. There are only a few extra dead in car crashes on account of daylight saving time. What's a life worth?
Others are trivial: "The change would help enable children to play outdoors later and reduce seasonal depression, according to supporters." If it's that important, why wasn't it done in 1919?

Alas, in spite of the rhetoric, I will enjoy the last change or non-change.

[downer]

Let the corporations trade time, air and water.

The market will solve any problems. Down with big government.

:)

[dismalist]

Let the corporations trade time, air and water.

The market will solve any problems. Down with big government.

:)

Absolutely! The market would reward those with riches who coordinate on the same time. The problem is which time.

Ages ago, none other  than Milton Friedman explained his propagation of flexible exchange rates, then anathema,  between currencies  as having all the advantages of Daylight Saving Time!

Already when I first read that, as a yute [My Cousin Vinny], I thought, hell, Prof. Friedman, you're going too far.

If it were up to me, we could each determine our own time! :-)

That's not too stupid. On another thread I described how Italians don't really coordinate on any time, unless they want to.

[hmaria1609]

*Thread bump*
It's a change of the clock this weekend! Falling back an hour.

[dismalist]

Ah, falling back to normalcy. Been waiting for this since March. I get my hour back, but the buggers don't pay interest.

Happy End-of-Daylight-Saving-Time!

[kaysixteen]

DST and clock changes seem to have outlived their usefulness.  I vote for DST all year round.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

DST and clock changes seem to have outlived their usefulness.  I vote for DST all year round.

Same. I'm tired of 'losing' an hour in the spring.

[Langue_doc]

I've been looking forward to the extra sleep-in hour, but am not too sure about the early sunsets.

[Harlow2]

My after-work walking group will now have a limited number of places that are reasonably safe (street crossings at night here are really dangerous, though one member bought a school crossing guard safety vest on Amazon.). Plus driving home in the dark is just sad.

[clean]

Im giving a test on Monday.  Hopefully, the added hour will be used wisely  (to sleep), but I suspect that as the extra hour occurs tonight, it wont change any of their cramming habits!

[apl68]

Saturday I got back from a week-long vacation.  Though I hadn't been putting in late nights, I did do an awful lot of walking, hiking, and driving, and had to get up early on Sunday.  It was a perfect time to gain an additional hour overnight!  It was also good to get up for my morning walk and it not be before dawn.

[dismalist]

I haven't felt so good since March!

[hmaria1609]

Change of the clock this weekend! Going forward an hour.

[dismalist]

Mercy, why must I be reminded? No problem is so big that it can't be run away from.

Daylight Saving Time may never end from this year. That's not the optimum but it would be an improvement.

If not, DST ends November 5 this year. Am counting the days.

The last time DST was extended the reason given was so the kiddies could go trick-or-treating in the light. My alternative would have been to move Halloween into July. Plenty of light then, with or without DST.