Should the US eliminate Daylight Savings time? Is it helpful for anyone out there anymore? Is it hurtful for anyone out there?
As someone that works in the tech field I personally have experienced the pain of having to take DST into account in solutions. Many time related tasks would be infinitely easier to implement if we didnt have to worry about DST. That's why I am wondering if there is a good reason to keep it around anymore?
If you look at the health statistics, the decreased time increases the amount of heart attacks and strokes for that following day.
As we moved towards an industrialized to a tech based with light industry, I'm of the opinion to remove it. When you run your civilization 24/hours a day, there's really nothing to "save."
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DST was originally conceived to help farmers with Spring planting. With current farming technology, the concept of DST is no longer necessary. I am in favor of doing away with it.
I'm in favor of doing away with it. It doesn't serve any purpose anymore. Even when they changed the dates of DST to try and save electricity, it didn't work.
...but it's fun to have an extra hour of daylight once in awhile.
But there isn't an extra hour of daylight. The clocks get changed, not the rate at which the earth spins on it's axis.
I've been saying we need to get rid of it for years. I've been tired the last two days because my body hasn't adjusted to the time difference yet. The clock says to go to sleep but my body doesn't agree and then it happens again in the morning when I have to get up. DST has never made any sense to me at all, even when I consider the farmers and their spring planting. Changing what time the clock says doesn't change how much sunlight there is in a day and I see no reason why farmers couldn't have just gotten up when the sun was in the right spot. It's a stupid, obsolete tradition that has no benefit whatsoever. It needs to go. I say next fall we set the clocks back a half hour to split the difference and be done with it.
DST is the ultimate "meh" for me. I'm sure somewhere there's someone using it for political gain, just because it's so meh.
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...but it's fun to have an extra hour of daylight once in awhile.
But there isn't an extra hour of daylight. The clocks get changed, not the rate at which the earth spins on it's axis.
I've been saying we need to get rid of it for years. I've been tired the last two days because my body hasn't adjusted to the time difference yet. The clock says to go to sleep but my body doesn't agree and then it happens again in the morning when I have to get up. DST has never made any sense to me at all, even when I consider the farmers and their spring planting. Changing what time the clock says doesn't change how much sunlight there is in a day and I see no reason why farmers couldn't have just gotten up when the sun was in the right spot. It's a stupid, obsolete tradition that has no benefit whatsoever. It needs to go. I say next fall we set the clocks back a half hour to split the difference and be done with it.
Actually right now we are "in" DST. Day light savings time begins in the Spring. So to get rid of it next Fall we would simply have our extra hour of sleep and then never ever again "spring forward".
Argument could be made that the offset for Daylight savings time makes more sense in relation to when the sun is up and typical working hours, but then why not just adjust "normal" time and stop trying to capture some glimmer of the sun during the winter...
If nothing else it would be interesting to know what the federal government thinks about DST.
To address payday: I am assuming they use it as a way to have less working hours after noon when it's hottest outside in the summer. I would be perfectly ok with just making the DST hour shift permanent. The part that is annoying is bouncing back and forth.
I am favor of keeping DST simply because of the havoc i causes everyone around me and that makes me giggle. As for DST being for farmers I'm fairly sure that dairy farmers don't follow DST simply because changing the milking times for a large group of cows would be insane.
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As someone that works in the tech field I personally have experienced the pain of having to take DST into account in solutions. Many time related tasks would be infinitely easier to implement if we didnt have to worry about DST. That's why I am wondering if there is a good reason to keep it around anymore?
I think the people it was originally intended to help, can do without it these days.
I could be wrong.
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As we moved towards an industrialized to a tech based with light industry, I'm of the opinion to remove it. When you run your civilization 24/hours a day, there's really nothing to "save."
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
but we don't NEED to not have it either.
I guess my opinion is if we dont need it there is no reason to keep it around.
If there's no upside, whats the point?
currently it serves no purpose whatsoever, but it's fun to have an extra hour of daylight once in awhile.
But there isn't an extra hour of daylight. The clocks get changed, not the rate at which the earth spins on it's axis.
I've been saying we need to get rid of it for years. I've been tired the last two days because my body hasn't adjusted to the time difference yet. The clock says to go to sleep but my body doesn't agree and then it happens again in the morning when I have to get up. DST has never made any sense to me at all, even when I consider the farmers and their spring planting. Changing what time the clock says doesn't change how much sunlight there is in a day and I see no reason why farmers couldn't have just gotten up when the sun was in the right spot. It's a stupid, obsolete tradition that has no benefit whatsoever. It needs to go. I say next fall we set the clocks back a half hour to split the difference and be done with it.
On phasing:
Actually right now we are "in" DST. Day light savings time begins in the Spring. So to get rid of it next Fall we would simply have our extra hour of sleep and then never ever again "spring forward".
Argument could be made that the offset for Daylight savings time makes more sense in relation to when the sun is up and typical working hours, but then why not just adjust "normal" time and stop trying to capture some glimmer of the sun during the winter...
I found a petition already started on whitehouse.gov. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/end-daylight-savings/WlTW6q9p
If nothing else it would be interesting to know what the federal government thinks about DST.
To address payday: I am assuming they use it as a way to have less working hours after noon when it's hottest outside in the summer. I would be perfectly ok with just making the DST hour shift permanent. The part that is annoying is bouncing back and forth.