Do you think your state should bow out of daylight savings time?

Do you wish your state would do away with daylight savings time?

  • yes

    Votes: 26 54.2%

  • no

    Votes: 22 45.8%
  • Total voters
    48
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Doug.38PR

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One of many annoyances. Ariziona is the only state I know of that doesn't recognize daylight savings time. I wish my home state of Texas would bow out. I understand new englanders doing it, but why should the rest of us have to keep up with this mess and have it dark at 8:00 because of them?

Do you wish your state would do away with daylight savings time? People in the Northeast need not vote, I understand why you have it.
 
Not unless the entire system was abolished. There's too much at stake in the financial sector as well as many others for neighboring states to suddenly be on varying timeframes. Yeah, the nation and the world could adjust over time but in the beginning it would be a major headache and it's simply not worth it. I think Arizona should just stop being a square and succumb to the peer pressure.
 
Yes, not only do we have daylight savings time, we're also in another time zone from the rest of the state. Not as bad as Indiana where some counties don't follow it DLST though.
 
Dst/est

I don't give a fig .

Get on one time standard or the other, but for God's sake pick one, and stay on it !!!!
 
I've posted a thread in general that will no doubt be locked down due to being off topic:

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=238996

This years change is causing many problems with computer systems and other electronic devices. It spans multiple operating systems and programs, and none seem immune to the effects.

Most affected are scheduling and/or calender programs.

For most people it will simply come and go without any incident, for a lot of others it will be simply an aggrevation.
There are a few though that rely on an electroinc reminder for important events such as medication, where an hour one way or the other may be critical.

I strongly suggest anyone using an electronic calender or time keeper, print out a hard copy of the schedule for the month of March.

Speaking from the perspective of one that is dealing with the issue, I wish they would have left well enough alone. They didn't, and now there's issues.
Going back at this point is not a viable option, so my vote was "no".
This is becoming a very expensive switch for quite a few companies, that no one seems to have had the good sense to look at all the implications before implementing it.

The change over is in about 4 weeks. To date, roughly 1/4 of the software companies have published a working patch for it. Of the ones we've seen, most break more things than they fix.

Most people are treating it as "another Y2K scare".
Y2K had a two year lead, and a $750 billion dollar fix tossed at it to make sure it would be a nonevent.
DLS is down to about a 4 week lead and from what I can see, about a buck 98 worth of fix.
 
Yeah, what's your reasoning for us having it, then?
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It gets dark a lot earlier in the summer as they are farther east and nobody up there wants to go home when it is dark. That is understandable.
 
I wish we could stop using STANDARD TIME!

I wish we would go to DST +1. I have no use for the sun in the morning. I just wish it was still light when I get home from work.


Better yet, do away with time-zones altogether. We have no need for them, anymore.
 
It really is the pits when night has completely fallen by 5PM as I walk out of the office in NY. I often go out for lunch just to see sunlight during the week.

Now for the rest of the nation, EVERYBODY should be on it.

I am involved in sales over much of the nation. IN has always been a thorn in my side because I never know what time it is there! Are they on NY or Chicago at this time? Who knows!

Trying to schedule appointments... GOOD LUCK!!! Going to be in the NW corner of the state... better ask what the local time there is officially and then whether they informally follow Chicago. Visit one customer at 1PM for 45 minutes and then drive to the next visit at 1PM!

IN maked it needlessly difficult for the rest of the nation to do business with. Which only serves to hurt IN economically.
 
Better yet, do away with time-zones altogether. We have no need for them, anymore.
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That is funny.

First change the USA to the metric system and then work on getting everyone on a global standard! Sorry, the time is too much a part of our culture. Noon is the middle of the day. Midnight is the middle of the night. People have a very personal relationship with time and you are not going to get everyone to change their whole thought pattern for no real benifit.

Knowing the stroke of midnight is 1 hour before sunset would be pretty meaningless!
 
Musketeer, I not only want Global Time, but I want Global Metric Time.

There is NO reason for 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour......

Take what we now call a "day", divide that by 10 (hours)

Divide the hours by 100 (minutes), and divide the minutes by 100 (our timepeices can easily do that level of precision).

That would make 100,000 metric seconds per day. Right now we have 86,400 seconds per day.


The fact that the US didn't officially convert to the metric time in the 70's shows that you're right, though. We're a bunch of ........
 
And what benifit would there be to switching to "MetricTime"? What can we do with Metric time that we can't do with the system already in place? For such a large cost to switch over there better be a larger benifit than simply "We get more seconds in a day."
 
The whole point is, why can't each region or state do what is convienent or comfortable for itself. Daylight savings time I hate here in Texas. People have to remember to set their clocks, plus I don't like to see the sun go down between 8:30 and 9. If it makes it difficult for some corporation or businessman in Boston to do business in Denver or Houston, then that's just part of life. Why do we have to be this homogenous body that adjusts according to the convenience of Boston and New York?
 
The whole point is, why can't each region or state do what is convienent or comfortable for itself.
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Would you agree with a federal law regarding English as the national language? Same thing.

Time is importanct, critically so, in maintining efficient commerce between states. INTERSTATE COMMERCE is clearly affected by the DST issue from one state to another.

You were joking about metric time, weren't you?
 
There is NO reason for 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour......
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There is. Mathematically the sexagesimal method of keeping time made the most sense when it was invented. To change six thousand years of human habit because a hexadecimal system seems simpler would cause far more problems than it could ever solve. It's like trying to reinvent the wheel. There's no point.
 
Would you agree with a federal law regarding English as the national language? Same thing.
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I don't understand your question. I am not talking about a federal anything. I am talking about states and regions choosing not to recognize daylight savings time just like Arizona.
I don't understand how that is analogous with a federal laws regarding English as the national language.


Time is importanct, critically so, in maintining efficient commerce between states. INTERSTATE COMMERCE is clearly affected by the DST issue from one state to another.
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Commerce between states was maintained long before daylight savings time came along.

You were joking about metric time, weren't you?
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I wasn't the one who brought that up.
 
I kinda like the DST system. In winter it lets me get back home from work while it's still pretty much light out and in summer it allows for a longer day.

Works for me.
 
Commerce between states was maintained long before daylight savings time came along.
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At horse cart speed. Things work differently now.

The English Language point was made to show why some level of regulation between states is GOOD and NEEDED.
 
I'm with Anon. I voted no but I would MUCH rather have a long day than a bright sunny morning. The sun in my eyes while I'm doing PT is just annoying anyway
 
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