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
I agree with Anon lets set everthing to Daylight Savings +1 ... that way in December instead of darkness at 4:30 - 5 pm it will be darkness at 6;30 to 7pm and in the summer light till what 11pm?

Think of all the extra shooting time!

Of course I'm NOT a morning person, along with DST +1 we needa federal law prohibiting the start of work until 10am :)
 
I'm an Arizona resident. We took part in it in 1967 for a year, but that was enough for us.

Hawaii has also ditched it, but they got sick of it after 3 weeks.

Alaska is looking to ditch it too, as in some areas, solar noon occurs as late as 3:00 pm.
 
That's what I've always been told, that it would allow for children to get home and still work on their parents' farms before sunset.

For what its worth, it may be wrong.
 
There's no such thing

As "Daylight Savings Time!!!!"

It's Daylight Saving Time, as in, the time during which we save daylight. There is not, and never has been, an "s" at the end of "Saving."

Please correct your grammar, and then return to your regularly scheduled impassioned discussion of pointless minutiae.

--Shannon
 
As "Daylight Savings Time!!!!"

It's Daylight Saving Time, as in, the time during which we save daylight. There is not, and never has been, an "s" at the end of "Saving."

Please correct your grammar, and then return to your regularly scheduled impassioned discussion of pointless minutiae.

--Shannon
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Someone has a burr in their britches:eek:
 
I simply never understood the advantage to daylight savings. I lived in Indiana many years without daylight savings time. Worked great. Worked for a company with large factory operations. If you want to get to work earlier you just leave earlier...the clock is just hands and numbers. If you live without daylight saving (as I did) then you just forget about it.....so I guess it is just in the mind? Appears so anyway.
 
Look at it this way. Daylight Savings Time is a good thing. While Congress debated implementing it, it kept their minds off passing another useless oppressive law.

If we're lucky, they'll change their minds every year.
 
Well lets see....time zones and even DST were concocted by the Railroads so they could print schedules and have trains arrive at stations with some sense of organization. Before that each town, county or whatever had their own time and trains often arrived an hour before they left.

Since nobody rides the railroads anymore, and everyone gets jet lag from flying over three time zones, why not let everyone go back to the old method. Each town, city etc could formulate it's own time. Some might even invent a new way of measuring time. Some might do away with time altogether as then nobody would be late.

What does this have to do with firearms anyway.......?
 
What does this have to do with firearms anyway.......?
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Do L&P threads have to be firearm related? Honestly asking, I don't know. I always got the impression that general political discussion, which this would be, was also allowed. It's not like there's so much traffic here than other, firearm related threads would be bumped off the front page.

Anyway, regarding DST...never been a fan. I enjoyed living in Arizona and not having to deal with it, though it brought its own set of hassles. Some devices (VCRs, for instance) would automatically adjust for DST anyway and you'd end up having to reset them. I could never remember which time zone we were in (western or mountain) during a given part of the year without stopping to really think about it. But in general I preferred it.

I think daylight savings time is an idea whose time has largely passed. Most workplaces employ artificial light during daytime hours anyway, and for the ones that don't (construction, farming) it's easy enough to shift work hours if necessary.

There are benefits to it, and there are drawbacks. To be honest, I do find it hard to make myself care that much one way or the other. If it was up to me, though, I'd scrap it.
 
No K80Geoff, we still need time Zones. Can you imagine the hell of trying to schedule ANYTHING that went on outside of your town.
 
Now, i'm not for an outright ban on daylight. Its an important part of our heritage and history. However, its far past time we introduce some "Common sense" laws to enact reasonable daylight control.

Its for the children... :D
 
DST is a huge political football.
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I agree. But there is a reason that it is. It was one of the first warnings that Congress had too much time on its hands. Between then and now, we've seen the result of ignoring that warning.

Might there be some benefits to shifting time? Sure. So then just simply change when you start and stop your activity, not the time itself.

Having said that, I would not favor my state opting out of it. Who knows what the cost would be in terms of changing software and other time-related things?
 
Not me.

Before I retired, I talked up permanent +1 daylight time to everyone. It would be nice to maximize the daylight after work. It's crap mowing the lawn in the dark.

Now that I'm retired, I make my own time. All my watches have dead batteries and I have to rely on my wife for any schedules that are reluctantly made.
 
Why don't we just all stay on London time? That way, Heroes will come on at, like, six in the morning, and I can get up and watch it instead of having to tape it every Monday night!

Oh, and we'd all be on the night-shift.

... or we'd just get used to coming into work at 2 in the morning!

... But I have a BETTER question for you:

What in the WORLD does this thread have to do with the legality and politics of FIREARMS!?!?!?
 
Now that I'm retired, I make my own time. All my watches have dead batteries and I have to rely on my wife for any schedules that are reluctantly made.
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When my dad retired he got as a gift the funniest clock I've ever seen. Instead of 12 divisions for hours it has 7 sections for days, and only one hand. Because really, what else does he need to know?

Why don't we just all stay on London time? That way, Heroes will come on at, like, six in the morning, and I can get up and watch it instead of having to tape it every Monday night!

Oh, and we'd all be on the night-shift.
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I read an interesting article once upon a time regarding the large group of people that live in one timezone but work "in" another. People living in Japan, for instance, but who do all their business with New York and thus rearrange their lives to New York time. They actually develop their own little subculture. Moderately interesting.

What in the WORLD does this thread have to do with the legality and politics of FIREARMS!?!?!?
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Nothing, why? Are we running out of internets?

Might there be some benefits to shifting time? Sure. So then just simply change when you start and stop your activity, not the time itself.
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Except that there are, apparently, some benefits from ensuring that everybody shifts the beginning and end of their activities (largely, work/school) consistently. Personally I'm a fan of this idea as well (simply altering work/school schedules when required/convenient), but it's definitely not the same thing as enacting DST and doesn't have all the same effects.
 
What in the WORLD does this thread have to do with the legality and politics of FIREARMS!?!?!?
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Everything. Who makes the laws governing firearms? Congress. Is their thinking addled very often? Are they ensnaring firearms owners and everyone else in an unnecessary web of new laws simply because they want to justify their pay? No better way to examine that than to look at some of their stupider results, like backing us into a corner of having two time references per year instead of one that we now cannot get out of, when a non-legislative solution would have worked just fine.
 
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