Daylight Savings Time

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Tonight most of the U.S. will switch their clocks bending to the demands of daylight savings. You are ordered to move all your clocks and watches forward one hour.

I hate doing this. It is like playing games with time. Time should not be subject to whims of man. It should not be a variable that someone might sneeze and oops it moved an hour.

Anyways there was an article about it today.

Daylight saving time was created by Congress in 1918 as “a way of conserving fuel needed for war industries and of extending the working day,” according to the Library of Congress. It was repealed after World War I was over.

The issue remerged during World War II and Congress established it yet again in 1942.

In an effort to make daylight saving time permanent throughout the year, Republican Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott introduced the Sunshine Protection Act last year, which has languished in Congress with no real progress.

“It makes absolutely no sense, there’s no justification for it," Rubio said in a video statement in October. "It has strong support in the House and in the Senate, the White House, the president said he would sign it. I hope we can get this bill passed because I just think it makes all the sense in the world, and this changing of the clocks back and forth makes no sense at all.”

President Trump has thrown his support for making daylight saving time permanently as well.

“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!” he tweeted in March 2019.

Source: When is Daylight Saving Time and what is it?

So how do you feel about the necessity of moving time (and perhaps being late for a meeting or appointment on Monday?

I think moving the clocks forwards & backwards confuses some people & some people have a hard time adjusting their bodies & schedules to the new time. My mom doesn't adjust to the new time well & by the time she gets used to it, the time is ready to change again & the adjustment process starts over. Either she falls asleep an hour later than she should or she's falling asleep an hour earlier than she should.

I would keep it but modify it to run from mid April until mid October. When I was a kid daylight savings did not start until the last weekend in April. I associate it with warm weather which we usually do not have in March. I hate it when the sun rises too late as I does at in the weeks before the switch to standard time in the first week of November. If we had standard time year round it would start getting light at 3:30AM too early.

Well it is probably time to take a melatonin supplement tablet for a day or two to allow the body to sync up.

You should have more options.

No I don't mind resetting the clock

Yes I mind, but its worth it for the stated goal of DST (to save daylight).

and..

Yes I mind, and its NOT worth it! Gosh darn it!

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I mind resetting the clock. Am undecided about whether its worth it or not.

While we are on the subject, this is the way to set WP software to the correct timezone and daylight savings time

My Account
Board Preferences
Edit Global Settings
My timezone:
Summer Time/DST is in effect: Yes