Why are we still changing our clocks twice a year?

[Redfish]

What does this accomplish? Who is benefitting from it? The senate passed a bill to keep daylight time year round, the house refuses to bring it to the floor, Why? Is someone profiting from changing our clocks? Who and how?

I know some of you probably like the time changing, but why?

 

[1srelluc]

I say split the difference in the hour and keep it the same year-round.

Sigh, I guess that makes too much sense.

 

[Redfish]

I say split the difference in the hour and keep it the same year-round.

Sigh, I guess that makes too much sense.

I agree, move it 30 minutes and leave it forever. But simple logical solutions never work in congress, someone has to be bribed.

 

[rightwinger]

Because we don’t like waiting till 8 O’clock for the sun to come up

 

[Redfish]

Because we don’t like waiting till 8 O’clock for the sun to come up

but you like it going down at 5 pm? The days are shorter in winter and longer is summer no matter what we do with our clocks.

 

[1srelluc]

I agree, move it 30 minutes and leave it forever. But simple logical solutions never work in congress, someone has to be bribed.

Hey, it would be a great "compromise test" for Congress......If they can't even compromise on that then just disband congress and start over.

 

[odanny]

What I've heard is the only reason this started was back in the day, farmers didn't have lights on their tractors and needed more light, farmers can do anything at any hour nowadays.

Nobody likes DST, even Congress keeps talking about changing this, but we know how they get things done.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I don't really care which way they go, but choose one and stick with it!!!!!!!!

 

[wamose]

I remember way back, when the time change meant the bars stayed open an extra hour and I considered that a bonus. Amazing how shit changes over time. So, if the twenty somethings still feel that way, I say keep changing it. For me, it doesn't matter either way.

 

[Lisa558]

What does this accomplish? Who is benefitting from it? The senate passed a bill to keep daylight time year round, the house refuses to bring it to the floor, Why? Is someone profiting from changing our clocks? Who and how?

I know some of you probably like the time changing, but why?

Because otherwise it would still be dark at 8 a.m. when schoolchildren are crossing the street.

This is the actual reason, and it’s a good one.

 

[Lisa558]

I remember way back, when the time change meant the bars stayed open an extra hour and I considered that a bonus. Amazing how shit changes over time. So, if the twenty somethings still feel that way, I say keep changing it. For me, it doesn't matter either way.

But the other direction and the bars close an hour early.

 

[wamose]

But the other direction and the bars close an hour early.

Good thinking, but our favorite bartenders only took the extra hour and didn't deduct on the other end. If they were politicians, they would have said that their interpretation of losing an hour would be "against the spirit of the law". Or some other bullshit excuse. But I never heard of any bar getting in trouble for that, and they pretty much all did it. It might have had something to do with not wanting to argue with drunks at 2 or 3 AM.

 

[odanny]

I was mistaken.

Following many of the other belligerent countries, the United States adopted daylight saving time on March 31, 1918, as a means to conserve electricity during wartime, not, as commonly believed, to allow farmers to work longer in the fields. In fact, the agriculture industry fervently opposed the measure because farming schedules are based on sunrise and sunset not the clock. The measure was far more popular in urban areas, where wartime gardeners cultivated a host of available spaces, and with retailers, including the United Cigar Store Company, which published the poster below. The agriculture industry lobbied for the repeal of daylight saving time that Congress passed over President Wilson's veto in 1919.

Uniform Time Act

Citations
Codification
Legislative history
Long title	An Act to promote the observance of a uniform system of time throughout the United States.
Nicknames	Uniform Time Act of 1966
Enacted by	the 89th United States Congress
Effective	April 1, 1967
Public law	89-387
Statutes at Large	80 Stat. 107
Acts amended	Standard Time Act of 1918
Titles amended	15 U.S.C.: Commerce and Trade
U.S.C.sections created	15 U.S.C. ch. 6, subch. IX §§ 260–267
Introduced in the Senate as S. 1404 by Sens. Gale McGee (D–WY) and Norris Cotton (R–NH) Passed the House on March 16, 1966 (292–93, in lieu of H.R. 6785) Reported by the joint conference committee on March 30, 1966; agreed to by the House on March 30, 1966 (282–91) Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 13, 1966

The Uniform Time Act of 1966, Pub. L. 89–387, 80 Stat. 107, enacted April 13, 1966, was a Law of the United States to "promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones" prescribed by the Standard Time Act of 1918. Its intended effect was to simplify the official pattern of where and when daylight saving time (DST) is applied within the U.S. Prior to this law, each state had its own scheme for when DST would begin and end, and in some cases, which parts of the state should use it.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I say split the difference in the hour and keep it the same year-round.

Sigh, I guess that makes too much sense.

Its this sort of logic that has no place in the world.

 

[Lisa558]

Don’t all you people in your 60s remember the gas shortage of 1973, and how we had to go to school in the morning in pitch black? The year-round savings time was abolished after three weeks because kids were darting across the street and drivers were saying it was dangerous.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

What does this accomplish? Who is benefitting from it? The senate passed a bill to keep daylight time year round, the house refuses to bring it to the floor, Why? Is someone profiting from changing our clocks? Who and how?

I know some of you probably like the time changing, but why?

Partisan Politics.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I agree, move it 30 minutes and leave it forever. But simple logical solutions never work in congress, someone has to be bribed.

you cannot move it 30 minutes, then we would be off by 30 minutes from the rest of the world.

 

[task0778]

Don’t all you people in your 60s remember the gas shortage of 1973, and how we had to go to school in the morning in pitch black? The year-round savings time was abolished after three weeks because kids were darting across the street and drivers were saying it was dangerous.

I remember the gas shortage in 1973, and it didn't have a damn thing to do with DST. These days with all the school crossing guards and lower speed limits around schools, I don't think your argument holds much water. But fine, just find whichever time gives you the most daylight in the morning hours and leave it that way all year round. I think it's dumbshit stupid to be switching back and forth for no good reason.

This is not a question of what is best for the kids or farmers or anyone else. This is just another political issue, their side is for it so our side is against it and we ain't going to let them win at anything. And what's best for everybody else doesn't matter.

 

[Lisa558]

I remember the gas shortage in 1973, and it didn't have a damn thing to do with DST. These days with all the school crossing guards and lower speed limits around schools, I don't think your argument holds much water. But fine, just find whichever time gives you the most daylight in the morning hours and leave it that way all year round. I think it's dumbshit stupid to be switching back and forth for no good reason.

This is not a question of what is best for the kids or farmers or anyone else. This is just another political issue, their side is for it so our side is against it and we ain't going to let them win at anything. And what's best for everybody else doesn't matter.

No it’s not. It’s so schoolkids don’t get run over.

 

[Redfish]

you cannot move it 30 minutes, then we would be off by 30 minutes from the rest of the world.

why is that a problem? everyone would adjust to it very quickly