Why are we still changing our clocks twice a year?

[Redfish]

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

they are getting on buses in the dark right now today.

 

[Redfish]

Partisan Politics.

if so, who is gaining $ from doing it?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

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

It is stupid and there is no good reason for it. Businesses are an international thing these days. It would be beyond ignorant for the US to be 30 minutes off form the rest of the world....for no reason at all.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

if so, who is gaining $ from doing it?

I do not think anyone is, I think that our elected officials are so fucking petty that they will not even stop this as that would mean agreeing with the other side.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

they are getting on buses in the dark right now today.

yep, and have been for a month at least. In some parts of the country.

AZ does not have DST and they do not have more kids getting hit by cars waiting for the bus.

 

[luiza]

Life is all about Change .
Which is why most are often not keen on it .
Particularly stubborn old people who think they know best.

 

[task0778]

Particularly stubborn old people who think they know best.

I think the real problem lies with a-hole elitists who think their college degree entitles them to make decisions for the rest of us 'for our own good'. Many of 'em ain't that old. And not really that smart either.

 

[Redfish]

Life is all about Change .
Which is why most are often not keen on it .
Particularly stubborn old people who think they know best.

BS

 

[there4eyeM]

Changing the clocks is one of humanity's most absurdly stupid practices.

 

[1srelluc]

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

Fuck the rest of the world, they don't pay my bills.

 

[Lisa558]

they are getting on buses in the dark right now today.

For a couple of weeks the light is just coming up, until we move the clock. If we didn’t, they’d have 3 months of pitch-black.

I would prefer to have to drive home in the dark for the few weeks before and after Thanksgiving than have children dashing across dark for months.

 

[otto105]

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?

Cause Indiana sucks.

 

[0311]

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?

Daylight Saving Time is a Dinosaur. It serves no useful purpose and creates serious medical problems including sleep depravation. It might been use at the turn of the 20th. Century, but now needs to be done away with.

 

[task0778]

For a couple of weeks the light is just coming up, until we move the clock. If we didn’t, they’d have 3 months of pitch-black.

I would prefer to have to drive home in the dark for the few weeks before and after Thanksgiving than have children dashing across dark for months.

Fine. Then leave the damn clocks the way they are after we do the 'fall back' when it'll be lighter in the morning and do not change in 6 months.

 

[Truth2Know]

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

Nah, they would be off 30 minutes from us.

 

[Lisa558]

Fine. Then leave the damn clocks the way they are after we do the 'fall back' when it'll be lighter in the morning and do not change in 6 months.

Honestly, it’s a very small issue in light of what is facing the country, and the world.

 

[task0778]

Honestly, it’s a very small issue in light of what is facing the country, and the world.

True, but it's indicative of the situation we find ourselves in. We can't even agree to stop screwing around with what the time should be.

 

[TimFitz]

Changing the clocks is one of humanity's most absurdly stupid practices.

It’s not humanity.
It’s the United States. Which, much to the disappointment of the Trump crowd, the center of the earth.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

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.

The sun was coming up during home room.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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.

The number of hours of daylight in a day is affected by the date, not the time of day we recognize as sunrise and sunset.