Why are we still changing our clocks twice a year?

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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.

There are many parts of the world that are already 30 minutes off from everywhere else. Australia and India even have 45-minute times zones in addition to the 30 minutes. There are several countries with extensive variations around the world. Afghanistan was one I discovered when my son was there.

Half Hour and 45-Minute Time Zones

While most time zones differ from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by a number of full hours, some time zones have 30-minute or 45-minute offsets.

www.timeanddate.com

That's why the military and many businesses use UTC. You do know what UTC is, don't you?

Guess it is not beyond ignorant as you thought. eh?

 

[GLASNOST]

Why are we still changing our clocks twice a year?​

Good question. There are (or is) some places that do not change the clock at all.

 

[Lisa558]

The sun was coming up during home room.

Might depend on where in the time zone you lived. I remember it still dark at the beginning of 1st period.

 

[Moonglow]

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.

That is why we went to school at nine am when there was no time change.

 

[Redfish]

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.

and in a few weeks the kids will be getting on the bus in the dark again. Days are shorter in winter than summer no matter what we do with our clocks. Why not do what the senate approved a few years ago, daylight time all year? My real question is why won't the house vote on it? Anyone know?

 

[Redfish]

Might depend on where in the time zone you lived. I remember it still dark at the beginning of 1st period.

and somehow, we survived

 

[Redfish]

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

but you like it going down at 5pm?

 

[rightwinger]

but you like it going down at 5pm?

A lot of it is kids walking to school at 8 in the dark

 

[Dragonlady]

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?

The original reason for "daylight savings time" was because of farmers. In northern states they had to get up and do chores in the dark during the winter months.

The USA is no longer an agrarian economy so there is no reason to have workers going home in the dark at 5:00 pm in winter months, and much to recommend staying on DST year round, not the least of which is fewer traffic accidents during evening rush hours during winter months.

 

[Dragonlady]

A lot of it is kids walking to school at 8 in the dark

Kids don't walk to school any more, and school starts at 9:00 a.m. Even kids in town have buses or their parents drop them off.

 

[Redfish]

A lot of it is kids walking to school at 8 in the dark

they are doing that now. we did it for years as kids, its not a big deal. Why can no one answer a simple question? Why does the house refuse to vote on the bill passed by the senate? Who is benefitting financially from changing clocks twice a year? why are we doing this?

 

[GLASNOST]

...... Who is benefitting financially from changing clocks twice a year? why are we doing this?

Uhhhhh .....

 

[Redfish]

Uhhhhh .....

if someone wasn't making money from it, it would already be stopped.

 

[HeyNorm]

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.

Farmers farmed when the sun came up. Didn’t care what time that was. And farmed until the sun went down.

 

[GLASNOST]

if someone wasn't making money from it, it would already be stopped.

I'm sure you're right.

 

[AHZ]

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.

its better than at four.

 

[Alan Stallion]

We're running out of time!!!!!

 

[d0gbreath]

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.

In 2nd through 4th grades I walked to school and home from school with a flashlight. Alaska is like that. I don't think that daylight savings time had been invented yet (62-65) but when it was, did they even notice?

 

[fncceo]

Tradition!

 

[Lisa558]

In 2nd through 4th grades I walked to school and home from school with a flashlight. Alaska is like that. I don't think that daylight savings time had been invented yet (62-65) but when it was, did they even notice?

It was invented in 1918.