OT: Warning: Daylight Stupid Time starts Sunday 03/20/2019

[T]

Daylight Stupid Time starts again Sunday 03/20/2019

Make sure you don't kill anyone driving sleep deprived

[Ed Pawlowski]

I don't know why people complain about DST. I've been saving daylight every summer of my life and now have a tidy backlog to use. It was very handy a few days this past winter. While you were in the dark, I just made a withdrawal from my daylight savings and no eye strain.

[Oren]

"..[Sen.] Rubio’s Sunshine Protection Act of 2019, to be introduced Wednesday, would make Daylight Saving Time year-round. A companion bill was filed in the House by U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key."

Florida has plenty of sunshine. Longboat Key is sunny with tropical trade winds.

We don't need to change time at GITMO!

[T]

One way or the other, or even 1/2 way in between, I don't care. Just stop jerking us around.

[Anonymous]

A) It what "stupid" universe is 3/20/2019 a Sunday ?

B) In the USA DST starts on 3/10/2019 (aka this weekend)

[angelicapaganelli]

I hope they block it. I want standard time year-round.

Cindy Hamilton

[angelicapaganelli]

In the one where 1 and 2 are adjacent on the keyboard and it's easy to make a simple typographical error. Cindy Hamilton

[T]

I don't care, pick one or something in between.

[Sam E]

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Of course there's no real difference between "standard time year-round" and "daylight time year-round". There IS a little difference between either and our current system. Nothing to do with the amount of daylight, but a little more confusion around the adjustments.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Affects people differently. I like the light in the evening, others drive to work/school in the dark. I used to live on the eastern end of the time zone but since moved south and west so I get the extra daylight anyway. I used to drive to work in the dark for a long time too, but retired, my ass is not out of bed until 8 so it does not matter to me.

[Oren]

I hear that, retired 17 years ago. Stopped wearing a watch. My body tells me when and when not to do something ;)

I hate clocks and ringing phones.

[Ralph Mowery]

I have stopped many of the ringing phones. Using the cable phone system , they have a data base and if the robo callers are in it, the phone will ring once and quit. I can add numbers if I want to. If the caller ID shows a number I do not know, it goes to the answering machine.

I set my clock today for the first time today in 6 months. Some people were comming by at 8:00 to pick me up to go off and I wanted to ge up and hit the shower before they go here.

[angelicapaganelli]

Yes, there is a difference. I hate going to bed in the summer when it's still light out.

Cindy Hamilton

[angelicapaganelli]

Employers might have something to say about that.

Cindy Hamilton

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Got me thinking about shift workers. In the spring the graveyard shift will only work 7 hours but in the fall it would be 9 hours for them. Wonder if they would demand overtime pay in the fall?

[Mark Lloyd]

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How about staying up later, rather than have everyone mess with the clocks.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

I usually do that. And most times it's a junk caller and leaves no message. It looks like they have no confidence in hat they're selling, and know that if you have a chance to think about it you'll say no.

[gfretwell]

It could be the employers who wanted to change the start times.

[gfretwell]

The worst day of the year for me was the first monday in the fall after the time change because I was driving home in the dark. I changed to 0000-0830 so I was always driving home in the sunshine and I worked that for 11 years.

[gfretwell]

You work your 8 hours just like everyone else. The payroll system is smart enough to figure that out.