Should we abolish Daylight Savings Time?

[wrobert]

NO NO NO NO do NOT abolish DST!!!!! :nono1:

I do not like to run errands in the dark, especially if it is raining. It is also much more difficult to get in a walk in the afternoon after I get off work when it is not DST. I DST.

Also, I personally would not be in favor of joining the Eastern time zone, because I like to watch the late news & Jay Leno's monologue before I go to bed. I also cannot fathom waiting until 9:00 p.m. for Monday Night Football to kick off.

I can, however, understand why our friends in Tallahassee would abolish DST. Right before the time changes in the fall, the sun sets at about 8:45 p.m. and doesn't come up until 7:45 a.m. I distinctly remember walking down East Call St to my 8:00 class in the dark.

I understood Senator Posey came up with this idea because he stated he gets confused.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I've often thought about not following the Standard Time, and remaining on DST forever.

 

[shakennotstirred]

I think we should Spring forward an hour every Wednesday afternoon & fall back an hour every weekend. ;-)

 

[wrobert]

I've often thought about not following the Standard Time, and remaining on DST forever.

I thought Kramer tried that once and it failed.

 

[Mermaid]

I think it should stay as is. When I lived in Indiana, they didn't recognize DST. Part of the year you are on Eastern time and the other you are on Central time. That was such a pain in the you know what.

We do now and two years after the fact there's still bellyaching about what zone we should have gone with. I dislike being in the dark so early in the spring but otherwise I don't pay much attention to it. But then again I'm not the one who has to change all the clocks in our house. ;-)

 

[SHELLY]

Gee, you would think that there are more pressing issues that our elected state officials could waste their time on. :scratch: Let's see....they've designated Key Lime as the "official pie of Florida;" they changed the state song; they moved the primaries up, then wanted to move them back again; and now this They really go out of their way to keep the "Duh" in Floriduh.

On second thought, if they keep their brain cell occupied with piffle such as this, they aren't doing any meaningful damage--carry on Senator. :roll:

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[ShallowsNole]

I understood Senator Posey came up with this idea because he stated he gets confused.

He doesn't have an atomic clock? Or a cell phone?

Gee, I wish I could file a bill to help me out when I get confused...

 

[DD]

I think we should Spring forward an hour every Wednesday afternoon & fall back an hour every weekend. ;-)

I likey this.

I thought Kramer tried that once and it failed.

 

[wrobert]

If we abolished it today, time would go back an hour, then merge into the eastern zone, time would go forward an hour. So time as we know it would be the same. Summertime all the time.

 

[up4golf]

we should have double dst no need for sunrise to be to early.