Meh, Canada is used to it, we can offer lessons to the rest of the world. At very reasonable rates, I assure you.
I’ve always thought we should just keep DST. But now tha I work from home, I work when I work. I sleep when I sleep. It just doesn’t matter to me anymore. Time of day is sort of meaningless.
I’m sorry but abolishing DST is the one thing that will convert me to the church of maga, and buy, I dunno, a golden Trump-branded can opener, or whatever crap he’s selling today.
It’s not that DST is that big an inconvenience, it’s just that it’s so pointless and silly that society can’t just say “we don’t need this any more”.
I’m sorry, but abolishing Standard Time is the one thin that will convince me that we are a nation of morons.
Seriously, who needs daylight at 9:00 at night, and light for another hour beyond that?
By abolish DST I mean picking a time that basically works year round, not necessarily sun highest = noon.
Anyway, probably a topic in itself.
They’ll take care of it in two weeks.
A lot depends on your latitude and how far west you are from the time zone line.
Regardless of whichever would get adopted (either full-time DT or full-time ST), I’d predict that when it is adopted nationally, individual communities will decide that sending children to school hours before sunrise is just plain nuts, so schools will begin to adopt “winter time” which will have schools starting an hour later in the winter. Of course, businesses will quickly adjust their hours to keep up because the parents will want to see their kids off to school before heading to work.
Of course, if full-time ST is adopted, the opposite will occur, as the kids will likely awaken at sunrise, even with no school, and become active and the parents, being up will want to send the kids to whatever and head on into work as soon as possible. So, businesses, schools, etc… will want to start an hour earlier to keep up with the sun. That is, once the kids (and everyone else) is awake and have had breakfast, they will want to get the day started.
So, it will be like the US was in the first half of the 20th century, with some communities adopting an “un-official” DST, which the people will put up with for 40-50 years until they decide that trying to have society operate on both an “official time” and an “un-official time” is nuts and sometime mid-21st century, legislation will be introduced to make DST “official” again.
The more progressive we get, the more conservative normal things are.
So you’re all right with just turning scores of mystery stories into indecipherable nonsense? Okayyy, you do you.
We’re almost to the 49th Parallel, 35 miles south of Vancouver, BC. DST doesn’t matter in Summer because it’s light in the evening and in the morning anyway. ST doesn’t matter in Winter because it’s dark when people leave for work and dark when they leave work anyway. Keep Standard Time year-round, and it has no effect in Winter, and light-sensitive people can go to sleep at bedtime.
I absolutely HATE HATE HATE going back to dark days, where it gets darker earlier, makes me tired earlier, makes the early nights colder… When we jump forward again, it would only make sense to STAY on DST and never fall back again. There’s no reason not to have longer daylight. Sorry, vampires.
And who better to chair the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board than Devin Nunes. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
I feel I’m probably misremembering and/ or misunderstanding, but the last time this came up I heard that due to the way the law is written, the only change that can be made without major legal disruption is the abolishment of DSL, leaving us with standard time (which I guess is the “natural” time?). Abolishing standard time is an act of Congress and not as easily dismissed as an “inconvenience”.
Those of us who want to get 18 holes in after work?
Anybody want to take bets this pick isn’t meant to punish the country? (The link goes to Politico.)
Donald Trump’s pick to lead the civil rights division at the Department of Justice built a national profile as the ultimate San Francisco contrarian — representing conservative college students at UC Berkeley, a Google engineer fired for opposing diversity efforts and churches forced to close during the pandemic.
Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney and Republican Party official who lives in San Francisco, has for years played a central role in culture-war legal battles over diversity, free speech and Covid closures in California and nationally. She’s also been a fierce Trump loyalist from the start.
Her ideology and track record of taking on splashy conservative causes in the Golden State likely signal a fundamental shift in the DOJ’s approach to civil rights, upending conventional ideas about whose rights the division is focused on protecting.
The Politico headline says, “… built her name antagonizing California Democrats.” That sounds like an automatic qualification for any post in the Trump administration.
And his cow?
Guaranteed right twice a day, and never needs batteries!
I initially read this as “a fundamental shit in the DOJ’s approach to civil rights”
Seems more accurate to me.
This is the man who is pulling JD Vance’s strings. I’d never heard him speak before. Is he always this weird and incoherent?
I live in Dallas. Today the sun rose at 7:29 and sets at 5:35. If we were on DST all year long then the sun would have risen at 8:29 and set at 6:35. Any time I hear the debate about Daylight Saving Time it seems that people are thinking about the days where light is already plentiful, and as long as the sun comes up at a reasonable hour than I’m more than happy to put that difference at the end of the day. But in the winter months when light is scarce, I’d vastly prefer the 7:29 sunrise time.
If I have to choose between Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time year around, I’d choose standard time.
But if I got to choose my real preference, I like the compromise we have. In the short months let the sun come up a little earlier. When the days get longer, and the sun comes up at 6, then switch to daylight saving time and let us have our evening sun.