Y’all are missing the simplest and most obvious solution to this problem. Go back to “God’s time” just like before anyone had the concept of time zones. Every day when the Sun is at its highest is local high noon. Calculate back from that to sunrise and forward for sunset. And how can anyone copalin about being on God’s time?
As has been mentioned earlier here and elsewhere, part of our problem is the zones themselves in the lower 48 are not drawn in a way that is optimal (and why should we be still ruled by what was convenient for 1800’s railroads). For example the “Central” zone is too wide, and “Eastern” runs too far west of where it should, all the way to Indiana.
Draw better zones, then have one year-round civil time based on that.
Do the Flat Earthers have some sort of time system?
They sure do! (God forgive me; this link goes to Answers in Genesis.)
Or you can check this Quora thread.
I gathered from those that a “spotlight Sun” is responsible for the need for time zones. And after reading those, I want to go cry in a corner for the state of humanity.
I live in Dallas, too. I’m almost never up before 8:30AM (today was weird), sundown at 6:35PM is fine.
Really, I don’t care when the sun comes up or goes down. I worked an overnight shift for a decade or so and generally loved it. Switching times never made any sense to me.
And remember that, in Genesis, the day begins at sunset. Or was that midnight?
Sunset. That’s why the Jewish day begins at sunset. “It was evening and morning, the first/second/third/etc. day…”
Thanks. That was the way I remembered it.
Are you worried about Pete Hegseth, former Major, not knowing how to run the Department of Defense? No problem! Military.com is reporting about a nice outfit who wants to help him in his job.
Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group urged Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon.
The list compiled by the American Accountability Foundation includes 20 general officers or senior admirals and a disproportionate number of female officers. It has had a chilling effect on the Pentagon’s often frank discussions as leaders try to figure out how to address the potential firings and diversity issues under President-elect Donald Trump.
By the way, American Accountability Foundation, according to Wikipedia,
is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025,[7] a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.[8]
Don’t you just feel all warm and cozy, and safe, with nice people like this doing the hard lifting on Major Hegseth’s behalf?
Uh uh uh uh uh I’m uh uh uh uh uh not uh uh uh really sure uh uh uh uh uh if uh uh uh this uh uh uh uh is normal.
I’m wondering if we just witnessed him having a stroke?
DON’T tease us with false hopes!
Here is what is really pissing me off about the looming, impending, anticipated, dreaded start of the next
<gag 
> trump administration.
Everyone-- businesses, business leaders, leaders of other countries, Republicans, Democrats, consumers, dogs, cats, lions, tigers, and bears-- are already running around in circles like headless chickens as if he is already <gag > president and wreaking havoc. The havoc is being wreaked six weeks before he is sworn at in. What will he do? What will he not do? How will it affect the price of eggs? The band hasn’t even on stage yet and the country is madly dancing to his tune. 
And don’t you know he is reveling in it!
I was going to post some headlines, but y’all know what I’m talking about. Grrr…
This is more frightening than the first time. That’s why people are going crazy.
He was completely and totally unprepared for his first term. Now he kind of has an idea of how to get ready. Thus the cabinet full of bootlickers and lunatics.
He’s gonna hit the ground running. With clean boots.
I truly don’t understand the anxiety and pessimism.
I mean … he just appointed Herschel Walker to be the Ambassador to the Bahamas.
We’re going to be fine.
Thank goodness! Maybe I can finally sleep tonight!
Having watched Trump walking in his high heels, clean or not, I have some doubts that he is able to run in them.
Trump: If you don’t vote for me the stock market is going to crash
The stock market:
Well now the reason is because Biden is president. When it has been rising these last 4 years was because of anticipating that Trump would be president.
Jimmy Fallon is spot on here. (The link goes to HuffPost.)
“Whoa, Jeff! Haha! You know Trump already has a billionaire, right? I mean, we’re a pretty public item! #Elonald,” Fallon quipped as Musk.
Elonald. That’s about right. And tain’t the felon’s name first. That has to burn.
Lara is out of the running to take Marco Rubio’s job. The chances of DeSantis appointing himself to the Senate have now gone up dramatically.