U.S. moves to extend daylight time

[RickM]

I have to say, this is a surprise to me. Good news if signed by Bush. Have I been living under a rock?

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/07/20/daylight-savings050720.html

"...the plan means Americans would turn their clocks forward one hour on the first weekend of March, instead of April, and "fall back" on the final weekend in November instead of October."

[mikester]

Yes you have - it was brought up earlier this year.


I think if he's successful with this he should run for a third term.

[tobster1911]

Very funny stuff. Canada's complaint is that they would have to LEARN HOW TO DRIVE!

I think it is a good Idea personally.

[RickM]

Originally posted by mikester
Yes you have - it was brought up earlier this year.

It's been brought up many time sin the past. But I've heard nothing recently about a vote....

[legion]

Why can't we do this all year? Those three months they leave out are the three that I leave for work in the dark, drive home in the dark, and hope to get a glimpse of sunlight out a window during the day. At least I'd get some sunlight in the evening if DST was all year-long.

[mikester]

I agree - Time is conceptual anyway...

[strother]

When I read the title of this thread, I thought that the U.S. was going to do something to slow the rotation of the earth whenever the country was in the sun's rays. I wouldn't put it past us. Sometimes, the news is weirder than the fake news on The Onion.

[Purrybonker]

Originally posted by legion
Why can't we do this all year? Those three months they leave out are the three that I leave for work in the dark, drive home in the dark, and hope to get a glimpse of sunlight out a window during the day. At least I'd get some sunlight in the evening if DST was all year-long.

I agree - stay on DST year-round. Middle of winter it's completely irrelevant anyway, and it would save the inconvenience of making the swap twice a year.

Of course, we still have a certain farming/ranching region here in Canada that still rails against DST altogether. Some silly argument about screwing up the milking cycles for the cows or something.

I think that the DST naysayers might be the same people that railed against the conversion to the metric system (pity you poor, poor yanks still suckling on the British breast on this issue). It seems many thought that metric was a government plot to drive up tax revenues by increasing the distances (hence fuel burned, hence fuel taxes paid) between communities. Come on, 100 kilometers is obviously a whole lot further than 60 miles - you can't fool us...

[Joeaksa]

Some of us do not worry with it and leave our clocks on the same time all year long. Glad I live in a state that does this!

JoeA

[island911]

But what about the children? [/liberal mantra]

okay , seriously; I vaguely remember this being tried before. The problem being, that kids then are walikng to school in the dark.

. . .and while a nation can shift it's schedule by an hour, apparently public schools couldn't be so flexible to adjust.

Well, anyway; the lib's have a canned answer as to why this is just one more "evil Bush" endeavor. . . .the children.

[dd74]

Originally posted by island911
But what about the children? [/liberal mantra]

okay , seriously; I vaguely remember this being tried before. The problem being, that kids then are walikng to school in the dark.

. . .and while a nation can shift it's schedule by an hour, apparently public schools couldn't be so flexible to adjust.

Well, anyway; the lib's have a canned answer as to why this is just one more "evil Bush" endeavor. . . .the children.

Yes, for whatever reason we don't stay on DST, it's a poor reason. Farmers have headlights on their tractors, and if kids are walking to school in the dark, maybe the parents should consider driving their kids instead.

[island911]

Ah ha . . . So you're saying it's actually a big-oil plot hatched by the evil Texan?

[dd74]

Nah! I don't have time for that. I have to get the kids to school before sunrise. The car burns less gas in the dark...

[red-beard]

Farmer's don't care what time they get up and work. DST means nothing to them.

And I was one of those kids in the 70's that went to school in the pitch black, when we had the _emergancy_ DST in the winter. I think they shifted the clocks 2 hours so that the peak demand would be reduced.

[legion]

Originally posted by island911
[Bokay , seriously; I vaguely remember this being tried before. The problem being, that kids then are walikng to school in the dark.[/B]

I had to leave the house at 6:30 (dark a lot of the year) in high school to make the 7 mile drive (which could take up to 1 hour). It took even longer to ride the bus. Still, I was in elitist Naperville, so we didn't get any pity.

[dhoward]

Originally posted by Purrybonker
Snipped......

Of course, we still have a certain farming/ranching region here in Canada that still rails against DST altogether. Some silly argument about screwing up the milking cycles for the cows or something.
..[/i]

Sooo...
Cows in Canada can tell time?

[Purrybonker]

Originally posted by dhoward
Sooo...
Cows in Canada can tell time?

..only the mad ones; but don't bother asking them; "what time is it?"

They're so crazy they'll just mooooon ya!

[wludavid]

Originally posted by island911
But what about the children? [/liberal mantra]

okay , seriously; I vaguely remember this being tried before. The problem being, that kids then are walikng to school in the dark.

. . .and while a nation can shift it's schedule by an hour, apparently public schools couldn't be so flexible to adjust.

Well, anyway; the lib's have a canned answer as to why this is just one more "evil Bush" endeavor. . . .the children.

Is there anyone else in this thread turning this into a liberal/conservative argument?

Gets lonely in right field, doesn't it?

[island911]

Being that this article is based on a Bush decision, and we know what that means; so I was attempting to interject a little OT humor.

(note the winky . . sheesh, tough room. waiter, get that man a drink.

[wludavid]

Originally posted by island911
Being that this article is based on a Bush decision, and we know what that means; so I was attempting to interject a little OT humor.

(note the winky . . sheesh, tough room. waiter, get that man a drink.

How do I tell them all I forgot to take my sarcasm-detection pills today, and that I have no internal monologue?