End Daylight Savings Time Changes

Mar 13, 2012 23:13

We the people petition the Obama Administration to:
End Daylight Savings Time Changes.

Click here to sign the Whitehouse.gov petition. It needs 150 signatures to become public, and 25,000 signatures by April 13th, 2012 to get an official response. You will need to create an account if you do not already have one ( Read more... )

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steuard March 14 2012, 14:53:22 UTC
Regarding the choice between "always standard time" vs. "always daylight time", I've been quite surprised to hear people advocating the latter. I don't know about other regions, but if "always daylight time" were instituted where I live, even at 8am it would still be too dark to see the horizon for several weeks of the year. My first class would begin while it was still too dark to clearly distinguish everyday objects outside. That just seems crazy to me: it's already hard enough to get my students out of bed. :) What is the argument for sticking with daylight time rather than standard time?

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zathrus March 14 2012, 15:50:58 UTC
I also would prefer to stick with standard time, although that would mean it would get light rediculously early in the summer. But I have signed and publicized the petition because I'd rather get this topic under serious discussion first and then bring up the "Which should we stick with?" question.

Newt

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beth_leonard March 15 2012, 00:46:43 UTC
Replied extensively to steuard's post. For some reason I can't find the e-mail with your address to see when your daylight is, but you can look it up at weather.com

--Beth

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beth_leonard March 15 2012, 00:43:03 UTC
Mostly it's about when would I like the extra dark in winter, and the extra light in summer. I tend to do the same things in the morning indoors, regardless of whether there is darkness or daylight, but in the evenings, the activities I choose vary quite a bit based on the amount of light, and I like the daylight-focused activities better than the "it's dark outside ALREADY?!?" activities ( ... )

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beth_leonard March 15 2012, 03:50:44 UTC
Just had time to look at a timezone map, and I correct myself, you're at the farthest Western edge of your timezone, not eastern. I thought we were the farthest west, so a difference of half an hour would have had to be more easterly than I.

The other edge of your timezone currently has their 12 hours of daylight from 6:55am-6:51pm.

--Beth

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