Daylight Saving Time debate comes back around - again

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

Arizona doesn’t do this stupid stuff and it’s so nice.

[@RaymondHng]

Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (DST), with the exception of the Navajo Nation, which _does_ observe DST. The Hopi Reservation, which is not part of the Navajo Nation but is geographically surrounded by it, also does not observe DST. For this reason, driving the length of Arizona State Route 264 east from Tuba City while DST is in place involves six time zone changes in less than 100 miles.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Arizona is probably the only state where not changing the clock makes sense. Nobody wants daylight when it's 130 degrees

[@Mike-pm2fc]

Arizona doesn't get light until almost 5am in summer, so it's fine for them. Here in Wisconsin, it would start getting light at 330 am without daylight saving time.

[@GeorgeVCohea]

​@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Hawaii is closer to the equator.

[@Popperdrop]

Stop changing the TIME. STOP STOP STOP

[@alyrios]

Considering that we spent more energy using air conditioners during DST, I don't see how much "saving" we are actually getting.

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

You only utilise more air conditioning, because DST occurs in the midst of spring and summer. It does absolutely nothing about the actual amount of time the sun is heating your particular portion of the Earth.

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Considering that DST is implemented, whilst North America is going into spring and summer and the sun simply shines more on the Northern Hemisphere and makes it warmer. Changing the time has zero effect on sunshine and will save almost nothing. Maybe, it does have an effect, because there is 1 less hour in the billing period, but the technology of the LED bulb has done much more energy savings than forcing people to get up in the middle of the night to artificially change the time.

[@patrisio3]

Energy use stays the same as standard time. Yes, it stays hotter one extra hour in the evening during DST. But it also stays cooler one extra hour in the morning. Whether DST or standard, the amount of sunlight stays the same.

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

@@patrisio3 Apologies, I was referring only to the sole hour lost to enter DST and misinterpreted your reply. This one single 23 hour day likely doesn't make a hill of beans difference in anyone’s energy bill.

[@marcyginkel1682]

Stop the time changes make it a permanent standard time like AZ & HI

[@Flamsterette]

Permanent DST, you mean!

[@BricksVids]

@@FlamsteretteNo we want permanent standard time because it's easier to switch over and doesn't require legislation in Congress for that, states are allowed to switch to standard time. Those two states including territories don't do permanent daylight time they do standard time instead.

[@Flamsterette]

@@BricksVids No, we want permanent DST because there is more usable daylight in the afternoon and evening. Nobody needs sunlight blasting them at 5 AM when they are trying to sleep.

[@BricksVids]

@@FlamsteretteYou will still get 1-2 hours more daylight without that extra hour you take away from the morning on standard time. The earlier sunrise can be good for people who hate waking up early for school or work in the dark because no one likes waking up early and it's still dark outside. At least people would not have to wake up early in the pitch black. I know because when I had a job it would still be dark until 7am after the time change happened and that's why students are still tired because of less morning sunlight.

[@Flamsterette]

@@BricksVids No, the earlier sunrise is NOT good for people who hate waking up early. We non-morning people want to SLEEP IN and wake up NATURALLY in the darkness. We will NOT get a lot more USABLE daylight in the afternoons and evenings. Why are you against people doing things then?

[@dougsimmons9091]

Set it and forget it , preferably , standard time !!!

[@Flamsterette]

Preferably DST!

[@tylere.8436]

​@@FlamsteretteWrong

[@Flamsterette]

@@tylere.8436 No, you're wrong.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@Flamsterette Now you're wrong because Standard Time saves energy, you're reading an article that's in German that was written during the Holocaust.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@Flamsterette Daylight savings time is Bad for your health based on recent research in Auschwitz

[@patricialynn5852]

Enough already, stop!!!

[@valchrist52]

I like DST, I feel so much better with the extra sunlight in the evening. Plus, longer time for summer activities.

[@TheSaskachewan1]

Saskatchewan doesn't change it's clock and it's always been that way. Don't argue just do it.

[@DavidJoe-tc1gn]

Puerto Rico does not change time and it's wonderful!

[@Mike-pm2fc]

I think people in the South don't understand daylight saving time. I used to live in Arizona, and the number of hours of sunlight doesn't vary that much between winter and summer. I now live in Wisconsin and it starts to get light around 4:30 in early summer. Without our daylight saving time it would start getting light around 3:30 when most people are sound asleep. Rather than waste that hour of daylight I prefer to save it while I'm still awake in the evening, as it gets dark around 9:15 at night. That's why it's called "Daylight Saving". The further north you go, the more sense it makes

[@starknight103]

Then how come saskatchewan a province of Canada doesn't do it and hasn't been doing it since the late 1960s. I know it is because of protest from farmers. But the fact that Saskatchewan a place in the north doesn't do DST shows how useless the practice is.

[@oreoslush]

They should just have standard for the south and dst for the north then. I’m in Texas and I’m tired of dealing with anything dst

[@JaviFeliz30]

Doing This Every Year It Very Unnecessary, I don’t see any energy savings, thank god In Puerto Rico And My Home Country Dominican Republic Don’t Change the clocks..

[@Flamsterette]

Why capitalize everything?

[@Ramiestar]

The 6 New England states would benefit from permanently switching to Atlantic Standard time. They are further east in the Eastern time zone compared to the rest of the East Coast, so the "solar noon" takes place during the 11 AM hour during the 4 months of the year they're on Eastern Standard time.

[@marcielynn4886]

I have never changed my clocks. Life in Hawaii.

[@lukemanning3937]

I don’t usually get too stirred up about issues I care about. But please please can we just only use daylight savings time. Please.

[@Flamsterette]

Permanent DST!

[@NaturalDivineGoddess]

*Why not have one ☝️ time year round??*

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Have you not noticed the gridlock in Washington over the past quarter of a century‽ Those lot have to throw money at foreign freeloaders, they don't have _time_ to deal with actual problems facing the American taxpayers!

[@Godless-Being]

So why is it that Arizona and Hawaii(and anywhere else that doesn’t do daylight savings that I can’t think of) Can make it permanent so they can never change their clocks again, but yet states like mine(MN) have to? It’s times like these I wish I moved to Arizona or Hawaii(or anywhere that doesn’t change their clocks) I just need help understanding people

[@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou]

Because Minnesota has not passed permanent Standard Time legislation into law, that’s why. There is nothing complicated about attempting that.

[@patrisio3]

The closer to the equator, the less difference there is in the number of daylight hours between summer and winter. In Alaska, there are places that only get 3 hours of sunlight in the winter and only 3 hours of darkness in summer. But places in Ecuador near the equator get 12 hours sunlight and 12 hours darkness in both summer and winter. In places like that, there is no purpose for changing the time. Not changing the time doesn't affect Arizona and Hawaii as much as it would Minnesota.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Daylight Savings Time cannot be used to combat the overconsumption of energy in the modern world because it is simply outdated and ineffective.

[@newguy2794]

Ive been saying for years that we should split the difference and change the time by 30 minutes and then leave it alone.

[@sadiaparvin4861]

It’s a better option but anyway change is an extra fuss to make life difficult…

[@danieldavid3945]

What?

[@newguy2794]

@sadiaparvin4861 Thank you for agreeing. It's a fuss, but, at least, this way, it's a one-time fuss.

[@newguy2794]

@@danieldavid3945 Instead of changing the time by one hour twice a year, change the time by 30 minutes one time and leave it that way with no future change.

[@danieldavid3945]

Sorry, I am absolutely clueless over here, what do you mean by change the time by 30 mins? Like do we consider 30 mins as 1 hour?

[@c4real69]

This whole time changing thing is so effin stupid . I swear stupid is the only thing we do in the U.S. Its as if , if its not crazy stupid we dont do it . 😂

[@Flamsterette]

*IT'S Spaces do not go before punctuation.

[@aidangrigsby9617]

I don't know about y'all but I don't want to leave work and it's too dark to do anything for myself my family

[@tylere.8436]

Live near the Equator then, or work a different shift. I work evenings, so I have the morning sunshine 🌞

[@aidangrigsby9617]

@@tylere.8436 your suggesting I sell my house and up root my family and kids just to enjoy a little more sunshine during the warmer months of the year? When we could just leave it alone and enjoy the longer sunshine in the evenings for 6 months. Seems like a dumb idea

[@tylere.8436]

@aidangrigsby9617 If you feel that strongly about it that is. Standard Time is the standard for not just Arizona but the rest of the world, and it's easier for states to just opt out of DST than reform a Confessional bill to even allow an option for permanent DST. It would be disasterous for some states to stay Standard Time, but others go DST. Sure we won't change the clocks twice a year, but then have a new problem to change clocks if we travel out of state. Just go Standard Time and save everyone a headaches and literal heart attacks

[@chrisgoetz3889]

Lets have 38 time zones north of the equator

[@pc4632]

Longer days should of been here 3 weeks ago 🙈

[@sadiaparvin4861]

For DST our brain is constantly adjusting with the difference between the sun & clock in front of us. It gets tired to recorrect the confusion repeatedly. Cannot sleep when it’s time to wind down, can’t wake up when it’s time to with the sun. To me it’s better to change work hours to enjoy more daylight rather than fighting with the sun with our clocks. Let’s not confuse our brain & body. It messes up our perception of light which is not healthy. Unlike many places we have the opportunity to enjoy both day & night to the fullest…

[@Flamsterette]

We are not constantly adjusting with DST. We love DST and the extra USABLE daylight it gives us. We do NOT have trouble sleeping when it's time to wake up. We prefer waking up in the darkness, slowly and naturally.

[@yackablejohnson1485]

I want it darker in the morning and lighter longer at night, always.

[@Flamsterette]

Yes, we wake up more naturally in the darkness.

[@proallnighter]

How about we work fewer hours for the same annual pay? But we can't have that, right. What about the CEOs and their gigamansions?

[@AnythingJW]

Congress can get nothing done

[@Opinionated-Angel]

I love daylight savings time. I like more light later in the afternoon. I feel like I just woke up from hibernation. Hate standard time. I hate that it gets dark at 4:30 - 5:00 in the afternoon. Talk about having SAD.

[@robbie_stanton]

I do enjoy the extra daylight with daylight saving, but Standard Time would be better for us than permanent DST. Either way permanent DST or standard time I would have plenty of sunlight to enjoy cause I work 8am-12pm.

[@Flamsterette]

No, permanent DST allows us to wake up slowly and naturally in the dark.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@Flamsterette Daylight Savings Time cannot be used to combat the overconsumption of energy in the modern world because it is simply outdated and ineffective.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@Flamsterette That statement is now 100 years outdated, you're living like in the 19th century. This is the 21st century.

[@Flamsterette]

@@RockStarOscarStern634 Permanent DST is safer. We have electricity everywhere now.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@Flamsterette Fact Check says that DST is Unsafe as it's unhealthy for the body.

[@Naha-wg1ek]

No Thanks Leave T time Alone.. It's Sux SUXS..SUXS..STILL LIGHT AT 8 AT NIGHT CAN'T GET KIDS TOO BED OR SLEEP etc.....

[@brobroant6205]

Same thing different year nothing changes

[@Flamsterette]

Punctuation is a good idea time!

[@joelamb6598]

Just dont fall back never again.

[@amyheart5567]

I need daylight savings

[@80severythingbru23]

This is SO STUPID! Even if we delete daylight savings time we’re still gonna have the sun setting at 7-8:00 every night.

[@lizzyg0816]

I like walking in the mall and my apartment halls and stairs

[@Flamsterette]

What does that have to do with anything?

[@kevin-ss7rh]

I just got a speeding ticket because of daylight savings time.

[@Flamsterette]

No, you got a speeding ticket because you failed to leave the house on time.

[@kevin-ss7rh]

@@Flamsterette no I'm was having highway hyponis due to lack of sleep.

[@Flamsterette]

@@kevin-ss7rh What? Pure gibberish.

[@kevin-ss7rh]

@@Flamsterette no. It eas day lights savings time.

[@Flamsterette]

@@kevin-ss7rh Pure gibberish.

[@DJ-cm3zm]

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