re: How keeping/abolishing daylight saving time would affect your location [map]

Why don’t we just change it :30 minutes and leave it alone. Would that satisfy all? I would settle for it

I don’t think this will affect me in any real way

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Everyone fights about the longer day but it’s really losing that early morning light that’s bad for the crops. The sunlight before the heat of the day is what they really need. Not the extra hour of hotness at the end.

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Agree, Baw. We gotta be careful with the plants. They could revolt.

Revenge of the plants

Here’s the real problem. Our time zone boundaries are fricked up in the name of business and television markets. West Texas, Saskatchewan, and the high plains have no business being in Central Time. Likewise, Michigan SHOULD be on Central, but they want Detroit aligned with the New York and the Northeast.

France and the UK should be in the same zone as the Prime Meridian perfectly cuts through both. But again it’s business and historical significance of the rivalry of France and the British Empire before they became allies.

Time zones ideally should be 15 degrees wide, but here we are with parts of West Texas in the same time zone as Panama City, Florida.

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I've always said a compromise would be fine, DST b/t Memorial Day and Labor Day, Standard Time the rest of the year.

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Just think if we tried in addition to the hour that we move now, that we eek out another Daylight Saving shift between those dates in the summer in the southeastern parts of the time zones to get those 9 pm sunsets. We can call it double daylight saving time.

That way the sun comes up at approximately 6:30 year round and doesn’t go down until the length of the day for that part of the year.

Fun facts of DST from the BBC:

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Double British summertime

In 1940 the clocks weren't put back at the end of summer, so we stayed an hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). In spring 1941 the clocks were still put forward an hour, meaning we were TWO hours ahead of GMT. It was the middle of World War Two, so all the extra evening daylight gave people longer to get home before the blackout. The government also hoped it would save fuel. Lighter evenings means darker mornings - something that can be problematic in the far northern parts of the UK. They were eventually put back in 1947.

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British Standard Time

In 1968 a similar experiment was tried. The clocks were put forward and not put back again until October 1971, keeping the UK on GMT+1 for three years. It was called British Standard Time, presumably because calling it British Summer Time all year round seemed silly. Nobody could really tell if it had a positive effect though, so parliament voted to get rid of it in 1970. Several members of parliament have since tried to reintroduce British Standard Time, but none have succeeded.

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The bombing that was stopped by daylight saving

In 1999 four would-be terrorists loaded two bombs into two cars. The bombs were set to go off at 6.30pm. Their intention was to load the bombs onto the luggage racks of two intercity buses before hopping off and driving away. They armed the bombs in a Palestinian area. Their targets were in Israel. Israel had turned the clocks back a day before but the bombers hadn't noticed the difference. The bombs blew up at 5.30pm local time while still in their cars, killing the bombers.

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Why don’t we just change it :30 minutes and leave it alone. Would that satisfy all? I would settle for it

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This is what I was thinking, split the difference.

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Why don’t we just change it :30 minutes and leave it alone. Would that satisfy all? I would settle for it


This is what I was thinking, split the difference

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My thoughts, as well

My favorite time of the day during the summer is within the 7PM hour. The day starts to cool off (well not be as hot, its not really cool)..

More people are outside, more shite just seems to be going on.. That would be shite if that hour was pushed up.. Keep DST.

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I remember they tried it in the 70's and all the parents were pissed because their kids were waiting at the school bus stops in the dark.

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The bus picks up our kids up at 5:45 a.m. It’s dark regardless of the time of year.

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DST doesn't work in the winter months, the sun doesn't come up till after 0730..

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So what?