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re: We may be getting closer to doing away with our twice a year changing of the clocks
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:20 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:20 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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We already have 7 am sunrise in December which sucks out loud. If this goes through it'll be 8 am.
ill take the trade for being able to enjoy the sun after work in the winter
nothing more lame than when it finally is nice on the gulf coast the clock rolls back to standard time.
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Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:21 pm to Dire Wolf
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ill take the trade for being able to enjoy the sun after work in the winter
But you still won't be able to.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:22 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
While I prefer DST year found, I seem to remember trying this once before and society didn’t like it! 
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:22 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Permanent DST would be awesome. I love the longer summer days in the Northern Latitudes. Being able to play ball or hang out when it's still light out at 9:00 pm is great.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:25 pm to Lonnie Utah
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But you still won't be able to
630 is later than 530
that extra hour of sunlight would be pretty clutch for people with kids
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:26 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Senate can't even pass a budget they passed 3 months ago- don't hold your breath
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:26 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
I like how he cites the reason for this being the dude who has to go into the clock tower to change it.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:29 pm to LSUJuice
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I like how he cites the reason for this being the dude who has to go into the clock tower to change it.
it would be very modern american politics if United Rents donated to a pac to block this because they can't miss the twice a year manlift clock change rents
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:29 pm to Dire Wolf
Changing the time twice a year isn't a bad idea per se, it's just that they have it completely backwards.
The days are naturally longer in the summer, so ST works perfectly. The days are naturally shorter in the winter so DST would make total sense for that time of year.
The days are naturally longer in the summer, so ST works perfectly. The days are naturally shorter in the winter so DST would make total sense for that time of year.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:31 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
If it passes, which it likely won’t, people are going to hate it every bit as much as they did in the 70s when this exact thing was tried. But hey, definition of insanity and whatnot 
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:38 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
9am sunrise in winter gonna make life interesting.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:39 pm to Lgrnwd
quote:agreed
I prefer standard time.
Plus, when the sun is directly overhead it’s noon, not 1
I find it funny how we think time is fluid because in most other things it’s not
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:40 pm to Lgrnwd
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I prefer standard time. Still being daylight at 9 pm in the southern part of the US feels very unnatural, and makes getting to bed at a decent time and getting a good night's sleep even harder for a society that already runs sleep deprived on average. And it's the same amount of daylight either way. If you want to enjoy more sunshine just get your lazy @ss up earlier
I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening.
It’s absolute insanity.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:46 pm to Obi Wan Ryobi
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I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening.
It is pretty simple to understand really. There isn't much that I'd be doing in the morning before work that would be greatly enhanced with any bit of sunlight but the opposite is the case in the afternoon/evening after work.
This post was edited on 5/22/26 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:47 pm to Obtuse1
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I like the idea, but I was surprised in the polling so many wanted to keep it and over 40% wanted to keep standard time if we went to one.
It doesn’t matter which one you pick. Neither one “saves” any actual daylight. Actually most people get standard and daylight saving times wrong anyway.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:49 pm to Obi Wan Ryobi
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I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening. It’s absolute insanity.
After having this conversation many times over the years, you’ll find some outliers, but the majority of people who vehemently advocate for permanent DST are people who are required to go to work before sunrise anyway, so they view the longer evening sunlight as a positive with no drawback. Your plant baws are at the top of that list on TD.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:50 pm to Obi Wan Ryobi
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I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening. It’s absolute insanity.
It’s because nobody’s really doing any activities outside early in the morning before work (other than joggers, I guess). People still want to be able to do lots of various activities outside after work.
But there’s also body clock / circadian rhythm considerations, which aren’t as easy for people to think about/understand.
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:54 pm to Obi Wan Ryobi
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I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening.
If you live in the Northeast, it would make a huge difference psychologically.
We get up when it's dark, get ready for work, show up 20 minutes after the sun rises and we leave as the sun's setting. Pitch black by the time we get home. It can be grueling and that one hour could change a lot for the better here
This post was edited on 5/22/26 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:55 pm to Obi Wan Ryobi
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I don’t understand the mindset of people who want it to be dark in the morning and bright in the evening.
i like running in the morning before the sun is out and it is in the 70s at 6am instead of sun blasting at 6am and it is in the 80s. Pre-kids, i enjoyed a round of golf at 5pm and being able to get 18 in after work.
conversely in the winter, i can handle getting to school drop off and work in the dark so i can let my kids run around until 630 outside
Posted on 5/22/26 at 2:55 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
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But there’s also body clock / circadian rhythm considerations, which aren’t as easy for people to think about/understand.
Yep, and it has a bigger effect on people's health and quality of life than most realize.
The summer days are already naturally long. There is no need to make them "longer".
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