I personally see no logical reason for Daylight Savings Time. How does it benefit the masses? All I see is twice a year we change our time pieces then go about our daily lives. Changing the time did not affect me in any way.
As the old Indian chief said "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket".
I'm sure you know that the time changes were started because of all of the kids waiting at rural bus stops for their trip to school. The idea was that they wouldn't have to wait in the dark. That isn't much of an issue anymore, but traditions die hard. - lol
Since I'm an early riser, I would prefer DST year round. I really dislike Dec. and Jan. when it's dark at 5:30 pm.
Tomorrow the sun rises at 7:25 am and sets at 7:12 pm. If we did not have DST then the sun would rise at 6:25 am and set at 6:12 pm. Hmmm…. same amount of sunlight either way.
Hairy -
Back in '71 or '72 we stayed on DST for ~18 months. IIRC, it was because of a middle east oil issue. When it was over, there was a pretty serious effort to keep DST year round, but it failed.
Manitario - Yes but I lost an hour of daylight in the morning.
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