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Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (Original Post) nycbos Mar 2021 OP
They say accidents go up because of daylight savings time Ohioboy Mar 2021 #1
'Accidents Go Up' WHITT Mar 2021 #2
Why do we do this again? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #3
I guess no one else has ever stayed up an hour or so later PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #4
It looks like nothing's going to be done about this MisterNiceKitty Mar 2021 #5
DST is a good thing Blues Heron Mar 2021 #6
Keep it year around! BlueKentuckyGirl Mar 2021 #7
You're backasswards, John. Why is STANDARD time still a thing? Warpy Mar 2021 #8

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
4. I guess no one else has ever stayed up an hour or so later
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 02:17 PM
Mar 2021

than usual, or had to get up an hour or so earlier than usual. Or ever crossed a time zone or two.

MisterNiceKitty

(422 posts)
5. It looks like nothing's going to be done about this
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 02:39 PM
Mar 2021

But maybe they can revert the time change back to the April-October period before the unnecessary expansion in 2005
introduced by Ed Markey. This might be the closest we get to splitting the difference.

Blues Heron

(5,898 posts)
6. DST is a good thing
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 02:40 PM
Mar 2021

It's nice to get going a little earlier in the summer when the sun is up earlier.

It's beyond stupid to do it in the winter. Why would you hustle to get to work/school BEFORE DAWN?

BlueKentuckyGirl

(402 posts)
7. Keep it year around!
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 03:14 PM
Mar 2021

I love DST! I love it that it doesn't get dark until later! Gives me much more time after it has warmed up to do outdoor activities! Who cares that sunrise comes an hour later. I'd rather have the daylight in the evening when I can enjoy it.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
8. You're backasswards, John. Why is STANDARD time still a thing?
Mon Mar 15, 2021, 03:49 PM
Mar 2021

Some Brit hundreds of years ago decided the longitude passing through Greenwich was going to mark absolute time, and sailors with newly invented clocks could see how far the sun was off it and know how far across the Atlantic or Pacific they'd come. It is meaningless unless you're a sailor with a timepiece, it's utterly arbitrary.

DST works a lot better for the modern world and England is no longer the center of an empire, save a money laundering empire for tinpot dictators all over the world. With DST, people working office hours will see a slice of daylight instead of getting up and going home in the dark. Kids will be able to play outside for a bit when they get home.

It won't be so damned depressing.

Nobody likes switching back and forth, that's what is crazy. We need DST as a permanent thing, and Greenwich can go back to being just another boring small city.

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