Time Change already this weekend

[ljjhouser]

Let me try to reasonably solve this problem ----Gov will help us with this. It is good that with food prices, supply chain problems, Oil problems and gas prices, border problems ... I am sure DST will addressed soon. And the outcome will not please anyone.

 

[newbury]

Let's just go to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and say the heck with it.

 

[ruffdog]

There are many different work schedules that people work. A first shift (6-2), a day shift (9-5), a 2nd shift (2-10), a 3rd shift (10-6), and swing shifts. People have different hobbies that will be done at all times of the day. What will be done that favors no one group or region?

 

[MossRoad]

... What will be done that favors no one group or region?

Hand out free flashlights.

 

[lman]

The only scientific thing to do would be to make it noon when the sun is the highest and go from there. If you don't like it blame it on God. He's the one that put the sun up there.

 

[newbury]

There are many different work schedules that people work. A first shift (6-2), a day shift (9-5), a 2nd shift (2-10), a 3rd shift (10-6), and swing shifts. People have different hobbies that will be done at all times of the day. What will be done that favors no one group or region?

Let's just go to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and say the heck with it.

 

[/pine]

Hello darkness my old friend,
Soon you will be here at 5pm...

 

[RobertN]

In the grand scheme of things, the whole DST subject has only been what, the last 100 years or so?

The time change does not seem like an improvement over Standard time. How did our ancestors survive for millennia in Standard time? How does Arizona and Hawaii survive?

 

[Torvy]

In the grand scheme of things, the whole DST subject has only been what, the last 100 years or so?

The time change does not seem like an improvement over Standard time. How did our ancestors survive for millennia in Standard time? How does Arizona and Hawaii survive?

Time zones have only really been around since the Transcontinental RR and the advent of the pocket watch. Before that, every community had their own 'time' that fit more properly for the local area.

 

[RobertN]

Time zones have only really been around since the Transcontinental RR and the advent of the pocket watch. Before that, every community had their own 'time' that fit more properly for the local area.

That is correct; the railroad community really pushed for standardizing time zones. Otherwise their timetables were a mess. Even within the time zones(as well as pre-time zones) most went by the sun for instance High Noon.