Daylight Savings Time (DST)
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jds holler
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I will be back to driving to work in the dark. -- and probably still driving home in the dark.
jd
jdtimeout
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Duh!! I was thinking of shooting legislation. I say leave the time one way or the other. I always hated it being dark by 5 PM. I left for work in the dark and arrived home in the dark. Could not see what I was paying for
butchlambert
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DST Double Set Trigger
In our locale, we have about eighteen hours of daylight in the summer. We don't need to save any. When we lived up north, we had about 21 hours and most certainly didn't need to save any. WH
TheOtherZilla
Pull my finger
I am retired. I just leave mine set to whatever time all year. Tossed my watch on the dresser the day I quit working. Eat when hungry sleep when tired.
timeout
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It's 5 O'clock somewhere!
shoot4fun
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I only use my watch to keep me from being late to the range.
TheOtherZilla
Pull my finger
A problem I don't have.. When I get there it's always on time.
Yeah, I should have spelled it out. I was thinking about
yesterday at the range, and reading the "bill" article this
morning. I live in Erie Pa. and we broke a 143 year old
Temperature record for March 10th. it was 72 degrees
and sunny. For our area and being early March, were still
freezing and plowing snow. As it is, I spent most of the
afternoon at our range walking the grounds, and picking
up winter trash. To make a long story short.....We have a
8pm shooting curfew. Sure would have been nice to have
that extra light yesterday.
jackieschmidt
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I’m all for freezing it in favor of DST. I drive to work in the dark anyway, so why not have some extra daylight in the earning.
The change was proposed back in the early seventies ('73, if memory serves) during the infamous energy crunch, but it was abandoned because in winter months children would have to go to school in the dark. Those who rode school buses would be standing alongside busy roads & highways in the dark, which is pretty dangerous. It's been so long now that I'm not certain whether or not the change to year-round DST was actually done, but I seem to recall that it was--for one year. A small child was killed waiting for a school bus not far from where I lived at the time, but I can't remember for sure whether or not darkness was a factor. It sees to me, though, that it was.
As I remember, when I was a child during the second world war, daylight savings time was instituted in order to provide more daylight in the evenings.
I don't like the change at all.
I don't like the change at all.
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