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Nanker

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Ugghhh. As a parent to small children, it’s especially tough because bedtime needs to be adjusted, and figure on them getting up an hour earlier too, until their internal clocks adjust...not fun. When will this WW1 invention go the way of the Dodo bird?

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On 3/8/2019 at 5:47 AM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Agreed, but the ‘early risers’ among us sit in the morning darkness for an extra hour.  Remember when DST began at the end of April?

Think of all the energy we are saving thanks to G W Bush. ?


"By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. As from that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Previously, 
Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October."

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3 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:

Think of all the energy we are saving thanks to G W Bush. ?


"By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. As from that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Previously, 
Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 specified the last Sunday in April.  I remember the last Sunday in April as well from my ’yute’, I was born in 1956.

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20 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 specified the last Sunday in April.  I remember the last Sunday in April as well from my ’yute’, I was born in 1956.

SO the the 1966 Act was amended in 1986 and effective in 1987. 
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. This old dog is getting CRS and only has selective memory when is comes to his yute days in NJ. (I blame it on the smoke from the mosquito trucks) But I still remember that line in My Cousin Vinny.

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2 hours ago, Uncle Joe said:

Think of all the energy we are saving thanks to G W Bush. ?


"By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. As from that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Previously, 
Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October."

 

New dates make much more sense.  It's plenty light in the morning now, time to get some light to the end of the day.  Pushing it out a week in the fall is immaterial and allows for more daylight on Halloween.

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On 3/10/2019 at 10:48 PM, NoHuddleKelly12 said:

Wanted to pass these sentiments along, as well as the work being done at the state level to fix this travesty once and for all:

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/09/opinions/daylight-saving-time-yates/index.html

 

Boo hoo Buttercups!  

 

I have been working swing-shift for almost 30 years.  Just look @ Me... I am fine and a model of mental fitness!

 

Can you believe these Snowflakes complaining about 1 measly hour of missed sleep in March.  You get it back in November.

 

/smh...

 

 

On 3/11/2019 at 4:37 PM, Nanker said:

I would prefer that we stay on DST year round. 

It really depends on location.  I am right on the start of a time zone.  60 miles away.  I prefer being on Eastern.

 

There is a 59 minute swing over the 15° of the time zone.  

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