Daylight Savings

LebamDawg

lost in all the hoopla of Mueller time, I noticed that the State legislature voted again to get rid of Daylight Savings. I am such a dumb ass, I never paid much attention to it - we aren't going to go to Standard Time, we are going to be on permanent DST.


Why don't they just make the left coast Central Standard time? It won't get light until 9 in the morning during the winter - what a bunch of bastards. 89-7 was the original vote.

2001400ex

LebamDawg said:

lost in all the hoopla of Mueller time, I noticed that the State legislature voted again to get rid of Daylight Savings. I am such a dumb ass, I never paid much attention to it - we aren't going to go to Standard Time, we are going to be on permanent DST.


Why don't they just make the left coast Central Standard time? It won't get light until 9 in the morning during the winter - what a bunch of bastards. 89-7 was the original vote.

If it makes you feel better. I like the decision and I've wanted to do that for a while now. I hate it being dark at 4:15 in the evening over here in Spokane.

89-7. Suck it.

What's more interesting. Will North Idaho follow suit.

LebamDawg

well we get 8 hrs of light on the 21st of Dec and 16 on June 21st - I guess one hour of light one way or the other doesn't amount to shit. So lets fuck with the way time zones work - we are the government, we can do what we want.

Fenderbender123

I agree.

In winter, DST sucks ass. In summer, we already get 3 more hours of daylight in the evening, so why do we gotta be greedy?

But a lot of people don't see it that way. So maybe we can compromise and work out a solution where we are on standard time for part of the year and then switch to daylight savings for part of the year.

2001400ex

LebamDawg said:

well we get 8 hrs of light on the 21st of Dec and 16 on June 21st - I guess one hour of light one way or the other doesn't amount to shit. So lets fuck with the way time zones work - we are the government, we can do what we want.

Who do you think created time zones? Do you think it was private businesses? Do you think mother nature dictated how time zones work?

Why are you so angry?

LebamDawg

The railroads did the time zones, congress adapted them at the request of the railroads.

I grew up fighting between PDT and PST because my Dad worked on the RR. As kids, we never knew what the hell was going on.

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1883/11/18/time-zones-are-created

2001400ex

LebamDawg said:

The railroads did the time zones, congress adapted them at the request of the railroads.

I grew up fighting between PDT and PST because my Dad worked on the RR. As kids, we never knew what the hell was going on.

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1883/11/18/time-zones-are-created

Interesting read. I learned something. And there was also this nugget.

The confusion of times came to an end when Standard zone time was formally adopted by the U.S. Congress on March 19, 1918 in the Standard Time Act.

LebamDawg

Also - I lived in the Midwest for years and CST was dynamite for sports and TV in general - they get everything live not the 3 hour delay that the west gets. Edit - will that be a 2 hr delay now?

If they are going to fuck it up by going PDT full time, lets just go one more hour and be in central time. PDT = MST, MDT= CST
What they are doing doesn't screw anything up - in the winter we are MST, in the summer we are an hour behind them except for Arizona which stays on MST. So we should get Arizona to go to PDT year round. Then no one will be confused

RaceBannon

Leave it to the government to fuck it up

Standard time year round

2001400ex

LebamDawg said:

Also - I lived in the Midwest for years and CST was dynamite for sports and TV in general - they get everything live not the 3 hour delay that the west gets. Edit - will that be a 2 hr delay now?

If they are going to fuck it up by going PDT full time, lets just go one more hour and be in central time. PDT = MST, MDT= CST
What they are doing doesn't screw anything up - in the winter we are MST, in the summer we are an hour behind them except for Arizona which stays on MST. So we should get Arizona to go to PDT year round. Then no one will be confused

I've never been confused. And I used to travel to Phoenix all the time.

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Leave it to the government to fuck it up

Standard time year round

You call yourself a golf fan?? Fuck off. The golf industry loves DST.

PurpleJ

Let's just make the sun set at midnight!

Pitchfork51

It's even more confusing in AZ because everyone else changes. I'd rather just go along with everyone else

dflea

Fine with me.