Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
Can you make dawn the official noon? It'd make oversleeping easier.As a bonus,if you wake up 6 hours late you might as well go back to sleep.
Hmmm, need to develop a policy paper after researching some focus groups. I hear that the teenagers want to make noon the official dawn. Would you like to speak at the hearing? Under oath of course.
This would be fine with me and to be honest I'm not really sure how that fundamentally differs from no daylight savings time. My gripe with it has always been that it is a lot of effort, expense, and annoyance with absolutely no benefit. I think most of us are quite capable of figuring out that sunrise and sunset change over the year on our own and could decide which activities we should start doing earlier and when. The effect does vary a lot with latitude. I've never been personally involved with accounting for it, but I bet it's a pain for business operations that have to run 24/7. Up until 2006 we like Arizona and Hawaii had the good sense to ignore all this tomfoolery. Damn Republicans. We just can't have anything nice.
Yes, every year I have to explain why I'm not giving any extra compensation for this one extra hour some one has to be here. Oddly, I never get people complaining about being paid the full shift when it is an hour shorter in the spring. They also don't complain about getting a full paycheck in February despite working 10% fewer days.
We also have a LOT of equipment that all needs to be synchronized. And even among the units that do NTP, there is a lot of variance in how it is implemented and everything needs to be cross checked. If we ever had a failure at midnight on the time change, the incident report would have 20 pages of time coordination adjustments.
Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
Vote for me and I'll fix things.
Can you make dawn the official noon? It'd make oversleeping easier.As a bonus,if you wake up 6 hours late you might as well go back to sleep.
Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
Vote for me and I'll fix things.
This would be fine with me and to be honest I'm not really sure how that fundamentally differs from no daylight savings time. My gripe with it has always been that it is a lot of effort, expense, and annoyance with absolutely no benefit. I think most of us are quite capable of figuring out that sunrise and sunset change over the year on our own and could decide which activities we should start doing earlier and when. The effect does vary a lot with latitude. I've never been personally involved with accounting for it, but I bet it's a pain for business operations that have to run 24/7. Up until 2006 we like Arizona and Hawaii had the good sense to ignore all this tomfoolery. Damn Republicans. We just can't have anything nice.
Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
Time for my semi-annual Daylight Savings advocacy (actually 4 times a year because we aren't on the same schedule as y'all).
I actually like Daylight Savings time and would be happy to see it all year. But if we are going to keep switching back and forth, some changes should be made:
1) We need to make the switch on Sunday nights. This is important
2) Forget spring ahead. Instead of putting the clocks ahead an hour, turn them back 23 hours and gain (almost) an extra Sunday.
3) Autumn should be obvious from the above. Don't fall back, put the clocks ahead 23 hours and miss Monday.
