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Possibly but not likely. A bill has cleared a state house committee to end it. However, this was tried last year and it was defeated in a full house vote by 55-15.
I don't understand the legislative love for daylight time. I know of almost no people who like it. In the summer here, it doesn't get fully dark until 10:30pm. That's 9:30 in the north half of the state since we're split between 2 time zones.

I wish they would do away with it here in La., but we're right in the middle of the Central Time Zone, so I aint gonna happen. I wouldn't care which one they stayed on, just stop the flipping back and forth.

Here in Indiana, we were on Eastern Standard Time for 35-36 yrs., the year round. Then the Gov. and legislators decided we needed to go on DST. I don't get it. we have 4 time zones in the us, and N.Y. and LA are ALWAYS going to be 3 hrs. apart. Great idea would be to set the time at 1/2 hr. between fast/slow time, in each time zone, then forget it. Leave the d**n clocks alone!!

I wish the entire Mountain Time Zone would follow Arizona's lead on this. Hell, we're the forgotten and ignored time zone already; why not just go our own way altogether?

DST....fixing something that wasn't broken.

And politicians wonder why they are so despised....

The argument always comes up about safety for kids waiting for buses. If parents are concerned, why don't they put up a pole at the bus stop with a solar panel and a light on a timer? Prices on panels and LED lights have dropped dramatically and there are some good ones at low prices.

I wish they would do away with it.

They try to overturn DST every year here, and they are trying again this year. I don't have a problem with doing away with DST, but not if Colorado doesn't. About a third of the population of this state is within 10-30 minutes of the Colorado front range, which is utilized for medical care, airports and shopping, and having to make an adjustment for the difference would be a real pain for a lot of people.

Personally I'd rather have DST all year. I'd rather be in the office while it's dark in the morning. When I get home I got things to do outside and rather it be light.

As Paul Harvey, daylight savings time saves neither daylight or time.


I wish the whole country would do away with it.

Maybe split the difference, move our clocks ahead half an hour in a couple months and leave them there for all eternity.

I could live with DST, if the politicians in office, would just go away....and drop dead.. especially if they are a democRAT...

Before I retired I very much preferred DST as it gave me an extra hour after work to be outside fishing or hunting.
Never could see why anyone would prefer less daylight hours after getting off work.

When I was working, I didn't need for it to be light until 11:00 I was getting up at 5 in the morning. Now, no job and I don't care. Further north, where there is 22 hours of daylight, there little need to save it. GD

Agreed. Here in Alberta they are trying to go with straight DST, I hope it goes through.

Setting the time isn't really an arbitrary thing. Originally and ideally, time zones were set so that the sun was due south at clock noon in the center of the time zone. It's an astronomical setting and its base is the observatory at Greenwich, England. In the military, confusion was avoided by referring to "Greenwich time" (which was eventually shortened to Zulu Time for reasons only the military knows.)

Changing to permanent DST would screw that all up. Staying on Standard time is the only sensible course.

Bingo, Winner Winner and the inevitable chicken dinner.

I have no use for light at 0430 in the summer. Even 0530 is before I get up to feed the chickens. But I have no problem splitting wood, weed whacking, gardening, etc until nearly 2200 during DST.

Our state is moving to an 0830 start time for schools anyway, so WTF? why change the clock back, it's plenty light by the time kids need to get on the bus if they just left it at the DST setting.

Geno

PS, only two reasons to get up way early in the morning...............fishing is one of them...................the other starts with "f" and ends with "ing" also. If that ain't happening I wanna sleep until the sun is well up.

Who gives a rat's patootie if the sun is due South at noon? We're a little past relying on sundials these days.

I'm sick of having it get dark at 5:00 PM in the Winter - I wish they'd shift us another daylight hour to the afternoon in the Winter months!

Well, Theo, I suppose we could go back to the 1800s when there weren't any time zones and every community set their own clocks. Of course, with that "system" nobody knew when the train was supposed to arrive and confusion reigned everywhere. Fast forward to now and try to make sense of travel times, appointments, or even TV schedules when nobody gives a rat's patootie when noon is.

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It gives some daylight after work for kids to get outside with family and friends.

I noticed it's mostly old fogies set in their ways that don't like DST. It's such a non-inconvenience twice a year, and it gives a lot of working people some after work daylight.

No need to go back Rocky,

I hear there are these things called atomic clocks now. No need to even see the sun to know what time it is.

However, noon with the sun directly south might come in handy for someone shooting the sun with a sextant while navigating a schooner across the Pacific?

Just funnin' with you. I actually see the reasoning behind the human construct called "time" and how it can be used to our advantage. Doesn't matter where we set the start point, there's exactly so many hours and minutes of light in a day at a given location on Urth. Some of us just differ with how and when we want to use it.

I still vote for longer evenings, move the clock another hour opposite the way we move it back in the fall I say...............maybe 2 hours even. I hate dark at 1630.

Geno