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It seems there's a bit of confusion here. DST is the deviation from Normal Time. It happens in the Spring and Summer and makes it so that the sun goes down an hour later than it normally would. This gives us more light in the evening. When the clocks go back to Standard Time, it results in less light in the evening and more light in the morning. This was done as a way to save energy costs with artificial lighting, by adjusting the working hours to the times of the day when the sun is up.Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on artificially extending daylight hours:
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Suffice to say, Moviebob must have only read Whitehouse's post without watching the video:
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It looks as if Moviebob considers Daylight Saving Time bad for America. My response:
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I absolutely DESPISE Daylight Saving Time; it's a scam, and I would happily support any non-Democrat who proposes a permenent end to it.
There's a saying I read ealier this year that compares DST to a blanket. I don't remember the wording per se, but I seem to recall the context being that DST is like cutting a piece of yoru blanked off at one end, sewing it back on at the other end; you may now claim to have a longer blanket when you really don't.
(Besides, as bad an idea as Daylight Saving Time is, wouldn't it actually make more to "fall forward" in November and "spring backward" in March?)
This was set in place about 100 years ago. Society has changed since then. Most people don't start their days at the asscrack of dawn anymore. A lot of people work office jobs that start about 8 or 9-ish and end about 5 or 6-ish. A lot of people (myself included) would also like to have an hour or so of daylight after work is done, in order to exercise , do yardwork, or travel outside. The way things are now, during the winter solstice, it's possible to go to work when it's dark and go home when it's dark, thus, never experiencing a single minute of direct daylight outside. In Europe, things are even worse then they are in America, since most of it's at a more northernly latitude. (Minnesota is at the same latitude as Milan, Italy. ) Thus, in places like England, the sun can set as early as 3:30pm.
The lifestyles of most people have changed since 1900, so it's reasonable to expect our relationship to the clock to change as well. This change should also be latitude-dependent. People on the Northern side of the 48 contiguous states could probably use an extra two hours of evening daylight, while people in Arizona (where they get abundant sunlight all year) probably don't need any clock-altering measures, ( and they haven't observed DST since the 60's anyway.) Having to deal with horizontal winter timezones can get just as confusing as dealing with vertical, longtitudinal timezones, especially in the age of global communications, but our computer systems could probably handle it.
The lifestyles of most people have changed since 1900, so it's reasonable to expect our relationship to the clock to change as well. This change should also be latitude-dependent. People on the Northern side of the 48 contiguous states could probably use an extra two hours of evening daylight, while people in Arizona (where they get abundant sunlight all year) probably don't need any clock-altering measures, ( and they haven't observed DST since the 60's anyway.) Having to deal with horizontal winter timezones can get just as confusing as dealing with vertical, longtitudinal timezones, especially in the age of global communications, but our computer systems could probably handle it.
That said, MovieBob's rant is so confusingly worded, that I'm not sure he's FOR the DST change or against it. It's possible he doesn't realize that the DST is what's giving us more daylight in the evening because, well, he's MovieBob.