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November 5, 2023: The Good One

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Daylight savings today. What do you think?

[REPHRASED POLL] Would you like to keep the current DST system as is? (No vote = permanent time, one way or the other)

  • No (93%, 13 Votes)
  • Yes (7%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 14

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36 thoughts on “November 5, 2023: The Good One”

    1. I recall it's about 75% of people want one of DST or no-DST. Only around 15% want to keep changing the clocks every year. I lean toward permanent DST but I think that has a lot to do with where someone lives in a time zone.

      1. I'm not sure how to answer the poll. I want permanent DST, which means keeping it? Or getting rid of the switch?

        1. Sorry, I meant to phrase that more as "would you like to keep the current DST system as is". Let me put up a new poll in case that wasn't clear. Please re-vote if you already did!

      2. I would like to eliminate the offset and stay with what it is now - standard time - to have more sunlight in the morning during the cold months.

        I had no recollection that the DST offset happening last night and thus missed the ‘extra’ hour of sleep, but it was nice to have sunshine while brewing coffee (even though I didn’t process the ‘why’ of that situation).

        Of note, we had the first day of hockey clinic for Niblet this morning and I was reminded (informed) by my wife that we were leaving an hour early. She called me while I was backing out of the garage.

        1. I'm opposite. I would happily trade an hour of sunlight in the morning (especially cold winter morninings) when no one us doing anything but getting ready and traveling to work/school, for an hour of sunlight in the evenings, when people have some leisure time to enjoy it.

    3. If there is one thing I have never been able to understand in my entire life, it is this argument. It used to be a pain in the butt when we all used to have to change every clock, but now with it being programmed into basically everything... who cares. I honestly have never had a thought for or against daylights savings time. It never mattered to me prior to having kids at home. It never mattered to me when we had little, or big, kids at home. It doesn't really matter to me now. I don't understand the strong feelings in either direction, but I feel that way about a lot of things people argue about. I mean, shit, why not plant a flag in the ground on a topic or cause that truly matters instead of something as small and trivial as this.

      1. Because people die due to time changes. More energy is wasted with daylight savings (read: climate change). Both of those things kinda matter quite a bit. The only trivial thing about it is how easy it is to remedy.

        1. Well, I guess there is more to this than I was aware. So, in your opinion, why has the government(s) failed to act on this then?

  4. I like the current time change deal we have.

    It was nice that the sun was up before 7am this morning.

  6. Frankly I couldn’t care less. We can switch back and forth every month, or keep it unchanged. It has about as much impact on my life as the score of a Browns-Jags football game.

    1. I agree. It doesn't make much difference to me one way or another. I just point out to those who want permanent DST that, where I live, in means the sun will come up at a quarter after nine sometimes. If they're okay with that, it's fine with me--I just think some people haven't really thought that through.

      1. That goes with the "depends on where people live". Here in "H'istan", the sun will set at 4:23 p.m. on the solstice and rise at 7:13 a.m. A couple weeks earlier and it will set at 4:19 p.m. Meanwhile at Pierre, SD, the sun will set at 5:05 p.m. and rise at 8:15 a.m. on the solstice. Hartford has 18 additional minutes of sunlight that day but due to being much farther east of "true noon" in EST, our sunlight is shifted 45 minutes earlier. South Dakota is the opposite so its sunlight is shifted later. My guess is northern-ish locations on the eastern part of a time zone are more likely to want DST with the western locations of that time zone preferring standard time.

        That said, switching back and forth is well documented to be bad for our health. It takes weeks for people to adjust.

          1. I suppose this is a matter of perspective (and location within a time zone...). If one lives on the equator none of this matters. You live in a place where long, dark winter months grind your soul to bits so a sunset at 10 pm in July is welcome. I'd prefer to just settle on a arbitrary set time and not have to deal with the bullshit of switching clocks and harmful health outcomes that come with the current system.

            1. This. The risk of having a heart attack goes up 24% on the Monday following a time change, and I don't care to revisit that rodeo.

            2. Oh, I absolutely agree with picking one of the times and not switching. I just think it should clearly be DST instead of standard.

    1. just wild stuff

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