Permanent Daylight Saving Time

[Zundfolge]

Let’s just use Zulu time and be done with it.

Don't worry, in a few years we'll all be on Beijing time, we'll own nothing and we'll be happy.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I agree about there being more benefit to it staying lighter in the evening than lighter in the morning.

I disagree. I wake naturally with the sunshine. Having to use an alarm to wake up often just gets my day off on the wrong foot. I’m far less affected by it being dark in the evening.

No need for switching clocks twice a year. Daylight savings all year is fine by me.

There’s a reason it’s called STANDARD time. The zones are based on when the sun is more or less directly overhead at noon. We don’t need to keep changing clocks, just change your hours to open and close an hour earlier if you want. People in Hawaii get used to working 8-4 instead of 9-5 and there’s never a need to screw around with the clock. Daylight Savings Time in the 21st century is one of the dumbest ideas ever. “Permanent” Daylight Savings Time is just ridiculous.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Doesnt really solve anything. "Hey, Im east coast calling west coast client,... are they even at work right now?"

Of course it does. If everyone is on Zulu time (aka Universal Time Coordinated or UTC), you just have to know the Z time they’re open — which for your scenario is easy, just add 3 hours to the Z-time the East Coaster used for his/her hours. Getting rid of time zones and using UTC globally makes far more sense than changing the clocks or permanently shifting your clock so the sun is overhead at 1300 instead of 1200.

[ray1970]

I disagree. I wake naturally with the sunshine.

Well, princess, I would wager a great deal of the population doesn?t have that luxury. If I woke when the sun came up I?d be an hour or two late to work depending on the time of year.

[def90]

I’m with Aloha.. get rid of daylight savings altogether and just change the hours that are considered the standard work day. Making DST permanent fucks the whole GMT thing.

[StagLefty]

There's a time change ????

[Great-Kazoo]

I think he is against everything. Debbie-Downer comes to mind...

I survived no DST for a few years, even liked it. But you guys/gals know I'm a little touched.

did you file a police report?

[Great-Kazoo]

Im ok with it so long as we can move AZ out of Pacific time zone and move to Mountain. :-)

Agree!

I'm undecided. However, we need to keep pacific residents from making AZ their permanent home.

[MED]

I like being able to do things after work during the spring,summer, fall that require daylight. Going to year round standard time I would lose approximately 230 hours of productivity every year because I can't do those things before work. I'm good with the way it is, but daylight time is fine too. Year round standard time would really suck for me. I would have to get a half year modified work schedule to compensate for it, but I guess that's possible too if I'm faced with that. I honestly don't see what the big deal is with changing the clocks; I've never had an issue with it in my 50 years. Millions of people travel every year changing time zones, but changing the clock twice a year is some horrible event. The biggest issue with this is that people want different things so the current system is a compromise that people bitch about too.

Tuesday I took advantage of the time change and did a range trip to the South Park Range when I finished up work at 4:00.. I look forward to the spring forward every year. I guess it's all in how you look at it.

[ray1970]

Tuesday I took advantage of the time change and did a range trip to the South Park Range when I finished up work at 4:00.. I look forward to the spring forward every year. I guess it's all in how you look at it.

But if they hadn?t set the clocks back on you last fall you could have done that probably five weeks ago.