As a Limey, is the fact that some states will change their clocks and others won’t not going to make life really tricky for you guys? ‘What time is it in Florida?’ ‘We’ll, we changed our clocks last week, but they didn’t, so they’re normally one hour ahead but right now they’re not’.
I’m all for doing away with DST (in the UK as well); doesn’t it make more sense to make the decision as a nation rather than a state though?
That’s nice for you that you don’t have to work in the morning, but most of us do.
Living in France and Spain, we basically are shifted one time zone over to be part of CET, so it’s like DST all year (except in the summer, we still do actual DST, so it’s doubly shifted).
Overall, I think it’s pretty great. There are a decent number of mornings where I am getting kids up for school in the dark, but that is going to be painful regardless, and I prefer to keep the extra daylight hour at the end of the day to better enjoy apéro.
I run a youth baseball league. DST IS CRITICAL. for us to have enough daylight for a game after the school/work day. We can be on dst all year, that’s fine.
And I don’t have the power to change every school and work schedule!
So, do it fur the kids!!! 
You don’t need to change the clocks to make that happen.
You don’t need to change the clocks to have more light in your afternoons. Just go to work earlier and come home earlier. Many businesses already allow flexible schedules. There, fixed it for you.
Better yet: don’t work at all. Stay home. Or better yet: stay outside.
Now that we can all agree on I think. Kudos.
I think we pretty much just said the same thing in different ways.
Rolling my eyes here up at 44N.
“I don’t know if (state!) senator Greg Steubu voted for or against the other law though.”
Steub is one of the most strident NRA supporting members of the Florida legislature. He wants to allow guns everywhere all of the time, and has the highest possible rating from the NRA, so you can be sure that he voted against any restrictions on guns.
Here in west Michigan, being on the edge of the time zone, our winter workdays start in the dark and end in the dark. I would MUCH rather see some sunshine on my way home than on my way to work.
The fools. They should have opted to allow an extra hour of sleep rather than one fewer.
Wait, stop. Just stop with the long sunny evenings already, the badminton with the kids without floodlights, long walks in the national forests and parks after work, watching the sun set, pedestrian to car visibility factors; Wazroth’s chickens may get killed by vermin, what were y’all thinking.
Sounds about right to me! If you want to play more volleyball you can do it at 6am like the rest of us.
See, but this is the problem. The terms “morning” and “evening” are not defined by the numbers applied to given points throughout the day. They are instead defined by what appears to be the coming and going of sunlight (rotation of the earth, and your body following on its surface, for you flat-earthers out there!). You don’t get more light in one or less in the other. It’s always the same! To the extent that business hours attempt to define the terms, well, that’s another issue.
The world would be much better off it was on a single timezone. Software errors would decrease by about 70%. Having half the world living in darkness would be a small price to pay.
I’ve been hearing that pitch for more than ten years, and it’s still ridiculous. Most people can’t easily calculate the time difference between New York City and Los Angeles now, but to expect them to live in a “single time zone” world and remember what the business hours time differential is between cities around the world?
Software issues could mostly be eliminated now, if operations were simply scheduled by GST instead of local time.
No kidding, mine too. Standard time really sucks on the northern west coast. Now summer days, on the other hand…
The real fun is when you have software that runs on a cruise ship that may be constantly changing time zones within a short period of time.
Great fun if you’ve got a small child who can’t understand that, even though it’s brilliant daylight at 4am, it’s not time to get up.
