Daylight Saving is a Disaster
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My body clock doesn't mind changing an hour twice a year. My cats on the other hand, don't understand why they have to wait an extra hour for their food. They adjust very slowly.
Cats don't understand why they *_ever_* have to wait for their food.
Doesn’t that tell you something about how the natural daylight cycle impacts us?
Your cats know more than you.
Cats are smarter than nearly all politicians.
The best thing about being retired is I get up whenever I want 🤣
As long as it's at sunrise.
Don’t rub it in. I still have a few years 😂😢
It's nuts. There's no reason schools and businesses can't keep summer and winter hours if they want to do that. You don't need to change the clocks.
As a resident of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, I was laughing uncontrollably while Amy was describing the mess in Minnesota.
Ditto (from Shakopee)
I agree with the giggles, former Twin Citian now hailing from Park Rapids.
As a kid in St. Paul at the time, I recall this mess. But being a kid I found it more humorous than anything else as it didn’t really affect me… the whole thing did reinforced our conviction that those people in Minneapolis were crazy ;)
As an Aussie I thought Minneapolis and St Paul were essentially one big city. I'm kinda surprised by the apparent divide, especially by something as small as DST. We have a DST system here, some people hate it but most don't really care enough about it to make a divide over it. What was it that made it a significant thing over there?
I used to have a clock that changed automatically for DST. Then I think the Energy Savings Act of 2007 changed the dates, and I went from never having to adjust my clock to adjusting it FOUR TIMES A YEAR!!
I have the same problem. Those days always get on my nerves.
Same. Just dealt with it again and was almost late meeting a friend to go hiking Sunday before last because of it. I would have tossed it years ago If it weren’t such a nice clock radio with battery backup that still works to this day.
My smartphone & my computer change automatically. Since I use my phone's alarm, half the time I don't bother to change my bedroom clock/radio.
Sounds like you need a new clock.
Aww poor baby, how inconvenient for you, you weakling. Need a cry closet?
Why do we spring forward and fall back? Commerce, commerce, commerce. It has nothing to do with energy savings.
I’d love to know if there are any countries who opted to change their working hours rather than their clocks?
Look it up.
I would love to just stay at Standard Time permanently. Also, Amy's shirt has me thinking about 5 Flavor Lifesavers.
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yea you will love it at 330 when its getting dark already and the sun shinning in your bedroom window at 500 am its gonna be great.
@@dvvaughn564 I kinda lusted for automatic and programmable curtains.
@@davidmacphee3549 they are about 90 bucks per window.... when i checked a few years ago and thanks to inflation im sure they are over 100 bucks per window now.
but have at it.
once the economy slows more in the winter months due to it being to cold and dark out to go out to eat or other things i am sure you will have plenty of extra cash to spend.
@@dvvaughn564 actually I do enjoy darkness.
Hi Amy! I grew up on a dairy farm in southwestern Ohio. The cows could care less what the time was, as long as they got fed. When the time changed at the end of April, and 5:30 AM became 6:30 AM, we'd call them at the new time and they'd come for the ground corn (and to be milked). If it were nice weather and the pastures were growing, they might still be out in the pasture, otherwise they'd be in the barn eating hay. It might be a surprise to them that Sunday, but they'd be waiting at the gate at the "new" time on Monday. It didn't affect milk output. One year my parents tried staying on EDT year around, "for the sake of the cows"...they gave up on that insanity about mid December.
We weren't rich enough to have hired hands, we did all our work ourselves. Working hours were largely driven by the weather. If rain was coming in the next day, and would likely keep you out of the field for several days, you'd pull an all-nighter planting corn, finish up at 6 AM, then milk the cows. Similar at harvest time...if the fields were dry enough to support the combine but rain was coming in tomorrow, you'd run until you got rained out, with a couple hours of naps hear and there.
Interesting side note about the 1970's year around DST...on April 3, 1974, the Xenia tornado touched down about 4:30 PM EDT, and plowed through the center of town around 4:40 PM EDT. Several schools including the new high school were leveled. If the nation had still been on Standard Time, most of the kids would have been on school buses or just letting out, instead of in their homes. Who knows how that would have affected the death toll.
Couldn't* care less
@@t_c5266 This drives me nuts, saying "could care less" implies the cows could indeed care less.
@@unclej3910 same. Super frustrating.
Hi Amy! Long time no see! It's good to know you're ok. Great video by the way. Keep it up.
She's been regularly streaming on Twitch, no need to have worried! It's quite different from this channel's content though, but you're welcome to check it out!
@@daanwilmer Thank you, I'll check out that platform too.
You speak like you personally know her. Do you?
I agree -- it's great seeing Amy release new content on CZcams . . . but WHERE'S PETE? It's not complete without a bundle of chaos demanding his time in the spotlight!
By the way, I feel a bit left out. I don't do video games (I'm 65, trying to complete a PhD, and don't need the distraction) and I don't do Twitch, either. Can someone explain what this "Twitch" thing is? "Twix" I know, though I prefer Kit Kats.
Except for the recent abomination of "Blueberry Muffin" flavored Kit Kats. That's SACRILEGE, I say!
@@Xathos Unfortunatelly, I don't know her personally but I've been following her work for several year and I personally feel like I know her.
It all depends entirely where you live, and how close to the equator you are. Here in the UK, I absolutely LOVE daylight savings. In the winter it's dark by 4:30 in the afternoon until about 7:45am, but in the summer, we have daylight until nearly 11pm at night, and it's light at 4:30am. I would be so pissed off if we got rid of it.
Absolutely agree, thankfully we left the EU which after a vote by a bunch of Germans. They are going to ban DST. Hopefully our government won't tag along for the ride.
For me, changing back/forth is only a very minor hassle, and I do like having more awake time while daylight in the summer. Would vote to keep the scheme. Of course, living relatively far north (in Denmark), we're used to large day length differences (10 hours longer in summer), so synchronization with clock time is a non-issue anyway.
Daylight time does make more of a difference in the summer for those of us in northern latitudes, but I liked it beter when it ran from late April to October; it doesn't help much in March, when it's still too cold for outdoor activities.
In Australia NSW state it run from Oct-April. I love it. Our Queensland state doesn’t have it,and it’s a pain.
In Europe, they decided to abandon changing the clock back in 2019. However the member countries could not agree and Corona made people forget. So we are still waiting for the politicians to make the final law and remove daylight saving for good.
There has been talks about scrapping daylight savings time here in Sweden for years and years but it never really seems to happend.
Amy I love the direction you've taken with your videos and not just confining it to vintage space. Don't listen to what other people say but just keep doing what you love to do!
She is so great!
Wow! I can’t believe how recent, relatively speaking, some of the chaos has been! Thanks for putting some of the myths to rest and even touching on the potential upcoming change, if it ever happens.
If the only problem with permanent DST is children going to schools in the darkness, then why can't they just move the school opening hours one hour forward?
In Australia we just have it for 6 months in Summer. I love it.
I enjoy these longer videos immensely. I hope you do more. You are a brilliant, articulate communicator of complex information.
Very interesting in-depth dive on the origins. I remember I was taught in school the story about the leisure time and farmers. Sounds like it was a bit the other way around. Also, I've never seen how in the world such a shift actually saves anything in the end. Any fuel or power saved on one end will perforce be lost on the other. Same when they moved it slightly less than a month back in the 2000s. They claimed it was to save energy, but savings on AC would inevitably be lost to extra heating later. I'm one for DST being ditched forever and just letting the clocks be synced with the stars all year rather than upseting children and animals twice a year, causing car accidents and lost work productivity, and making kids wait in the cold dark at bus stops in March instead of letting the sun come up first.
Great video Amy! Hope you can put them out regularly. Sure miss you on the Vintage Space channel.
We surely need more Amy.
There was a massive cost to the changes in 2007 when the IT world had to reprogram servers and other hardware for the new time change dates. I recall that it was several billion dollars.
DST is just about getting up an hour earlier in the morning. Those who want to do that can do that by themselves in my opinion.
And while I prefer standard time (you know, that base of the sun being in the south at noon) but most of all I just want to stupid changes to stop, they are messing up my daily rhythm and I battle to keep it in check to start with.
YES. "noon" should correspond to the sun's high point. If it's summer and it makes sense to start work at 6am, fine. If it's winter and you can't start work until 8, fine. Farmers/construction/etc. are going to start when light permits, don't care what "time" it is!
Your point is true. But it sounds even better if DST is described as...
"DST is just tucking yourself into bed an hour early during the summer. That's all it is, nothing more."
Eliminating DST would mean everyone commutes an hour later during the summer and millions in places like Dallas, Las Vegas, Phoenix would be commuting at 95°F-100°F instead of 80-90°F.
Funny how you feel noon should be when the sun is at it's highest yet you don't want any change in the clocks time.
So which season would you want to have as the baseline? You have four to pick from and pretty sure each of them has a different time for noon.
How can it mess up your daily routine if it's 6 months between the changes? Does it take you longer than 6 months to get used to things Rolf?
But the sun already isn't at the highest point at noon for most people. It only works for a small area (hopefully) in the middle of each timezone, sometimes not even that. A few km/miles/whatever east or west and you're already off. I would prefer summer time year round, but honestly I don't care either way, as long as it stops switching around all the time.
If heat is a problem for commuting: Just start working an hour earlier year round. What's the problem?
Thank you Amy, although I personally like daylight savings time, I very much appreciate your hard work and thank you for informing me . I love history , and you did great work with this video. Just subbed , thanks and Love from Alberta Canada
Hi Amy, great to see you back, in the Uk people have been campaigning against the twice yearly changing of clocks, but the government has refused to stop it stating that Scotland being further north is darker in winter and farming would suffer.
Everyone else is sick of messing about with peoples body clocks.
Farmers get up when they need in order to have sunlight, that's not the problem. The complaint from the Scottish government is if the UK stayed on +1 all year Scottish kids would be going to school in the dark. Given the US and EU are in the process of slowly getting rid of DST and a number of other countries already have, the UK may be one of the last places in the world still doing this rubbish. All because of the Scots.
@@owensmith7530 The solution would be to put Scotland on a different time zone.
As someone who grew up on the Canadian prairies, even with the time change you still get up and go to school/work when it's dark outside in the winter. And you get home it's dark. Shifting to DST year-round would at least mean you might get some sunlight on your way home.
When I was a kid (1970s UK) we tried double summertime. We all had to wear reflective sashes and be escorted across roads and to school. I think it lasted about 3 years
You see where you went wrong with this - you should have tried double winter time.
I know this would make everyone’s head explode but I wish we could permanently change time to 1/2 hour in between DST & standard.
Exactly! My idea as well!
No, not 30m, too simple. Make the offset from Standard Time 37m 26 and one-seventh seconds and you'll have my vote !!!
But that’s too simple and makes too much sense!
(In case it’s not clear, that’s sarcasm. I’ve long called for the exact same).
I love your videos. I suffer from some pretty harsh ADHD but you hold my attention and I really enjoy the topics you pick.
She is pretty! that helps.
@@seerstone8982 while that is very true she is also incredibly articulate. Her passion for her topics really comes through in her videos to. It creates an infectious excitement that can grab the attention of people like me also.
The only sensible option is standard time year round if you don't want to change the clocks. By getting up at the coldest time of day, just before dawn, you consume more energy heating up the house. It isn't possible to have a full working day in daylight the further north you go but standard time gives the best balance.
Standard time >>>> DST
Truth. What baffles me even more is that even jurisdictions in near-tropical latitudes like Florida, Texas, or California has daylight savings time changes. The difference in daylight time between summer and winter isn't even enough to justify time changes!
I live in British Columbia and we recently passed a bill to abolish time changes, but that would go into effect only if neighboring US states do the same. This lack of leadership and over-dependence on the US frustrates me so much as in Fort St John, the northeast corner of BC, observes UTC -7 year round without any time changes, as is the Yukon since 2021. Why not just follow them? I honestly don't care if Vancouver and Seattle are an hour time difference apart if that means where I live no longer require time changes, and I'm sure the vast majority of BC residents agree with this too.
I would imagine it would probably be a logistical nightmare to lose coherent time with vital suppliers and customers. Generally within around 1,000 miles or so you are dealing with just in time supply chains that will break down with an alteration of travel times or operating hours of 30 minutes or more anywhere in the chain. Sure it's a pain but when it comes to time it really needs to be based on what you major logistical partners in the immediate region are doing and I think it is a fair guess that regional logistics are going to be dominated by Vancouver and the major cities of the Northern end of the i5 corridor (Seattle and Portland in particular) rather than the relatively wild regions to the North of BC. This is hardly surprising as you really don't find large populations that far North at least not away from the coasts if you can't fish getting adequate nutrition up there with such short growing seasons is unaffordable without some insanely high value commodity to sell.
A long wait, but surely worth it. Keep on going with these!
Thing that’s always bothered me: how it’s not connected to the solstices at all. One is over a month after the solstice while the other is in the same month…
That’s because it’s tied to big businesses like golf courses and has nothing to do energy.
And to make time zones even more complicated than they already are, it's not at the same dates around the world. Some countries do it, some don't. Some do it earlier, others do it later. It's a mess.
This needs to stop, it's so annoying how it keeps getting talked about but nobody is actually doing anything to stop it! I appreciate this video though to bring more awareness. Those that say we should stay on DST permanently are wrong, we need standard time for better sleep.
I live in AZ and no daylight savings time is one of the few laws in this insane state that I agree with.
I'm almost 50 and have been hearing this almost my entire life. Year after year politicians say they're going to put an end to the practice. Yet here we are...
And there you go
I live in South Africa with no DST, and I fail to see the benefit. So I don't have to deal with this DST nonsense, yay!
I'm in Johannesburg and earliest winter sunset is 5pm-ish and latest summer sunset is about 7:30pm so no actual benefit. Cape Town is further south, they get almost 2 hours more evening in summer but DST has never been a thing
Cape Town is on the far west of the country, so effectively it is on permanent daylight savings time. Otherwise agree.
It's annoying for me to remember if I'm -5UTC or -6UTC at work, I don't care which one we are, I just want to stop changing...
Here in Hawaii, summer daylight is about 2 hours longer (6am-7pm) than winter (7am-6pm), so no huge shift.
Yah, because it's close to the equator. Travel to places like Colorado state in the summer, and you'll be watching a nice sunset and enjoying the afterglow and then be shocked that it's 9PM
Welcome back to the internet (it hasn't improved at all in your absence).
Thanks for the Daylight Savings episode which basically said what we were all already thinking but your explanation is the best.
In 1974, when it was still called "Daylight Savings Time", I had to wait for the school bus before sunrise.
Very good! The biggest problem I have encountered is having one day a year with a duplicate time. Attempting to store information based on time fails when there is a duplicate hour. There is also a minor problem when there is an hour missing from the day. I was measuring gas flow and people wanted to know what happened when reports showed no flow that day.
But I lived through the year around DST and it was awful. Sunrise on Dec 21 was 9am!
That's why pretty much every computer uses UTC.
I always chuckle at how people get so affected by just a one hour change.
If you've done frequent international travel you get used to huge changes in time. Fly from Tokyo to LA and you arrive before you took off. However I am making plans to move from Colorado to Arizona, mainly to avoid having to walk and drive on ice part of the year. But another benefit is Arizona's policy of not changing time twice a year.
Yay! Welcome back! Missed your work.
That little presentation could have been a really cool ten minutes in a junior high or high school history/civics class. Always appreciate the depth of research you bring.
Also, awesome shirt! I would totally have worn that on stage 20-odd years ago with my band. 😁
I remember the permanent daylight quite well, we were in class without daylight until after 9 AM.
Let's stay on Standard Time.
I dunno dude. I think most people, like myself, would rather not have sunset before 5 o'clock.
@@MajorOutage unless you live in Alaska, you haven't been a kid going to school and not having daylight till after 9 AM, well after you've been at school. Those of us who live near the 49 parallel remember it quite well.
@@erwinrommel839well then maybe the problem is trying to decide what time zone the entire country should stay in based on your experience in Alaska. You guys can stay on standard time up there, it literally doesn't effect me, but you can please just miss me with that.
@@MajorOutage my experience is living near the Canadian border here in Washington State. ST sunrise at the 49th parallel (Canadian Border) is 8 am on December 21st.
If you live in Arizona, which I did for a couple of years, sunset is nearly 5:30 pm ST on December 21st.
What you don't want is kids waiting in the dark for a school bus.
@@erwinrommel839 why should the entire country base their time management and mental health decisions (season affective disorder is a thing for lots of people) around kids waiting for a bus? I live in New England and work 9-5. I got home yesterday and it was already pitch black. Fuck this noise.
So many shenanigans! I love the local time zone chaos. Thanks for putting this together, Amy!
You are a fellow worshipper of Chaos! Welcome to the coven.
From what I remember, Saskatchewan does not change their clocks at all, they always stay on Standard Time year round,
Before the internet, I never realized how badly losing one hour of sleep per year hurts people.
Also: Amy, can you tell whomever is doing your audio editing now to please be a bit more careful about background versus foreground sound? I'm fairly sure the first part of the video would sound fine with only mid-range speakers attached to my TV (or computer), but with the 3-way units I'm using the background music was overwhelming the sound of your voice.
I'd be happy with staying on the same time year round. It always throws me off for at least a week each time. As it is now. Thanks Amy good to see you here again.
Seriously, it starts to get bright so early in the morning that it throws you off, Daylight Saving makes it better.
@@Jester123ish oh just wait when at 5am the sun is coming up and at 330 pm its getting dark already.
going to be wonderful, listening to all the crying to change it back
@@dvvaughn564 Interesting how there are a lot of countries that got rid of it and pretty much none of them have reintroduced it. How could that be?
@@M4RC90 dont know dont care
yay new video :) I'm for no change in time, but honestly we should stick with standard time and be done with it.
While I can appreciate the difficulty some people have adjusting their internal clocks, ii have little problems adjusting. I would prefer having the equivalence of DST all year long. Spain, for example is “in the wrong time zone”. . . with its geographical location putting it directly south of Greenwich, it stays aligned with France, Belgium, Germany, etc.
Year-round standard time has been shown to be better for our health and daylight saving time has never reduced energy consumption.
And now I learned something new. Thank you!!! All of your stuff gets lost in the algorithm and I hate that. I love your content.
I love the daylight saving hour. Please keep it as it is.
I’m curious has it ever been different for you cause if you have only know and lived daily saving times it’s impossible to be objective about it.
I don't think we're voting on it here.
I thought the house hadn’t passed the sunshine act yet
That is correct.
I recently retired from the railroad....it's really meaningless to us...constantly "jet lagged"
Love the extra hour of daylight in the evenings during summer❤️
From working in the US Congress a big factor for daylight savings time are lobbyist! Groups like the retail and convenience store and recreational company lobbyists were regularly out in the spring promoting daylight savings time.
Hello Amy , I want you to know that I enjoy your content , I grew up in the sixties and seventies. My first love is aviation and I am a bit of an historian too. Continue to do what you do young woman .
I told my employees that our schedule would change twice a year. We opened and closed at the same time regardless of what the clock said. Noon is when the sun is highest. I ran a construction company, the sun was more important than the clock.
For Pete's sake, let us go back to Standard Time year round. If someone wants more daylight hours, they should set their alarm clock and get up earlier. Leave rest of us out of it.
Take a piece of string. Cut it in half. Tie the two ends together. How long is the string?
This annual change in time never made any sense. If you're worried about your kids going to school in the dark, change the hours of school. It's as simple as that. That's the _only_ argument against year-round DST. But I'd be perfectly happy with year-round standard time. Just don't make me change everything twice a year!
Buggrit. Millennium hand and shrimp.
Alaska was 5 time zones when I was in school (70's and 80's); it shifted to a single time zone across the state in the mid 1980s... My father made multiple trips out to Earikson AFB and a few to Adak; this resulted in calling home at very wrong hours. Worse, it more often resulted in calls from the bases looking for him. Now, everyone is on Z+8/Z+9... but they all observed DST... Anchorage is a couple hours off from sidereal time... Late December and early January, kids hit school in darkness, might see the sun at recess, and it sets just before dismissal. Fairbanks, likewise, but for more of the year.
"I love rabbit holes" Best marketing ever. Couldn't find the sub button fast enough.
I'm not sure why USA is still hanging on to Day Light Savings, in this day and age.
Who benefit from this absurdity ?
So many people say that they dislike DST, and then upon further conversation it turns out that they actually wish to make DST permanent (year round). Some are confused, believing that "Daylight Savings Time is in the winter; why would you want to save daylight in the summer?" (
Here to start a petition to add William Willett to the 100 worst monsters in history.
At the time that Benjamin Franklin suggested changing Paris's clocks during the summer Paris was at UTC+0:09:21 or 9 minutes, 21 seconds past Greenwich Mean Time. In 1921 Paris moved to UTC exactly during the winter and UTC+1 during the summer but during WWII the German occupation changed the clocks to UTC+1 in the winter and UTC+2 during the summer to align with Berlin. After the surrender of Germany Paris then went to UTC+1 year-round before returning to the UTC+1/UTC+2 of the war years in 1976. Why they didn't go back to the pre-war UTC/UTC+1 I don't know except perhaps because they didn't want to be on the same time zone as the UK? Oddly Spain which is even further west in places than France is also at UTC+1/UTC+2 with only Portugal maintaining the same time zone as the UK.
I stopped noticing Daylight Saving when i stop having changing any clocks.
Spring dst gives most people imsomia and can’t fall asleep easily and it happens to me too and most kids have impacted school 🏫 performance and sometimes get to school late accidentally after spring dst and adults get to work late ⏰ on accident too,kids also accidentally miss the school 🏫 bus 🚌 and some night owl persons accidentally stay awake after sunrise and stay awake for up to a hour
I've never understood the energy saving aspect of daylight saving time, certainly not year round. If daylight saving time were used in the winter, people would indeed have an extra hour of daylight in the evening, but they would have an extra hour of darkness in the morning, getting up in the coldest part of the day and heating their homes for an extra hour at that time.
It was based on candles and oil lamps. Franklin proposed it in the 18th century as well as several English and French lie in bed gentlemen that seldom rose till 9 or 10AM. Most non city homes were still on lamps in the 20s, and some counties weren't electrified till 1960.
Today most businesses and many homes burn lights all day and night...central heat/ac is on 24x7 regardless. Waterheaters as well.
Great to see you back on YT!! Great to learn more about the history of Daylight Savings Time and hopefully it'll all be over soon :D
The UK put the clocks back 10 days ago and I'm still waking up at the wrong time. It's destroying my ability to do my job.
Daylight savings time has never made sense to me because we don't control how much daylight there is, leave daylight savings alone and go back to normal. Just simply get up earlier if you want to be out in the daylight longer
" I like rabbit holes" is a beautiful tag line!
It's a nightmare in programming and databases too - even after all these years of progress in computing, multi-nationals messing up local DST is super common. Many places don't have such a thing and native programmers make no allowances for it.
Yeah, it is rough on me too. Not to mention the way it messes with the cat and dogs in my house.
cats dont run dst. feed me right meow!
Canada has already passed the laws to stop it, but it won't take effect until the US does it at the same time.
With modern clocks it would be pretty easy to make a DST time that changes automatically every day. Just have sunrise set to be 6am on the eastern edge of each time zone set to the mid-latitude of the country. So, the sun would rise between 6 am and 7 am every day depending on how far west from the edge of the time zone. The biggest issue is it would make old clocks that can't be updated obsolete. I actually experimented with this idea for a few years myself. At least as far as my bedtime schedule goes. The daily change is pretty much unnoticeable. I stopped doing it because I work, and it's easier to get things done when my free time is a solid block rather than a few hours in the morning and then few hours in the evening. If had a job that could have adjusted to my schedule, I'd still be doing it.
Here's the other problem with trying to set 6AM to be sunrise: There's a big difference in when "sunrise" happens throughout the year and it changes every single day. So clocks would need to automatically adjust every day. Throw in the difference in sunrise times between the northern end of the boundary and the south, and people in those places will be off close to an hour anyway compared to the "mid-latitude" marking point
@@almostfm Setting automatically was sorta the point. There is a big difference between north and south, especially in the US, but probably smaller than the multiple hour differences we would get with sticking only with DT or ST. Where I live for instance, the sun would come up at 4am in late June if DST was not observed. That's at least two hours of lost daylight for most people.
You miss that young children and animals follow the daylight - before the spring/summer time change this year my almost 3yo daughter was approaching 5am wake ups because the sun was up then. We were relieved in the first weekend of October (for us in Southern hemisphere) when the time change made that 6am instead. Ask any parent switch they prefer....
Here is a novel idea. Since we live in the 21st century and damn near all time keeping is digital, why doesn't some smart pencil necked geek come up with Digital Time Keeping? Instead of doing a gross block of time adjustment twice a year, match the clocks to the actual tilt of the planet? Lose, or gain, a minute or two over a long period of time matching the actual rise and setting of the sun?
LOVED this post, Amy! Learned a ton about this super-annoying law that I hope goes away soon. Keep up the great work and research!
As a resident of Maine; I have been of the mind to have Maine set their clocks so that they run 1/2 hour AHEAD of the US East Coast & 1/2 hour BEHIND Atlantic Canada (as that is where much of our trade is conducted.
A mess? Yes. A disaster? Hardly.
I have ALWAYS hated the time change
TTYD background music is such a vibe.
I’m a big proponent of permanent DST. Would be nice to have a little light after getting off of work in the winter.
Halloween is a bit of an odd one because trick or treating doesn’t start here until it gets dark.
In QLD Australia we don't have day light savings, and thats the way I like it, but in other states they do, I have never been a fan of it.
Arizona doesn't have DST either. It does mean us Arizonans flip-flop between Mountain and Pacific time zones.
As for disruption, I still get a regular dose of that. I work a 2PM to 10PM shift, but quarterly training is only held on day shift, 6AM-2PM. At least my job doesn't insist rotating shifts regularly anymore.
I've been saying for years we don't lose one hour, we lose at least 3. And even this way, I don't like it. I'm up at 2 o'clock in the morning wanting to make coffee because my body just cannot go to bed "on time"
I'm an old lady and my body has never gotten used to it. I hate both time changes.
Hi how are you. Greetings from California. Hope you’re safe from the covid. Have a good week and stay safe 😃😘 Scott
Coming from AZ where we do not change times to MN where we do I must say is one of THE dumbest man made ideas ever. Meanwhile the Sunshine Protection Act sits idling in the House of Representatives….zzzzz…
In 2007 when they extended it, I stopped "falling back," and have stayed on DST since March 2007! I sleep like a baby and I'm just an hour early to work in the fall/winter time!
It is completely incomprehensible why the farmers should bother to check what the clock displays when the cows needs milking in the morning or they can start harvesting the crop. That must be an argument some tabloid-crooks cooked up to shift papers. Farmers surely know how to work and judge when work that needs doing can be done.
Omg yes. This need to go away!
Messes me up for weeks.
I'm seriously considering just not observing DST in the UK.
Waking up in the middle of the night and it's the middle of the day is annoying
Very informative indeed. A great video. 😎👍
I love the daylight savings time. Who cares if you go to work in darkness. So long as you have some daylight after work!
You didn’t mention that here in Saskatchewan we don’t have time changes either.
I find it vaguely disquieting when solar noon isn't within an hour of clock noon. Even without DST shifts, too many time zones have way too much longitudinal spread.
The extra hour of sunlight fades my curtains, and makes the cows give sour milk....
I like DST because it gives me an extra hour of sunlight after work. During standard time, it's dark by the time I'm off.