Daylight Savings Time. A poll.

[GroverCleveland]

yes thats a no vote or no thats a yes vote?

Yes.

 

[jmacvols1]

Yes.

right.

 

[StarRaider]

my dumbarse got trapped in a newhart episode

 

[MOOOOONEY]

yeah but this is STD time

You Should never mess with a burner.

try some blue ointment.

 

[kiddiedoc]

I enjoy there being at least a little daylight remaining by the time I get home from the office. Give me DST year-round.

 

[Sea Ray]

I enjoy there being at least a little daylight remaining by the time I get home from the office. Give me DST year-round.

This is why I voted the way I did. I wish a choice like yours here had been offered

 

[jmacvols1]

What is 'half-daylight saving time'? See what this bill proposes.

The proposed bill could do away with daylight saving time as we know it.

www.yahoo.com

"The latest attempt comes from Rep. Greg Steube, R-Florida, in the form of The Daylight Act of 2026. Introduced to Congress earlier this month, the bill proposes doing away with daylight saving as we know it and splitting the difference. Instead of a twice-yearly change of one hour each time, it would shift U.S. time zones forward 30 minutes from the current standard time and leave them there permanently."

 

[DinkinFlicka]

"Time is ****ing dumb" was my write in.

 

[SquirrelOrange3]

It makes Americans look like we're the type of people who would cut 15 inches off the top of our blankets, sew that onto the bottom of our blankets, and actually believe it makes our blankets longer.

 

[StarRaider]

standard time has a tweeter account

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I don’t get why the farmers can’t ignore the clock and just get up an hour earlier in the summer.

 

[StarRaider]

I don’t get why the farmers can’t ignore the clock and just get up an hour earlier in the summer.

because the cows like to golf in the evening after the last milking

and it is going to suck this Sunday morning but it will be fun to see who is late to church

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

because the cows like to golf in the evening after the last milking

and it is going to suck this Sunday morning but it will be fun to see who is late to church

Last call Saturday night will be 2am instead of 3am.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

"Time is ****ing dumb" was my write in.

Do any of your employees know that?

 

[OrangeTsar]

Standard time year round. Noon in the middle of the daylight part of the day; the logical basis of all timekeeping.

 

[LouderVol]

Standard time year round. Noon in the middle of the daylight part of the day; the logical basis of all timekeeping.
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you realize we wouldn't have 24 hour days in that case, right? we would lose almost 4 minutes from each day with that standard.

 

[McDad]

you realize we wouldn't have 24 hour days in that case, right? we would lose almost 4 minutes from each day with that standard.

I am trying to figure this out. But I am at a loss.

Can you show your math?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I am trying to figure this out. But I am at a loss.

Can you show your math?

One Earth rotation takes 23 hours, 56 minute, and 4 seconds.

 

[McDad]

One Earth rotation takes 23 hours, 56 minute, and 4 seconds.

Ok. I am with you. Here's where I am lost:
We use a 24 hour clock. That clock is "off" by 3 min 56 seconds each day. And it is "off" whether we are on standard time or on dst.

why would assigning the high point of the sun every day as 12:00 noon be different?

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Ok. I am with you. Here's where I am lost:
We use a 24 hour clock. That clock is "off" by 3 min 56 seconds each day. And it is "off" whether we are on standard time or on dst.

why would assigning the high point of the sun every day as 12:00 noon be different?

That’s a question for Neil deGrasse Tyson. It makes my head hurt. But the 3 minute 56 second shortage is why we have leap years.

 

[LouderVol]

Ok. I am with you. Here's where I am lost:
We use a 24 hour clock. That clock is "off" by 3 min 56 seconds each day. And it is "off" whether we are on standard time or on dst.

why would assigning the high point of the sun every day as 12:00 noon be different?

Neither Standard time nor DST would keep the sun at high noon except for maybe 1 day, but I doubt it. that is the reason we have other adjustments, to correct for that time difference.

either we would need to adjust the relative time of "noon" each day while keeping a 24hr day, accept the 23hr 56min and 4 second "day" and adjust our hours accordingly, or we end up with leap days/years and the sun pretty much never directly overhead at 12 noon which is the current solution.

 

[McDad]

That’s a question for Neil deGrasse Tyson. It makes my head hurt. But the 3 minute 56 second shortage is why we have leap years.

LOL. I was actually thinking that same thing.

Here's another head scratcher...we add almost 4 minutes to our rotation. our solution to the daily added minutes is to add a full day once every 4 years. Seems like we should subtract a full day once a year to correct the overage.

 

[McDad]

Neither Standard time nor DST would keep the sun at high noon except for maybe 1 day, but I doubt it. that is the reason we have other adjustments, to correct for that time difference.

either we would need to adjust the relative time of "noon" each day while keeping a 24hr day, accept the 23hr 56min and 4 second "day" and adjust our hours accordingly, or we end up with leap days/years and the sun pretty much never directly overhead at 12 noon which is the current solution.

I am sorry. I still don't understand.

You don't have to keep trying if you don't want to. I think I may just have a mental blind spot on the discussion.

 

[StarRaider]

That’s a question for Neil deGrasse Tyson. It makes my head hurt. But the 3 minute 56 second shortage is why we have leap years.

as the Time Industrial Complex wants it

 

[LouderVol]

LOL. I was actually thinking that same thing.

Here's another head scratcher...we add almost 4 minutes to our rotation. our solution to the daily added minutes is to add a full day once every 4 years. Seems like we should subtract a full day once a year to correct the overage.

There are multiple levels to the adjustments. not every 4 years do we get a leap day, according to wiki its every 100 years we DON'T add a leap day. but we do every 400 years.

exceptions on exceptions.

Leap year - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

it boils down to the astronomical rotation of the planet doesn't line up cleanly with any way of "scheduling" time anyone currently has. and it happens on such a scale it doesn't make sense to adjust everyday life for something that won't happen in your kids, kids, kids......, kids lifetime.