Re: Permanent Daylight Savings Time
Posted: March 15 22, 10:24 pm
Fantastic. Let's get it signed.
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The downside, especially for the northern most states (as well as those just on the wrong side of the time zone lines), is there is increased energy consumption in the morning as businesses open an hour 'earlier' in the darkness and an increased safety risk for kids walking to school...though, not sure how many kids still do that and/or if darkness is as dangerous as it was back then.By August, though, as the Watergate scandal caused the Nixon administration to crumble, the country was ready to move on from its clock experiments. While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported. Seven days after President Nixon resigned, US Senator Bob Dole of Kansas introduced an amendment in August that would end the DST experiment. It passed.
Make up your mind, farmers!
Oh man that's terrible.ghostrunner wrote: ↑March 22 22, 9:18 amI just find it so hard to believe that many people flipped on it. I do believe it since it obviously happened, but - what were they expecting? I can conceive of it being dark at 8:45 in the morning and its not great but I'll take it over the alternative.
I get the issue with kids. That's a tough one. We actually just had a kid killed here at a bus stop right after the time change. Hit by two cars and one of them fled the screne. 6 years old. Mom was in the hospital having just given birth again. No idea if it would've happened in the daylight or even how dark it was at the time - supposedly he just ran out in the road but this is all reported by other kids.
That's more confusing than the 60/60/24Popeye_Card wrote: ↑March 23 22, 9:20 amHow have we never developed metric time? There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 100 seconds per minute, 32 minutes per hour, 24 hours in a day.
No. We need a metric minute. Get rid of hours and you just have 864 metric minutes per day.AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote: ↑March 23 22, 9:23 amThat's more confusing than the 60/60/24Popeye_Card wrote: ↑March 23 22, 9:20 amHow have we never developed metric time? There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 100 seconds per minute, 32 minutes per hour, 24 hours in a day.