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Old 04-24-2022, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by charmed59 View Post
I’m worried that permanent DST would take away activity availability during the high season.

Let’s start with golf.

Right now the first tee time is pretty much at sunrise. If sunrise is 7:30 the first tee time is 7:30. If sunrise is 8:20, like it would be in January if we kept DST year round, the first tee time is 50 minutes later. Happy hour still starts at 5pm. We just lose those 6 morning tee times on every course every day. For those counting, that’s 240 executive course tee times lost per day.

Now let’s move on to Pickleball. Open play pickle ball is from sunrise to 10am. As far as I can tell this is when the serious advanced pickleballers play. At 10am courts start being designated by level so beginner or advanced beginner can find their folks. Some courts are reserved for leagues starting at 10am. So year round DST will shorten open play to 90 minutes in the high season.

DST doesn’t add more daylight, it just steals it from the morning and adds it to the evening. If you like evening activities it helps. If you like morning outdoor activities it takes away an hour.
Agree…

Actually open play pickleball starts at 8 to 10 am and courts are closed until 7am do to the noise in certain areas.

I’m retired so time or time changes really don’t affect me.