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Here's a thought. How about that instead of switching 1 hour twice a year, we move standard time ahead 1/2 hour and leave it there! end of problem!
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2384774)

It is done for a good purpose - to allow School Children to be safe as they walk or bus to SCHOOL. I am sorry that I have to write about something so OBVIOUS.

Umm. Not so obvious, imho. Depends on where you live as to how many hours of daylight you location gets. In far north the sun may not rise at all. DST is meaningless if there is little to no daylight at all. ???

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2384994)

Here's a thought. How about that instead of switching 1 hour twice a year, we move standard time ahead 1/2 hour and leave it there! end of problem!
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I have been saying this for years. Too simple a fix???

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 2385165)

I have been saying this for years. Too simple a fix???

Great minds think alike!

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Originally Posted by asianthree (Post 2384493)

When will this torture end... Even our cat has difficulty with feeding schedule....

I don't change. I stay on DST. I also do not change the feeding time of my dog. The phone/other digital things change, so I do know what time it is, which is only needed for appointments or other meetings. I've been doing it this way for decades. No torture.

As I remember, Florida passed a bill setting DST as the permanent time. The US Senate also passed it. The US House did not.

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Originally Posted by JoMar (Post 2385388)

As I remember, Florida passed a bill setting DST as the permanent time. The US Senate also passed it. The US House did not.

Did not remember but it sent me googling. Found this. reuters.com

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2384986)

Oh, great! We show up for a morning dip and there you are, floating face down in the pool. What a great start to our day! How could you be so selfish. If you're gonna drown, do it at home so we don't have to look at your bloated, naked body. Midnight dip? You would be skinny dipping. Admit it! 😠🤬😖

Wouldn’t be the first time a floater was found in one of TVs pools. Last one was only a few years ago.

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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2384777)

You are very lucky. You can accomplish a lot more than the average person that needs 8 hours of sleep. I wish that I could do that. I sleep for 9 hours many nights because I wake up to go to the bathroom every 3 hours. Therefore I never make it to the deep type of sleep like you are experiencing. And no - the change of daylight savings time did NOT affect me. I am messed up either way.

For 45 plus years it was great. 30 straight days of call was easy, sick kids, no problem. Grocery at midnight was pure bliss. One can fill 20 hours a day easily working 50-60 hour weeks.

After I returned (retired for 7 days) to work my Covid 2 year stint, decided to try retirement again.
We don’t have 24/7 gyms, grocery, to fill 20 mind numbing hours.

If I run at midnight CC will always stop and ask if you are OK, until they get to know you. I can read a book a day easily, but here the thing, when you have a spouse that sleeps 8-10 hours a day. You are basically trying to find ways to accomplish things that don’t require lights or noise.
Now I understand why my dad worked into his 80s. Money wasn’t the driving point but it was filling the 20 hours of awake time.

It has been brought to my attention that my dad in his mid 70s started sleeping only 3 hours. Have contacted his 2 living brothers to see if they reduced sleep time later in life. This may be the key it’s not daylight saving time, but REM is moving to the next chapter.

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Originally Posted by JoMar (Post 2385388)

As I remember, Florida passed a bill setting DST as the permanent time. The US Senate also passed it. The US House did not.

Maybe they can get it together next year. Let's give them a push.

Prescription medicine dictates my sleep cycle, so I'm completely unaffected by the time changes. I sleep anywhere between 6-8 hours, as long as I take my zolpidem. If I take it at 3 in the afternoon, I'm asleep by 3:40, and stay asleep for at least 6 hours.

Chronic insomnia stinks. But medicated chronic insomnia is bliss.

How about if we change 10 minutes a week, starting six Saturdays from the full cutover?

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Originally Posted by buzzy (Post 2385602)

How about if we change 10 minutes a week, starting six Saturdays from the full cutover?

😶😟😳😱 One for the rubber room! And double lock on the door, OK!

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2385605)

😶😟😳😱 One for the rubber room! And double lock on the door, OK!

Too funny!

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Originally Posted by Bay Kid (Post 2385465)

Maybe they can get it together next year. Let's give them a push.

I ain't touching them! You don't know where they've been!

Ewww!

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2385908)

I ain't touching them! You don't know where they've been!

Ewww!

Some in the swamp.

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2384994)

Here's a thought. How about that instead of switching 1 hour twice a year, we move standard time ahead 1/2 hour and leave it there! end of problem!
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Seems like an easy fix but I realized we would be a half hour off from most of the world. When traveling internationally, that would be difficult.

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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2387075)

Seems like an easy fix but I realized we would be a half hour off from most of the world. When traveling internationally, that would be difficult.

Wtong! They would be half an hour off from us! Simple mater of perspective.

Or, we could ask England to relocate Greenwich an appropriate distance to the east. That shouldn't be a problem.

It now gets dark at 5:00 PM, which I don’t care for. Personal opinion.