Daylight Savings time tonight.

[Bee1971]

Same In WI

 

[33 IMP]

No change here in Arizona. Won't have to change till I go back to california.

 

[PlymCrazy]

If anything has changed, it would be news to me. Planning on the usual "set back" come November 6th here in NY.

 

[Ranger16]

My understanding is that the Senate passed it, but the House hasn't yet taken it up. At very least we will change to CST next Sun. (11/6), and then back to DST next spring ............and hopefully stay there.

 

[69a100]

Apparently next year Ontario, New York and Michigan will no longer be changing the clocks.

We don't care about you Canooks!

 

[69Bee]

In AZ, we got it right in '68 by not observing DST any more. I really don't care is the US gets rid of DST, BUT y'all need to revert to the normal time and not stay on permanent DST like the bill stipulated. I had thought the law passed, so I am happy it hasn't because I thought we were going to be stuck on "KommieFornia" time unless we change our law.

 

[themechanic]

In AZ, we got it right in '68 by not observing DST any more. I really don't care is the US gets rid of DST, BUT y'all need to revert to the normal time and not stay on permanent DST like the bill stipulated. I had thought the law passed, so I am happy it hasn't because I thought we were going to be stuck on "KommieFornia" time unless we change our law.

The big argument for keeping DST is about school kids waiting for the bus in the dark. Has this been a problem in Arizona?

Most kids around here are chauffered by their families to and from school.

 

[69Bee]

The big argument for keeping DST is about school kids waiting for the bus in the dark. Has this been a problem in Arizona?

Most kids around here are chauffered by their families to and from school.

Never heard that excuse before really, but just sounds like more BS to change things. When I grew up, not to mention for kids all over the world, we have gotten up and waited for a bus in the dark, and come home almost dark too. Some places further away from the equator, it is even darker later and earlier. In spring and summer, not as much. We do not change, and in the summer here, it starts to get light about 4-4:30am. Like I said, if y'all want to get rid of it, fine, you need to go to non-DST time. Just because you finally realize that it isn't necessary anymore (more light for farming), don't penalize us for figuring it out back in '68...

 

[Dennis H]

My Calendar says not until November 6. Jesus Chrysler.

 

[440 4 speed]

We have been on Central time for at least 60 years, so are consistent We don’t fall back or spring foreword. Works for us.

 

[69Bee]

We have been on Central time for at least 60 years, so are consistent We don’t fall back or spring foreword. Works for us.

Ummm, NO! All 48 states observe DST, just not AZ & HI. That means the other 48 move forward and back every year, even you...

EDIT, Never mind, you are in Canuky land. Y'all have your own rules...

 

[Brandy]

Ummm, NO! All 48 states observe DST, just not AZ & HI. That means the other 48 move forward and back every year, even you...

Um, he's in Canada?

 

[69Bee]

Um, he's in Canada?

I know, I edited while you were posting. I looked where he was at as soon as I hit the send button.

 

[33 IMP]

I have gotten into arguments when I say that Arizona is on year-round daylight saving time. Some say that since we don't change , we are, by definition, on standard time.
I say that since we are on the same time as california during the summer, when they are on daylight savings, and DONT change when they fall back to standard time, how are we not on daylight saving year round? I don't care what the name is, I only care about the effect..... we get an hour more daylight in the afternoon than california does, two miles away.

 

[Budnicks]

My Calendar says not until November 6. Jesus Chrysler.

mine too...

 

[69Bee]

I have gotten into arguments when I say that Arizona is on year-round daylight saving time. Some say that since we don't change , we are, by definition, on standard time.
I say that since we are on the same time as california during the summer, when they are on daylight savings, and DONT change when they fall back to standard time, how are we not on daylight saving year round? I don't care what the name is, I only care about the effect..... we get an hour more daylight in the afternoon than california does, two miles away.

When everyone else goes on DST in the spring, they move ahead one hour. That means that the "Pacific" time zone comes to us in the MTN time zone. Everyone else thinks that they are still in their timezone, which technically they are, but their clocks have been advanced to match the time zone to the East of them. Then, when they go back to STD time, they once again move their clocks back one hour. Their time zones haven't changed, just their relationship to the "Space Time Continuum" and AZ have changed. Our time in AZ is static and is in the STD time condition. Hope that splains it Lucy...

 

[Budnicks]

I personally, I would like it to be light later always
that BS when it's dark at 4:30 pm PST is total BS

now that I'm retired I don't really care either
I rarely wear a watch even now

some people are slaves to the clocks (&/or their cell phones too)
govt. mandates

I'd rather they put it forward again
& leave it that way

I was always up before 'the sunrise' anyway,
when I worked &/or went to school

I stood at a bus stop for years in the dark
I walked to school in the dark, rode my bike or drove in the dark too
didn't hurt me any
Reasoning;
doing for the kids 'is horseshit', always has been, just an excuse
to empose compliance/govt. power
most lil' kids/younger children go to/attend school later too/anyway

farmers 'don't give a ****' what time it is, (none that I know anyway)
daylight saving or even STD time or not, especially early AM
they get up when they need to & go out to work regardless
of what the damn clock or govt. says
they go to bed accordingly also

 

[themechanic]

My Calendar says not until November 6. Jesus Chrysler.

Saw it on the 9-day weather report. I didn't notice which date.

 

[WileE]

This ridiculous, outdated, nonsense practice should be terminated immediately. Set the time on the DST, and maintain that in perpetuity. ( I just agreed with myself in post #6 )

 

[Photon440]

We don't care about you Canooks!

If you understood business, you'd realize the importance of having the same time zone as your neighbour across the lake. Ontario does $60 Billion in trade with Michigan and New York each year and it's unlikely that they'd make time zone changes without everyone in agreement. Similarly, British Columbia will probably make no changes unless Washington, Oregon and California do likewise at the same time.