Time change : Fall back 1 hr

Personally I'd prefer permanent daylight savings time as it always ensures at least a little bit of sun when I get off work at 5pm. Would give me just enough time to make it over to the park to watch the deer in the evening during the winter.

CMP70306: Interesting point. People in the eastern part of a time zone will have early mornings and short evenings, while those in the western part will have just the opposite. So if you want long evenings, move to the westernmost point in your time zone.

epoletna said:

CMP70306: Interesting point. People in the eastern part of a time zone will have early mornings and short evenings, while those in the western part will have just the opposite. So if you want long evenings, move to the westernmost point in your time zone.

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I'm in eastern PA and my roots are firmly planted here so unfortunately no moving for me.

It was neat when we were out in Montana and sunset was 45 minutes later than at home.

Spent a fair whack of my youth in western alaska, the time zone map basically traces the aleutians so what would be several time zones over is all just the same. It starts being noticeable in late August but really shows up in mid winter. Days are short when north like that, but it was weird to have daylight between 11am and 6 p.m.

We always solved the frustration in circadian rhythms by leaving sodium lights on 24/7 and not sleeping.... worked out great....


Put enough away for college and re started as a sophomore, pretty sure I was a senior before my normal sleep wake cycle normalized.

In the spring move the clock up 30 minutes and leave it alone. Win for everyone.

Living in Saskatchewan, we are only 1 of a very few places that do not change our clocks for daylight savings time. Coming from Manitoba that had it... all I can say is I WISH I could convince people here to go with it. Yes it messes with your system for a couple of days... BUT... if you work you have time to do things after work. You can go for a round of golf after work. Even going fishing you actually have time to go throw the boat in the water. Basically it's that extra hour of daylight.

We had a referendum here years ago and some of the excuses for it were:

I don't know how to set the clock in my truck.

The roosters won't know when to crow.

The cows can't be milked at a different time.

The sun has to be directly over head at noon!!

They say there's more traffic accidents after the time change but I from the stats I've seen (and I work in civil engineering) they are the exact same for every statutory holiday and other reasons to party. St Patrick's day, Halloween, Christmas, etc etc etc

if you get up at 4 am with the sun then good for you. But your probably in bed by 7 pm too. Then it doesn't matter. But if you work a 8 to 5 or worse a 9 to 6 job... by the time you get home... you have to skip supper because the most time you will get is 4 hrs max to do anything.

Now on the flip side... year round day light savings time would in my opinion be a god send!!!! I would kill for it here... but then the chickens wouldn't know when to lay eggs.

Hmmmm... the wife says that there's no point going fishing until the last hour of daylight because that's when the walleye bite. I wonder if we got daylight savings time if the walleye would know the difference????

"That extra hour of sunlight burns up my tomatoes every year."

An actual human said and believed that, sadly