Daylight Saving Time--Yea or Nay

[NM5TF]

what is your opinion of Daylight Saving Time.....for it or against it ???

there seems to be several movements afoot to stay on Standard Time all year.....

my personal opinion is as follows...

[WZ7U]

Yeah, [redacted] changing. Leave it in DST and quit moving it around.

[KG4CGC]

I prefer Daylight Time year round vs Standard Time.
But you know what?
Who cares?
dit dit

[PA5COR]

Scrap it, my internal clock needs a week to adjust....

[kb2vxa]

Funny, I thought my fellow hams would agree with me, stay on ST because in North America it starts with Atlantic GMT-4, and ends with Pacific GMT-8, count your time zones. Changing to DT messes up the progression with those areas that don't change and really confuses Amateurs who at least SHOULD operate in GMT (fuk the French with UT and metric). GMT is Amateur Radio Time round the world, why be different and confuse them? Why do you think WWV broadcasts in GMT? I agree with a statement attributed to an unnamed American Indian: "Only the White Man's government would cut a foot off the top of a blanket, and sew it to the bottom thinking he has a bigger blanket." Have you forgotten why it was originally called railroad time? How can you keep a schedule without a standard... standard time?

So there you have it, my usual $2 worth. (;->)

[kb2crk]

Keep it standard time.

[N8YX]

Let me sleep on this.

[n6hcm]

daylight time all year round. there's no good reason to switch back and forth (and, tbh, it's not clear there ever *was* a good reason to do this).

[KG4CGC]

daylight time all year round. there's no good reason to switch back and forth (and, tbh, it's not clear there ever *was* a good reason to do this).

Farmers. 1800's. Now it's just tradition and "just the way it's always been."

[N8YX]

Farmers.
Bullshit.

(That's what a farmer puts on their strawberries...)

[KG4CGC]

Bullshit.

(That's what a farmer puts on their strawberries...)

You're right. It was for the Allied effort to win the war against the Communist Horde.

[kb2vxa]

No, actually the only reason that makes sense to me was the German effort in WW1 to save fuel for the war effort. They were not the first, Shelagh was right, BLAME CANADA! On July 1, 1908, the residents of Port Arthur, Ontario, today's Thunder Bay, turned their clocks forward by one hour to start the world's first DST period. Then there is the endless debate, money out of our pockets financing studies. Here are some pros and cons, (the pros are scientists and the cons are politicians as if you haven't figured that out for yourselves): https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html

[ad4mg]

Changing the clocks twice a year sucks ass. :angry:

[PA5COR]

Most my clocks are radio controlled, so they take care of that themselves...

[kb2vxa]

"Changing the clocks twice a year sucks ass."
I was wondering what that was, I thought I had diarrhea.

"Most my clocks are radio controlled, so they take care of that themselves..."
At my next to last QTH I had an "atomic clock" tuned to WWVB on 60KHz that worked fine until CongrASS mucked with the change dates, then it went wonky. Since the White Man's government lacks the wisdom of the Tribal Elders resewing the blanket reverted to manual.

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