Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:36:56 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f9e6765ec3c8fed93c8e628a2834137a"; logging-data="4017346"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/TdABIkj1I5Hv+6LK7ck9F3hXI4aNcicE=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wdSU1qZOb0Tmd4Cuewq3/XH2QLM= On 2024-03-11 08:02:34 +0000, trotsky said: > On 3/10/24 9:13 AM, FPP wrote: >> On 3/9/24 11:22 PM, Your Name wrote: >>> On 2024-03-09 23:53:23 +0000, super70s said: >>> >>>> In article , >>>>  "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >>>> >>>>> It is that time of year to discuss the start of Daylight Saving Time. >>>>> It's not "Savings". >>>> >>>> And it's sure not energy savings either, especially with the entire >>>> globe warming up. They can't wait for the sun to go down in Arizona. >>>> >>>>> Hawaii remains on standard time year round. This makes sense given how >>>>> close they are to the equator. >>>> >>>> And how far away they are from the mainland. >>>> >>>>> Dependencies American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marina >>>>> Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands, and the US Virgin Islands do not >>>>> observe Daylight Saving Time. >>>>> >>>>> That brings us to the wackiness that is Arizona. Arizona observes >>>>> Standard Time year round but does not control commerce in the Indian >>>>> reservations. The multi-state Navajo Nation observes Daylight Saving >>>>> Time, but the Hopi reservation, entirely surrounded by the Navajo >>>>> Nation, does not observe Daylight Saving Time. There are alternating >>>>> bits of land in which tribal jurisdiction changes, for much confusion. >>>> >>>> Far as I'm concerned Standard Time should be observed all year long, >>>> everywhere. Things seem to be going in the wrong direction. >>> >>> Yep, Dumbass Stupid Time needs to be abolished worlwide. It's a relic >>> of the past and wasn't even wanted nor useful then either. Just the >>> usual idiot politician who came up with an inane idea and forced it on >>> everyone else.  :-\ >>> >>> >> >> Then let's put it to a vote!  Every year I suggest this, and every year >> the Standard Time Lovers reject the idea. >> >> Why is that?  I mean if it's so useless and unpopular, there shouldn't >> be an issue leaving it up to voters, right? > > > This is the same shit over and over and over: "We yearn for the good > old days when there was no "Savings Time" and women were barefoot and > pregnant in the kitchen and frozen embryos were people." Sure, that > shit makes a ton of sense. Savings time has been around for as long as I remember and I'm old. They did lengthen it several years ago and now you have kids trick or treating while the sun is still up.