Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:09:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:09:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="77728392e6969dc542c9c976a3a7b41b"; logging-data="2909604"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+H+1RSPPfZFjuGk5qeJtAAaDSMv5qBu/w=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:bKU1rapxoYwLqAewL8wT/2h27SM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3020 BTR1701 wrote: >In article , > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > >> super70s wrote: >> >"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. >> >> I agree. > >I haven't seen the standard flurry of news reports warning how changing >the clock one hour two times a year leads to heart attacks, strokes, and >all manner of health problems. > >Seems to me if that was the case then the millions of people who fly >across time zones and have to change their clocks three, four, even >eight hours at a time, we'd have bodies dropping like flies all over the >globe. I'm in more danger from errant automobile drivers as I've lost my early morning daylight. But yes, I've managed to cross into the Eastern Time Zone without dropping dead.