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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 <usiho3$2gr6i$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>  "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> 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.