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Thought Californians voted to end time changes 2 years ago.  No more fall back.🙄 

 
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Let's do it.   One of my favorite days.   Extra hour of daylight in the evening. 
Weather lady on the news today mentioned "an extra hour of daylight starting tomorrow." I was thinking, no, it's the exact same amount of daylight, it just begins and ends an hour later. Made me wonder if she was just making idle chatter or was really that stupid. 

 
We voted to remain daylight savings time and to not fall back in Nov. They're always talking about how bad it is for your health yet for whatever reason it hasn't changed. 

 
We voted to remain daylight savings time and to not fall back in Nov. They're always talking about how bad it is for your health yet for whatever reason it hasn't changed. 
I don't get the health thing.    I go to bed around 1030 every night and get up at 530.  Last weekend we had friends in town and I went to bed at 2am one night at 3am the next night.  Does that have any impact on my health for the next week?

 
Arizona where I live is about the only place that gets this right. Time to do away with it.

 
We voted to remain daylight savings time and to not fall back in Nov. They're always talking about how bad it is for your health yet for whatever reason it hasn't changed. 
Florida voted to stay on DST in 2018, but thanks to Congress' inability to do anything, we have to deal with this crap again.

 
I don't get the health thing.    I go to bed around 1030 every night and get up at 530.  Last weekend we had friends in town and I went to bed at 2am one night at 3am the next night.  Does that have any impact on my health for the next week?
Here's my understanding mixed in with thoughts. Quality of sleep and not quantity is key as part of good health mentally, emotionaly and physically. Your brain, your heart, your body needs to rest and recharge so it's ready to gear up full steam again the next day. This going back and forth for even an hour disrupts your circadian rhythm, which can take up to a few days to adjust. For those who don't get quality sleep to begin with, changing the time leads to even more disruption in their circadian rhythm because of the hours there is light has changed. For some, no worries. They get quality of sleep. For others who don't or are at risks for heart attack or stroke, this may be a concern for them.

I'm guessing the reason for these 2 conditions increasing a bit as the circadian rhythm adjusts is because the heart and brain work harder (both are under stress more) and so adequate quality sleep is especially mportant for these organs. I can't find exactly why but this seems logical to me. So that's my thought.

 
Our 4 month long national nightmare is over. Now there will be enough daylight after work to actually do something.

 
Completely unaware that this was happening last night. Woke up at 7 and was baffled at how dark it was. :bag:  

 
Weather lady on the news today mentioned "an extra hour of daylight starting tomorrow." I was thinking, no, it's the exact same amount of daylight, it just begins and ends an hour later. Made me wonder if she was just making idle chatter or was really that stupid. 
Usable daylight is what most people mean. 

 
Usable daylight is what most people mean. 
I'm up at 6:00 every morning, so once again, no change for me. What's really odd is it was the morning news lady who said she is up by some ungodly hour like 2:30 every morning. If anything, she lost an hour. But perhaps that was indeed her thought. If so, she probably should have simply said so instead of making the statement she did and leaving us to wonder.

 
Weather lady on the news today mentioned "an extra hour of daylight starting tomorrow." I was thinking, no, it's the exact same amount of daylight, it just begins and ends an hour later. Made me wonder if she was just making idle chatter or was really that stupid. 
Technically this is not true either, assuming you don't live near the equator

 
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Our 4 month long national nightmare is over. Now there will be enough daylight after work to actually do something.
Could have had it all along if they just keep it where it is and stop ####### changing it.

So stupid.  Just stupid.  I cant believe this is still a thing.

 
Could have had it all along if they just keep it where it is and stop ####### changing it.

So stupid.  Just stupid.  I cant believe this is still a thing.
CA (and myself) voted to change it. I believe the amendment passed, but I have no idea what happened after the vote in 2018.

Same people would be complaining how dark it is at 7:30 in the morning if we kept it dst. 
Nothing will make everyone happy, but I am sure more people would prefer time in the afternoon with daylight to do things rather than have more light driving to work.

 
Nothing will make everyone happy, but I am sure more people would prefer time in the afternoon with daylight to do things rather than have more light driving to work.
Very true.

Also true that any sort of change back and forth is just idiotic.

 
CA (and myself) voted to change it. I believe the amendment passed, but I have no idea what happened after the vote in 2018.

Nothing will make everyone happy, but I am sure more people would prefer time in the afternoon with daylight to do things rather than have more light driving to work.
Polling suggests this is incorrect. 

40% want standard time

30% want dst

30% want it as is. 

According to that story. 

 
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Technically this is not true either, assuming you don't live near the equator
I'd love to hear your explanation for this statement. I didn't say today had just as much daylight as yesterday, or as much as tomorrow will. I'm saying if we had 7:14 of sunlight today, that we'd have 7:14 of sunlight no matter what time you set the clock too, so long as you didn't artificially force it past midnight.

 
I'd love to hear your explanation for this statement. I didn't say today had just as much daylight as yesterday, or as much as tomorrow will. I'm saying if we had 7:14 of sunlight today, that we'd have 7:14 of sunlight no matter what time you set the clock too, so long as you didn't artificially force it past midnight.
Gotcha.  I didn't read it that way initially and was just being a sarcastic jerk.  Don't mind me...

 
Also live in AZ where it doesn't matter.....except im in favor of the fall back times during football season. I prefer to be in MST over PST for game start times. Everything starts too early the first half of the season.

Unrelated but I was awake last night pretty late and ended up walking the dog at like 130am. Between the street lights and the bright moon it was pretty light outside. Also the fresh air was fantastic.

 
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if i had a vote here in NJ - I would vote to stay DST....

I love having light until 8:30 in the summer

 
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How about this Fall we just fall back 30 minutes and keep it that way?  Compromise.  It would probably be chaos for a couple days while people struggle with the math, but they could make the change late on a Friday night to give people a couple more days to figure it out.

 
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How about this Fall we just fall back 30 minutes and keep it that way?  Compromise.  It would probably be chaos for a couple days while people struggle with the math, but they could make the change late on a Friday night to give people a couple more days to figure it out.
How about we keep it the way it is now?  Much prefer light later in the day than early in the morning.

 
Weather lady on the news today mentioned "an extra hour of daylight starting tomorrow." I was thinking, no, it's the exact same amount of daylight, it just begins and ends an hour later. Made me wonder if she was just making idle chatter or was really that stupid. 
You must be fun at parties. I think its obvious what she was getting at. 

 

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