Dealing with my dogs’ adjustments to time
Changes twice a year makes me say, “Keep it to one darn time year round!”
It’s easy to change clocks, etc.
Getting dogs to alter their crate routines etc is what is the challenge. For us at least.
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I seem to remember something about the 1973 experiment-that people hated it?
I think I favor year round standard time, but can live with year round DST.
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Many places are already effectively on permanent daylight time. For example, Alaska is at -9 standard time and -8 daylight time, but most of it is in -10 longitudes (with some in -11 and -9). So its -9 standard time is still like daylight time for much of the state. Around the world, here are some countries that are effectively on daylight time year round:
- Argentina
- Belarus
- Chile (effectively double daylight)
- Dominican Republic
- Gambia
- Guinea
- Iceland
- Liberia
- Namibia
- Paraguay
- Senegal
- Tonga
- Uganda
- Uruguay
I think in the 70’s (at least in CA) we did DST all year long in an attempt to save energy. I just remember going to school in the dark.
Yes…DST time was done in 1973 year round…scroll up. I posted that. It was repealed the following year.
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As an opinion, the stronger legislative case should follow natural law. That is, clock noon should roughly coincide with solar noon, as is the case with standard time. This wouldn’t prohibit individuals and organizations from adjusting their schedules seasonally.
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I know this is not really your point, but I also wanted to note that outside of Europe And North America, few countries change the clocks. With Brazil and Argentina recently dumping DST, Chile and Paraguay join New Zealand, parts of Australia, and parts of the Middle East as the only other major counties that change clicks.
Count me in for year round DST. I love having light longer in the evenings. I already go to work in the dark and the kids already catch the bus in the dark for much of the year.
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Yes, I saw that, but it didn’t say why it was repealed. Do you know specifically what didn’t work for people at that time? Or was it just always intended to be a very temporary measure?
We haven’t changed our clocks in 22 years. That’s one plus for living in AZ. It would be nice not to have to account for DST when trying to figure out what time it is in whichever state we’re trying to call.
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It was intended to be temporary I believe. If I remember correctly - and I was just a kid, so I might not - the objection was the kids walking to the bus stop and waiting for the bus in the dark. I’m also pretty sure in 1973 kids generally walked further to a central bus stop (we were all picked up at the end of the street, unlike most of our kids now who are picked up more or less in front of their houses) and way more kids took the bus (fewer parents drove them). So maybe it’s less of an issue now?
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I’d rather have the extra light at night for sure. I’m going out in the semi dark anyway for pup walking no matter.
But I never understood that peoples
Internal clock is thrown off for the two days it changes. Never bothered my kids when they were young either. My body is sad but not stressed when it changes!
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Don’t forget, the street went uphill both ways too…
Just teasing, yes, kids certainly have it easier these days it seems. Mine get picked up at the end of our driveway and get driven there in the dark.
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The kids down the street from us actually did walk uphill to school both ways (the hill went up & then down between their house & school) - always got a kick out of that!
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I’m mostly upset that if it passes we have to wait until 2023!!!
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My H always had trouble with time changes when he worked. My S has the same issue, and he has had very little sleep since the change this past weekend. It will take time for his body’s rhythm to adjust. He is absolutely hoping that the legislation passes.
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My elementary school was a bit over a half mile away through the streets of a little town. My.mom walked me there when I was in kindergarten. I was on my own in first grade at 5 years old. No real hills on the way though. That was in the mid 70s, it was a different world then.
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Wouldn’t it be similarly easy if AZ was on the same time as all the other mountain time states?
My feeling…just pick a time and stick to it year round.
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Yes, crime was higher and rising in the mid-1970s, but fear of crime was lower, so parents did not feel internally or societally pressured to be helicopter parents.
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Was crime directed at young children higher?