I think that there are several states that have at least expressed an interest in not doing it, but only if surrounding states do the same.
Of course, there then is the question, which becomes the norm? DST, or Standard time?
One thing odd with Arizona, at least when I was there 25+ years ago, was that during DST (so matching California), all of the TV stations used west coast feeds. But when the rest of the country went back to Standard Time, some stations switched to the east coast feed. Made it very confusing to keep track.
Except you aren’t clawing the hour out of the deep nothingness that was last march, you are wrenching it from the black void that was last night, when my bedtime was all messed up by an hour and nobody asked me if I was up for that.
That’s one thing great about our business; time really doesn’t matter (other than getting to the PO by 5:00). We both get up whenever we feel like it; starting next week, I’ll may even be getting up in the mornings!
Nope. Anything before 9am is too early these days. Used to get up at 4:30 or 5 to go deer hunting because you “had to be at your stand an hour before shooting started.” Yeah, until we got a late start one year and I got my first buck on opening day when it walked out in front of us about 2 minutes after the open…
I still have the rack 60+ years later. It was the first year I could hunt on my own instead of having to be with an experienced hunter. If they knew my relatives and family they would have changed the law – most of those guys were either still hung over or had already hit their hip flasks…
As it relates to the first part I often say this. “I only work half days, any 12 hour period I pick. And I do it every day of the year.” However, when you love what you do you will not work a day in your life.
On the “doing away with it.” I understand everyone’s position on this. However, I was on the local school board for 18 years, 3 years on the budget committee before that. If we did not have the DST and ST change our students would be in the dark, in the winter, out on the roads (with plows and people that don’t know how to drive in snow) in the dark.
We are in New England so that may be something to do how far north we are. Regardless, I have had this debate many times with community members. I do not serve anymore, so not my problem. Though it should be considered. So should a longer school day and Saturday school. I don’t think I got to many votes from the teachers and 18 year old students in the end.
This is NOT spam or an ad. I am going to talk about a product we manufacture. I am going to provide a link to a 100% free page providing some detail on Time Zones and what time it is where you are right now. Please, do not try to find or buy this item. This is NOT spam or an ad.
A little History, I wish I had the image however, we are moving our studio office into our 302 year old connected farmhouse. The barn was built in 1845, years before we had time zones. We are relocating to the space under the Bank Barn that we lifted 20 feet and put a foundation and walls under it. This image (somewhere in a box) shows the first 4 time zones, and explains how and why they were done. Prior to 1883 communities used time based on the sun’s position.
In 1883 the railroads made the change on November 18th. You think (changing the clocks) is hard, imagine the clocks were changed at noon, after noon, so we had two noon’s that day. The Feds through US law adopted the standard Time Act in 1918.
As others said above, Daylight savings time became permanent in about 1966. We actually had it from 1918 until the end of WWI and 1942 until the end of WWII. The dates changed in 2005 but we still were stuck with Daylight Savings Time.
Time Zones Zip Codes and my life.
I was in sales support and product management in the field of Networking in the 1980’s for 2 different companies. I visited a lot of customers, with and without sales people. Every where I went I saw a page out of the phone book, torn out and stuck on the wall. (For young people here, look up phone book to see what I am talking about.)
I said to myself, someone needs to make that, but make it nicer looking and publish it. It took us 4 years to draw it up as a vector file way before Adobe was a thing. It went well, to very well. At the time we imaged slides from computer files, Many stories from that but it would be off topic.
We offered the map for free. Imaged to 11x17 and laminated, with our logo on it. Since I knew people would put it on the wall and remember us. We printed, laminated and shipped so many for free it damn near put us out of business. Then I thought, if people want this that bad, we should charge. Took 10 years to come to my senses. We took our logo off, and launched, as we got bigger equipment, we have increased the size. I have even done a wall 15 feet wide. And put real clocks on that wall.
We often get questioned “do the clocks move” yes, they want to know if the clocks move on a paper map.
This is NOT spam or an ad.
If a Grand Poobah wants to remove it please do, feel free. The link goes to a map we have on one of our websites. It is free to use, it helps many people find out what time it is where they are calling. It also has area codes. The paid version has a reverse lookup table too. We have to update the time zones every two years since they change. While I mentioned my position on the students with DST vs Standard Time. We had to update this at midnight last night, something needed twice a year, every year.
“We have to update the time zones every two years since they change.”
Did you mean to say the Area Codes change? We’ve lived in the same house for over 40 years and are on our second Area Code. It will be the last one since we finally ditched the land line and my cell number and area code has been consistent since I got my first one over 40 years ago.
Makes us wonder how the adopting of cell phones as the primary contact number (elimination of the traditional house line) takes away the importance of the area code on your map. Many people move to different locations in the US and keep their original cell phone number. We often see (for example) Southern California area codes with east coast addresses.
Before computers … we can see the value in your map. Now days most people are probably like us … when they don’t know, they look up the time (time zone) on the computer.
EDIT ADD …
We find ourselves watching our atomic clocks the night before the time change (Saturday night). We have several atomic clocks in the house and the each seem to have their own way of dealing with it. One of them in the living room changes at 9pm Saturday. It has traditional hands. So when it changes time … the clock goes through 11 hours (or 13 hours depending on which way the time is changing) in about a minute. Guess you could say we watch time fly twice a year.
… but I basically said it anyway)
