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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 7 Nov 2022 22:53
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Oh dear.
Deer-Car Collisions Rise When Daylight Saving Time Ends | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Excerpts:
“Scientists estimate that maintaining daylight saving time year-round would prevent 33 human deaths, 2,054 human injuries and 36,550 deer deaths, while also saving $1.19 billion in collision costs per year.â€
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“The new paper suggests, at least for some drivers and deer, that adopting daylight time year-round is the way to go: …â€
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deer-car-collisions-rise-when-daylight-savi ng-time-ends-180981070/
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Fanman
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2022 07:45
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Didn't they find just the opposite when they tried it in the 1970s?
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ICC
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2022 08:34
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I would prefer to stick with standard time year round
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2022 11:01
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Split the diff 1/2 hr and Leave It Alone
Too Easy
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Tim_Ohio
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# Posted: 8 Nov 2022 12:01 - Edited by: Tim_Ohio
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I hate the idea of losing time. I feel older every time it is changed, even if it's made up in the opposite season. Stop messing with my time! I don't have much left. I don't have time for this.
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Ontario lakeside
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2022 19:19
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gcrank1 has the best idea!
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Atlincabin
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2022 19:53
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IMHO, the entire world should just go to Universal time. No more trying to figure out whether someone on another coast is earlier or later or by how much. Yes, folks would have to adjust to going to work at what now seems an odd hour, but I bet those issues would be irrelevant after a year or two, and the saving of time confusion would be worth it. (as an aside, read Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, which is a fun tale that has time confusion in it).
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2022 20:18 - Edited by: ICC
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Something I have never heard anyone mention is how many minutes difference there are between the sunrise or sunset times at the east and west boundaries of the same time zone. For example, in the Mountain Time Zone here in the US, there is a difference of 50 minutes between West Wendover, UT and Burlington, Colorado (west and east sides of Mtn Time). The folks in Burlington, CO are already seeing the sun almost an hour earlier than those in West Wendover, UT, but both are using the same clock time. Sunrise 6:26 AM (east side) and 7:16 AM today (west side).
So just get used to using the Standard Time that was set up when the time zones were drawn in 1883.
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2022 21:01 - Edited by: KinAlberta
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I prefer to gain more light late in the evening than early in the morning.
Where i am, without daylight saving time we’d get summer sunrise occurring at something like 4:30 am.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Nov 2022 21:24
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OK. Sunrise and sunset are also influenced by one's latitude. The farther north the earlier the sun rises in summer than down in NM or further south. So nothing is going to make everyone happy all the time. And not everyone in one location may be happy all year round if the clock gets set to the same standard all year.
It is the switching back and forth that bugs me. It is especially awkward when neighboring Arizona does not observe DST except for the Navajo Nation. But the Hopi Nation does NOT observe DST like the rest of AZ; never mind the fact that the Hopi Nation is surrounded by the Navajo Nation. That will drive you nuts if you are doing business with either Nation and trying to setup meeting or appointment times.
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Aklogcabin
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# Posted: 10 Nov 2022 08:55
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I like the changes myself, gives me more productive daylight time
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 10 Nov 2022 09:09
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Quoting: ICC That will drive you nuts if you are doing business with either Nation and trying to setup meeting or appointment times.
We lived in the far west of China for several years. China is as large as the US but observed only one time zone, Beijing time. So in Xinjiang businesses opened later and the indigenous people there, the Uighurs would just set their clocks back an hour, as would some of us foreigners. So you always had to ask when setting up a meeting with a fellow foreigner or a Uighur, Xinjiang or Beijing time? The Chinese all went by Beijing time.
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Grizzlyman
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2022 09:02
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Agree on universal time. Time is the same everywhere on earth ANYWAYS… we just label it differently. So why not just label it differently lol.
We’re in daylight for the majority of the year anyways- so if we’re going to keep one it should be daylight. Heck it’s starting to get dark in Minneapolis at 4:30 now!..and will not be better for the next 3 months!
And let’s ditch the stupid 12 hour clock while we’re at it. There are 24 actual hours after all…that and 24 hour clock is just better. People would get used to the 24 hour clock in about 1 week.
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ICC
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2022 10:18
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Quoting: Grizzlyman And let’s ditch the stupid 12 hour clock while we’re at it.
Agreed
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KinAlberta
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# Posted: 12 Nov 2022 23:40
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Also agree on ditching 12 hr clock.
And QWERTY keyboards as any kind of screen default.
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