Txdigest.com

funny, IMO

http://seattletimes.com/comics/daddyshome.html

There was a statewide referendum in the 1960s, to decide if Texas would go on DST.
The Drive-in movie industry fought it and ran TV ads against it.
The best one was an old farmer claiming that the extra hour of daylight would burn the crops up.

I am hard pressed to come up?with anything more absurd that ST.

GRANDPA wrote:Red, do you want to go back to local time?

I wish whoever is responsible for this would get a grip and call it off. I don't like it at all.

Any state can opt out of it.

Red Oak wrote:I am hard pressed to come up?with anything more absurd that ST.

What about year-round daylight saving time, which has actually been proposed in some states?

Kiamichi wrote:

Red Oak wrote:I am hard pressed to come up?with anything more absurd that ST.

What about year-round daylight saving time, which has actually been proposed in some states?

We had it for a year under Nixon. I think it was 1973.
There was public outrage. People were dropping their kids off at school at 8 AM and it was pitch dark.

I'd vote for DST to be the full time deal. I hate dark by 5:30 PM. I do all I can under CST to be done and home by 5 PM.

Somebody forgot to reset this discussion board to standard time. I hate seeing it get dark an hour earlier. It's like you loose an hour a day.

I want them to have DST only when the kids are out of school. I hate seeing the elementary students waiting for the bus at 6:45 in the pitch dark.

School starts at 7:30 and it hasn't even been light then lately.

GRANDPA wrote:I'm up here in Maine, boring, dull, dreary, boring Maine, & it's been full dark since about 4:30pm.

Whereabouts in Maine?

BillB wrote:Any state can opt out of it.

Arizona, and parts of....Indiana, I think. The AZ thing is annoying while traveling, but at least it's the whole state, and not partial, like IN.