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Dayight savings time

Postby LibraryLady » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:26 am

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby BillB » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:44 am

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.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby Red Oak » Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:06 am

I am hard pressed to come up?with anything more absurd that ST.
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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby GRANDPA » Sun Nov 02, 2014 10:15 am

Red, do you want to go back to local time?
I feel like I'm parked diagonally in a parallel universe.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby Dancer » Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:17 pm

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.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby BillB » Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:56 pm

Any state can opt out of it.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby Kiamichi » Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:06 pm

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?

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby BillB » Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:21 pm

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.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby GRANDPA » Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:13 pm

It sounds more like what Peanut Carter would have done. If it wasn't, lets blame him anyway.
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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby tx3653 » Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:52 pm

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.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby planosteve » Sun Nov 02, 2014 5:34 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.
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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby FlashM » Sun Nov 02, 2014 7:50 pm

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.
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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby GRANDPA » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:20 pm

I'm up here in Maine, boring, dull, dreary, boring Maine, & it's been full dark since about 4:30pm.
I feel like I'm parked diagonally in a parallel universe.

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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby GFB » Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:54 pm

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?
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Re: Dayight savings time

Postby Benbrook Susie » Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:30 am

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.
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