I noticed a huge increase in neighbours out and about when coming home from work - washing cars, mowing lawns, walking, at the park. No one was doing any of these (apart from a smaller number walking) the week before in similar weather (but darker).
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I surprised there isn’t more corporate pressure to extend daylight savings. The businesses around me look like they are doing a roaring trade this week compared to last week.
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Can I presume they became “former” during that missing hour?
Also begs the question; If something happens in that missing hour, did it really happen or does it not happen until the following autumn?
The US will end daylight saving on Sunday with clocks moving back to standard time instead of daylight time.
Permanent daylight savings could be a thing
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Unlikely since the House doesn’t seem interested in bringing it up for a vote. If they don’t do anything by January the process needs to start again and that’s even more unlikely since neither side seems to see it as a priority.
I really want this to pass so I can be done with this stupid shit once and for all. In the current political landscape I’m not holding my breath.
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Why is it stupid?
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Because practically every study on the health effects of daylight saving concludes not only that it’s not necessary but that it results in adverse health outcomes
There’s no reason for it other than dogma, most of the world does not do it
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I have posted a few times in this topic going over my reasons.
Long story short my view is either pick standard or daylight saving time and make either one permanent year round. I personally don’t care which one, but it would seem going to permanent daylight saving time would make the most people happy so if I had to choose I would go with that.
If the US does go to daylight saving time permanently we may see other countries follow suit. I hope so, but I can’t see the House getting it done in time so it’s probably going to be a while before anything happens.
My biggest wish as someone who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) would be a move to permanent daylight savings.
Daylight hours beyond dinner during the winter months would do wonders for my mental health.
Bring it on!
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I would move to permanent standard time. If we did, we would still have sunlight after 8 in summer, as well as the sun not rising at 8:30 in Winter. Only problem is the sun will rise at 4am in summer.
430 posts in this topic and it’s probably only about 10 that have something different in them.
There’s never going to be a solution.
Some people love it. Others hate it. Some want it permanently, others don’t. Some want it completely scrapped, others don’t.
Every change affects the other states in different ways also. Tasmanians I’d say are nearly completely in favour of it but would be against it being permanent. It makes no sense and simply becomes dangerous with such a late sunrise (kids walking to school in the dark) and no benefit at the end of the day in winter.
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I reckon Victorians would like it how it is. Mum and Dad both like it right now and others like it as is. I personally would go to UTC+10 year round. Not sure about NSW but QLD would be mixed.
Australia is always 10 years behind…
The extra hour of exercise after school or work would be nice
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The only new thought I have about this is that I’m really noticing the time difference between the US and Oz now that daylight saving has started in Australia and is about to finish here in the US. There’s currently a 15-hour difference between the US East Coast and AEDT; come the weekend, it will be 16 hours. It makes working from Australia pretty much impossible - 9am in DC will be 1am in Oz.
I’d like us to pick one time and stick with it. Year-round daylight saving would be ideal - I think sunset is something like 4:45pm next week, and that’s a full month before the Solstice.
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Six weeks, actually.
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This is one argument I really don’t understand. So many parts of the world send kids to school in the dark. Their parents go to work in the dark. People work nights and drive in the dark. They’re all fine.
I am genuinely curious, why would this be a problem in Tasmania? I doubt there would be absolutely “no benefit” with a later winter sunset. If anything I imagine that would actually help things.
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I’ve seen the chaos of school drop offs when there is light. Add darkness to it and kids darting around everywhere and it’s just an extra hassle and I think unnecessary risk.
As for the later winter sunset - a 4:30 sunset or a 5:30 sunset when you don’t get home until then doesn’t give any benefit for doing anything with that time. If you’re lucky you might get 20 minutes of the fading light but twilight periods are much, much shorter than in summer and it’s generally just cold and miserable and nobody wants to go out anyway. Just the way the seasons work in the lower parts of the hemisphere.
