Clocks go back tonight….
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Even though polls show most people dislike the system that has most Americans changing clocks twice a year, the political moves necessary to change the system haven’t succeeded because opinions on the issue and its potential impacts are sharply divided.
Want to make daylight saving time permanent? That would mean the sun rises around 9 a.m. in Detroit for a while during the winter. Prefer staying on standard time year round? That would mean the sun would be up at 4:11 a.m. in Seattle in June.
“There’s no law we can pass to move the sun to our will,” said Jay Pea, the president of Save Standard Time, an organization devoted to switching to standard time for good.
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The United States has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized the time zones in 1883. So has a lot of the world. About 140 countries have had daylight saving time at some point; about half that many do now.
About 1 in 10 U.S. adults favor the current system of changing the clocks, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted last year. About half oppose that system, and some 4 in 10 didn’t have an opinion. If they had to choose, most Americans say they would prefer to make daylight saving time permanent, rather than standard time.
Thailand is a tall, narrow country close to the equator, so no need to change the time. Pretty much 6 am - 6 pm sunlight year around. Taiwan doesn't change either.
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Clocks go forward tonight, not back…
@LuFins-Dad said in Clocks go back tonight….:
Clocks go forward tonight, not back…
Back to Eastern Daylight Time???
Anyway never let accuracy get in the way of a good meme.
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Israel changes twice a year. I don’t mind.
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@Renauda said in Clocks go back tonight….:
Daylight savings time makes little to no sense for people who live this far north.
I never thought of that! Yea, I guess that makes sense. Here in Florida it means the sun sets at about 9PM. Waaaaayyyy too much sun in the evening.
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Speaking as somebody who leaves the house at 5am, I like it.
Not a lot, but I like it.
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@Mik said in Clocks go back tonight….:
Yep. Have to stay up after bedtime to watch the sunset.
With DST June and July we have twilight here until midnight.
Some people here want DST year round. Fine, if you don’t mind the fact that from beginning of December until end of January the sun won’t be rising until 9:00 am or later.
No thanks.
