Daylight Saving to be made permanent
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It's been tried before:
Congress had voted on December 14, 1973, to put the US on daylight saving time for two years. President Nixon signed the bill the next day. The US had gone to permanent daylight saving time before, during World War II. Then, too, the measure was enacted to save fuel. Permanent DST wasn’t close to the wackiest idea about time floating around—Paul Mullinax, a geographer who worked at the Pentagon, came up with the idea of putting the continental US on a single time zone. “USA Time” would apply from Bangor to Barstow, eliminate jet lag, and standardize TV schedules. His idea even got traction in Congress, via a bill from US Representative Patsy Mink of Hawaii. “The human being is a very adaptive animal,” he said. “There is no reason we have to be a slave to the sun.”
And yet the early-morning darkness quickly proved dangerous for children: A 6-year-old Alexandria girl was struck by a car on her way to Polk Elementary School on January 7; the accident broke her leg. Two Prince George’s County students were hurt in February. In the weeks after the change, eight Florida kids were killed in traffic accidents. Florida’s governor, Reubin Askew, asked for Congress to repeal the measure. “It’s time to recognize that we may well have made a mistake,” US Senator Dick Clark of Iowa said during a speech in Congress on January 28, 1974. In the Washington area, some schools delayed their start times until the sun caught up with the clock.
The factual picture was a bit more complicated. The National Safety Council reported in February that pre-sunrise fatalities had risen to 20 from 18 the year before. In July, Roger Sant, then an assistant administrator-designate for the Federal Energy Administration, wrote a letter to the Post that noted a 1 percent energy saving achieved by going to DST equated to 20,000-30,000 tons of coal not being burned each day. Further, he wrote, accidents had fallen in the afternoons.
By August, though, as the Watergate scandal caused the Nixon administration to crumble, the country was ready to move on from its clock experiments. While 79 percent of Americans approved of the change in December 1973, approval had dropped to 42 percent three months later, the New York Times reported. Seven days after President Nixon resigned, US Senator Bob Dole of Kansas introduced an amendment in August that would end the DST experiment. It passed. A similar bill passed the House. In late September, the full Congress passed a bill that would restore standard time on October 27. President Ford signed it on October 5. Energy savings, a House panel noted, “must be balanced against a majority of the public’s distaste for the observance of Daylight Saving Time.”
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Well Jimmy Kimmel and his entire audience cheered this, which pretty much confirms my opinion
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
Well Jimmy Kimmel and his entire audience cheered this, which pretty much confirms my opinion
Which opinion might that be?
- Kimmel is a flack
- The audience is stupid.
- What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?
There are more, of course.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
- What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?
Watching old Dave Letterman clips on Youtube followed by Jimmy Kimmel or one of those English blokes you chaps seem to love so much is really an eye opener.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.
I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
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Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.
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@Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.
I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.htmlFor decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.
"Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
"Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
"What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
@Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.
I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.htmlFor decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.
"Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
"Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
"What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.Celebrity worship isn’t really the same thing. An unknown hacky comic can get clapter by going on stage and saying something like “women are so much smarter than men” to set up a joke.
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@Mik said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.
If the change in cycle causes you to have a heart attack, I think you were going to have a h art attack anyway.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
@George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
- What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?
Watching old Dave Letterman clips on Youtube followed by Jimmy Kimmel or one of those English blokes you chaps seem to love so much is really an eye opener.
Even Leno was funny.
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This is for where I live. Imagine the left and right sides shifting up an hour. Yeah it would be dark until nearly 9am in Dec/Jan, but on the flip side it would be light until almost 6pm (instead of 5pm). Anyway...I have zero control over what will be decided, I'll find the benefits to either scenario, no point in grumbling.
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@Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
@jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:
Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.
Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.
As far as I can tell, the main reason the high school starts so ridiculously early is so that they can use the buses three times, once for each school. Having 16 year-olds go in at 7am is bloody stupid.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
