You’ve got to stay on summer time not winter time. We need it to stay light later in the winter. We don’t need it to get light earlier in the summer. Only Trump could mess it up so bad. I’ll be pissed if he picks winter time permanently!
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You’ve got to stay on summer time not winter time. We need it to stay light later in the winter. We don’t need it to get light earlier in the summer. Only Trump could mess it up so bad. I’ll be pissed if he picks winter time permanently!
The problem is, even if he messed it up, he will just double down on keeping it messed up rather than admit his stupid mistake. I can't think of a single instance that wasn't the case. I hope I'm wrong on this one.
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Zulu Times. The military and plane flights have been doing this forever. The last thing they want are people doing mental gymnastics to figure if the plane flying at them is arriving in an hour or in a few seconds. Or troops on the ground learning the area they are in is being bombed at 1300.
Every county, city, state gets to set their own work start/end day times. If you want to talk with some at 10 it is at 10 regardless of where they are in the world. You need 24 hour clocks, so 10 pm is 22. I set my computer (a Macbook) to use a 24 hour clock over a decade ago ... I like it a lot better than AM/PM.
Oh that is a terrible idea. It can work well for military where things are strictly regimented. But with time zones you have some idea of what other people will be doing at any time. You want to talk to someone in the UK at 10, it is at 10, But are they awake? Are they asleep? Are they in work hours or is it the middle of their goddamn night? Or Japan? Or Australia? You now have no idea.
Aeroplane doesn't know what he's talking about. The military uses Zulu time (the time in Greenwich, UK - "Greenwich Mean Time," the SAME reference point for 12-hour AM/PM times) for SOME things. It does NOT get rid of times zones. People in the military are still living and working and almost-completely scheduling their time by time zones (like everyone else) - i.e., when it's 2200 in London it's NOT 2200 in Los Angeles.
You’ve got to stay on summer time not winter time. We need it to stay light later in the winter. We don’t need it to get light earlier in the summer. Only Biden/Harris/Obama or Clinton could mess it up so bad. I’ll be pissed if he picks winter time permanently!
You’ve got to stay on summer time not winter time. We need it to stay light later in the winter. We don’t need it to get light earlier in the summer. Only Trump could mess it up so bad. I’ll be pissed if he picks winter time permanently!
The problem is, even if he messed it up, he will just double down on keeping it messed up rather than admit his stupid mistake. I can't think of a single instance that wasn't the case. I hope I'm wrong on this one.
Zulu Times. The military and plane flights have been doing this forever. The last thing they want are people doing mental gymnastics to figure if the plane flying at them is arriving in an hour or in a few seconds. Or troops on the ground learning the area they are in is being bombed at 1300.
Every county, city, state gets to set their own work start/end day times. If you want to talk with some at 10 it is at 10 regardless of where they are in the world. You need 24 hour clocks, so 10 pm is 22. I set my computer (a Macbook) to use a 24 hour clock over a decade ago ... I like it a lot better than AM/PM.
Oh that is a terrible idea. It can work well for military where things are strictly regimented. But with time zones you have some idea of what other people will be doing at any time. You want to talk to someone in the UK at 10, it is at 10, But are they awake? Are they asleep? Are they in work hours or is it the middle of their goddamn night? Or Japan? Or Australia? You now have no idea.
Practically that’s little different from looking up their time currently, just that you look up how many hours ahead or behind they are (and are able to add small numbers in your head).
I'm pretty sure Trump is referring to ending what we do in November every year.
So, we would stay at "Spring forward" permanently.
Besides, it already gets darker naturally as the season progresses into fall. No point in clocking time back another hour to make it worse
This would mean later sunrises during the fall/winter though. Early morning runs would be dark
I hope so, but that’s not what his post said. It said he was ending DST, so no summer time, only winter time. That’s why I’m mad. I’d support it fully if he was picking summer time.
I already don't observe the time change. Instead of going to work at 8am, for the winter months I go to work at 9am my time. Imagine if everyone did the same. You don't need the government for this. Time is your own construct. I know this sounds like a joke, but I am serious and have done this for years now.
I already don't observe the time change. Instead of going to work at 8am, for the winter months I go to work at 9am my time. Imagine if everyone did the same. You don't need the government for this. Time is your own construct. I know this sounds like a joke, but I am serious and have done this for years now.
Same, I just talked with the office manager at my company who gladly approved me to be in the building to do my work 9-5 during DST and then 8-4 during ST. I even was able to negotiate it to 7-3 in Dec-Jan since the holidays reduced our workload. I do feel bad for people who are so low level that they are stuck in regimented hours and feel zero power to even request a negotiation.
I already don't observe the time change. Instead of going to work at 8am, for the winter months I go to work at 9am my time. Imagine if everyone did the same. You don't need the government for this. Time is your own construct. I know this sounds like a joke, but I am serious and have done this for years now.
Same, I just talked with the office manager at my company who gladly approved me to be in the building to do my work 9-5 during DST and then 8-4 during ST. I even was able to negotiate it to 7-3 in Dec-Jan since the holidays reduced our workload. I do feel bad for people who are so low level that they are stuck in regimented hours and feel zero power to even request a negotiation.
Imagine being so low level that you have to ask permission to do that.
Same, I just talked with the office manager at my company who gladly approved me to be in the building to do my work 9-5 during DST and then 8-4 during ST. I even was able to negotiate it to 7-3 in Dec-Jan since the holidays reduced our workload. I do feel bad for people who are so low level that they are stuck in regimented hours and feel zero power to even request a negotiation.
Imagine being so low level that you have to ask permission to do that.
True, I don't work for myself. It would be even better to be able to work, live, and run anywhere in the world, changing with the seasons. I'm just happy that I have a good relationship with my employer and have proven enough value to be good with such an easy request. And as much as I love morning runs, I like lack of ice on pm runs in the middle of winter.
lots of comments from people who do not like trump but support the move, and this is common. some will want to make this a partisan triumph over the "other side" but the move has been supported by people on both sides because it is reasonable.
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They have been kicking this can around for years. If they don't change the things...just don't fall back next year. If you own a company like I do, you'll have an even larger impact.
Imagine if everyone didn't turn their clocks back next year. What are they going to do about that? If we can't do something as simple as this, we really are sheep, aren't we?
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