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How would Florida even enforce it?
How would Florida even enforce it?
If I Remember Correctly. I seem to recall them talking about this a month ago, but then it died. Maybe someone brought it up again.
I see that the "kids at the bus stop" argument has popped up as it usually does. I don't buy it. My guess is that more people get killed on the road when everyone is half asleep. Clock switching is pointless. If we're really worried about kids in the dark, start school later. A lot of districts are doing that anyway.
Actually, it turns out the bill is on Scott's desk, and the odds are 100% that he will sign it. I called Tallahassee yesterday and finally got the answers.
FYI, in talking to friends and associates yesterday, about 2 years ago just in my county, 2 kids were fatally injured by autos as they were walking to the school bus stop. Call it a statistical anomaly and you would be correct, but it did happen. In the approximate same time frame, another youngster was hit by a car but not killed, in the south end of the county.
That sucks. Lack of DST didn't cause it, though, and kids won't be safer when basically everyone on the road is sleep deprived.
It's time to eliminate clock switching. Pick DST or standard time, and stick with it all year.
I agree, and I say go back to standard time all year long, as it was here in Florida during the 50's. I cannot remember what year Florida adopted it, but I can remember when DST was something they did "up north".
Those accidents referenced happened when DST was in effect 8 months out of 12. All it really means is that for a number of months, maybe 3, daylight does not start until the kids are basically on their way to school. That means that normal diurnal rhythms are interrupted and the kids are awakened during that period when they need the sleep the most.
Yes, if the school hours were adjusted along with the clocks, it would offset the effect. But they won't change the school hours, only the clocks. Obviously, diurnal rhythms are established by mother nature, not the clocks.
We should do this nationwide. Move the clocks forward, and leave them there.
I'd prefer we move them backwards. This of course will lead to intractable gridlock and the status quo will prevail
I get tired of it being light till 10pm in the summer.
a couple other ideas :
1. switch to GMT. then it doesn't matter where you live.
2. set the clocks to five o'clock on Friday evening, and leave them that way all year. if you like having an "extra" hour of daylight, you'll love having a permanent weekend.
1. I'm a pilot - I used to live by GMT. Actually had a watch set permanently to it - back in the days when people wore watches.......
2. That's an idea I can get behind.
I'd go for Daylight Saving's Time all year round.
I love a little more light in the evenings.
From what I understand, however, they switch back to regular time in the winter to keep kids from walking to school in the dark in the mornings.
It was 1974, and the energy crisis was cutting into the American way of life, with odd-even gas rationing, a national speed limit and shortened Nascar races. The Emergency Daylight Saving Time Act signed by President Nixon dictated that clocks would spring forward one hour on Jan. 6 — and stay that way for almost 16 months, until April 27, 1975.
By fall, the dark mornings were apparently wearing on the American people. Proclaiming “it’s for the children” — those scholars standing at bus stops in the predawn — lawmakers threw in the towel of gloom. Year-round DST was scrapped, and on Oct. 27, clocks fell back.