Florida Senate Approves Bill for Year-Round Daylight Saving Time

[The Prophet]

This could be good for those that vacation in the Winter months.
More sunshine in the evening hours


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-oks-bill-for-year-round-daylight-saving-time

 

[erionm]

If signed by our gov, it will still require an act of congress to make it official.

 

[icc2515]

I feel from experience that this is a bad idea. We had a city about 30 mins away from us that did not participate in dst. It was a real mess. It's a pretty good size town with a lot of shopping and restaurants. Half the year they were an hour ahead of us and half the year they were not. Of course no one could remember what half the year that was. Try this scenario on. Right now Disney is 1 hr ahead of me all year long. I want a reservation at 5:00pm (my time) so I make the reservation for 6:00pm. No problem. Now with no dst if I want to eat at 5:00pm my time what time do I make the reservation for in July and how about Jan. Yeah yeah I know 6:00pm for July and 5:00pm for Jan. If this goes thru there are going to be a lot of people showing up early for their reservations. I guess that's one way to get them there early. Plus approx half the year prime time TV starts at 8:00pm and the other half it starts at 7:00pm. I can tell you it was such a pain that the town by us switched to dst.

Now I will say that I am all for the whole country switching off dst.




BTW if you read the above example and said that doesn't sound right, that's because it isn't. The correct answer is July 5:00pm and Jan 6:00pm. DST goes from the 2nd Sunday in March to the 1st Sunday in Nov. During that time Disney would be 1 hour behind EST. So those on the east coast would have to make their reservation for 4:00pm in July. Now those people that made the mistake on EST would show up to their reservation an hour late (I think). See how confusing this would be.

It will not be a problem for people who tell time by their phones, because they change automatically. Those with a watch, well that will be more of a problem. I know who uses a watch.

 

[Chuck S]

I wish all the states would pick one time and just stick with it.

 

[wnielsen1]

I am not a fan of standard time and wish my home state of IL would stay on daylight time all year. I prefer my daylight in the evening.

 

[Chuck S]

I know who uses a watch.

Baby Boomers! I feel weird when I forget my watch. Even though I carry my iPhone.

 

[loves to dive]

I wish all the states would pick one time and just stick with it.

I agree with this too. I think Indiana doesn't use it (I could be wrong). From what I understand it was to make life easier for farm workers and school kids not getting on and off buses in the dark. I think it doesn't matter to farm workers any more and the kids are either getting on the bus in the dark in spring or off it in the dark in the winter with the time change any way so just leave it alone.

 

[loves to dive]

Baby Boomers! I feel weird when I forget my watch. Even though I carry my iPhone.

We are on the same wave length today. I still wear a watch and have so many of them that there are always a few that don't get changed when the time does because it's been that long since I've worn them. I'm sort of a watch collector.

 

[erionm]

I think Indiana doesn't use it (I could be wrong).

From Wikipedia:

Most areas of the United States observe daylight saving time (DST), the exceptions being Arizona (except for the Navajo, who do observe daylight saving time on tribal lands), Hawaii, and the overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States

 

[loves to dive]

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States

See told you I could be wrong. I just somehow remembered when my brother lived in Indiana they didn't change time when we did. Could have maybe been the town he lived in and not the entire state?

 

[erionm]

See told you I could be wrong. I just somehow remembered when my brother lived in Indiana they didn't change time when we did. Could have maybe been the town he lived in and not the entire state?

Information about Indiana from Wikipedia:

From 1970 until 2006, most of Indiana in the Eastern Time Zone did not observe daylight saving time, but the entire state started to do so in April 2006 after eight counties in western Indiana were shifted from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone.[30] One goal for observing DST was to get more Indiana counties observing the same time zone; formerly, 77 counties observed EST, 5 observed EST/EDT (the EDT usage being unofficial only), and 10 observed CST/CDT. As of 2016, Indiana has 12 counties observing Central Daylight Time while the remaining 80 counties observe Eastern Daylight Time. Those counties observing CST are in two groups: one near or in the Chicago metropolitan area, and the other around Evansville in the southwest corner of the state.

 

[loves to dive]

Information about Indiana from Wikipedia:

Good to know I wasn't crazy. That was about the time frame he lived there.

 

[LYSE]

I'm in AZ but still have to keep the time changes in mind because of work...I still enjoy not actually changing our clocks though.

This would lock in a 3 hour time difference for us...could be useful in keeping my daughter up later.

 

[Deb & Bill]

I hate this idea. In the colder months (as cold as it gets in Florida) we will be on Atlantic Time. So the evening news is now on at 8:00. And driving from Alabama to Florida on I-10, you get a two hour difference when you cross the state line. It would have been better to leave it at standard time all the time. Plus it will be dark when kids go to school.

 

[lawboy2001]

This has to stop. Turn the clocks ahead 30 minutes in spring, and leave them there. Everyone gets something out of it.

 

[kittyab]

I think AZ & Hawaii does not do the time change? I hate it, it is so outdated.

 

[erionm]

I think AZ & Montana does not do the time change? I hate it, it is so outdated.

As I posted previously (post #9), the only US states that don't observe DST are Arizona (except for the Navajo) and Hawaii.

 

[kittyab]

As I posted previously (post #9), the only US states that don't observe DST are Arizona (except for the Navajo) and Hawaii.

Still hate it!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

When I used to fly thru Arizona a lot I always had to try and remember what time it was there. Hated that. And then visiting there and going onto the Navajo tribal lands - very confusing.

I'm used to daylight time and standard time and it doesn't bother me that much although I prefer light later so would want to stick with daylight if a choice were to be made. So, if FL stayed on daylight we'd only be 2 hours off when we traveled there during the winter months vs 3 during other times. I'd take that.

As far as when to make reservations for dining etc? Since when you travel most people tend to get on the time zone your in so you'd still just make a reservation for 6PM if you wanted to be eating at 6pm there.

 

[Networth]

As a Floridian I would be more than happy with is, I hate playing with the clock. Especially “Spring” forward where we “loose” an hour.