Sunshine Protection Act

[BrinkofSunshine]

I had no idea this was a thing! The idea of later sunlight hours is nice, but I don't like the idea of being different from the rest of the east coast for part of the year... ugh.

 

[mummabear]

Well I live in AZ and we don’t do this daylight savings thing. Having moved from CA it was nice to not have to change the clocks!

I really wish NZ would drop DST, it is such a waste.

 

[bethbuchall]

Okay, sorry, I guess I need to step away too. Seems like it is a touchy subject for some reason.

I was excited over the idea of simple things, like coming home from work walking my dogs in the evening with daylight. Right now, DH and I go to work when it is dark and come home when it is dark. Just another reason I prefer having a few hours of daylight after work.

But you won't have a few extra hours of daylight after work. You'll have at most one extra hour of daylight depending on how long after sunset you arrive home now.

 

[diznygirl]

It will get lighter later in the morning - kids will go to school in the dark. In the dead of winter the sun wouldn't come up until after 8! Another hour of light after work isn't worth that to me.

I think I prefer standard time.

 

[FINFAN]

It will get lighter later in the morning - kids will go to school in the dark. In the dead of winter the sun wouldn't come up until after 8! Another hour of light after work isn't worth that to me.

I think I prefer standard time.

here in IL the kids and us parents head to school and work in the dark and return in it WITH DST....at least we'd have the benefit of not having our internal clocks disrupted every 6 months.

 

[a1tinkfans]

I’m all for it...

 

[NotUrsula]

Waste of resources, changing information all over the place. I vote for a federal standard that everyone sticks to, whatever it is.

My kid is already set to go to school in the dark starting next year, and I don't think it's safe. Getting home from school they don't need to just stand around, but morning bus stop time is the most vulnerable time of the average school-aged child's day, and bad as it is in daylight, it's much worse in the dark. Her school has a 7 am start time, which means that she will board the bus at 6:10 am.

Lots of studies have shown that drivers are least alert in the pre-dawn hours. Just a really bad idea to put a lot more half-asleep people on the roads.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I hope Congress says no. I don’t care if they keep standard or daylight savings, but having my State be different than the rest of the country is ludicrous.

I can't imagine having to do business with anyone in Florida. This will be crazy.

And I love the name. Do people really think that "sunshine" needs protected?

 

[kungaloosh22]

As a night owl, I sure wish they'd do this in California.

But back on the Florida issue... I'm wondering if this will affect the 6am dining reservations/7am fast pass reservations. Will they keep those times on Florida time in fall/winter, or will they keep them on regular EST? Assuming I'm not calculating this backwards, if they use Florida time, then everyone else will have to get up even earlier to make the reservations. Personally, I don't care much, because on the west coast we already have to get up in the middle of the night at 3am/4am, so 2am/3am isn't really much different. But I can imagine an uproar and confusion over booking times if they try to use Florida time, which gets out of sync with most of the US half the year.

 

[mummabear]

Her school has a 7 am start time, which means that she will board the bus at 6:10 am.

That is early! My kids school starts at 9. What time does she finish?

 

[Saimaeve]

I'm in AZ and we don't change. However, I work remotely so my clients are in NY, DC and Seattle. This means I have to re-do all of my meeting invites and shift my day an hour depending on the season. (So it feels like losing an hour every day) I'd love for it to become a national thing.

 

[AquamarineSteph]

I've worked at locations where we had to memorize which states or counties within states did or did not observe daylight savings time. It was a huge hassle because we shipped things based on time zones, and those few changes meant a ton of extra costs to accommodate those areas.

Having said that, I read that Florida's government wanted to go to year round daylight savings time. I did not know it was called the Sunshine Protection Act. I'm pretty sure the sun will still shine, regardless of what the Florida legislature/governor decides to do here.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

As fellow Floridians, we're will you. I love the change. It will be nice to come home in daylight in the winter.

 

[Kellykins1218]

Not me. I love when it's dark by 5!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

That is early! My kids school starts at 9. What time does she finish?

My middle school in FL started at 7:15 and dismissal was 1:55pm. Just in time for Maury and TRL!

 

[gottaluvPluto]

I'm all for this to pass! Switching time twice a year is archaic and causes a lot of accidents and health problems for some people. DST causes decreases in performance, concentration and memory, as well as fatigue and daytime sleepiness. In addition, during the first week of DST (in March) there's a spike in strokes and heart attacks.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

I live in Florida and I'm not for just one state changing. Make a change for the entire country, or the entire zone (eastern), but don't do just one state.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Seriously? Florida is going to be constantly in EDT? How irritating is that to everybody else in the country!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Why doesn't the whole country just just 30 minutes and leave it at that?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Seriously? Florida is going to be constantly in EDT? How irritating is that to everybody else in the country!

Ask the people in Arizona?

Why doesn't the whole country just just 30 minutes and leave it at that?

Um, because time is worldwide?