The Senate has just overwhelmingly agreed to extend Daylight Savings Time by one month. Now the bill moves on to the House. The new start date would be the first Sunday in March and the end date would be the last Sunday in November. Hurray!
It’s estimated the move will mean energy savings of something like 100,000 barrels of oil/day or 1% of our energy useage. Not to mentiion more daylight in which we can all train. One more excuse down the tubes.
So, its effectively extending it by two months, correct? (a month on each side?)
This is great, as it will extend the after-work weekday riding season for many club rides, etc.
Now I may be able to finish a race in the daylight.
So now it is 9months of the year, why don’t they just make it permanent?
Good point Monk. IMFL will have an extra hour of daylight.
My thoughts exactly. There is no reason to still have daylight savings time in the world.
-C
I wasn’t being sarcastic. I love daylight savings time. I would much rather have daylight at 9pm than 4:30 in the morning.
Good point Monk. IMFL will have an extra hour of daylight.
Will the sun be up before the start?
So, its effectively extending it by two months, correct? (a month on each side?)
This is great, as it will extend the after-work weekday riding season for many club rides, etc.
In PC on Nov 5 before the new legislation: sunrise 6:00 sunset 4:52. Now after the legislation, sunrise 7:00 sunset 5:52.
I heard about that. I love the idea…in fact, I wish daylight savings would take place all year round. I’d much rather have some daylight after I get out of work than in the morning.
Jack - this question is not to you directly, but…
Why in the hell did’nt we do this years ago??
What is the down side???
I personally wish they made Daylight Savings permanent and two or even three hours instead of one, I’d rather go to work in the dark at 9am in winter and have some light until 6:30pm than the current ‘it’s dark out at 5:00pm’ crap we have to put up for several months of the year…
Yes. Two months more of wonderful warm sunshine.
sunrise at 7 AM, that’s brutal. What about us folks who wake up a 4:30 b/c we are not capable of sleeping in? Much of my life will be spent in the dark … wait, that’s what my wife says anyway.
Years ago, when young kids used to walk or bike to school, I think there was concern about sunrise later than 7 AM.
I would much rather have daylight at 9pm than 4:30 in the morning.<<
Not here! The afternoon/evenings in the summer suck–cold, foggy and windy. So foggy often times that it might as well be dark at 4PM. I’d much rather be up and out on the bike at 5:30 AM.
I remember reading newspaper articles in my youth where drive-in movie theater operators railed against daylight savings time.
Arizona doesn’t recognize it because the much more pleasant hours of their days are early rather than late due to the intense heat there six months per year. Nevertheless, I’d be in favor of DST 12 months per year wherever it makes sense (not central or southern Arizona).
For those of us who usually have to work out in the morning, this totally sucks. If it saves energy, I’m for it, but (at the risk of hijacking the thread into a Lavendar Room debate), I can think of so many other much more effective things the government could do to save energy.
Also, I didn’t think this was a federal issue. For example, if I’m not mistaken, Arizona doesn’t do DST. It obviously is much more important at northern latitudes.
Word up.
ccy