Get ready to fall back, 2025

[TRG]

I hate driving in the dark because everyone thinks if they have a light on their vehicle it has to be on…

Agreed, especially the new LED lights. Sure, its nice that YOU can see 20 miles down the road at night. But now I'M blinded.

 

[John2021]

Agreed, especially the new LED lights. Sure, its nice that YOU can see 20 miles down the road at night. But now I'M blinded.

i hate LED'S they blind the sh*t out of you and when there driving towards you there right in your face ugh there blinding!!! but yet you can see 100 miles away with em

 

[navychop]

Most people are not afraid of the dark.

People with young kids are.

 

[navychop]

i hate LED'S they blind the sh*t out of you and when there driving towards you there right in your face ugh there blinding!!! but yet you can see 100 miles away with em

I think Tesla does a good job of cutting off the "top" of the beams to spare oncoming drivers.

So let's mandate all new cars be Teslas.

 

[osu1991]

Adaptive headlights on vehicles would fix most of the blinding light problems other than those who add crappy light bars and such, just because they think it looks cool.

 

[comfortably_numb]

waits on Congress

Don't hold your breath.

 

[NYDutch]

I'm all for sticking to one time standard year round, with no preference for standard or DST. Actually, since all but one of our clocks (the microwave) change automatically now, I don't even mind the change that much. I just adjust my going to bed time by half an hour the night of the change, and by the next night I'm acclimated to the new time.

 

[navychop]

So you're in the market for a new microwave?

Make sure it does 24 hour time.

 

[navychop]

I just adjust my going to bed time by half an hour the night of the change, and by the next night I'm acclimated to the new time.

Just flew across the pond. Five hour difference. Floating back, after two nights, it's a one hour adjustment each night.

Arrrgh!

 

[NYDutch]

Just flew across the pond. Five hour difference. Floating back, after two nights, it's a one hour adjustment each night.

Arrrgh!

Yep, coming back from Europe or Asia was always a bigger transition than DST. Oddly, east/west coast US transitions affected me a lot less. Maybe the ocean flights had better movies and I didn't sleep as much.

 

[Jimbo]

While others can't see in the dark or are virtually blinded by headlights when driving.

December 21st will deliver around 8-3/4 hours of daylight, which pretty much guarantees that I'd be commuting in the darkness at one end of the day or the other. For me, under PST, sunrise will be at 7:47 am and sunset will be at 4:30 pm, so I would be driving into the Sun in the morning, and it would be dark before going home. Under PST, the Sun would rise at 4:22 am on June 21st.

Oregon passed legislation to go to an unchanging schedule in 2019 and waits on Congress as well as the adjacent states (Washington and California) for a resolution as to whether we all adopt MST or PST year-round.

I use to hate that, I would also go into work in the Dark, 7:15 am and come home 4:30-45 pm in the dark ... It Sucks.

 

[Jimbo]

Adaptive headlights on vehicles would fix most of the blinding light problems other than those who add crappy light bars and such, just because they think it looks cool.

I've got adaptive headlights ....
Also Auto High beam On/Off

I like both features

 

[Jimbo]

I'm all for sticking to one time standard year round, with no preference for standard or DST. Actually, since all but one of our clocks (the microwave) change automatically now, I don't even mind the change that much. I just adjust my going to bed time by half an hour the night of the change, and by the next night I'm acclimated to the new time.

How about your Stove (automatic adjusted time ?)

 

[navychop]

Our GE Cafe Induction does.

LOVE induction. Especially with our cast iron.

 

[Foxbat]

Indiana was Eastern Standard Time for most of the time I was growing up. "The West Wing" had fun with us Hoosiers as their campaign bus was negotiating different Time Zones traveling the State as some western counties were Central Standard Time. It was great being in IT and 24-hour manufacturing that a product built at 02:30 one day was always 24 hours after the product produced at 02:30 the previous day. Then some agenda decided that Indiana was considered backwards and losing Business because no one knew what time it was in Indiana. So, we joined the rest of the Country (except Arizona and Hawaii) in the Daylight "Saving" Time insanity.

So, 24-hour UTC for all things. AM and PM mean nothing with UTC except on the Prime Meridian, so a 24-hour clock is more logical. A TV program at 20:00 would be the same time everywhere, and if a western station wanted to show it at a later time, it would be at 23:00. Businesses would open when it makes sense for their location. But that time wouldn't change unless the business decided that it made sense for them.

But, nobody likes that idea (especially Mrs. Foxbat who just rolls her eyes when I start my DST rants). So, I'll be changing clocks this weekend. Just don't expect me to like it.

Arizona sounds better and better all the time…

 

[NYDutch]

How about your Stove (automatic adjusted time ?)

Oops! Forgot about that one. The stove in our motorhome doesn't have a clock, but the one the house does.

 

[Foxbat]

I have a clock on our water softener that I set to halfway between EST and EDT so the recharge starts at 03:30. It's in the basement and doesn't care about sunlight. We're usually asleep at that time anyway so this is one less clock to deal with at the inflection points…

 

[comfortably_numb]

Indiana and Ohio should be in Central Time.

(Former Ohioan here).