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Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:45 am
by oljames3
RicoTX wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 7:24 am
Oldgringo wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:07 am
Pick ONE and stay with it year round!
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 do not observe DST. Works for them; should work well for the rest of us.
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:21 am
by gtolbert09
Arizona and Hawaii do not observed DST. All U.S. insular territories with civilian government (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands) lie in the tropics and do not observe DST.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_ ... ted_States
It's also mostly used in North America and Europe, but not anywhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_ ... by_country
I'd be ok with GMT or Zulu Time myself. :)
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:42 pm
by jordanmills
Another one for staying on DST/CDT/MST.
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:35 am
by RoyGBiv
I like it the way it is currently. Light out until after 8PM in the summer. Dawn around 6:30 ish most of the year. As much as I don't like it dark by 5:30 PM (Standard Time), I prefer this to dawn coming after 7:30 AM in the short-day seasons (as would be the case if we kept DST all year).

Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:11 am
by striker55
Pick one or the other, not a fan of changing time.
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:23 pm
by Lynyrd
RoyGBiv wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:35 am
I like it the way it is currently. Light out until after 8PM in the summer. Dawn around 6:30 ish most of the year. As much as I don't like it dark by 5:30 PM (Standard Time), I prefer this to dawn coming after 7:30 AM in the short-day seasons (as would be the case if we kept DST all year).

Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:41 pm
by ajwakeboarder
gtolbert09 wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:21 am
I'd be ok with GMT or Zulu Time myself. :)
I'd be ok with Zulu Time. I have to use it every day at work anyway...
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:30 pm
by mojo84
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:02 pm
by parabelum
striker55 wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:11 am
Pick one or the other, not a fan of changing time.
That.^^^^

Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:08 am
by CrimsonSoul
HB3784 is this bill except that it puts it to a vote by the population of Tx. Currently in the Senate
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Hi ... ill=HB3784
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:30 am
by JustSomeOldGuy
Pick one, I don't care which.
The "it's for the children" isn't a sufficient excuse to interfere with everyone else's life. If you don't like your kid's bus stop, YOU move it, YOU install lights, YOU petition the school board to change class start times, or YOU make alternate arrangements for the kid to get to school.
Except for maybe the National Institute of Standards atomic clock system (NTP), it's not the government's job to tell me what time it is......
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:54 am
by striker55
I'm pretty sure if the population votes we won't be changing the clocks anymore. Just end it!
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 7:47 pm
by strogg
I say kill daylight savings for sure. I'm OK with the ballot vote as long as we stick to a single time. I am DONE with having to deal with time changes. Now if we were to stick with standard time year round (my preference), then that would be some nice icing on the cake.
Re: HB 49 - Kill Daylight Savings Time
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:09 pm
by srothstein
striker55 wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:54 am
I'm pretty sure if the population votes we won't be changing the clocks anymore. Just end it!
There are two tricks to this, as I understand it. The first trick is to amend the Constitution to allow the public to vote on a statewide referendum like this. The second trick with this bill is that we are given the choice which time to keep but there is no option to keep daylight savings time.