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ChazII

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14. Please leave Arizona alone and do not force

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2022, 03:39 PM

Mar 2022

us onto the plan.

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U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent in 2023 [View all] demmiblue Mar 2022 OP

Sinema is excited about something completely meaningless AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #1

I'd like not to have it dark at 4:30. Hope this works out. n/t pnwmom Mar 2022 #3

Not the point I was trying to make AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #5

works for me. n/t hlthe2b Mar 2022 #2

That's so idiotic. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #4

After a day or two, we would get used to it though Polybius Mar 2022 #7

I never get used to it. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #9

Why? Polybius Mar 2022 #12

I never like getting up earlier than necessary. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #13

I have read that it was originally for train scheduling. fleabiscuit Mar 2022 #10

Standard time is for train scheduling. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #11

Doctors have hated it for years Javaman Mar 2022 #36

Changing back and forth is the problem. we can do it Mar 2022 #38

Another communist plot just like the designated hitter... what's this country coming to?!?!?!?!? groundloop Mar 2022 #6

Arizona does not have daylight saving time, so does that mean vsrazdem Mar 2022 #8

probably have to vote on it again to get back to standard time Blues Heron Mar 2022 #26

Please leave Arizona alone and do not force ChazII Mar 2022 #14

I remember an 8 a.m. sunrise as school opened. Eugene Mar 2022 #15

Yes, Gerald Ford tried this to help combat fuel usage during the Arab oil embargo. hadEnuf Mar 2022 #41

Hopefully this will finally push the EU into doing the same. OnDoutside Mar 2022 #16

This means the Sun will be due south at 1 p.m. Qutzupalotl Mar 2022 #17

They could have accomplished the exact same thing by requiring everything to open an hour earlier. bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #24

Would this mean that 1 would be noon and midnight and 12 would be 12 AM and 12 PM? marie999 Mar 2022 #29

I think it's the other way around. Qutzupalotl Mar 2022 #34

They always do the exact opposite of what I hoped bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #18

Exactly what I wanted. OK if it's dark in the AM, but I want some light at the end of the day. SharonAnn Mar 2022 #39

Tragic. Behind the Aegis Mar 2022 #19

My thoughts exactly. Why do something meaningful? AZLD4Candidate Mar 2022 #37

Schools should start an hour later instead of buses out in the dark each am wishstar Mar 2022 #20

WTG Patty Murray! rogue emissary Mar 2022 #21

I'm starting a business to adjust sundials. Ptah Mar 2022 #22

This was one of Nixon's greatest accomplishments. Couldn't they have just split the half hour? bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #25

So in other words no need to change clocks anymore? honest.abe Mar 2022 #23

A little hesitant to pass something we did before only to reverse within 9 months. Chakaconcarne Mar 2022 #27

can states opt out if they want? Blues Heron Mar 2022 #28

States have that option currently. Arizona opts out. Eugene Mar 2022 #30

But, but, but ... VWolf Mar 2022 #31

Oooo...sunrise at 9:00 a.m. GenThePerservering Mar 2022 #32

Now, decriminalize pot and we're a shoe in for the mid terms. paleotn Mar 2022 #33

A good thing, but then we have to remember all of the devices that are automatically set to SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #35

Not this nonsense again. It was tried and failed 50 years ago. PSPS Mar 2022 #40