Daylight Savings Time

[muwarrior69]

If we didn't have DST, the sun would rise in late June in Milwaukee at about 4:15 in the morning. 

If we went to permanent DST, the sun would rise at about 9:15 in Grand Rapids in late December.

Neither of these seem ideal to me - which is why we have our current system.

Agree, but there are places in the world that are a half our difference in time zones. Afghanistan is 8.5 hours ahead of the east coast. Since we're on Daylight Saving Time why don't we just move the clock back a half hour and then we would not have to change it every year; a compromise between the two.

[muwarrior69]

No I read it right.  It said that any sunrise before 7:00 is "reasonable."  I don't think the sun rising at 4:15 AM, which it would do in Milwaukee in late June with no DST, is "reasonable."  It's too damn early.

Furthermore, I think the sun should set long after 7:35 in summer - and that would be the latest sunset time in summer in Milwaukee with no DST.

I get that people hate moving their clocks.  But when you are far east in a time zone, standard time sucks in summer.  When you are far west in a time zone, daylight savings would suck in the winter.  It seems like a reasonable compromise.

Its not just east and west. In this hemisphere the further north you go the earlier dawn and later dusk you have until you reach places like Fairbanks where the sun never sets in summer and never rises in winter. So changing the clock in those places makes little sense.

[tower912]

Northern Michigan golf industry worships DST.   Offers the promise of 54 holes in a day, finishing after 9 PM.    And the cities on the Michigan coast of Lake Michigan love promoting the late sunsets.

[dgies9156]

The downside of DST here in Florida is this time of year the sun rises at 7:30 a.m. -- in March. Yuck.

Though I love the notion of being in Seattle and NW Washington and having sunlight at 9:30 p.m., during the summer months. Or as late as 11:00 p.m., in Amsterdam.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Agree, but there are places in the world that are a half our difference in time zones. Afghanistan is 8.5 hours ahead of the east coast. Since we're on Daylight Saving Time why don't we just move the clock back a half hour and then we would not have to change it every year; a compromise between the two.

Plenty of talk in the Northeast on the subject.  States would on the same time as Atlantic Canada.

Atlantic Standard Time? Bill would move CT into a new time zone
https://www.ctpost.com/hdn/hrlm/p/fastly_redirect.html?dm=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctpost.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2FAtlantic-Standard-Time-Bill-would-move-CT-into-a-15922028.php

Massachusetts in the Atlantic time zone? Connecticut proposal raises idea again
Move would basically push daylight one hour deeper into the day during winter
https://boston.curbed.com/2019/1/15/18183515/massachusetts-atlantic-standard-time

A Delaware official wants a new time zone. Will Pennsylvania and New Jersey do the same?
Time, it seems, is not on Delaware's side. One of the state's most powerful politicians wants to the Delaware into a different time zone, essentially creating a permanent daylight saving time. But, will Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland sync their watches too?
https://www.inquirer.com/science/daylight-saving-time-delaware-new-jersey-pennsylvania-maryland-atlantic-time-20190417.html

[MU82]

Maybe this will be the one issue that united America!