Comments on: Northwest Florida Senators Oppose Plan To Move Area To The Eastern Time Zone

By: Panhandle resident

Panhandle resident — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 11:34:58 +0000

To the post: Dorothy on February 2nd, 2018 12:41 pm

Speak for yourself Dorothy, you do not speak for the panhandle so don’t use “we” in your post. The majority of people I have talked to strongly oppose moving to the eastern time zone. Apparently you do not understand the Earth rotates or the seasons.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:41:00 +0000

We strongly oppose remaining in the central time zone. We demand that the panhandle be placed in the eastern time zone. At one time the panhandle voted to be placed in the eastern time zone but was never enacted. The panhandle is in the state of Florida and we should all be on the same time zone. Leave DST as it is and we will go to DST with rest of the country at the same time. Senators, move the panhandle to eastern time zone.

By: Immik

Immik — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 05:14:36 +0000

I am all for staying in central time zone but if we do that and eliminate daylight savings time, there would still be a problem when Alabama observe dst we would be in different time zones until months later when dst ends for Alabama. Leave things alone.

By: SF

SF — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:47:44 +0000

@ Alabama not my concern

It shouldn’t be your concern that people choose to cross the state line. The people that do cross the state line have always done so in the same time zone. I doubt they are concerned with you either. You don’t get to tell people where to work.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:09:20 +0000

I am glad that our senators oppose this bill. I don’t want to see it pass either. However, I see a lot of people posting here that we should do away with daylight savings time. They use the quote about it being dumb to cut a foot off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it to the top and expecting a longer blanket to illustrate their point. But that misses the idea it entirely. Daylight savings time doesn’t seek to lengthen a day. It takes unused daylight that happens BEFORE we wake up and moves it to the afternoon when we can use it. The sun comes up here at 5:47 am on June 21st, the longest day of the year. Without daylight savings time, the sun would come up at 4:47 am. I don’t wake up that early, so that hour of sunshine is totally wasted for me. Likewise, we need to be on regular time in the winter because the sun rises at 6:42 am on December 21st. If daylight savings time were in place, the sun would come up at 7:42 am – far too late. All of this happens because the amount of sunlight and the times of sunrise and sunset vary greatly throughout the year. DST reduces the variation. The chart at this link shows the impact that daylight savings time has on making sunrise more regular (this chart is not for our area, but the effect is very similar here):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#/media/File:Greenwich_GB_DaylightChart.png

By: linda

linda — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:55:56 +0000

Keep us in the CST. Do away with daylight savings time

By: Concerned

Concerned — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:06:46 +0000

Just say No to time change! What a ridiculous idea.

By: Alabama not my concern

Alabama not my concern — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 02:30:18 +0000

I have zero concern about Alabama’s time difference. I was Florida born and Florida raised. Florida is where I live, spend my money, cast my vote, pay my taxes, etc…. but I too am against changing to EST, but not because it would inconvenience those who “choose” to cross state lines daily.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 01:59:19 +0000

Makes sense to keep us like we are.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:48:47 +0000

This would create huge issues for people who live in AL and work in FL & Vice Versa. Not to mention the safety of our children. So glad that our Senators are speaking out for the people in this area. Keep the panhandle on CST but get rid of day light savings time for the whole country. It is depressing during the months when it gets dark early, cost us more in electricity, don’t do any shopping after dark and it is very tough on our bodies.