Comments on: Senate Won’t Move Panhandle To Eastern Time, Keeps Year Round Daylight Saving Time

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:43:48 +0000

@ DW ~ you’re absolutely right you can stay up and go to bed anytime you want, however there are customs that the rest of society tends to follow. Schools begin at a certain time of the day, businesses operate at certain times of the day, and programming is based on the clock. By artificially shifting the clock, we determine what time of day will occur when the sun is at a certain point in the sky, such that it will give us the maximum sunlight either in the morning or in the evening.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:36:42 +0000

@ BRDJCJC – The time zones are based on (roughly) lines of longitude, which converge at the poles and are at their widest separation at the equator, hence a wider time zone map in the south. And, not all of Texas is in the Central Time Zone.

By: WS

WS — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:31:05 +0000

DW I’m not sure where you took science class at but the revolution of the Earth around the sun has nothing to do with how much daylight you have. The rotation of the Earth on its axis and the tilt of the Earth on its axis determines how much daylight you have.

By: ROBERT

ROBERT — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:26:51 +0000

Old Indian proverb about daylight savings time…….Only the government would believe that if you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”

By: DW

DW — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:01:00 +0000

I wish people would take a science class. The clock on the wall doesn’t determine how much day light you get. The rotation of the earth around the sun determines how much day light you get. I don’t care what the clock says. I can get up as early or stay up as late as I want , to do whatever I want.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:39:46 +0000

This all started when that south Florida Senator had a buddy of his, who is a barber, visit Pensacola and he was discombobulated because he had to change his watch when he arrived and when he left Pensacola. The guy isn’t even from here, yet he went to his Senator buddy and somehow talked him into introducing the bill. That Senator should be ashamed! Two people, not even from here, messing with our ways!

By: BRDJCJC

BRDJCJC — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 02:36:14 +0000

For years I have been wanting to be either daylight savings all year or Eastern Time (not both, though). I dread the time change in the fall because that means that my kids can’t play outside after school. It’s dark much too early! I think the Central Time zone is much too wide in the south, and we don’t belong in the same time zone as Texas. I would love to switch to an hour ahead and stay there!!!

By: Nod

Nod — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:34:03 +0000

Daylight Savings Time year-round we Spring Forward and leave it there

By: tg

tg — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:47:30 +0000

Grand Locust, well said its like that’s a pressing matter.

By: Debi Blanton

Debi Blanton — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:10:27 +0000

Work on the real issues and leave time zones and daylight savings time alone!