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#295251 16-Mar-2022 13:52

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300542261/us-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-takes-another-step

The United States Senate has voted to end the biannual practice of "spring forward" and "fall back" under a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent - a move that reflects the increasingly popular view that the twice-yearly disruption hurts sleep and poses health and safety risks.

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#2887151 16-Mar-2022 14:00

Interesting. Hawaii has never had DST, something I've always thought was a great shame considering the great weather later into the evenings.

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#2887152 16-Mar-2022 14:00

Wouldn't mind if it happened here too. Takes me ages to get used to the clocks changing now.

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#2887153 16-Mar-2022 14:02

quickymart:

Wouldn't mind if it happened here too. Takes me ages to get used to the clocks changing now.

Agreed, I would vote for DST all year around.

I find winter very difficult. One day when I retire, I dream of spending my summers here and winters somewhere warm with DST.

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#2887158 16-Mar-2022 14:09

I find it peculiar that people complain about getting used to DST changes. It only happens twice year. Yet the same people gad about the globe on planes suffering from jet lag and there is really no difference between that and DST changes.

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#2887160 16-Mar-2022 14:13

Bananabob:

I find it peculiar that people complain about getting used to DST changes. It only happens twice year. Yet the same people gad about the globe on planes suffering from jet lag and there is really no difference between that and DST changes.

As someone who has travelled reasonably extensively I find the disruption by DST with a young family, much more significant than jetlag, though it can vary. Perhaps the adrenalin and excitement of travel plays a part.

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#2887161 16-Mar-2022 14:13

I don't travel much (even before coronavirus), so that doesn't really affect me. As to the clock changes, takes me months to get used to it, then we change them...again...

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#2887163 16-Mar-2022 14:15

Keeping DST in winter will mean going to work in the dark, with still very frozen frost and icy roads. And potential your kids going to school in the morning when it is still dark and frosty.

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#2887185 16-Mar-2022 15:16

quickymart:

Wouldn't mind if it happened here too. Takes me ages to get used to the clocks changing now.

We are already on 30 mins permanent daylight saving. Have been since WWII.

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#2887238 16-Mar-2022 15:34

djtOtago:

Keeping DST in winter will mean going to work in the dark, with still very frozen frost and icy roads. And potential your kids going to school in the morning when it is still dark and frosty.

True, but that doesn't apply everywhere - roads don't get that icy in Auckland.

In that case, maybe the argument could be to leave it on Standard Time all year round then?

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#2887266 16-Mar-2022 16:22

I'd rather have daylight savings time all year round. If that means the roads are icy in Dunedin at 8am, who cares, people shouldn't live there anyway (tongue firmly in cheek in case that wasn't blindingly obvious).

It's quite hard given our geography and the time difference between say Auckland and Dunedin to really justify moving to summer time all year round, as much as I personally think DST and the flip-flop is stupid.

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#2887283 16-Mar-2022 16:48

If its too icy in the morning in winter, then just have winter hours that start later? Better idea than changing the clocks IMO.

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#2887306 16-Mar-2022 17:25

quickymart:
Wouldn't mind if it happened here too. Takes me ages to get used to the clocks changing now.

In Auckland it might be ok but further south it would be very difficult.

In Christchurch in June/July sunrise is 8am now, it would be 9am

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#2887308 16-Mar-2022 17:27

richms:

If its too icy in the morning in winter, then just have winter hours that start later? Better idea than changing the clocks IMO.

If you lived in Dunedin then you’d know that winter hours starting later is unlikely to be a very good solution. During the depths of winter there are many properties that get no sun at all and have ice remaining in the afternoon. It might work better to get people to work and school before the frost forms so that would be changing the clocks in the opposite direction.

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#2887315 16-Mar-2022 17:43

I don't really care what time it is. I just wish it wouldn't keep changing. The difference is only one hour. If that is too much for some people, why not compromise on a half-hour? It works for Australia.

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#2887516 17-Mar-2022 10:17

USA is not guaranteed to remove DST it has only passed in Senate, now it has to pass in House and get President to sign it. May never happen. I have absolutely no problem with retaining DST in NZ. It is lovely to have the extra hour of dayight in Summer and as for being dark in Winter time when going to work what the heck time do you people start work. Around my area I have people starting work from 4am onwards. They have to travel in Dark all the year round. For a few months of the year to have it darker in morning it is surely offset by the extra hour in summer time. If people really have trouble changing their time source please but some modern time devices that change time automatically.

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