During my entire career in the US auto industry we used the metric system. I think we got faked.Right after we switch to the metric system
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In the Midwest, the corn crop is significantly larger with the extra hour if daylight. Without that extra hour, it has been proven that the corn and soybean crops would be ~6.5% smaller, and could pose a potential food shortage, especially with animal feeds.
Cows also give more milk, and chickens lay an additional egg every two weeks, which in the long run, is very significant.
So, Daylight savings time is here to stay.
I do not want to eliminate daylight savings time... I want to make it permanent for the full year!
This is a joke right?
+1First World Problems ... IMHO
I wouldn't mind seeing it go into effect for the full year, as well. I suffer a bit from the sunlight deprivation disorder or whatever they call it. Our earliest sunset around here is 4:45 pm, from around November 30-December 13. I think I'd like 5:45 pm a bit better.
The downside of that, I guess, is having it be so dark in the morning. Personally, I don't mind that...when I'm up before the sun, it feels like I'm getting a good head start on the day. But a lot of people don't like going to work in the dark. I think I'd rather go to work in the dark, than come home in it, though.
Brings back memories of working for a global company. For the first couple of days people around the world would be early or late to US based video or teleconferences because of the time change. A real PITA..I live in the Philippines and just realized that DST was now in effect when I discovered the market was not open yet (now we are 13 hours ahead of New York instead of 12 hours).
Right now I hate DST since the switch costs me about 3 extra hours a week in work time (dealing with overseas sites that don't switch).
In 6 months I won't care as much...one more switch to go
I hate it. It's such a nuisance. Just pick an offset to GMT and stick with it.
This is a joke right?