Possible daylight savings changes!!!!!!!!

[Central Iowa]

Looks like we might have three more weeks that the rush home from work to make it to the stand will be eased a little. Always hate when the time changes. Makes it hard to get home cleaned up and on stand early enough. Hope it makes it!


By:Kandace Raymond


Lawmakers' efforts to save energy mean changing daylight savings time.

This week, lawmakers in Washington passed a bill to extend daylight savings time by two months. This is according to congressman Jim Marshall's office.

Supporters of the bill hope extending the time will save energy, because the more light there is at night, the less energy you use.

Golfers we spoke with are happy about the change because it means they will have 60 more days to get on the greens after work.

But some parents we spoke with are concerned the change will mean their children will walk to school in the dark and the kids are concerned too.

DANIEL CHOI, SCHOOL WALKER:
"Walking in the dark could be awesome, it's also dangerous, because you could accidentally go into the street and then you would get hit by a car accidentally if you don't see in the dark very good, so probably that would be painful."

VERNON RYLE, GOLFER:
"It means I'll get to play more, hopefully my game will stay better, during the winter time you tend to not have enough time playing and you get rusty."

According to the US House of Representative's website, the daylight savings time comes from an act passed in 1966.

Right now a special committee is working on a final version of the bill to send back for the House and Senate to vote on again. Then the bill will go to President Bush for his signature.

 

[ironwood]

That would get us through the peek of the rut before falling back. Sounds good to me.

 

[DOR]

Sounds good to me as well. Never have been a real good morning person! 3:30 am is dang early to be getting up. 4:30 should be better!

 

[livtahunt]

that isn't suppose to happen till next year. i hoe they do it ! i would'nt mind if they did away with daylight savings time all together

 

[tracker]

I have never been a big fan of daylight savings either, I'd rather have some light for fun after I get done with work.

 

[kbgibby]

Tracker,

Daylight savings time is what gives you extra hours of light at the end of the day! Doing away with it would cut your after work daylight by an hour, unless you're working night shifts.

 

[Liv4Rut]

This alone would increase the harvest dramatically, most folks won't go out for the last half hour like some of us, but wouldn't mind going out for the last hour and a half

 

[Shredder]

It kills my hunting schedule....I usually can't get out of work soon enough of a day but can hit it in the morning after the daylight savings time ends

I really wish we did not recognize DST at all, just a pain in the backside all around.

 

[Blaster]

I'm with you shredder! I like going out for a couple of hours before i go to work. This would kill that!

 

[Monsterbuck]

[ QUOTE ]
Tracker,

Daylight savings time is what gives you extra hours of light at the end of the day! Doing away with it would cut your after work daylight by an hour, unless you're working night shifts.

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Daylight savings time doesn't give you hours at the end of the day. When daylight savings begins you set your clock back an hour ("spring forward, fall back"). That means that what was once say a 6:30pm sunset is now a 5:30 pm sunset. By delaying the start of daylight savings time a couple of months we'll delay losing an hour of daylight in the evenings that period of time.

 

[DOR]

passed house, but not suppose to take affect until 07 if implemented

 

[kbgibby]

[ QUOTE ]
When daylight savings begins you set your clock back an hour ("spring forward, fall back"). By delaying the start of daylight savings time a couple of months we'll delay losing an hour of daylight in the evenings that period of time.

[/ QUOTE ]

You're contradicting yourself. When we switch from CST to DST in the spring, you turn the clock ahead (spring forward) an hour. So what was a 5:30 p.m. sunset becomes a 6:30 p.m. sunset.

The bill doesn't delay the start of daylight savings time. It does just the opposite ... starting it earlier in the spring and ending it later in the fall.

 

[DOR]

In the spring you will get 1 more hour before it gets dark Ie 530 evening darkness will be 630 evening darkness. The opposite in the morning. You will get this effect 3 weeks earlier in march.

Starting in november the daylight will stay this way and extra week till the first sunday of nov. After that it will get light an hour earlier. This is correct i believe!

 

[Central Iowa]

Either way I got it covered I will go to work late and leave early to make up for it!

 

[150 Class]

I like it. One extra hour of sleep before needing to head out to the tree stand in the morning and one extra hour of daylight for the afternoon hunts.