DST causes kids to be wandering around in the dark in the mornings waiting for the bus or walking to school.  I don't care if every adult in the world likes DST, if it causes one extra kid to get hit by a car because of it, it isn't worth it.  I vote to do away with it.  Want "more" daylight?  Get up earlier.

10 minutes ago, Jaderose said:

DST causes kids to be wandering around in the dark in the mornings waiting for the bus or walking to school.

They already go so early they get on in the dark.  It isn't a problem.

6 minutes ago, J Francho said:

They already go so early they get on in the dark.  It isn't a problem.

For a part of the year, yes, but last week the kids were going in the light.  Now they are in the dark again with the time change last Sunday.  I get it and understand the reason why it's so popular and I'm not critical of anyone that thinks differently than I do.  I just worry about the kids more than I do an "extra" hour of daylight at the end of the day.  I'm also the type of person that does not need an alarm to get up early and it makes no difference whether it's DST or not.

 

The world would be better with fewer clocks

1 hour ago, Jaderose said:

I just worry about the kids more than I do an "extra" hour of daylight at the end of the day.

Is there any data that would support this?  I think you're worried about something that isn't a problem.

 

I guess we don't agree on it, it's cool.

8 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Is there any data that would support this?  I think you're worried about something that isn't a problem.

 

I guess we don't agree on it, it's cool.

Research done:

"Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research."

 

"Prior to 2007, we saw the risk increase in April, and when daylight saving time moved to March, so did the risk increase," said Vetter. "That gave us even more confidence that the risk increase we observe is indeed attributable to the daylight saving time switch, and not something else."

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.htm

Yeah, that's more of an argument to make for NOT changing the clocks.  I was looking for data of kids getting hit by cars waiting for the bus.

23 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Yeah, that's more of an argument to make for NOT changing the clocks.  I was looking for data of kids getting hit by cars waiting for the bus.

My "data" is across the street from my house where all the neighborhood kids congregate in the morning to get on the multiple busses that pick them up to take them to school. 

I also wish they would do away with DST. Like @Jaderose said all of the kids would be going to school in the dark. One of our local weather men said he wanted to stay on standard time. He says where the weather information comes from is an hour later getting here in DST. This can be critical in getting the info out in times of severe weather conditions. I don't like the idea of not seeing daylight till close to 9A.M. or dark till after 9P.M. 

2 minutes ago, Log Catcher said:

I also wish they would do away with DST. Like @Jaderose said all of the kids would be going to school in the dark. One of our local weather men said he wanted to stay on standard time. He says where the weather information comes from is an hour later getting here in DST. This can be critical in getting the info out in times of severe weather conditions. I don't like the idea of not seeing daylight till close to 9A.M. or dark till after 9P.M. 

What?????? How would that even work? I hope he explained himself. If not, what is his name? I would like to reach out to him as I am interested to know how that is even possible. 

7 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said:

What?????? How would that even work? I hope he explained himself. If not, what is his name? I would like to reach out to him as I am interested to know how that is even possible. 

Maybe they're like the Military and run on 'Zulu Time' - otherwise known as Greenwich Mean Time. Since GMT never changes - if the automated system that sends out weather data is running on GMT, then it would arrive 1 hour later during DST.

7 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said:

What?????? How would that even work? I hope he explained himself. If not, what is his name? I would like to reach out to him as I am interested to know how that is even possible. 

He did not have time to go in to a detailed explanation of how it worked the way it did. I think @MN Fisher nailed it as to how it works.

Why is this one weather man the only one who has to wait an hour for weather updates? I live in tornado alley and I think if this were real, I would have heard about it by now. Maybe he should get on the internet. I can see live radar anywhere in the world. No idea why it would be delayed an hour. 

 

He should have just said he felt sorry for the kids waiting on the bus. LOL

 

Edit - So, I did a little research. Here is what I found. “So on a typical summer eastern daylight time, the models, we will have all the model in say by a little after 2 o’clock in the afternoon. And we turn that around into a forecast between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard time we will have all those by one o’clock in the afternoon, and we are still issuing the afternoon forecast between 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.”  

 

Followed by this line "Steve Rowley, with the national weather service, says the extra hour of forecasting is helpful."

 

 

So, this guy is saying the extra hour is good for forecasting.