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Confusing Times

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Morning views of clouds.

I’m so confused. It’s because of the time change or NOT.

Where I live, we don’t change time in the Springs or Fall. But when everybody else does across the country, it’s strange. We went from Pacific Standard Time to Mountain Standard Time overnight. This makes it confusing making phone calls to my kids who are now in a diffferent time zone than me. It also raises havoc with the TV schedule.

We don’t Spring Forward or Fall Back. I wish the rest of the country would be on our schedule.

I wrote about the confusing times HERE.

From NBC News, here is a bit of history about the time change:

Why is this happening?

The practice, established by the Standard Time Act in 1918, according to the U.S. Astronomical Applications Department, is an effort to extend the daylight hours we have in the summertime by pushing off sunset an extra hour.

Daylight saving time, a contested idea after it was first passed, was quickly repealed in 1919, becoming a local matter. It was re-enacted during the early days of World War II and was observed from 1942-1945, according to the department.

After the war, the implementation of daylight saving time varied from state to state until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966, which standardized the dates of daylight saving time but allowed for local exemptions if states or localities did not want to participate.

According to the department, the standardized start and end dates have been changed throughout the years, but since 2007, daylight saving time has started on the second Sunday in March and ended on the first Sunday in November.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/know-daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-rcna178497

What are your thoughts about Standard Times versus Daylight Savings Time?

Time change

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Saguaro
Saguaro during a morning hike this week.

In Arizona, we don’t change time with the rest of the nation. At first, I was thrilled with this. But in reality, if the rest of the country changes time, we aren’t standing still.

For example, my husband starts work an hour earlier. The TV doesn’t stop changing times of shows. Everything is on an hour earlier.

It is confusing. It takes a little time for me to adjust to our new schedule.

I like the idea of not changing time, but time does not stay still.

In California, they voted to end time changes in 2018:

Didn’t Californians vote on this issue? Yes, sort of, but it isn’t quite that simple. 

In November 2018, voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 7. But the measure only allowed the Legislature to change daylight saving time, either by establishing it year-round or abolishing it. 

A change still requires a two-thirds majority of both the state Assembly and Senate and the governor’s signature. Permanently keeping daylight saving time also requires congressional action — and that hasn’t happened.  

California doesn’t have to wait on Congress to use standard time, which is what Hawaii and most of Arizona do. 

So this year Republican Sen. Roger Niello of Roseville introduced legislation to do away with daylight saving time for good and establish standard time year-round. (Westminster Republican Tri Ta is carrying a twin bill in the Assembly.) 

Arguing that standard time makes “the most sense,” Niello says his bill has the backing of the California Medical Association. A large portion of the medical and sleep expert communities also agree that standard time coincides better with people’s natural clocks. 

This story originally appeared in Calmatters.
The post Why daylight saving time is starting again in California amid debates, legislative hurdles appeared first on Local News Matters.

This reminds me of a song by Simon and Garfunkel that beings with “Time, time, time, see what’s become of me.”

What are your thoughts about the time change?

Would you prefer not changing time? If so, would you like standard time or daylight savings?