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A newly signed Georgia bill would make daylight-saving time permanent so criminals will have 'one less hour in the evening to commit their crimes,' official says

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Posted by Beavis 2021-04-25 00:07|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-25 02:04|| 2021-04-25 02:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Look dudes, just reclassify the zones - Eastern becomes Atlantic, Central becomes Eastern, Mountain becomes Central, and Pacific becomes Mountain. We no longer live in the tempo and world of the mid-19th Century when the original zones were codified for the new technology of railroads.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-25 07:30|| 2021-04-25 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Farmers with stock generally prefer 'Standard Time'.

More light in the AM most of the year and 'Cows don't care what your watch says'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-04-25 08:08|| 2021-04-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#4 ...well before railroads, everything was 'local' time. Prior to that the only people really 'hooked' on a specific time were mariners who needed to know Greenwich Mean Time to calculate their position in the world.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-25 08:18|| 2021-04-25 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Good idea. Bad reasoning.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-04-25 10:58|| 2021-04-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Can't control voters, maybe they can control time.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-25 11:57|| 2021-04-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Why not imitate China - one time zone for the whole country?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-04-25 12:00|| 2021-04-25 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sure there are more important issues out there, but this anachronism called daylight-saving time has to go. Good move.

Posted by Clem 2021-04-25 12:28|| 2021-04-25 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Just get rid of Daylight Savings - like the rest of the planet.

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-04-25 12:41|| 2021-04-25 12:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Was never sold on the whole daylight saving thing. After all Dairy cows don't care, it adds an unnecessary additional constant in astronomical observations.

Posted by Torquemada 2021-04-25 13:57|| 2021-04-25 13:57|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-25 17:13|| 2021-04-25 17:13|| Front Page Top

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