Thread: Permanent summer time

Originally Posted by BobH

That only works in places that only run one shift. Running one shift is not normally the most efficient way of production nor the cheapest.

Bob

I agree with your point. This was a small lost wax casting company. At most 100 employees.

There was only 4 of us that worked in the "hot" area melting and pouring the metal.

Not cheap but precision work.

Originally Posted by 32t

I agree with your point. This was a small lost wax casting company. At most 100 employees.

There was only 4 of us that worked in the "hot" area melting and pouring the metal.

Not cheap but precision work.

IIRC Ruger uses that process to make guns with. From what I have read they run a 10hr shift 5 days a week with lots of mandatory Saturday shifts too.

Bob

Reading about how this actually made it past the U.S. Senate makes me think that the whole thing will never see the light of day, so to speak.

I haven't heard about its passage through the Senate. That said, everybody hates the time change. I can't believe we haven't abolished it already. It's the stupidest thing and whoever's idea it was to implement it deserves a slap.

I think it does have value in some latitudes and time zones.

Well by the time November comes I look forward to changing the clocks, then the same again in March. I get bored easily. It's a bit like Christmas decorations, I look forward to putting them up but as soon as New Year's done I can't wait to get them down again.

My next door neighbor still has her Santa seated on a swing and going backwards and forwards every night lit up by a red floodlight. Its almost April for goodness sake.

Originally Posted by STF

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My next door neighbor still has her Santa seated on a swing and going backwards and forwards every night lit up by a red floodlight. Its almost April for goodness sake.

Off topic I know but a few years ago I took the family to Atlanta where I used to live. Actually I've lived there twice. I was born there and moved here to Florida when I was 9 then lived there again in the 80s for a little less than a year.

Anyway, I took them out to the place we lived in 1973 and as we were driving I told them, "Oh yeah, just up here on the right these people kept their Christmas lights up all year." and as we drove past I pointed. Don't you know they were STILL up almost 50 years later.

For what it's worth, here's a link to an article supporting what I am in favor of, moving to permanent Standard Time rather than permanent Daylight Savings Time:

https://theconversation.com/why-dayl...xplains-175427

When they did it when Carter was President to save fuel folks loved it at first. Then little kids going to school in the morning were in the dark and kids were being run over cause cars couldn't see them and accidents increased and all of a sudden folks hated it and they undid it.

So start school later...

Before clocks we based everything on daylight anyway. Your talking about a difference of 20 to thirty minutes. OR, as has been stated. Split the difference and move it 30 minutes in between. Clocks are a contrived measurement anyway.