I always hated daylight savings. The whole week after I am all screwed up and tired
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Day light savings legislation
- Thread starter Patriot
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Someone help me understand how this is going to affect my hunting. Currently, early season it is getting daylight pretty late like 7:30am and night at 6:30. Since there will no longer be the daylight savings the day will still start around 7-730 during the season and it’ll get dark at what, 6:30 early season and I guess 6 late season?
You… you do know that the govt made daylight savings time in the first place right?
As a 12 hour shift worker I can honestly say time changes are the least of my internal clock issues. Heck it could occur every month and I’m not sure my body would ever realize it. I would be in favor of the later winter days just so I could enjoy some day light at home on my schedule dayshifts.
Everybody loves fall backward.... nobody likes spring forward. Can we keep falling backward??????? As a part time trapper, who works full time, I enjoy that extra hour of daylight in the morning before work to check my sets. For me, trying to hunt before work is a no go but after...... for sure. I'm just glad our state followed most other states this year and added an hour overall to our hunting time for big game. Now our season is one-half hour before sunrise and one-half hour after sundown. The only caveat was that they were able to now require blaze orange or pink for gun season. Before, blaze orange or pink was never a requirement in our state. In my opinion and being a volunteer hunter safety instructor, it makes sense to wear blaze orange or pink during firearms season. The only fatality in NY this year and btw, our state had a record low number of incidents.... 9 total incidents down from 12 the year before. The only fatality was during firearms season. A hunting party of two were deer hunting and the one didn't make out their target before pulling the trigger. The other was his buddy who wasn't wearing blaze orange. Guess who lost that one? Sad. Anyway, I never understand these accidents where if you don't know for 100% whether its a deer or not, you still pull the trigger???? Sorry to derail.
Sorry but everybody doesn't love fall backwards. Come November when we fall back it ends my afternoon sits as I don't have time to get home and get out hunting before dark even though I hunt right out my back door. That means if I want to hunt after the time change I have to get up early which I absolutely hate and then I am up in a tree hunting and don't want to leave to go to work. I am often late for work as a result.
Hey, as long as we are talking about time travel, I say we fall back to 1982.
I'm probably in the minority in the fact that I wish we would just stay on standard time. As we approach summer equinox under daylight savings it's still light at nine o'clock, that'd be 8 under standard time. That's enough light for me.
I despise time changing but I would vote to stay on DST versus standard time myself. I hate it in the fall when I've been getting up at 5:30 to go deer hunt and suddenly I have to get up at 4:30, its a mental thing.
I'm of the mindset to let it be. Is it confusing at first sure, however you quickly get on with it and don't think about it anymore a week after it happens. For those of you who have to deal with systems that don't adjust easily or accordingly I can understand the frustration.
From the hunting aspect of it I enjoy it as I prefer evening sits, due to waking up early every day of the week as so as it is being able to sleep in on Saturday is a plus. The evening sits allow me to put in a full day and still have plenty of time to be in the saddle. Once the time shifts my evening hunts are done and I am then relegated to Saturday hunts, which I try to avoid due to hunting public.
For work it's another beast in itself. I'm a site manager for a construction company. Most sites do not allow machinery, generators, or power tools prior to 7 am, however we don't typically have as hard of a rule on when to quit for noise reasons. When DLST initially hits it shifts from getting to working light around 6:20 to 7:20, however later in the summer it's light by 5:30 if not earlier anyways. That's already 90 minutes of working light unavailable with the sun beginning to bake. If DLST wasn't used it would be light by 4-4:30 everyday and midday temps would shift to 10-11 AM. Quite frankly seeing higher temps earlier in the day is not a good thing and can be dangerous. We all know nearby residents will start complaining of people begin working at 5-6 am waking the children and getting the dogs to bark.
From the hunting aspect of it I enjoy it as I prefer evening sits, due to waking up early every day of the week as so as it is being able to sleep in on Saturday is a plus. The evening sits allow me to put in a full day and still have plenty of time to be in the saddle. Once the time shifts my evening hunts are done and I am then relegated to Saturday hunts, which I try to avoid due to hunting public.
For work it's another beast in itself. I'm a site manager for a construction company. Most sites do not allow machinery, generators, or power tools prior to 7 am, however we don't typically have as hard of a rule on when to quit for noise reasons. When DLST initially hits it shifts from getting to working light around 6:20 to 7:20, however later in the summer it's light by 5:30 if not earlier anyways. That's already 90 minutes of working light unavailable with the sun beginning to bake. If DLST wasn't used it would be light by 4-4:30 everyday and midday temps would shift to 10-11 AM. Quite frankly seeing higher temps earlier in the day is not a good thing and can be dangerous. We all know nearby residents will start complaining of people begin working at 5-6 am waking the children and getting the dogs to bark.
I think the Nixon Administration tried what is being discussed now in the early 70's and initially there was a lot of public support then there were a lot of unforeseen issues, and in a couple of years they went back to changing clocks again.
I actually love it. Hope it passes
I get it not all of us are big time influencers who get to hunt 6-7 days a week mornings and afternoons to hunt.
Then scout in between.
Time is limited for most of us and this bill will have im sure mixed emotions.
For me it just works so much better being able to hunt alot more afternoons than any other times.
I work every day til 3 at the latest.
usualy 7-3.
Also with me just seems it is getting tougher and tougher to get up at 3:30-4am. Lol
People say rut mornings are magic times but where I hunt, any time in the right spot can he magic time.
its why some of us try to-take every moment we have to scout, scout and hunt
I actually am starting to enjoy the scouting and finding or learning new things more than hunting lol.
Limited time brings limited opportunities so us regular peoples need to work that much harder to do that needs to be done that present opportunities with the very limited time we are dealt.
Me? I hope it passes and it stays lighter longer in the day.
The deer wont change.
They don't practice daylight savings time lol
But, like i always say.
“What works for one may not work for another”
I get it not all of us are big time influencers who get to hunt 6-7 days a week mornings and afternoons to hunt.
Then scout in between.
Time is limited for most of us and this bill will have im sure mixed emotions.
For me it just works so much better being able to hunt alot more afternoons than any other times.
I work every day til 3 at the latest.
usualy 7-3.
Also with me just seems it is getting tougher and tougher to get up at 3:30-4am. Lol
People say rut mornings are magic times but where I hunt, any time in the right spot can he magic time.
its why some of us try to-take every moment we have to scout, scout and hunt
I actually am starting to enjoy the scouting and finding or learning new things more than hunting lol.
Limited time brings limited opportunities so us regular peoples need to work that much harder to do that needs to be done that present opportunities with the very limited time we are dealt.
Me? I hope it passes and it stays lighter longer in the day.
The deer wont change.
They don't practice daylight savings time lol
But, like i always say.
“What works for one may not work for another”
Good points. The deer around here are on daylight hiding time. It kicks in Oct 1st and ends January 31st at dark, lol.
Getting up at 0500 to hunt is my limit 0400 is not going to happen, and going to bed 1 hr early just to go hunt, will never happen at my house. I fooled around and married a smart woman who knows how to control things without saying a word and most of the time I'm not even in the know.
I just want it to stay consistent throughout the year. Standard time would actually be my preference, because it will be light enough in the morning to shoot my bow before I have to get the kids up for school for more days throughout the year. As far as affecting my hunting time, I dont see a difference. regardless of what the clock says if I want to hunt when conditions are right I need to take time off work to do so.
I don't have strong feelings about the time change either way, but I feel very strongly that trying to justify it by saying there will be less crime and car accidents is the stupidest thing I ever heard. Alaska would be the most deadly place in the country half the year, and the safest place the other half by that logic.