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Day light savings legislation

Patriot said:
amp.cnn.com

Senate passes bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent

The Senate on Tuesday passed a measure that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent across the United States.
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Right when the rut is in full swing daylight savings happens, I think it was Nov 11th this past year. And I use it to my advantage to hunt almost every single morning in November for at least one hour before work. Get up, get coffee and get out and watch the sun rise. Nothing better.

I hope this gets shut down and congress focuses on legislation that actually matters, like curtailing hyper inflation resulting from irresponsible spending. But I digress.
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Hunting for just one hour knowing I have to go to work soon sounds not fun to me. My best morning spots the action won’t even have started yet. I’ll take the extra hour after work any day. Of course that’s just me. I wouldn’t hold out any hope whatsoever about inflation being solved.
 
BackSpasm said:
Lol, dude you must drive your poor wife nuts!!!
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Hehehe....she puts up with a lot. But she is way more quick witted than me and she knows how to shut me down quick when I mess with her....we laugh a lot....believe it or not I don't talk much in person...I like I can speak freely/joke around with all u imaginary friends.
 
This past November really screwed me up, more than ever before. I couldn't sleep past 4:30am... Found myself sitting up in silence every morning for 3 hours, trying to not wake the kids. Then couldn't keep my eyes open past 9 at night.
At least I'm seeing 5's on the clock now when I wake, heck... Even made it to my 6:00 alarm the other morning! And I can make it through a show after the kids go to bed.
I'd be fine if DST went away.
 
With kids and stuff its hard for me to get out to hunt during the week unless I take an entire day off. My schedule, my wife's work schedule and my kids activities put a big dent in that. Selfishly, being able to have some traps out to check within 10-15 minutes of my home in the AM makes the DST work for me in November. As my kids are getting older that is changing but I feel guilty has heck if my wife has to shluck kids around while I'm sitting in the woods. Just eats away at me. My work start time is 8am but I'm there by 7:30 usually as I take my kids to school in the morning now they're in middle school.
 
Fortunate enough to have a very flexible work schedule. I can hunt mornings and/or afternoons if I want. I have hated DST (or more accurate the change from Standard to DST) pretty much all my life. Hope it passes but don't care one whit whether we end up on standard time or DST.
 
St.CroixArcher said:
I start work at 6 so I’ll take the hour in the evening. Question for the before work hunters. What do you do if you shoot something?
I’m guessing you have enough flexibility to call in on short notice or you give the old dry cough hoarse voice not feeling well excuse.
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I've always had better luck on evening hunts. I've had 30 years in a job where my boss was a bow hunter and was super understanding about my sickness. I could get time off if the wind was blowing a certain way.
 
I think your stage in life has a lot to do with this. With the proposal of sticking to DST year round it would be well after 8 o'clock before it breaks day in the winter here. I've got two little girls under the age of six. They would be at school while it's still dark in the mornings. Lots of kids catching the bus in the dark is not exactly the safest practice in the world.
 
Squirrels said:
I think your stage in life has a lot to do with this. With the proposal of sticking to DST year round it would be well after 8 o'clock before it breaks day in the winter here. I've got two little girls under the age of six. They would be at school while it's still dark in the mornings. Lots of kids catching the bus in the dark is not exactly the safest practice in the world.
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I understand that logic but it begs the question why they change it when they do because right now the kids are standing in the dark waiting for the bus because they have already changed the time....
 
Here in MN, elementary schools don't start till 9:30... so it isn't as much of an issue but still... if u we stay on DST, then the shorter daylight months are already covered... I see little reason to switch back for the summer months
 
Not getting political but I suspect the reason we are seeing this right now is because this is something that politicians on both sides of the isle can just wave a magic wand over, sign a document and get a result when so much that is going on in the world, they can't do that with and anything to distract us from things like paying $4.00 or more for a gallon of gas they are delighted to do so.
 
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