“Having more daylight year-round would have so many benefits…from helping improve folks’ physical and mental well-being to saving on high energy costs. Longer days and shorter nights could also help reduce crime in our neighborhoods and boost retail sales and tourism dollars in Illinois,” state Rep. Brad Halbrook said.
This is so massively dumb. Ummmm……there is the same amount of day and night year round on average. 12 hours of each I’m thinking. Politicians may think that they are all powerful, but the basic physics of the earth and the sun can’t be changed.
BB
1 year ago
Daylight savings time all year long was tried in the 1970’s. It was a miserable failure and was quickly discontinued. Rep.Holbrook is either too young to remember that fiasco or he lived through it and has forgotten the misery it created in the winter months. It’s a really stupid idea.
Frank Goudy
1 year ago
Totally agree with this!
Peter Brunk
1 year ago
Ahh. You can have sunlight later or earlier but you cannot have longer days AND shorter nights.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I say we should keep Standard Time all year long!
This is so massively dumb. Ummmm……there is the same amount of day and night year round on average. 12 hours of each I’m thinking. Politicians may think that they are all powerful, but the basic physics of the earth and the sun can’t be changed.
Daylight savings time all year long was tried in the 1970’s. It was a miserable failure and was quickly discontinued. Rep.Holbrook is either too young to remember that fiasco or he lived through it and has forgotten the misery it created in the winter months. It’s a really stupid idea.
Totally agree with this!
Ahh. You can have sunlight later or earlier but you cannot have longer days AND shorter nights.
Thank you!
Mother Nature doesn’t give a fig about what the clock reads. Daylight savings is an artificial construct.