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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson Mar 11

    Odd, isn't it. Every reason given for Daylight Saving Time in summer months could just as well apply to winter months.

    5:11 AM - 11 Mar 2018
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      2. Vote November 6th  ✊‏ @k2thah Mar 11
        Replying to @neiltyson

        It actually is very smart if you consider how it is designed to conserve energy use. Bush2 moved it ahead several weeks in March and pushed it back in Fall. It’s one of his administrations policy I never faulted.

        10 replies 0 retweets 66 likes
      3. Guido Rossetti‏ @guido_rossetti Mar 11
        Replying to @k2thah @neiltyson

        Studies show that almost no energy is saved. The risks outweighs the benefits.

        6 replies 3 retweets 203 likes
      4. Vote November 6th  ✊‏ @k2thah Mar 11
        Replying to @guido_rossetti @neiltyson

        “A 2017 meta-analysis of 44 studies found that DST leads to electricity savings of (only) 0.34% during the days when DST applies.” 0.34% is something over hundreds of 1000’s of households in DST observed countries. I for 1 welcome the coming sunlight after 9pm in my Lat.

        5 replies 0 retweets 51 likes
      5. Guido Rossetti‏ @guido_rossetti Mar 11
        Replying to @k2thah @neiltyson

        Thank you for demonstrating that I'm right.

        1 reply 0 retweets 73 likes
      6. Vote November 6th  ✊‏ @k2thah Mar 11
        Replying to @guido_rossetti @neiltyson

        But you are not.

        1 reply 0 retweets 20 likes
      7. Guido Rossetti‏ @guido_rossetti Mar 11
        Replying to @k2thah @neiltyson

        Yes I am. 0.34% is nothing. How can you force an entire country to make something that only saves 0.34%? That’s literally nothing. Climate change is far greater than that and people are still “discussing it” for being such a low impact. Don’t be absurd.

        10 replies 1 retweet 97 likes
      8. Vote November 6th  ✊‏ @k2thah Mar 11
        Replying to @guido_rossetti @neiltyson

        0 is nothing. You are wrong.

        7 replies 1 retweet 171 likes
      9. Guido Rossetti‏ @guido_rossetti Mar 11
        Replying to @k2thah @neiltyson

        I don’t give two flying fucks that you “prefer” to have daylight at 9pm. 0.34% is nothing, like the possibility of you dying by a lighting strike. I don’t think you stay indoors on the rain do you? It’s absurd to do this for only 0.34%. Don’t care what you think about it.

        8 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
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      2. Scott McGinnis‏ @69livein Mar 11
        Replying to @neiltyson

        My day is what I make it... changing the hands on the clock serves no purpose.

        8 replies 10 retweets 264 likes
      3. Susan Braun‏ @HahiraMom Mar 11
        Replying to @69livein @neiltyson

        Tell that to my cows

        17 replies 11 retweets 407 likes
      4. Wine is lyfe  🍷 🍷 🍷‏ @Saazuka Mar 11
        Replying to @HahiraMom @69livein @neiltyson

        If you keep cows and need to get up an hour earlier or an hour later to tend to them then just do it and leave the rest of us out of it.

        16 replies 23 retweets 770 likes
      5. Stephanie‏ @stovetopstefi Mar 11
        Replying to @Saazuka @HahiraMom and

        I would think cattle farmers need to go by the sun and not the clock? That's what my grandpa had to do anyway. His cattle didn't use alarm clocks, they based their activity around the sun rising and setting. But he was a full time farmer, not a hobbyist.

        8 replies 1 retweet 374 likes
      6. The Pope‏ @Mobius_Peverell Mar 11
        Replying to @stovetopstefi @Saazuka and

        But the farmhands do use clocks, and they need to be on the farm when the cows are up.

        6 replies 0 retweets 20 likes
      7. Wine is lyfe  🍷 🍷 🍷‏ @Saazuka Mar 11
        Replying to @Mobius_Peverell @HahiraMom and

        Then they can come to work an hour earlier in the summer and an hour later in the summer. I do shift work too.

        2 replies 0 retweets 71 likes
      8. The Pope‏ @Mobius_Peverell Mar 11
        Replying to @Saazuka @HahiraMom and

        Yes, but that is far more complex for businesses than just shifting the clocks. Not to mention the fact that, where I am, (Vancouver) the sun would rise at 3:30am in June without DST. Folks would complain even more about that.

        8 replies 1 retweet 29 likes
      9. Wine is lyfe  🍷 🍷 🍷‏ @Saazuka Mar 11
        Replying to @Mobius_Peverell @HahiraMom and

        I'm in nova Scotia, so not much more further south than Vancouver. If everyone did away with DST then everyone would still have a consistent time, and Saskatchewan, as someone else pointed out, does just as well without it.

        3 replies 0 retweets 72 likes
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      2. Jeff Cieslak, Scare-ness Arbiter‏ @jeffcieslak Mar 11
        Replying to @neiltyson

        God, this is dumb. Without dst, sunrise in NYC is 425am, sunset at 730pm. That hour of daylight when everyone is asleep? Saved for when they're awake. Just stop.

        23 replies 5 retweets 146 likes
      3. Michael Flanagan‏ @SevenDeuce187 Mar 11
        Replying to @jeffcieslak @neiltyson

        Well said. Baffles me when people don't display any logic or understanding behind it. It's two days where you make a change and benefit from it the other 363 days

        3 replies 0 retweets 38 likes
      4. Kerry Spillane‏ @WeAreWayfaring Mar 11
        Replying to @SevenDeuce187 @jeffcieslak @neiltyson

        Frankly, getting that hour in the fall is another benefit for me—it’s like a national holiday.

        2 replies 3 retweets 60 likes
      5. DeviousWhiskey‏ @DeviousWhiskey Mar 11
        Replying to @WeAreWayfaring @SevenDeuce187 and

        I'll gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

        1 reply 0 retweets 47 likes
      6. Andrew Schweigert‏ @aj_schweigert Mar 11
        Replying to @DeviousWhiskey @WeAreWayfaring and

        Most people call that arrangement using a credit card 😉

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      7. Kerry Spillane‏ @WeAreWayfaring Mar 11
        Replying to @aj_schweigert @DeviousWhiskey and

        Perhaps, but the joy of the extra hour far outweighs my sadness of losing one today. I get unreasonably happy about that extra hour. It’s like the super power I always wanted just happens for one day.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      8. ¤µ‏ @xonerax Mar 11
        Replying to @WeAreWayfaring @aj_schweigert and

        but you aren't getting an extra hour, lmao same amount of time in the day nothing has changed except what the clock says

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      9. Kerry Spillane‏ @WeAreWayfaring Mar 11
        Replying to @xonerax @aj_schweigert and

        Of course—it’s just a mental thing for that day which brings me joy.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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