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Location: Where I am happiest | I dont have a dog in this fight but just wanted to point out the days get longer in the summer and shorter in the winter with or without daylight savings time. lol. |
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Location: Central Texas | slacy09 - 2015-05-04 8:34 AM
There is a house bill that is being pushed through to get rid of daylight savings time in Texas!! That's when we get to ride is in the evenings after work! Most people don't even know about the bill. Go to facebook page "Save daylight saving time in Texas" to like and share with all your FB friends. And start calling and emailing our representatives!!
There is a link to sign the petition to keep DLS on that page. Make sure you don't just like and share but also open the link and sign the petition. Do it fast, they vote on it May 8! I work a full time job and like a lot of others need that extra time in the evening if I even am going to think about riding/working my horses. If you don't work a day job I can maybe see how you don't care but not me. |
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Location: East Texas | I would much rather have the extra daylight in the evenings than in the mornings. |
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Location: Central Texas | My happy day of the year is when Daylight Savings Time starts. I can actually see my horses! Then as the days get longer, I can even ride. Since I've had to take a day job, like a lot of others, I really really hate the dark evenings. I spend all the daylight hours in a dang office. |
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Addicted to Baseball
Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | I wrote to all my representatives and got a reply from all of them. Will Hurd was the last to reply just a few minutes ago, he said the same as the others: Currently, there is no legislation before the House or Senate to remove or modify Daylight Saving Time. |
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Location: That part of Texas | Tilt The Kilt - 2015-05-06 3:22 PM I wrote to all my representatives and got a reply from all of them. Will Hurd was the last to reply just a few minutes ago, he said the same as the others: Currently, there is no legislation before the House or Senate to remove or modify Daylight Saving Time. They voted to move it out of committee on 4/28/15 and it will be up shortly for the house vote. They probably don't know about it since it happened so recently.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillStages.aspx?LegSess=84R&Bill=HB150
I hope they keep DLS time in effect. They started moving the beginning date back past Halloween because statistics showed that less kids got killed by cars if that was the case. I can only imagine what a full summer of sunset sooner might lead to if we lost more light around those crucial times.
Edited by Red Raider 2015-05-06 3:56 PM
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Wrote to them again, Mr. Hurd is not in support of removing it. Will see what he comes back with. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Red Raider - 2015-05-06 3:54 PM Tilt The Kilt - 2015-05-06 3:22 PM I wrote to all my representatives and got a reply from all of them. Will Hurd was the last to reply just a few minutes ago, he said the same as the others: Currently, there is no legislation before the House or Senate to remove or modify Daylight Saving Time. They voted to move it out of committee on 4/28/15 and it will be up shortly for the house vote. They probably don't know about it since it happened so recently.
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillStages.aspx?LegSess=84R&Bill=HB150
I hope they keep DLS time in effect. They started moving the beginning date back past Halloween because statistics showed that less kids got killed by cars if that was the case. I can only imagine what a full summer of sunset sooner might lead to if we lost more light around those crucial times.
I don't think they have any problems in Arizona..LOL |
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