Pausing under a chestnut tree at First Avenue and Denver Street in the Willamette Neighborhood on Nov. 2, 2024.
It was raining but still light Saturday afternoon when I went on a short bike ride to take advantage of daylight saving time for the last time in 2024.
This was on Water Avenue in Albany. Here, take a look:
If you watched that and the audio worked at least a little, you know what I think of being forced to change the time twice a year.
If our state and federal lawmakers had any sense where time and clocks are concerned, we would abolish this system of an hour’s difference between summer time and winter time.
We would instead stick with one or the other.
Maybe one of these years, that happy day will come. But don’t hold your breath. (hh)
On a gray November day, the Willamette River could not care less what time it is.
I agree with you on the time change. Leave it one way or the other. We voted on it, but so far, nothing has changed !!!
Amen!
Nothing is going to happen. The voters in Oregon indicated they prefer DST year round. Then we learned that Washington and California had to also approve DST year round which they did. Then it had to be approved by, you guessed it, our elected officials in Washington DC who are supposed too be doing what we, the voters, asked for.
The end result NADA!!
If the voters had asked to go to day light time year round, it would have been a done deal because the Federal Government doesn’t have any say so in those cases.
As long as we, the voters, insist on changing to DST we will have to put up with the twice yearly well known pain in the posterior.