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Daylight Saving Time vs. Standard Time · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go. The conversation we have twice a year.
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  Speaker 1: Daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Do we stay all year round on this time or
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  Speaker 1: do we stay on standard time?
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  Speaker 2: Because we'll be falling back pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: And they're still talking about it? Like what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do?
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  Speaker 2: This is serious. Like, yes, in the White House, so
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  Speaker 2: to speak, House lawmakers and nearly 20 states want to
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  Speaker 2: stop switching the clocks back in the fall and keep
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  Speaker 2: it where it is right now. That means we would
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  Speaker 2: be permanent daylight savings.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Permanent.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What we are right now.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want to fall back. They want to leave
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  Speaker 2: it where it is. So experts are saying not a
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  Speaker 2: good idea because schools and students would suffer the most
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  Speaker 2: with that because the sunrise after 8 a.m., they said,
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  Speaker 2: would be an issue, especially for kids, for educators, for
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  Speaker 2: everybody trying to get to the schools in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: We have a Rutgers University psychology professor, Jessica Hamilton, who
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  Speaker 2: Who says if you're going to keep one time, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't do the switch back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: it should be standard time, which would be what we
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  Speaker 2: would fall back to. Because she said we really need
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  Speaker 2: to be aligning our clocks and our bodies to the sun,
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  Speaker 2: which promotes our health. And making a permanent daylight savings
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  Speaker 2: time actually is likely to harm the health and well-being
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  Speaker 2: of young people and adults.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I did some research. Yes, sir. If
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  Speaker 1: we do fall back. Yes. And then stay that way forever. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. On June 21st, the first
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  Speaker 1: day of summer, the sun would rise at 4.27 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: and set at 7.31.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In wintertime, the sun would rise at 7.17 a.m. and
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  Speaker 1: set at 4.34.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're looking at. That's what we're coming up on, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's standard.
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  Speaker 1: If we go back to standard and stay that way,
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  Speaker 1: that's standard. Now, if we stay at eastern daylight time,
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  Speaker 1: where we are now all the time, That means the
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  Speaker 1: first day of summer, the sun would rise at 527 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: and set at 831 p.m. Not too bad. And then
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  Speaker 1: wintertime is where it might be a little tough. The
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  Speaker 1: sun rises at 817 a.m. here in New York on
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  Speaker 1: the first day of winter. And it'll set at 534 p.m.,
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  Speaker 1: which isn't bad. It's not 430. It's 534. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Which one do you like if you had to pick?
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  Speaker 2: Standard. Yeah. Standard.
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  Speaker 1: Standard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Standard.
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  Speaker 2: Standard.
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  Speaker 1: Standard seems, look, the sun rises at 427 on standard AM,
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  Speaker 1: and it would set at 731 on the first day
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  Speaker 1: of summer. And then if we stay on standard again,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be 717 AM sunrise, 434 PM sunset on the
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  Speaker 1: first day of winter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what we're going to get anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, because we're going to fall back, at least this year,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to fall back.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so our vote is when we fall back
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  Speaker 1: in November this year, keep it standard.
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  Speaker 2: Just leave it.
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  Speaker 1: Or do we stay all day?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Because what you're saying right now makes
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  Speaker 2: me think like, okay, that's why we do a time switch.
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  Speaker 2: Because a 427 a.m. sunrise in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be, yeah. That sun coming through. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if you have blackout shades.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes sun gets through there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. It works its way through. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Text us and we'll send your votes to the White House. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll let them know what you want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to keep doing the time warp? Do
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  Speaker 2: you want to switch back and forth? Right. Or do
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  Speaker 2: you want to leave it? here or leave it at
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  Speaker 2: standard time?
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  Speaker 1: What do we do?
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  Speaker 2: So many decisions.
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  Speaker 1: You can text us at 44363. And the news is
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  Speaker 1: coming up, Christine. It is.
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