Sun's Going Down / myLot

Pensacola, Florida

March 10, 2018 5:50pm CST

As I sit here I am beginning to see the start of sunset for the last day before Daylight Savings time begins in the early am hours tonight. it will take a couple of days of getting use to the sun seemingly rise later but that is OK as I will enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening. This may be the last time Florida will have to spring forward for after the Governor signs the bill of keeping us on Daylight Saving time year round and Congress approves there will be no more falling back with the main reason of dong this is for the tourism industry and now I got a line from a song playing in my head "sun's going down Take a look around for the set time of the hour is upon us"

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Jeff Moffitt

@moffittjc (118448)

• Gainesville, Florida

11 Mar 18

I was just commenting about DST to my neighbors yesterday, telling them that this should be the last time we ever have to change our clocks here in Florida. They weren't aware that Florida was switching to permanent DST. I explained the situation to them, and let them know that all we are waiting on now is for Congress to approve the bill. If they approve, the new permanent DST will become law in July and then we won't have to worry about changing our clocks back in November!

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Jeff Moffitt

@moffittjc (118448)

• Gainesville, Florida

11 Mar 18

@Elizaby He hasn't signed it yet? I thought he had already done that! Oops!

Mary Guice

@Elizaby (6901)

• Pensacola, Florida

11 Mar 18

The Governor still needs to sign which I think he will since the bill overwhelmingly passed in both house and senate

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inertia4

@inertia4 (27961)

• United States

11 Mar 18

That will mean that the sun there in Florida will set around 9 pm at night. Wow. That is late. Although I wouldn't mind that here in NYC.

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Mary Guice

@Elizaby (6901)

• Pensacola, Florida

11 Mar 18

In the panhandle the latest sunset is here is shortly after 8pm in the summer months. Today it was 5:54 and tomorrow it will be 6:55

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inertia4

@inertia4 (27961)

• United States

11 Mar 18

@Elizaby Okay, that's good. We get dark here in the summer around almost nine o'clock. But then the days get shorter after June 21st. As it always does.

Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

11 Mar 18

I am looking forward to darker mornings so I can sleep later.

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Mary Guice

@Elizaby (6901)

• Pensacola, Florida

11 Mar 18

AMen

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (306236)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

11 Mar 18

I wish our governor would approve it. We tried to put it through last year, but it failed.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (94552)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

11 Mar 18

I like daylight savings time. The negative is that I lose one hour of sleep tonight.

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Leiann Lynn Rose Spontaneo

@Spontaneo (14703)

• United States

11 Mar 18

I love the longer evenings where I live, but if I lived in Florida, I would be satisfied with anything! If it were not for family and friends, I would move to a warmer climate as fast as I could. I envy you.

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