All you had to do this weekend is show up in Selma and smile and clap when Obama and John Lewis trash the GOP and America, we here have to work and need our weekends including this hour.
Not one of Ben’s better inventions.
You just became an hour older!
I’ve never seen the problem with this—shifting our day to better align with sunrise. I figure, though, that the real underlying challenge is that we now need to figure out how to reset time on a lot of things. That, really, seems to be the big headache. Otherwise, what’s the big deal?
Gotta give back that hour you took without too much bitching last October. It’s simple quantum principle, conservation of time and energy; think of it as a loan of 60 minutes and the note is due.
God it is so stupid. Pick a time and stick with it fools!
I wish we had it year round. Getting dark in the middle of the afternoon in winter is for the birds.
Amazing magic we have in our clocks. . . we can create daylight!
Liberal stupidity on parade!
another Obama commie plot to steal everyting he can from American citizens
he’ll be giving all our hours to his IslamoNazi comrades in arms in Krapistan (Iraq, Iran, PA/PLO/Hamas/Syria/Libya, etc), just like he gives them our $$$ and armnaments
We all know that if ‘a little’ higher minimum wage is a good thing, say $15/hr, then a lot higher minimum wage is a great thing, like $275/hr. Using that same logic, if a little daylight savings time is a good thing, moving the clock forward just 1 hour, then wouldn’t a lot of daylight savings time be an excellent thing, like moving the clock forward say, 8 hours?
Many moons ago (a little indian lingo there) I was in summer school in the University of Salamanca, in Spain. They shifted their daylight savings clock TWO hours! The sun would set after 10:30pm. Back then some of them still took siestas during the hottest part of the day, and then stayed up way late. Strange.
I didn’t change my clocks last year. I just kept my home set to “slow” time the year round. No problem. The phone and computers switched time, but I just ignored it. The reason it was no big deal is because when I was a kid we lived right on the time line and we chose to set our home for “slow” time.
Outlaw clocks and we will live forever!
I remember DST in the late 70 and early 80’s was last Sunday in April to last Sunday in October. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States
My tradition is to listen to this song every DST:
TIME - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3AgkwbYgo
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death...
Its my favorite day, we had 85 yesterday, went to the beach.. move to somewhere where you can actually enjoy being outside. Losing an hour of sleep? Who cares!
My cat is really gonna be miffed about this (me too). She gets in my face every morning about 4:00 AM wanting me to get up and give her some treats (she gets a few “Temptations” bites) She LOVES those things - I don’t know what’s in them, but she loves them. Like Kitty Crack....
Why can’t “We The People” vote this time changing shenanigans out? There have been studies that show that heart attacks, strokes, automobile accidents and all sorts of bad things happen in the weeks following each time change. Just pick daylight savings or standard time and leave it there.
“Time” is relative, remember? It’s just a tool.
If it’s 9am, or 10 am, or beetlejuice hour, or whatever system one chooses to use . . . for us, it’s a tool.
In the southwest, they don’t like DLST because it adds a extra hour of brutal heat during the workday.
Up north, dark when you leave in the morning and dark on your way home is pretty brutal on the spirit.
(Yes I know “winners drive home in the dark”)
Farmers rise with the sun.
Bartenders make more money when it’s dark.
So, use what works for you.
If others have a problem with it,
just tell ‘em “Bush did it!”.