Posted on 10/27/2009 1:59:31 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Finally, America -- or most of it -- will get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning when Daylight Saving Time ends.
And the scam that we'll be more productive and save money on electricity bills because there was an extra hour of daylight will be put on hiatus until next spring.
The only good things about turning the clock back an hour before going to bed Saturday night is that you'll get an extra hour of sleep, and it's a good reminder to change the batteries on smoke alarms.
Otherwise, this whole dance about saving money is a waste of time, as I wrote in March when Daylight Saving Time, or DST, started this year. And to make it worse, in four months we'll go through this same lame setup again when we turn the clocks forward an hour.
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I think I would vote for almost ANYONE who would promise to do away with this time change crap.
I concur I sleep much better while on standard time.
Just who is this “time being” that we’re all doing stuff for?
I love DST. Add those hours to my GMT offset. Make it 2 hour DST in summer. I want sunny evenings.
Only 42 more days until the earliest sunset and evenings start getting lighter.
Just who is this “time being” that we’re all doing stuff for?
DST makes as much sense as having a blanket that is too short, so you cut a foot or two of it off and sew it onto the other end.
Never really understood the intense hatred people like you have for DST. For those of us who work a regular weekday schedule, having an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon to do stuff is beneficial (try playing golf after work in the winter on those rare warm days). It’s depressing when it’s dark both when you go to work and when you come home. I’m lucky that my work allows flexible hours, so I can pretty much come and go as I please as long as I put in 40 hours a week, but I’d have no problem if we just modified our timezones to extend DST throughout the whole year.
I’m with you. I don’t see why we don’t keep DST all winter. It’s dark when you leave for work anyway. Why do we want to lose another at night?
History lesson time:
The time zones are skewed from their proper longitudes because they came into existence for the benefit of the railroads.
The railroads wanted one time zone to cover Boston to Chicago.
Hence the Eastern/Central line, which should really be around Columbus OH is instead at the IN/IL border.
And now for a “things that make you go Hmmmmm” quetion? If “Standard Time” is in use for less than half the year, is it really “standard” anymore? “DST” is the real “standard”.
History lesson time:
The time zones are skewed from their proper longitudes because they came into existence for the benefit of the railroads.
The railroads wanted one time zone to cover Boston to Chicago.
Hence the Eastern/Central line, which should really be around Columbus OH is instead at the IN/IL border.
And now for a “things that make you go Hmmmmm” quetion? If “Standard Time” is in use for less than half the year, is it really “standard” anymore? “DST” is the real “standard”.
I'm with you, Karl.
On the other hand, as is well known, the stress of switching to DST causes cows to give sour milk.
I lived in Ohio and Michigan the first 35 years of my life.
I never had a clue about the intensity of opinion over DST (or lack of it) until I moved to Indiana.
Indiana didn’t have DST until four years ago.
That legislative battle made the national fight over Obamacare look like child’s play, LOL.
Dita! I’m with you!
Karl—I thought I was the only one who counted the days until the days start getting longer again! Or at least stop getting shorter! LOL
It takes me about that amount of time to reset the clock in my car.
I like DST. I wish we had it year round.
Sorry for the double post—FR site has been running slow at best and DOS at worse tonight.
It’s easier if you just remember it’s off an hour. :)
i suppose just splitting the difference and leaving it the hell alone is out of the question...
I’m with you.
But I also hate these time changes. The older I get the longer it takes for my own body clock to adjust. I don’t mind jumping ahead in the Spring because I’m habitually early anyway but setting the clocks back an hour in the Fall makes me feel (for several weeks) like I’m constantly running late!
We tried that in the 1970’s in response to the first Arab oil embargo. Children were killed while walking to school and/or waiting for their bus. Our school’s response-classes started an hour later.
The amount of sunlight does not change! We should just have a fall schedule and a spring schedule. Leave the clocks alone.
Add another vote for DST all year.
Obviously you can’t increase the amount of sunlight you have, but you can move it around. Chicago is bad enough in the winter; having the sun go down at 4pm is just miserable.
Leave us in “spring forward” mode all year and at least we won’t combine ridiculously short days with the same time being “later”.
Bump for DST! I love it.
And I HATE winter, especially in December when I get home and it’s already pitch dark. :(
Betas me man. I don’t know how it is you go ‘’saving daylight’’. We have ol’ Ben Franklin to thank for this. Maybe the idea came to him when he got that jolt of lightning.
And then hated going back, with darkness at 5PM. Hell, 5PM is late afternoon, it should not be dark fercrissake!
I used to live in Indiana and I kind of liked not having to change all of my clocks. The only problem was remembering when I could call my relatives on the coast.
that's been my opinion for years and years
I hear you on that one Ms(Mrs?) BunnySlippers. My DVD/VCR player has been flashing ‘’12:00’’ going on five years now. Darned if I know how to set it.
Really? I love it!!!!!
Okay, so it's not just me...anyway, if you lived in Phoenix, AZ in the summer you'd know why we would never want to switch to DST! Out here we pray for the sun to go down!
I agree, It is going to be a bitch for a couple of months : (
but it'll never happen cause it's tooo simple and makes tooo much sense
“I’m with you. I don’t see why we don’t keep DST all winter. It’s dark when you leave for work anyway. Why do we want to lose another at night?”
You could “spring forward” eight hours, instead of one, and have even more daylight hours (may I suggest you call it graveyard shift). Employers set work hours to meet their needs and then the government decides to manipulate those hours to save energy (yeah right), it’s just another government exercise in idiocy (if employers want to set different hours for the summer let them do so).
Not everybody uses DST, even in North America.
In Canada, northern British Columbia and the province of Saskatchewan don’t switch, but stay on standard time - of course, both are agricultural areas, with farmers that have to get up early.
A few years ago, Newfoundland tried “Double Daylight Savings Time” (2 hrs. ahead) - parents soon found it near-impossible to get their kids to bed early, with the sun out till 11 pm!
Yea, the cows look at their watches and don't know what to think.
>>You could “spring forward” eight hours, instead of one, and have even more daylight hours<<
Works for me!
So kids can wait for a schoolbus in the light?
Precisely. Same with the laying hens.
I grew up on the western edge of the Eastern time zone and now live on the eastern edge of the Central time zone. That means things are already one hour darker here in the evenings than I’m used to. And now it’s going to be darkness piled on top of darkness with DST ending. I might as well just hibernate until March or so.
>>So kids can wait for a schoolbus in the light?<<
No. Moving the clock ahead 8 hours would give us sunshine in the evening.
If the sunsets at 3:00pm and you move the clock ahead 8 hours the sun would set at 11:00pm!
Personally, I think 8 hours is a bit much but I’ll take as much light in the evening I can get
I feel the same way.
I believe it's Dec. 21-22; it's called the "winter solstice." At that point the amount of daylight increases by about 30 seconds per day, until the "summer solstice" on June 20-21, when it starts decreasing.
wait a minute. we turn the clocks back this sunday moning? crap! that might not be good for me.
Ditto!
Much better for people that have things to do. (and we get to listen to the 20 hour sleepers griping
I hate it too. DST year round, or Standard time year round. Pick one, and stick with it.
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