Posted on 03/06/2014 1:10:05 PM PST by thackney
You're thinking of the hippies...
Ha ha, very funny.
Do you realize that the clock is like the calendar? It's not a scheduler; it's an objective measurement of time. Running the clock up an hour to make daylight "last longer" is no different than running the months up by one so that summer doesn't end until late October. Utterly ridiculous.
I agree with the earlier poster; if you want to do everything for eight months out of the year (or even twelve, for that matter, then just do everything an hour earlier. Leave the clock and the time alone.
I have absolutely no patience with you DST apologists/lovers. Take your snarking elsewhere.
I do, too. It doesn't save daylight, it takes it away. Right now, I'm getting up with the sun. Next week, it will be like getting up in the middle of the night.
I can barely wait!
“It turns out that more daylight gives us more time to shop, drive, grill and perfect our golf game. What it doesn’t do is cut our energy use...”
If we could only con the Leftists into believing that DST causes global warming, since mankind was gracious enough to let the Sun shine a little longer than in times past, we could get rid of it in no time flat!
Leave the clock and the time alone.
DITTOS AND AMEN!!
It didnt used to. But for the last couple of years, it has gotten harder and harder to make the change. Of course, it happens. But I am a zombie for the first couple of days.
If they could co-ordinate warmer weather with it....
I’m with you, SS.
I’m an outdoors guy and the more daylight after 6pm there is the more I can do - and I’ve always got more to do than I can do. Not a farmer, but we do have acreage and it needs attention.
Losing the extra hour of daylight in the winter is a bummer.
And, I’m a biker - and want those hours to ride after supper.
I agree with never changing it 100% - just leave it where the daylight hours are most productive. Who wants the sunlight in the early am hours?
And why are so many against it staying on the DST setting all year?
I did night shift for 17 years. I worked 3 12 hour night shifts, then switched over to a “normal” schedule to spend time with the family for my four days off. Then 4 night on and 3 days off the next week. That schedule sucked but I am amazed that people can whine so much about 1 hour’s difference. What a bunch of Nancys.
Actually, that is the normal (standard) time. Daylight Savings time is during the summer.
Actually we don’t “lose” an hour of sunlight. We can’t change the orbits of the planet around the sun by moving the hands of a clock. Just sayin’.
I HATE SPRINGING FORWARD!!!
Messes me up for weeks
That is easier said than done. If you have a 9-5 job you are stuck there till 5. I personally like DST. I like the extra time in the evening and my wife likes it too.
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*snicker*
Because if you’re on the DST setting all year in the dead of winter the sun won’t be up until most folks are already at work, and have been at work for a while. It’s bad enough waking up before the sun, getting to work before the sun defeats the purpose of the industrial revolution.
I’m all for extra time in the evening for those that want it, but rather than make everybody change the clock work it out with your employer, change careers if necessary. Don’t make the world change for your convenience.
Thank you, sir, for the post and Flyer ping.
You already know how I feel about this silly ritual.
At least now I know why the [blankity-blank] thing is being made longer and longer every chance they
get. What are they going to do after they get it year-round? Go Spring forward and Fall back again?
Sick bastids.
And I never met Flyer, but I surely do miss him. I have been told all about him, and he was a good man.
...we lose an hour’s sleep at 2 a.m. on ***March*** 9...
...the federal law was amended to add a full month to DST, making it begin the first, not the last, Sunday in ***April***.
Keen grasp of the obvious here. DST was invented for dairy farmers who milked by hand and had no electric light.
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