Posted on 03/07/2015 10:43:22 PM PST by sickoflibs
Just Thursday we had another snowstorm and its DLST 'lose an hour' already.
My weekends are short enough without this.
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 didn't take an hour last October. I reclaimed the hour that was stolen from me the previous March. Now they've stolen it from me again. I want it back.
You’ll get the hour back, of course, but you should get it back with interest. An hour and 15 minutes would be fair.
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
I think people like the tradition of complaining about it.
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!”.
DST is as silly as cutting a piece of string on one end and gluing it to the other end.
Get rid of DST today!
I agree. The purpose is pretty obvious to the average 3rd grader. Shifting the time of sunrise based on the duration of daylight in winter vs summer.
Lose an hour?
I lost five hours!
Normally go to bed at 10. Had to stay up until 2am.
Then set the clock forward another hour.
That’s FIVE. Hours!
Why can’ t the time change be at an earlier hour?
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