I remember well, the “Energy Crisis” of 1973-74, they mandated daylight savings, year round, to save energy. It was great, waiting for the school bus at 6:45am in the pitch black darkness, in the New England Winter, freezing my behind off. /s
Fast forward four decades. Work in an office that is overwhelmingly whiny females (sorry, you regular gals). Sure as ‘stuff’ is brown, twice a year, I would have to listen to a torrent of complaints, about how difficult life was, because the sun wasn’t where they were accustomed to it.
In other words, I agree - leave the friggin’ clock alone ;)
I also despise DST.
If we must play games with the clocks it wwould make more sense to at least limit it to months warm enough to enjoy the “extra” hour. Say May through September.
I always try to put the problem in perspective ... will anyone die because of my decision, one way or the other? I doubt it, so suck it up as there are far worse problems out there!
You betcha.
Makes no sense. It is like cutting a foot off of one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end and claiming you now have a seven foot blanket.
The spring and fall bitching is regular as the calender.
Bitch forward in the spring. Bitch back in the fall.
Pick a time and stick with it year round. No daylight is saved. It has no effect on the amount of sunlight that shines on the Earth for any particular part of the year; that’s celestial mechanics.
It’s a con, smoke and mirrors.
I love daylight savings time. It’s wonderful to have that extra hour to do things outside after work or school during the summer months.
Yeah, that really nails it for me! I'm convinced!
Geez, just stay up another hour later and DVR The Tonight Show!
That’s right...its spring ahead...I lose an hour of sleep...Monday morning I will roll over look at the clock and moan and say, ..oh carp...I hate DST.
I don’t know why Texas does it. You’d think during the long hot summer everybody would want the sun to go down sooner.
A giant waste. That being said I like how many portions of my schedule work better during DST, sports start earlier, my Thursday conference call doesn’t interfere with lunch. But in the end it’s still just a display of government power.
Some things just aren't worth figuring out <^..^>
The Newfoundland Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting 3½ hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) during standard time, resulting in UTC−03:30; or subtracting 2½ hours during daylight saving time.[1] The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the meridian 52 degrees and 30 arcminutes west of the Greenwich Observatory.
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