Posted on 03/10/2017 1:09:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
An hour you don’t have to use electricity for artificial light every day adds up, no wonder a energy company wants to put an end to that. Frankly, I don’t like it getting dark at 5 p.m, and light at 4 a.m. so I like DST.
We don’t do it out here in AZ. In the middle of the summer the last thing we want to do is “save” daylight.
I do wish they would shorten it to the 3 summer months. I don’t like watching NFL games, drinkin beer at 10am.
I used to work at a place where a number of people worked rotating shifts. They complained about it, but not a single one died from it.
I have had a few 12-hour jetlags, and guess what? After a few days, you readjust and you go on with your life.
This is horse****.
Same thing happens every year. I do just like they say, at 2:00 AM Sunday morning I turn the clocks back one hour....BUT then 2:00 AM comes up again and I have to start all over. Come church time, I have to abandon the project and reset to the time my WWV set automatic clock shows.
LOL! Don't say that too loud, or it will be picked up by MSNBC and run as a serious news story bashing the evil Trump for lengthening the day just to harm women and minorities. :)
They could just cut 15 minutes off each hour, just think of all the extra hours in the day we would have! Better yet, make each hour 30 minutes.
While I don’t need a study to tell me this, this has been true in my life. I absolutely hate daylight savings time. I call it fake time. I have had problems sleeping my entire life and when I lose that hour it gets worse and I never recover until we return to normal time. I have tried to convince my wife to move with me to a state or county or area where daylight savings time is not observed. But no dice. Oh well.
Ergo, every month, we should add an hour to the day.
In two years we'd lap the clock.
In the summer it’s the crazy chortling birds starting up at 4:30 followed by the beginning of daylight at 5 that make the DST so wearying.
That must be it! You're a genius Ed! No go apply for a government grant.
...and nobody would ever die of a heart attack again.
Some people don’t suffer ill health, they just lose their ability to understand fractions8>)
Actually it is very beautiful!! I love to get up at that time. Quiet, some few birds have already begun their paen to the day, little rustlings near or on the ground, the air crisp and clean. And the beautiful light growing without stirring a soul or a cloud, just a consistent expansion. Lovely.!
You'd rather get rid of DST and have the birds start up at 3:30?
Tried and failed already. 1974.
DST moves the clock so there is more daylight in the evening hours during the summer, when people spend more time outdoors.
Yeah, cause no one ever gets up an hour early except for daylight savings time. Fall is even worse, when everyone sleeps in an extra hour. It’s a wonder anyone survives.
You could move to Kanazawa, on the central east coast of Japan. It's a lovely city with a huge garden park, whose seasons are much like southern Wisconsin. Because Japan doesn't follow DST, the sun rises there in the summer right after 4 AM to days that are hot and humid, and in the winter sets around 4 PM for nights that are cold and blustery.
When he was in Paris he liked to stay late at parties in the evening, and didn't like it that it got light so early in the morning when he wanted to sleep.
We had it during WWII it was called “War Time.”
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