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BTW, we all knew that about Elton Bobbie. 8>)
I so agree with you and look forward to moving the clocks ahead tonight. I love the longer evenings, even more so being unwell. Maybe we speak for all the night owls and not for the morning people. I procrastinate a lot these days and by the time I finally get the mental courage to get out, it’s cold and dark. At that point, I just stay in. It wouldn’t be half as discouraging if it was just cold and light. I’ll take warm and light even more so! Can’t wait for warmer weather.
They would have believed you in Biff Tannen's alt 1985. ;)
Yeah, but why take my hour at 2am on Sunday morning? Why not at 3pm Friday afternoon?
Good summary. Too often we take stuff too seriously...
Just think, while peole were listening to Dan Ingraham play “Sister Golden Hair” on 77 WABC in the summer of 1975, a platform-shoe-wearing young lawyer named Hillary Diane Rodham had just been hired to teach law at the University of Arkansas, a job she sought to be near her lover prior to their marriage in October.
How strangely the winds of fate blow!
Speaking of weird stuff...have you ever spotted the Renegage from Red Hook riding his three-wheeler around “the mean streets of Manhattan”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRoI_ps5hc
Q. Do you know how daylight savings time started?
A. One day, Chuck Norris hit the snooze button.....
Daylight savings time is another wasteful government regulation. It not only does not save energy, as the stated reason for it, but it costs energy. And, it costs business money to implement it and manage it. Think of all the computer programs that have to take it into account, and now the consumer electronics that have to program for it. In return it produces nothing - well except for an increased number of car and other accidents.
Just pick a time, either standard or daylight savings, and leave it alone all year.
"only white man would cut bottom off blanket, sew it on top, and call it a longer blanket"
If you are working an eight hour day I suppose it does not make much difference and you can adjust easily to the change and it is more convenient to have that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day.
However more and more people like myself are stuck in a 12 hour shift rotation. We work 12 hour nights this week and 12 hour days next week.
Daylight Savings Time means nightshirt works one less hour and dayshift loses an hour of sleep. Depending on your employer night shift may also lose an hour of pay. But regardless it messes with your already messed up sleep cycle.
In my estimation it is just another intrusion of government where is has no authority.
Daylight Savings Time is asinine. You will never convince me otherwise.It has been a pain for 50 years of my life.
We don’t need time zones period. We should all just set our clocks to GMT permanently and be done with it. One time, all the time, all over the world.
I hate DST because when things are working right for me, I can get out first thing in the morning for a surf, a bike ride, a hike, or whatever, and then by the time I get to work at 9 or so, I feel like I’ve already had a great day. Right now is the time of year it’s just opening up enough for me to do that, and then, bam! I’m set back another hour and my window won’t open for another couple of months, soon after that the days are already getting shorter again.
I also hate it because I wake up by daylight, not an alarm clock, so I’m just an hour behind where I would otherwise be all day after that.
But I understand, early birds like standard time, and night owls like DST, and there are more night owls than early birds, so that’s where we are. But I don’t have to like it!
I am all for splitting the difference. Change it a 1/2 hour and leave it alone. Now I live in SoCal so what might work here may not work where you are at.
It was just starting to be light when I have to get up every day (6 AM) and now political idiots are going to force me to get up in the dark again.
It's always dark when I go to sleep. Why must I deal with such idiocy?
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Not for those of us in sane place. For us tomorrow is the day all the live sports move an hour earlier, and the in-laws move an hour further away.
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I intend to live on “slow time” or “normal time” except when
I have an appointment or something. My body just gets used to the time change; then wham it’s time to do it again.
I’ve always been ahead of the curve. I started hating Government Savings Time when I was 12 years old which coincidentally is when it began in CO in my lifetime.
It was nearly 80 here (Pittsburgh PA) several days ago. Now below 15 degrees.
All that I know is this: The wife and I don’t really care which it is, but leave the damn time one way or the other. This flopping back and forth is insane. At some point in the year one goes to bed when it is dark and gets up when it is dark, anyway.
