Posted on 03/10/2018 5:08:34 AM PST by sodpoodle
1. “I say it is impossible that so sensible a people .....(trunc) if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.” — Benjamin Franklin
2. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” — Winston Churchill
3. “There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding.” — Michelle Franklin
4. “Daylight time, a monstrosity in timekeeping.” — Harry S. Truman
5. "Love prefers twilight to daylight." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
6. “Don’t forget it's daylight saving time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.” — David Letterman
7. "With the coming of spring, I am calm again." — Gustav Mahler
8. "We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later." — Winston Churchill
9. “You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight saving time.” — Dave Barry
10. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.” — Victor Borge
11. “Daylight saving time occurs because Chuck Norris hits snooze on his alarm clock.” — Unknown
12. “Daylight saving time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.” — Anonymous
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When the clock says 7 o’clock in the morning, my body says it’s 6 o’clock, and the dogs say it’s breakfast time.
Think I can teach the dogs to tell time?
Border collies do not understand this concept of Daylight Savings Time.
On the longest mid-summer days, in my area you get home from work, let's say 5:30 and you and the family can be outside until 9:30 when it is finally dark. Why give that up?
The change never bothered me, but for those who are bothered, get up a half-hour earlier (or later on Saturday) and another half-hour on Sunday and you'll more prepared for Monday morning. Is that so hard?
Yes. With the increased sunlight hours in the summer, it's better to transfer one to the evening. In the winter, with fewer sunlight hours (in the northern hemisphere) and colder weather, having a little morning daylight as people go to work and school is better.
Of course one can always find some places, especially near the edge of a time zone, where DST might be considered too much, or too little (depending on which edge).
I think all this, “saving” daylight has caused global warming!
I prefer moonshine! The country needs moonshine!
DST is about state rights! Any state can opt out as Arizona and Hawaii have chosen to do!
Who wants it to get light at 5 a.m. in the summer? I’d rather it stay light until past nine.
>>”Without DST, you get 7 to 5 daylight and in the Summer 5 to 7 daylight.”
With or without DST you get the same amount of daylight. You can’t fool mother nature.
Let those who wish to change their own hours for work or school or whatever. No need of contrivances for those who don’t.
>>” having a little morning daylight as people go to work and school is better.”
Let those who like that change their work hours or school hours. No need for the rest to adjust to them.
I agree Without dst it would be getting light at 3:30 here. I prefer the extra daylight at the end if the day
And I really don’t mind if it’s dark on the way to work in the winter..... when you drive to work at 6:15 it’s dark most of the year anyway
No, no, it was to allow the kids home after school to spend more time helping with the harvest. Farmers go by weather and daylight hours, not clocks.
Yes, I mean only clock time.
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