Mixed Feelings On Extended Daylight-Saving Time

Associated Press ^ | Jul 29, 2005 3:24 pm US/Pacific

[BenLurkin]

DST is nothing more than a cynical exercise of raw power by a government that can't resist controlling even the most minute aspects of our lives.

[cripplecreek]

Y2K didn't screw up the computers so government will step in and do it themselves.

[Asphalt]

???

[mdefranc]

Feelings, duh, duh, duh, feelings...

[diverteach]

LOL, thats right, changing DSL will mess up pc's won't it.

[diverteach]

I meant DST

[Euro-American Scum]

Mixed Feelings On Extended Daylight-Saving Time

You pay for it in the morning, or you pay for it in the evening. Take your pick.

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"It gets dark here at 4 p.m. on the darkest day of the year," Davis said. "So this will be advantageous to us."

So why not just get up an hour earlier?

Oh, wait! That's exactly what DST makes you do.

I guess it wasn't acceptable until the government mandated it.

[Lil'freeper]

The change, though, would be beneficial for some farmers who would get an extra hour of daylight for a longer portion of the year.

Um, how exactly does that work ... exactly.*

*rhetorical question to illustrate the absurdity of the author...

[Tax-chick]

I don't like it. Try to put the kids to bed, but it's light until FReepin' midnight. Who needs this in November? And dark in the morning ... everybody stays in bed and you don't get anything done all morning.

[inkling]

DST has always struck me as ridiculous. Let's all pretend it's a different time! If you want to save power, have businesses/schools just start an hour earlier for the summer -- why pretend like time itself has been altered?

Luckily, I live in Arizona where DST doesn't exist. :-)

[RightWhale]

The standard time is already next to meaningless here in Fairbanks. Local noon comes around 3 PM with Alaska DST in operation. Midnight, when it actually gets dark enough to bother to turn on a light if you have to read the newspaper, comes around 3 AM. By the time they switch back to regular time it will be dark until noon and dark again by 5 PM. It won't make a bit of difference in energy consumption, nor to the safety of schoolchildren dealing with the schoolbus. They could just leave Alaska out of DST altogether since we are already two hours off of local time, which is double DST to begin with.

[oceanview]

its going to be a mess - VCRs, computers, etc.

[Cobra64]

"Others though, said the change would just add to the list of things to worry about."

"List of things to worry about?" What a jack-ass!

I sometimes have to be in Buenos Aires, Argentina on a Monday morning at 8:30 am for a businesws meeting, and I have to figger owt how too git thar in tyme for da meating. DUH!

[Alberta's Child]

Starting next year, I've resolved to modify my work schedule so that daylight savings time won't even exist for me. I'm gonna keep my watch set the same way all year, and arrive at work in the morning -- and stay at work in the evening -- one hour later than everyone else.

[hattend]

I still don't understand how this saves any electricity/energy. You turn the lights on the same amount of hours.

The original purpose was to allow farmers to work later into the evening.

[My2Cents]

According to Congress' thinking, if Americans can wait an hour to turn on their lights at night, the nation should be able to conserve at least some energy.

This is dumb, because it means that Americans will be burning their lights in the morning before going off to work and school.

[BenLurkin]

Because the guy in New York gets to play frisbee after work.

[cripplecreek]

Microwave ovens will flash 1:00, 1:00, 1:00 or 11:00, 11:00, 11:00.