New Daylight Saving May Cause Tech Problems (We're Doomed!! DOOMED!!)

Yahoo! - The Associated Press ^ | 8/7/05 | By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

I dunno, but I'm gonna party like it's 1999.

Are you ready for Y2.005K?

[politicalwit]

These moron politicians have their heads shove up their butts. They never see the light of day.

[Eighth Square]

Mankind has reached a critcal point in it's history. America's attempt to 'tinker' with the natural order of things will destroy us all! I just can't help believing that Halliburton is behind this proposal.

[KarlInOhio]

In general our lives are skewed to the later part of the day. Get up at 7am (noon -5 hours), into work at 8am (noon -4 hours), leave work at 5pm (noon +5 hours), eat dinner, watch TV, go out, go to bed at 11 pm (noon +11 hours). So the typical middle of the time awake is 3pm. DST moves the clock a little so that solar noon is at 1pm.

My own preference would be to end DST at the end of September.

6:30 sunsets starting in September. Yuck! Give me every bit of evening light I can get. Light is wasted if I'm just eating breakfast and driving to work.

[CAWats]

As a mainframe software developer at the the time, I laughed at the Y2K scare of the late late 90's. I worked on so many computer programs that use dates, such a payroll and accounts receivable to name just a couple, that I knew changing the software would not difficult. I was right. This is the same thing.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

This is so stupid! How does cutting an hour off in the morning and adding it to the evening "save energy?"

If DST is such a good thing, why not just have it year round and leave the clocks alone??? And if it's not, then why are we messing with our clocks twice a year anyway?

Daylight Savings Time is the most idiotic concept ever invented!

From now on, you're my designated ranter on this subject. < :)

[clee1]

Although I can't imagine why...

Chicago. Cute.

[clee1]

THAT'S messed up!

[ExGeeEye]

When I was a kid you had to take a sledgehammer to the sundial post twice a year.

[Zionist Conspirator]

From now on, you're my designated ranter on this subject. < :)

I'm also against the designated hitter rule, regular season inter-league competition, holidays observed on mondays for the labor unions instead of their actual dates, etc., etc., etc.

[rockabyebaby]

Dog Gone, LMAO at the hourglass thing!!! You rock!!! LMAO!

[rockabyebaby]

LOL!!!

[nhoward14]

That's nothing. In my day, we had a water clock. Every spring, I'd have to lug heavy jugs full of water down from the mountains to pour in the clock to turn it forward. Then in the fall, I had to get under the relief valve and drink the extra hour away to turn in back!

Of course, you tell the youth of today that and they won't believe you!

[paulat]

...like sands through the hourglass...so are the days of our lives....

[digger48]

We just got DST in IN, state will STILL be carved up, and we STILL don't know what time zone we'll be in. We'll either have sunup at 5 or sunset at 10

To me, sun comes up, sun goes down....I work somewhere in between. The rest of DST is an inconvenience at best.

[xrp]

This extra hour of daylight could really screw up Halloween and Trick-or-Treating.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I'm also against ... holidays observed on mondays for the labor unions instead of their actual dates, etc., etc., etc.

You got something against 3-day weekends? < :O

[Politicalmom]

I HATE DST!! My children get messed up for several weeks when the time changes.

[Focault's Pendulum]

That's nothing. In my day, we had a water clock. Every spring, I'd have to lug heavy jugs full of water down from the mountains to pour in the clock to turn it forward. Then in the fall, I had to get under the relief valve and drink the extra hour away to turn in back!

What a newbie!!!!

[rockabyebaby]

LOL!

Damn youth of today have it so freakin' easy, can't tell you how many miles I had to walk to school IN WINTER, freakin' snowflakes falling all over me and OMG when it rained, oh dear, and about the time thingy, damn, a waterclock you say??? Hell I just had a rooster, up at dawn, sleep at dusk, simple! LMAO!!!!