Posted on 03/31/2006 11:43:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
Millions of Americans will lose an hour's sleep Saturday night, as daylight savings time returns.
Officially clocks should be moved ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, but most people will change their clocks before going to bed Saturday night.
The lost hour will return October 29 when clocks fall back to standard time.
Congress has passed a law changing the dates of daylight-saving time, from March 11 to November 4, but that doesn't take effect until 2007.
And this is no April Fool's joke.
It's also recommended that you change the batteries in your fire alarms.
I really hate daylight savings time.
Just leave the time of day alone.
If businesses and/or government want open/close earlier or later with the changing seasons fine but leave the freaking time alone.
"If businesses and/or government want open/close earlier or later with the changing seasons fine but leave the freaking time alone."
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I agree. Just when we finally get used to the time, they change it. Now everyone will have to get up an hour earlier.
It's a phychological game they are playing with us.
I hate DST even more than you do.
I hate it the most of everyone.
I despise DST. It's STUPID.
(I'm not a morning person, can you tell...?)
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
But I always forget the actual dates, when we have to do it.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
(I'm not a morning person, can you tell...?)
DST is to the advantage of late risers, since the "saved" time is actually stolen from the morning and added to the evening. Fact is, you'd have to be an extremely early riser to enjoy the extra hour of daylight on standard time.
But it's so nice in the fall when you get an extra hour to sleep Sunday night...
Oh no, don't remind me ... damn congresscritters... Grrrrrr....
"DST is to the advantage of late risers,"
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No it isn't. People who had to get up at 6 am to go to work, now they have to get up at 5 am, when it's still dark. Their body protests and rightfully. Not exactly something to look forward to for people, who actually prefer to get up at 9 am.
No offense, dr.lew, but someone always shows up on the DST thread to say something like that. You've got it backwards, sadly, grievously WRONG.
Why can't they just leave it the way it is/was?
The difference between time zones is still the same, EXCEPT where they don't go back and forth, I think Arizona is either always on daylight savings, or always on regular and don't switch to daylight savings, I forget which.
I am sorry, I guess you meant from another country, where they don't do daylight savings.
There may be many on here who dislike DST but those of us on the northern border really appreciate it.
People that get up at six are not late risers, but anyway, from web resources, the sun rises in Chicago at 5:32 AM CST on April 2, which is 6:32 AM CDT, so your point carries some water, but note that on March 1 the sun rises at 6:26 AM CST in Chicago, so the onset of CDT is no worse than that as regards morning light.
But then, by April 22, the sun rises at 5:00 AM CST, 6:00 AM CDT, and then:
June 1 - 4:18 AM CST, 5:18 AM CDT
July 1 - 4:19 AM CST, 5:19 AM CDT
Aug 1 - 4:45 AM CST, 5:45 AM CDT
with setting times:
June 1 - 7:19 PM CST, 8:19 AM CDT
July 1 - 7:30 PM CST, 8:30 PM CDT
Aug 1 - 7:09 PM CST, 8:09 AM CDT
so the advantage here should be obvious.
I do agree that the the expansion of DST into late winter and mid autumn makes no sense.
If I set up an appointment to call a business associate in Las Vegas, for instance, I have to take into account the time difference, which is an hour ahead or behind the "usual time" depending on the time of year.
They typically don't inform us (outside the U.S.) of the dates for the time change, so April and October are especially frustrating.
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