Posted on 10/27/2009 1:59:31 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Finally, America -- or most of it -- will get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning when Daylight Saving Time ends.
And the scam that we'll be more productive and save money on electricity bills because there was an extra hour of daylight will be put on hiatus until next spring.
The only good things about turning the clock back an hour before going to bed Saturday night is that you'll get an extra hour of sleep, and it's a good reminder to change the batteries on smoke alarms.
Otherwise, this whole dance about saving money is a waste of time, as I wrote in March when Daylight Saving Time, or DST, started this year. And to make it worse, in four months we'll go through this same lame setup again when we turn the clocks forward an hour.
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I think I would vote for almost ANYONE who would promise to do away with this time change crap.
I concur I sleep much better while on standard time.
Just who is this “time being” that we’re all doing stuff for?
I love DST. Add those hours to my GMT offset. Make it 2 hour DST in summer. I want sunny evenings.
Only 42 more days until the earliest sunset and evenings start getting lighter.
Just who is this “time being” that we’re all doing stuff for?
DST makes as much sense as having a blanket that is too short, so you cut a foot or two of it off and sew it onto the other end.
Never really understood the intense hatred people like you have for DST. For those of us who work a regular weekday schedule, having an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon to do stuff is beneficial (try playing golf after work in the winter on those rare warm days). It’s depressing when it’s dark both when you go to work and when you come home. I’m lucky that my work allows flexible hours, so I can pretty much come and go as I please as long as I put in 40 hours a week, but I’d have no problem if we just modified our timezones to extend DST throughout the whole year.
I’m with you. I don’t see why we don’t keep DST all winter. It’s dark when you leave for work anyway. Why do we want to lose another at night?
History lesson time:
The time zones are skewed from their proper longitudes because they came into existence for the benefit of the railroads.
The railroads wanted one time zone to cover Boston to Chicago.
Hence the Eastern/Central line, which should really be around Columbus OH is instead at the IN/IL border.
And now for a “things that make you go Hmmmmm” quetion? If “Standard Time” is in use for less than half the year, is it really “standard” anymore? “DST” is the real “standard”.
History lesson time:
The time zones are skewed from their proper longitudes because they came into existence for the benefit of the railroads.
The railroads wanted one time zone to cover Boston to Chicago.
Hence the Eastern/Central line, which should really be around Columbus OH is instead at the IN/IL border.
And now for a “things that make you go Hmmmmm” quetion? If “Standard Time” is in use for less than half the year, is it really “standard” anymore? “DST” is the real “standard”.
I'm with you, Karl.
On the other hand, as is well known, the stress of switching to DST causes cows to give sour milk.
I lived in Ohio and Michigan the first 35 years of my life.
I never had a clue about the intensity of opinion over DST (or lack of it) until I moved to Indiana.
Indiana didn’t have DST until four years ago.
That legislative battle made the national fight over Obamacare look like child’s play, LOL.
Dita! I’m with you!
Karl—I thought I was the only one who counted the days until the days start getting longer again! Or at least stop getting shorter! LOL
It takes me about that amount of time to reset the clock in my car.
I like DST. I wish we had it year round.
Sorry for the double post—FR site has been running slow at best and DOS at worse tonight.
It’s easier if you just remember it’s off an hour. :)
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