HELL NO!!!! I’m so happy when it gets here, and we have more daylight. There’s actually daylight after you get home from work.
The best thing that ever happened was the year we had it all year round!!
Daylight Savings Time comes from Ben Franklin, who when he was in Europe noted that people would “work by candlelight and sleep by sunshine” yet “complain about the costs of candlewax and burning tallow”
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. It’s more than a motto. It works. Rising with the sun saves money.
Messing around with the clocks complicates real time computer controlled systems. Spring isn’t nearly as bad as Fall but they both keep some up at night fiddling with it.
No, we should dump non daylight savings time.
My grandparents never got used to DST. They had two clocks in their house, one on what they called “slow time” and one on “fast time”. They lived on “slow time” all the time and only kept the “fast time” clock for when they had appointments or anything that involved the outside world. They lived to be about 90; and did it their way.
Balderdash - that's non-farmer talk for bull####. My uncle was a dyed-in-the-wool batchelor farmer who HATED daylight savings time. However, he had an easy solution: He simply left his clocks where they were. He only had to remember that the feed store closed an hour early in the summer. I can't imagine how DST would have any other effect on farmers.
I live in Arizona, we don’t observe it. When I look up at the position of the sun I can tell what time it is.
and I like it that way.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Yes. Education in the USA suffers every time there is a switch to DST. Children shouldn’t have to leave home in the dark at 6:30 AM to catch the bus to school.
Not just no, but . . .
HELL NO!
I'll take the increased heart attack risk, thank you very much. I find it gloomy and depressing to have the sun set so early during the winter months. In fact, I wish DST were all year around!
I can see advocates of eliminating DST quoting that study and saying, "Do it . . . for the geezers!"
Unless your bedroom has no windows or has black out shades or you always get up in the dark no matter what, you’re probably already living on DST.
It’s hard to sleep when the sun is streaming in your bedroom window. I know that by the time we change the clocks, I’m already used to getting up an hour earlier than I did in December.
A great advantage many of us have is that we live in the western quadrant of a time zone. Love those long summer evenings.
We should keep it year round.
The annual dump DST post.
I’d say keep it at DST all year round.
There’s no point in switching the clock twice a year. It messes with our circadian rhythms. There’s really no need for it.
We’d get better rest and have an enhanced quality of life.
Today, sunrise was 7:03 AM and sunset will be 6:23 PM. Not a big fan of DST. On the summer solstice, sunrise will be 5:21 AM ans sunset will be 9:55 PM. It is light enough that during the Calgary Stampede, the fireworks do not start until 10:30 PM. Edmonton has an additional 29 minutes of sunlight on June 21... (sunrise 5:04 AM and sunset 10:07 PM) Makes for great, but short summers.
The winters suck, however. In Edmonchuck, on Dec 21, sunrise is 8:48 AM and sunset is 4:16 PM (daylight: 7h 27m 38s) Calgary is only marginally better with sunrise at 8:37 AM and sunset at 4:32 PM yelding 7h 54m 17s of sunlight.
Not as variable as Alaska, but it makes for bleak winters. Prudhoe Bay, Alaska has sunset at 12:59 PM on November 24 and sunrise at 12:56 on January 17! An acquaintance served at CFS Alert where sunset was October 13 at 12:01 PM and the sun did not rise again until February 27 at 9:29 AM.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
I dont mind losing the hour in the spring. It’s that extra hour in the fall that I hate. It takes a couple of days to adjust.
Yes, kill it. It just ain’t natural. We need to get in touch with the natural rythyms of life.
Joshua 10:12-13:
"Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
And the sun stood still and the moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hastened not to go down for about a whole day."
The part about "a whole day" needs to be interpreted as "about sixty minutes" because that is what was actually meant. And, every autumn we are to recreate as best we can Joshua's miracle by holding the clock still for sixty minutes. And, in the springtime, we can move the clock forward again so that the next autumn we can again recreate Joshua's miracle.
Who wants to mess with that?
DST is implemented to match outside occupations, which are driven by the hour of dawn, with typically indoor occupations. The society as a whole benefits.