Posted on 11/01/2013 3:31:05 PM PDT by Sergio
Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour. It’s a controversial practice that became popular in the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy. The fall time change feels particularly hard because we lose another hour of evening daylight, just as the days grow shorter. It also creates confusion because countries that observe daylight saving change their clocks on different days.
It would seem to be more efficient to do away with the practice altogether. The actual energy savings are minimal, if they exist at all. Frequent and uncoordinated time changes cause confusion, undermining economic efficiency. There’s evidence that regularly changing sleep cycles, associated with daylight saving, lowers productivity and increases heart attacks. Being out of sync with European time changes was projected to cost the airline industry $147 million a year in travel disruptions. But I propose we not only end Daylight Saving, but also take it one step further.
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That extra hour of daylight is what causes global warming!
I like daylight savings. I like all of the daylight after work. I would rather waste most of the dark hours working to have daylight to do stuff. I would imagine people who work mostly indoors feel the same.
I love daylight savings time.
"The Metric Leisure Week will be composed of three days. Yes, only three days. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will become one day known as Mwensday or in decabet: Mwen. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will become Saturthurs, or in decabet: Turth. And Sunday, our traditional day of rest, will remain Sunday. Three days: Mwen, Thurth and Sunday."
I agree. I like the extra sunlight in the evenings.
My goats have requested a night light in their shed.
No it's not, besides a few crumdrums here & there I'd bet few if anyone really thinks about it more than a day or 2 after a switch.
Plus, if DLS was repealed people would be very pissed without that xtra hour after work in the summer time
Me too.
This is an excellent idea. Abolish 2 time zones and just have an Eastern and Western Time with the Mississippi River being the equilibrium.
I don’t blame them. :)
I agree with you. It’s very depressing to spend all the daylight hours inside and leave work in the darkness. For people who work in an office, it means that during the winter months we can never be out in the light during the week. This is terrible for both mental and physical health. Having a hour of sun in the morning when one is getting ready for work is useless.
My goats have requested a night light in their shed.
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The bimbette reporter asked the farmer how he enjoyed the extra hour daylight in the evening.
“Don’t. I just have to get up an hour earlier to get up at the same time and then I am ‘stuck’ with another hour to work at night”.
“You don’t understand. Just sleep the extra hour in the morning and adjust your schedule accordingly”.
FARMER: “Miss, them cows and chickens got to be tended the same ‘time’ every morning and evening, they don’t go by any clock”.
And a ten hour metric clock.
A day is still 24 hours, I don’t think anyone gets upset at “losing an hour”. They like having the extra day light before prime time, though, I think.
From what I understand, time zones were established as a result of the fast travel over long distances that became commonplace with the development of the railroad industry. Before that, every town had their own way of measuring time. It was noon when the sun was at its highest point in the sky, and through all of human history up until the 19th century it didn't matter if noontime in one place wasn't the exact same time as noontime somewhere else hundreds of miles to the east or west. None of this mattered until it was possible to travel over those hundreds of miles in a single day ... which meant that a schedule or timetable for someone getting on a train in New York City and getting off in Chicago had to be based on a uniform "standard time."
Reminds me of the city slicker who moved to the country and asked the township to remove the deer crossing road sign from near his property.
I think the entire country should be on Central Standard Time except for the two freak states.
Employers etc. could always change the time the work day started for whatever time period they wanted.
It would be no fun for IT folks having to patch all the servers with the changes.
I think we should go to a 23-hour day. That would make things interesting.
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