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Daylight Saving Time: Negligible Energy Savings, Possibly Deadly?
Forbes ^ | March 6, 2015 | Tom Zeller Jr.

Posted on 03/08/2015 5:52:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

If you happen to live in Hawaii, Arizona (mostly) Saskatchewan (and bits of other Canadian provinces), or the Midway Atoll of the North Pacific — well, congratulations. You will not be subjected this weekend to the much-maligned, poorly understood ritual obligation of turning your clock ahead one hour, in observance of Daylight Saving Time.

For most of the rest of the North America, as of Sunday you’ll be doing your part, ostensibly, to save the nation energy. In return, your evenings will be a bit brighter, the mornings a bit darker, and if you’re like me, your overall schedule will be a bit disorienting — at least until you adjust.

You’ll then need to move the clocks back again on Nov. 1, of course.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: energy; hotair; time
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To: Timber Rattler

Since I’m retired I decided to set my clock forward 13 hours just to see if I noticed.


41 posted on 03/08/2015 7:56:04 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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To: The Great RJ

Thought it was so kids would not be trick or treating in the dark.


42 posted on 03/08/2015 7:57:14 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Timber Rattler
I thought daylight savings time caused Globull Cooling by removing to much daylight
in the 70's. Now it seems the trend has reversed and we're all doomed.
43 posted on 03/08/2015 7:58:02 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: puppypusher

Wow, that is not overly dramatic at all.


44 posted on 03/08/2015 7:59:51 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Timber Rattler

It was dark when I got up this morning ... had to turn on lights.


45 posted on 03/08/2015 8:02:11 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Timber Rattler

Don’t forget, it’s also racist somehow..


46 posted on 03/08/2015 8:06:30 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: cripplecreek
I feel sorry for people who are so weak as to have trouble adjusting by an hour.

Guaranteed some of those same people would berate anyone who dared complain about working overnights, or 18 hrs a day, or having to wake up a 3am for a minimum wage job.

I can picture them with their "whah, whah" cleverness now.

47 posted on 03/08/2015 8:07:36 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Timber Rattler

I think somebody, somewhere, somehow, is making money from DST. There is no other reasonable explanation.


48 posted on 03/08/2015 8:09:22 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Timber Rattler

Doesn’t sound as though anybody on here works the night shift.
Nothing like going to bed in the evenings when it is dark and some what quieter.
Now with the time change, longer,noisier evenings.
More traumas at the hospital from people **cking around into the evening.
Too close to retirement to switch shifts.I’ll just have to ride it out a few more years and watch out co-workers,snarly will be on the rampage from lack of sleep.


49 posted on 03/08/2015 8:15:45 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Why this cannot be ended is baffling to me.

Now it’s back to dark mornings for kids - who have enough trouble as it is getting to school at 8:00.

How does turning the clocks forward make it safe for children walking to school in the dark? The streets around here are like Mad Max Thunderdome as it is with idiots racing down residential streets trying to get to work.


50 posted on 03/08/2015 8:20:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Consider this Diem Carped.)
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To: grania

Love it! I always keep one clock at home set to standard time - so I know what the real time is.


51 posted on 03/08/2015 8:21:25 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Consider this Diem Carped.)
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To: Tupelo

Welcome to our world!

I love that Rush starts at 9 AM - that happens to be a perfect time for me because I am very busy after 12.

I always found it curious whenever I visited Laughlin which is right on the time line - if I crossed the Colorado river into Arizona to Bullhead City, I had to mind your time because it (was) an hour off of Nevada time.

Had some (not funny) family mix-ups over it -


52 posted on 03/08/2015 8:25:56 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Consider this Diem Carped.)
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To: ducttape45

Either keep it year round or do away with it, I prefer to do away with it but the one year they had it year round I didn’t have to get up early to go duck hunting.


53 posted on 03/08/2015 8:26:40 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: j.argese

The only people who like DST are Obama voters who can’t wait for an excuse to be late for work year after ye......

Wait.
Work??

Nevermind.


54 posted on 03/08/2015 8:38:50 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Hobo: "I think you're gonna need a lot of dump trucks.")
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To: southern rock

“Wow, that is not overly dramatic at all.”

Well!MaybeI did go a little over the top being over dramatic but it can and does happen and quite often.

Think of the numbers of auto accidents that are caused by people who are driving when they’re tired.


55 posted on 03/08/2015 9:01:15 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: exDemMom
I much prefer to wake naturally with the sunrise... maybe after I’m retired.

I loved DST when I was kid...stay out later and play more baseball...Now, I'm retired and the change makes no difference to me. I still wake up with no alarm clock for me! About one hour before sunrise. Also, most days, I don't care what day it is.

FMCDH(BITS)

56 posted on 03/08/2015 9:42:52 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: cripplecreek
I don't have trouble adjusting to it, I just think it is stupid.

I used to work in dairy and the cows thought the whole thing was quite silly.

57 posted on 03/08/2015 9:47:45 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: tuffydoodle
I love daylight savings time.

Me too, I just don't like going back to "standard time" when it's DST most of the year. Which should make daylight saving time, standard time.

It's just a retarded cluster.

58 posted on 03/08/2015 10:01:33 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Timber Rattler

Why do we even have “standard” time any more? Nearly 2/3rds of the year will be spent on DST, while during only 1/3rd of the year do we use “standard” time. “Standard” time isn’t the standard now...daylight saving time is, by duration. Why not use it year round and do away with the clock-changing ritual?


59 posted on 03/08/2015 10:13:20 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Deathtomarxists
Generally speaking, people who work for a living appreciate DST because they have a chance of doing something outdoors after work during the warmer months.

In the summer months, it means a lot to me to be able to go out to my backyard after work and have an hour or two to grill a burger and have a beer on my patio before the mosquitoes start coming out.

People who are retired or don't have to go to work every day are generally the cranks when it comes to DST. I don't pay them no mind.

60 posted on 03/08/2015 10:31:11 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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