Posted on 03/21/2015 3:29:12 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Not if you have real clocks rather then a computer chip run item.
Most kids these days struggle to read a regular non digital clock as it is.
My sister’s kids have never forgiven me for buying their mom a kitchen clock that doesn’t have numbers on it.
“Get rid of two time zones while we’re at it as well. Just have Eastern and Western time zones.”
Umm, how about we just have one time zone? CST.
I ignore clocks all the time when I’m at home. :) None of my clocks reflect the “correct” time except for the one that summons me to work. That could be why the time change isn’t a big deal to me. The lack of daylight when I get away from the confines of work (where time IS observed) is an issue.
“I have always hated DST.”
Tell me about it. Man, back in the day, when playing HS football, I thought two-a-days would never end, ugh :)
The time change gives me jet lag that takes me two weeks to recover from.
We should just pass a law to require that sunrise and sunset must be at 6am and 6pm every day, like countries along the equator.
“Falling back” in a house with a hungry cat is not acceptable. We’ve learned to keep her on kitty time year-round.
My kitchen clock has all of the numbers jumbled at the bottom. Across the middle is written..”Whatever”.
I love clocks. I keep many of them on DST.
I agree with the complaints, but I think it’s a petty issue when there’s an anus orifice in the White House whom along with his political party is destroying this country.
Perhaps we could find some way to fire his ass, and take up the small stuff later.
Does sunlight after you leave work require a twice a year change? Or can the changes stop and you still get the daylight you seek with a fixed time that doesn't change twice a year?
/johnny
Send them sliderules for their birthdays. Circular ones if you can find them.
Florida tried leaving the time at DST one year.
It was a problem because in the winter school kids were walking to their bus stops and standing around waiting for their buses in the dark.
There were some serious accidents so the experiment only lasted one winter.
My wristwatch has Roman Numerals. I wonder what kids would make of that?
PLEEEASSSE end it!!! I STILL feel like I’m missing that hour every day.
I was Tuba City Arizona last Summer and one side of the main street is on the Navajo reservation, while the other side is on the Hopi reservation. The Navajos observe daylight savings time, but the Hopis don’t, or maybe it’s the other way around. Our hotel was on one side, and many of the stores and restaurants were on the other. This lead to all sorts of confusion about when businesses closed, when events were taking place, and what time you were actually making a dinner reservation for. Even if you stayed on one side of the street, you could not be sure that the time someone gave you, or the time you read somewhere for something was one hour early or one hour late.
The clocks, being imperfect, gain or loose time on their own...
Contrary to what has been posted earlier in the thread, the imposition of DST had little to do with convenience and much more to do with energy savings during wartime. It started under Wilson, was repealed after the war, then was reinstituted under FDR. The idea was that, with more work hours under daylight, less power would be needed for lighting, leaving more resources for the war.
Considering how small a fraction of our present power generation goes to lighting, there’s really no reason to keep DST except for the convenience of those who have chosen poor geographic locations to live with respect to their available daylight. Considering the disruption to sleep cycles, DST has long outlived its usefulness.
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