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To: Ferris
Of course we can take that to it's logical extreme and set our clocks to Noon when it's really 6 AM and then we'd have daylight past midnight.

It's really all semantics...I'd rather the time stay the same so I don't have to re-adjust my body clock twice a year.

15 posted on 04/06/2002 6:20:46 AM PST by WorldWatcher1
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To: WorldWatcher1
Of course we can take that to it's logical extreme and set our clocks to Noon when it's really 6 AM and then we'd have daylight past midnight.

Yes, but doing that wouldn't be very logical would it?

It's really all semantics...I'd rather the time stay the same so I don't have to re-adjust my body clock twice a year.

Agreed.

I just prefer a little more daylight at the end of the day...

21 posted on 04/06/2002 7:13:14 AM PST by Ferris
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To: WorldWatcher1
It's really all semantics...I'd rather the time stay the same so I don't have to re-adjust my body clock twice a year.

Hear hear! I know I'm in the minority, but I do provide a living example of the "tyranny of the majority." DST doesn't help me; it hurts me. My screen name has a reason behind it; I must answer the alarm clock at 2 a.m. At work, there's a psychological boost from sunrise, but that is taken from me each April because of this.

But why should anyone else care, really? They never did, they never will. Those bright "good morning" voices will continue to do their jobs in the middle of the night, that bleary-eyed day-shifters can start their day.

Not that I'm complaining! I made over $100,000 last decade, and so did most of my co-workers!

And all we had to do was get up when no one else wanted to, be sharp when no one else could be, and inform a foggy-eyed public that the world didn't blow up and they needed a jacket or umbrella this morning.

This is not a rant about working conditions; I've had far worse. It's merely a statement that Daylight Saving Time beats the hell out of some people.

To top it off, that "year round DST," instituted my Sophomore year in high school, resulted in the deaths of at least a dozen children waiting in pitch darkness for their school buses during the winter months. That's the main reason it was repealed. We've never heard the name of the bureaucratic Nixon-administration bean-counter who came up with this deadly idea. I doubt we ever will.

But of course, they wouldn't have been waiting for school buses if not for federally-mandated busing to "achieve racial balance" requiring 1-2 hour trips each way.

Those of you who can frolic in the park in the evenings, I'll live vicariously through you. But I can't join you; some of us have work to do. Embargo changes Daylight Saving time Following the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo, Congress put most of the nation on extended Daylight Saving Time for two years in hopes of saving additional energy. This experiment worked, but Congress did not continue the experiment in 1975 because of opposition -- mostly from the farming states.

27 posted on 04/06/2002 9:13:00 AM PST by ihatemyalarmclock
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