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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Since I’m retired I decided to set my clock forward 13 hours just to see if I noticed.
Thought it was so kids would not be trick or treating in the dark.
Wow, that is not overly dramatic at all.
It was dark when I got up this morning ... had to turn on lights.
Don’t forget, it’s also racist somehow..
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.
I think somebody, somewhere, somehow, is making money from DST. There is no other reasonable explanation.
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.
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.
Love it! I always keep one clock at home set to standard time - so I know what the real time is.
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 -
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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I used to work in dairy and the cows thought the whole thing was quite silly.
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.
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?
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.
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