Posted on 03/12/2017 5:44:21 AM PDT by MagillaX
Steel yourself: It's nearly time to turn our clocks forward an hour for the start of daylight-saving time (DST).
This arcane and terrible ritual officially starts on March 13, 2016.
At 1:59 a.m. on Sunday morning, our clocks will wind forward an hour to 3:00 a.m. instead of 2:00 a.m.
That gives us one less hour of sleep and means the sun will rise an hour later than we're used to.
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I like DST.
If the object is to set up a pattern test then set it up a column of single numbers, there is no need to lie about simple math.
The test separates leaders from followers. 97% feel obligated to answer 34 and 45 even though it’s factually wrong AND 34 and 45 are in the 97%.
This is more a study in human psychology than anything else. 97% insist on answering 5+8 wrong - no wonder why the world is so screwed up.
I don’t mind the falling back, it’s the spring forward that gets me.
Think I’ll move to AZ.....
How did the birds know?
Of course, that may mean that you have an opportunity to be upright and take nourishment.
Chirping birds are positive feedback.
What about a metric clock with 10-hour days?
Increases in heart attacks, MVAs and strokes have all been linked to the spring DST change.
The government tortures us with tax preps and DST come the early Spring season. Middle finger salutes upon them.
I agree. It should STAY on DST ALL the time.
I went to school on dark mornings, my kids did the same. Who cares?
I always liked the early winter darkness when my kids were in school. Life slows down just as it does for all of nature. It serves a purpose.
Doing away with time zones would make your programming easier.
I would like to propose “Weekend-Saving Time” where we turn our clocks back an hour at 2 AM Saturday, and turn them ahead an hour at 9 AM Monday.
The more honest question rather than the ? mark on the last equation would be, “Given the projection of the trend in the first three equations, what is the answer for the fourth?”
This discussion amazes me.
Talk about changing sunrise, sunset, etc.
Talk about birds chirping, roosters, etc.
DST has NOTHING to do with any of this.
DST is simply a way to make everybody get up and go to work ONE HOUR EARLIER.
But it’s marketing, no more, no less. If they told folks they had to be at work one hour earlier, even though they could leave one hour earlier, there would be tremendous hue and cry and universal bitching.
So it’s the same result, but changing the clocks simply hides the reality.
Daylight savings time should never be done by law, and when it is done it should be voluntary and without changing clocks.
All any business, office, school or any other organization needs to do is to announce:
“Beginning on MM...MMMM DD [month and day] we will open at 7:AM instead of 8:AM and close at 4:PM instead of 5:PM. [or whatever fits their normal schedule] We will keep this scheduled until October DD.”
There, they have “daylight savings time”, with no laws and no changing of clocks.
I don’t care about it either—but that is a big complaint/excuse for keeping this stupid system going.
I like more daylight as late as possible, which is why I’m for DST all year.
Just move the clocks 1/2 hour and be done with it. This obsessing over an hour is ridiculous.
I like daylight saving time. Stop whining about it and drink more coffee. today.
I love DST too. We play golf late in the day or do other activities outside until dark. I do enjoy the Fall back in the fall too. It’s just a ritual that I like that marks the seasons in a climate where the weather doesn’t get very cold. Most of the summer here it’s too hot to do anything until late in the day.
Ditto. Why should we waste the summer sunlight in the early morning while we're sleeping instead of tacking it on the end of the day when we can enjoy it? As a kid, I enjoyed running around outside in the late evening and still be able to see. At the best, it was still pretty light until 9:30. Keep it.
I recall back in high school days, on Friday the guys used to hang out after dark. As curfew approached my friend once said of DST: “It gets late too early.”
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