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ARTelevision · 10-26-2003, 07:52 AM

I just don't appreciate this moving the clocks back deal. I always hope one day we will elect a leader who vows to eliminate it as part of his or her platform.

I know there are some folks who like the extra hours of early morning sunlight. My sense is they are a distinct minority. I wonder what sort of result a referendum to stop changing the clocks twice a year would produce?

Kaos · 10-26-2003, 07:58 AM

I love the extra hour of sleep, but I really wishthey would just do away with the whole thing. Much easier to just get used to one time setting and stick with it.

Gortexfogg · 10-26-2003, 08:23 AM

I used to never change my clocks back, I'd just always remember they were an hour ahead half of the year. And yea, they really should set up time where it stays one way all the time...

YzermanS19 · 10-26-2003, 08:31 AM

It's an outdated way to save energy back from World War I and WWII. It was kept after WWII for whatever reason, and its kind of pointless now.

I say get rid of it. It seriously screws with my internal clock.

splck · 10-26-2003, 08:36 AM

If we didn't have the time change, the little kids would be going to school in the dark. Not too safe I'd say. I have no problem with time changes, in fact, I like it.

numberfive · 10-26-2003, 08:41 AM

Yeah. I like changing the time. It was nice for shorter football practices in highschool. The extra hour of sleep is great too.

lurkette · 10-26-2003, 08:59 AM

I think the whole thing is silly beyond belief. The autumn change doesn't seem to bother me much, physiologically or psychologically, but the spring change throws me for a loop for weeks. It's even sillier that some parts of the country don't observe DST and so change time zones every 6 months. Whatever the original reason for it, it seems like a ridiculous mind game. So you feel like you've gained an hour of daylight in the morning - you just lose it at night. I'd much rather get up in the dark than have the sun set at 5:30. Silly creatures.

brandon11983 · 10-26-2003, 09:07 AM

Daylight savings time is now in my book of all time bad ideas. My dumb ass showed up for work today at 10... thinking it was 11. I could've slept like a baby for another hour... but noooooo. Bastards....

So I went to Wal-Mart and read magazines for an hour or so.

anti fishstick · 10-26-2003, 09:20 AM

i had no idea it was DST last night. :T
i don't like it

Peryn · 10-26-2003, 09:25 AM

Well, i sleep in late, and i hate the sunshine, so i think its great. An extra hour of sleep, and it gets darker earlier. I can waste more of the suntime asleep and not hafta see it. The less i hafta see the Scare-Ball the better....

dragon2fire · 10-26-2003, 10:12 AM

heheh

got to love indiana we dont change time

ever

although we are now east coast and we were central

at least i think

SecretMethod70 · 10-26-2003, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by Gortexfogg
I used to never change my clocks back, I'd just always remember they were an hour ahead half of the year. And yea, they really should set up time where it stays one way all the time...

heh glad I'm not the only one who used to do that

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Originally posted by lurkette
So you feel like you've gained an hour of daylight in the morning - you just lose it at night. I'd much rather get up in the dark than have the sun set at 5:30. Silly creatures.

Exactly. I want my light WHEN I'M AWAKE! If that means it's dark when I wake up, so be it - it also means I get every ounce of daylight I can. Not to mention it means I get to see the sunrise EVERY MORNING.

tikki · 10-26-2003, 01:49 PM

Doesn't phase me since Indianapolis and Lafayette don't change time. Well, some TV times change, but i didn't get any extra sleep. :-\

GakFace · 10-26-2003, 02:23 PM

MOVE TO INDIANA!!!

Yeah, no clocks change, tho my mom's soaps now come on at a different time.. hehe My only problem is that my Atomic Clock changed times because there is no INDIANA Settting apparently. So now I must change it back.. hehe

cliv · 10-26-2003, 02:34 PM

I travel across times zones frequently, so an hour here or there due to DST doesn't bother me. My internal clock is off for about a day, but by tomorrow I'll be adjusted.

numist · 10-26-2003, 02:36 PM

I like it, I wake up early and go to sleep early, and if I wake up when its dark - have you ever done that? It is the worst feeling in the world...
During the summer, when I go to sleep, its still bright out if it were an hour earlier, and that just sucks too...

so, I appreciate it, and am thoroughly glad it exists, as it makes my life a lot easier, as light has a lot to do with my moods.

tikki · 10-26-2003, 03:16 PM

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Originally posted by GakFace
MOVE TO INDIANA!!!

gak, buddy. that's the worst advice you could give anyone.

WhoaitsZ · 10-26-2003, 03:25 PM

daylight saving's time is one of the best example at how fucking lazy our government is and their lack of responsibility to change.

it was, if i'm not mistaken, thought up during WWII so workers in the us had an extra hour to help contribute.

hey pentagon. the 40s are over, fuckwits.

jbrooks544 · 10-26-2003, 03:53 PM

It is bad enough that it starts getting dark so early anyway... Then they MAKE IT WORSE and put the clocks back! GHEESH! The kids should be going to school at 8:30 anyway, instead of 6:30, which is nuts..

World's King · 10-26-2003, 04:08 PM

It doesn't make sense to me.

I just do it and go about my life.

StormBerlin · 10-26-2003, 04:21 PM

Arizona also doesn't change their times. I think it's stupid. All day today out and about I kept thinking how late it seemed. I hate it when it gets dark this early. It doesn't even feel like an extra hour of sleep...

crow_daw · 10-26-2003, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by numberfive
It was nice for shorter football practices in highschool.

Damn straight.

Also, I always think its cool when this happens that there's like an hour on the night time goes back in which time doesn't pass at all.
Ya know, it happens at 2 in the morning or whatever, so when it hits two, an entire hour passes, but its still two, so time didn't really pass.
Or maybe I'm overthinkin all this.

uncle phil · 10-26-2003, 04:26 PM

Wouldn't it be nice if we had sunshine from 6:00 am until 8:30 pm every day, all year long? How can I make this happen without being driven by nature? Guess I'll have to live with the powers that be until a better power comes along, or is elected to change the cycle...

Peryn · 10-26-2003, 04:36 PM

Wow, looks like im the only one here who might be happier if we could only have an hour or two of sun out of the whole day... interesting. Didn't realize most people liked the sun that much.

viejo gringo · 10-26-2003, 05:04 PM

My grand pa used to say "that was Rosevelts idea, and I ain't doing nothing he wants"...and besides, you can't turn a cow backwards of forwards---they know when it's milking time".

uncle phil · 10-26-2003, 05:23 PM

well said, viejo...

GoldenOuroboros · 10-26-2003, 06:55 PM

ahhh.. good ol' Queensland, AUS, we don't do anything with any of the clocks here. Although the rest of Australia does *snickers* When I was living in one of the other states I didn't really mind it that much. Except for having to goto bed while it's still light out. bah @ that.

QuasiMojo · 10-26-2003, 07:02 PM

I remember as a kid, I was always told that Daylight Savings Time was so that doctors could have an extra hour on the golf course.

(I probably only heard that Once....but it stuck)

Cardinal Syn · 10-26-2003, 07:09 PM

Move to Arizona Art. There is a option for you if you dont care to change the clocks. :>

dy156 · 10-27-2003, 08:15 AM

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Exactly. I want my light WHEN I'M AWAKE! If that means it's dark when I wake up, so be it - it also means I get every ounce of daylight I can. Not to mention it means I get to see the sunrise EVERY MORNING. [/B]

The should have daylight savings time year round, in my opinion. It sucks in the spring, but if we just did it one more time, then kept it, what is good for the summer would be good all year.

mb99usa · 10-27-2003, 08:31 AM

This needs to stop. An hour does not make that much difference anyway.

That comment about the kids being in the dark is silly too. Another few weeks and they will be again.

Its just one more thing for us to have to remember and to complain about. Works right into the gov't's master plan.

Met22 · 10-27-2003, 08:50 AM

When I was in High School and the energy crunch was happening it was Daylight Savings Time all year around. Sure it was dark in the morning but the time in the afternoon was great. Why must me switch time. Time is time and you would think life could exist with one time standard.

Bill O'Rights · 10-27-2003, 10:48 AM

I'm another vote for losing Daylight Savings Time. It never made sense to me. If you have x amount of hours of daylight, and y amount of hours of darkness...changing the actual time doesn't add or subtract anything to either of them.

Down with Daylight Savings Time!

cchris · 10-27-2003, 11:06 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GoldenOuroboros
[B]ahhh.. good ol' Queensland, AUS, we don't do anything with any of the clocks here.

Just ask 'Joh'.

But then again,he's forgotten what time it is anyway.

Sorry Mate,

Couldn't resist that one.

Cecil Beeber · 10-31-2003, 05:14 PM

The way I see it, Indiana gets the best of both worlds - we get the 'extra' hour of sunlight in the summer when we're on Chicago time (Is that Central Time? I've never known.), but we also get an 'extra' hour of sunlight in the winter, when we're on New York time (Eastern?) It gets dark around 6:30 in Indy, when it gets dark at 5:30 in this confused part of Indiana that wishes it was part of Chicago.

SecretMethod70 · 10-31-2003, 05:28 PM

Doesn't everyone wish they're part of Chicago?

I mean, we're just so cool that it's now Chicago Time instead of Central Time...I like that

<---- cool Chicagoan

P.S. Eastern Time should stay just that though. New York doesn't deserve it

(I jest)

santafe5000 · 10-31-2003, 06:50 PM

I hated the change in the summer time cause i worked in a drive in movie and we didn't start the first film til damn near 9pm. After a double bill, we wouldn't get out of there til 2am. Whole nite shot.

justin218 · 10-31-2003, 06:59 PM

I don't like it either. The only good thing is you get an extra hour, but then you lose one later :/

Cecil Beeber · 10-31-2003, 07:55 PM

SecretMethod - I don't know, I'm a pretty proud Hoosier, myself

Heck, we made Microsoft bend to our state - they had to put a computer setting in for "Indiana Time". Still hate daylight savings time though.

niccoli · 10-31-2003, 08:07 PM

I think it's stupid, the whole thing was initially so that farmers would be able to get more work done during the day. However, I live in a farming community and even the farmers hate it. They have headlights on everything now so they don't need it.

10-26-2003, 07:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
ARTelevision I change Location: USA	Daylight Losing Time I just don't appreciate this moving the clocks back deal. I always hope one day we will elect a leader who vows to eliminate it as part of his or her platform. I know there are some folks who like the extra hours of early morning sunlight. My sense is they are a distinct minority. I wonder what sort of result a referendum to stop changing the clocks twice a year would produce? __________________ create evolution

10-26-2003, 08:31 AM	#4 (permalink)
YzermanS19 not your typical god-fearing junkie Location: State of Confusion	It's an outdated way to save energy back from World War I and WWII. It was kept after WWII for whatever reason, and its kind of pointless now. I say get rid of it. It seriously screws with my internal clock. __________________ the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long and you have burned so very, very brightly

10-26-2003, 08:36 AM	#5 (permalink)
splck it's jam Location: Lowerainland BC	If we didn't have the time change, the little kids would be going to school in the dark. Not too safe I'd say. I have no problem with time changes, in fact, I like it. __________________ nice line eh?

10-26-2003, 08:41 AM	#6 (permalink)
numberfive You + Me = Us Location: California dreaming...	Yeah. I like changing the time. It was nice for shorter football practices in highschool. The extra hour of sleep is great too. __________________ P.S. Always remember: to forget is a form of suicide. (If I could only remember to forget myself.)

10-26-2003, 08:59 AM	#7 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	I think the whole thing is silly beyond belief. The autumn change doesn't seem to bother me much, physiologically or psychologically, but the spring change throws me for a loop for weeks. It's even sillier that some parts of the country don't observe DST and so change time zones every 6 months. Whatever the original reason for it, it seems like a ridiculous mind game. So you feel like you've gained an hour of daylight in the morning - you just lose it at night. I'd much rather get up in the dark than have the sun set at 5:30. Silly creatures. __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

10-26-2003, 07:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
Kaos Ssssssssss Location: Ontario	I love the extra hour of sleep, but I really wishthey would just do away with the whole thing. Much easier to just get used to one time setting and stick with it.

10-26-2003, 08:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	I used to never change my clocks back, I'd just always remember they were an hour ahead half of the year. And yea, they really should set up time where it stays one way all the time...

10-26-2003, 09:07 AM	#8 (permalink)
brandon11983 Stereophonic Location: Chitown!!	Daylight savings time is now in my book of all time bad ideas. My dumb ass showed up for work today at 10... thinking it was 11. I could've slept like a baby for another hour... but noooooo. Bastards.... So I went to Wal-Mart and read magazines for an hour or so. __________________ Well behaved women rarely make history.

10-26-2003, 09:20 AM	#9 (permalink)
anti fishstick Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash Location: oregon	i had no idea it was DST last night. :T i don't like it __________________ And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

10-26-2003, 09:25 AM	#10 (permalink)
Peryn Junkie Location: San Diego, CA.	Well, i sleep in late, and i hate the sunshine, so i think its great. An extra hour of sleep, and it gets darker earlier. I can waste more of the suntime asleep and not hafta see it. The less i hafta see the Scare-Ball the better.... __________________ Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.

10-26-2003, 10:12 AM	#11 (permalink)
dragon2fire Junkie	heheh got to love indiana we dont change time ever although we are now east coast and we were central at least i think

10-26-2003, 01:49 PM	#13 (permalink)
tikki Justified Location: West Lafayette, IN	Doesn't phase me since Indianapolis and Lafayette don't change time. Well, some TV times change, but i didn't get any extra sleep. :-\ __________________ Take notice. Take interest. Take me with you.

10-26-2003, 02:23 PM	#14 (permalink)
GakFace Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go!! Location: IN, USA	MOVE TO INDIANA!!! Yeah, no clocks change, tho my mom's soaps now come on at a different time.. hehe My only problem is that my Atomic Clock changed times because there is no INDIANA Settting apparently. So now I must change it back.. hehe __________________ RoboBlaster: Welcome to the club! Not that I'm in the club. And there really isn'a a club in the first place. But if there was a club and if I was in it, I would definitely welcome you to it.

10-26-2003, 02:34 PM	#15 (permalink)
cliv Insane Location: New Jersey, USA	I travel across times zones frequently, so an hour here or there due to DST doesn't bother me. My internal clock is off for about a day, but by tomorrow I'll be adjusted.

10-26-2003, 02:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
numist Banned Location: UCSD, 510.49 miles from my love	I like it, I wake up early and go to sleep early, and if I wake up when its dark - have you ever done that? It is the worst feeling in the world... During the summer, when I go to sleep, its still bright out if it were an hour earlier, and that just sucks too... so, I appreciate it, and am thoroughly glad it exists, as it makes my life a lot easier, as light has a lot to do with my moods.

10-26-2003, 05:23 PM	#26 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	well said, viejo... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

10-26-2003, 03:25 PM	#18 (permalink)
WhoaitsZ Crazy Location: right behind you...	daylight saving's time is one of the best example at how fucking lazy our government is and their lack of responsibility to change. it was, if i'm not mistaken, thought up during WWII so workers in the us had an extra hour to help contribute. hey pentagon. the 40s are over, fuckwits.

10-26-2003, 03:53 PM	#19 (permalink)
jbrooks544 Addict	It is bad enough that it starts getting dark so early anyway... Then they MAKE IT WORSE and put the clocks back! GHEESH! The kids should be going to school at 8:30 anyway, instead of 6:30, which is nuts..

10-26-2003, 04:08 PM	#20 (permalink)
World's King Here Location: Denver City Denver	It doesn't make sense to me. I just do it and go about my life. __________________ heavy is the head that wears the crown

10-26-2003, 04:21 PM	#21 (permalink)
StormBerlin Happy as a hippo Location: Southern California	Arizona also doesn't change their times. I think it's stupid. All day today out and about I kept thinking how late it seemed. I hate it when it gets dark this early. It doesn't even feel like an extra hour of sleep... __________________ "if anal sex could get a girl pregnant i'd be tits deep in child support" Arcane

10-26-2003, 04:26 PM	#23 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Wouldn't it be nice if we had sunshine from 6:00 am until 8:30 pm every day, all year long? How can I make this happen without being driven by nature? Guess I'll have to live with the powers that be until a better power comes along, or is elected to change the cycle... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

10-26-2003, 04:36 PM	#24 (permalink)
Peryn Junkie Location: San Diego, CA.	Wow, looks like im the only one here who might be happier if we could only have an hour or two of sun out of the whole day... interesting. Didn't realize most people liked the sun that much. __________________ Dont cry kid, It's not your fault you suck.

10-26-2003, 05:04 PM	#25 (permalink)
viejo gringo Registered User Location: Deep South Texas	My grand pa used to say "that was Rosevelts idea, and I ain't doing nothing he wants"...and besides, you can't turn a cow backwards of forwards---they know when it's milking time".

10-26-2003, 06:55 PM	#27 (permalink)
GoldenOuroboros The Cheshire Grin... Location: An Aussie Outback	ahhh.. good ol' Queensland, AUS, we don't do anything with any of the clocks here. Although the rest of Australia does snickers When I was living in one of the other states I didn't really mind it that much. Except for having to goto bed while it's still light out. bah @ that. __________________ Can you see me grin grin grrriiiiinnnning?!

10-26-2003, 07:02 PM	#28 (permalink)
QuasiMojo King Knave Location: Lancaster	I remember as a kid, I was always told that Daylight Savings Time was so that doctors could have an extra hour on the golf course. (I probably only heard that Once....but it stuck) __________________ AzAbOv ZoBeLoE

10-26-2003, 07:09 PM	#29 (permalink)
Cardinal Syn Insane Location: Arizona	Move to Arizona Art. There is a option for you if you dont care to change the clocks. :>

10-27-2003, 08:31 AM	#31 (permalink)
mb99usa Keep on rolling. It only hurts for a little while. Location: wherever I am	This needs to stop. An hour does not make that much difference anyway. That comment about the kids being in the dark is silly too. Another few weeks and they will be again. Its just one more thing for us to have to remember and to complain about. Works right into the gov't's master plan. __________________ So, what's your point? It's not an attitude, it's a way of life.

10-27-2003, 08:50 AM	#32 (permalink)
Met22 Junkie Location: X-posed	When I was in High School and the energy crunch was happening it was Daylight Savings Time all year around. Sure it was dark in the morning but the time in the afternoon was great. Why must me switch time. Time is time and you would think life could exist with one time standard. __________________ Living on the west end dreaming of the theater playing in the Metropolis - Dream the Dream Live the Dream

10-27-2003, 10:48 AM	#33 (permalink)
Bill O'Rights will always be an Alyson Hanniganite Location: In the dust of the archives	I'm another vote for losing Daylight Savings Time. It never made sense to me. If you have x amount of hours of daylight, and y amount of hours of darkness...changing the actual time doesn't add or subtract anything to either of them. Down with Daylight Savings Time! __________________ "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

10-27-2003, 11:06 AM	#34 (permalink)
cchris Junkie Location: Sydney	[QUOTE]Originally posted by GoldenOuroboros [B]ahhh.. good ol' Queensland, AUS, we don't do anything with any of the clocks here. Just ask 'Joh'. But then again,he's forgotten what time it is anyway. Sorry Mate, Couldn't resist that one. __________________ There's a fine line between participation and mockery

10-31-2003, 05:14 PM	#35 (permalink)
Cecil Beeber Upright	The way I see it, Indiana gets the best of both worlds - we get the 'extra' hour of sunlight in the summer when we're on Chicago time (Is that Central Time? I've never known.), but we also get an 'extra' hour of sunlight in the winter, when we're on New York time (Eastern?) It gets dark around 6:30 in Indy, when it gets dark at 5:30 in this confused part of Indiana that wishes it was part of Chicago.

10-31-2003, 05:28 PM	#36 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Doesn't everyone wish they're part of Chicago? I mean, we're just so cool that it's now Chicago Time instead of Central Time...I like that <---- cool Chicagoan P.S. Eastern Time should stay just that though. New York doesn't deserve it (I jest) __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

10-31-2003, 06:50 PM	#37 (permalink)
santafe5000 EVIL! Location: Southwest of nowhere	I hated the change in the summer time cause i worked in a drive in movie and we didn't start the first film til damn near 9pm. After a double bill, we wouldn't get out of there til 2am. Whole nite shot. __________________ When all else fails, QUIT.

10-31-2003, 06:59 PM	#38 (permalink)
justin218 Tilted	I don't like it either. The only good thing is you get an extra hour, but then you lose one later :/

10-31-2003, 07:55 PM	#39 (permalink)
Cecil Beeber Upright	SecretMethod - I don't know, I'm a pretty proud Hoosier, myself Heck, we made Microsoft bend to our state - they had to put a computer setting in for "Indiana Time". Still hate daylight savings time though.

10-31-2003, 08:07 PM	#40 (permalink)
niccoli Tilted Location: Denver, CO	I think it's stupid, the whole thing was initially so that farmers would be able to get more work done during the day. However, I live in a farming community and even the farmers hate it. They have headlights on everything now so they don't need it.