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?

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.

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...

It's an outdated way to save energy back from World War I and WWII.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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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....

heheh

got to love indiana we dont change time

ever

although we are now east coast and we were central


at least i think

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

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.

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. :-\

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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..

It doesn't make sense to me.

I just do it and go about my life.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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".

well said, viejo...

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

[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.

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.

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 :D

<---- cool Chicagoan ;) ;)

P.S. Eastern Time should stay just that though. New York doesn't deserve it ;) :p (I jest)

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.

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

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.

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.