(A) for sure; more daylight after work rather than before
(A) for sure; more daylight after work rather than before
D) Set the clocks at standard time and leave them there.
Daylight savings time is useless. The amount of natural light we receive is the same regardless of what we do with the clocks. If people want more daylight, they should get their lazy asses out of bed earlier in the morning.
Andy St. Amour wrote:
D) Set the clocks at standard time and leave them there.
Daylight savings time is useless. The amount of natural light we receive is the same regardless of what we do with the clocks. If people want more daylight, they should get their lazy asses out of bed earlier in the morning.
Not a huge fan of your idea... Where I live, it starts getting light out before 5am in June. If we switched to standard time year round, I'd have to be up at 4am to get full daylight time. If not wanting to get up at 4am makes me lazy, so be it.
I'm definitely for alternative A)
Brian wrote:
We need to stop making laws for illusory benefits to kids (which are really for paranoid helicopter parents whose kids are to feed their neuroses about their little self-sesteem project (their kids).
Actually I think the law was created to benefit farmers.
Brian wrote:
Is there any evidence at all that crimes against kids will go up if they go to school in the dark? Waiting for the school bus? Who cares if it is dark.
Daylight savings time is dangerous!!
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/162697.phpNo, it was designed and perpetuated as an energy saving measure:
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.htmlBrian wrote:
No, it was designed and perpetuated as an energy saving measure:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php
blahblahblah wrote:
Not a huge fan of your idea... Where I live, it starts getting light out before 5am in June. If we switched to standard time year round, I'd have to be up at 4am to get full daylight time. If not wanting to get up at 4am makes me lazy, so be it.
I'm definitely for alternative A)
You could go to bed one hour earlier.
I'm for A. It's stupid to change the clocks. I would rather have the evening brighter longer. Mornings are dark and cold even when the sun comes up in the winter so it's better to enjoy the light on the way home from work.
Indiana has been observing DST for three years now.....
X-Runner wrote:
Otherwise you are going to work in the dark and kids are waiting for school buses or walking to school in the dark.
Probably the most stupid reason ever given. Even in my little corner of this state, school start times vary as much as 1 hr 15 mins a day from district to district. Even if you eliminate DST some kids would be waiting for buses in the dark.
School start times are a local issue. Why not petition your school board to change your school's start time if you're so unhappy?
Amen Brother!
Andy St. Amour wrote:
D) Set the clocks at standard time and leave them there.
Daylight savings time is useless. The amount of natural light we receive is the same regardless of what we do with the clocks. If people want more daylight, they should get their lazy asses out of bed earlier in the morning.
Jefe Gordon wrote:
Indiana has been observing DST for three years now.....
actually we've been observing it in all its idiocy for decades now. three years ago we decided to participate.
"A" all the way. It's ridiculous how many clocks I have to change:
clock on the microwave
clock on the range
clock on the living room radio
clock on my nightstand
clock in my car
clock in my camera
timer for my front porch
my running watch
my bike computer
my regular watch
the time lock on the front door at the office
At work I have to change the software that communicates with my trucks via satellite, and until it's changed, the trucks can't communicate at all.
And when they changed it last year to make DST a couple of weeks longer, I needed to load new PTFs on to my computer system.
I also have a job that kicks off at 2am, but with no 2am on the leap forward, last year it didn't run. 1:59 now seems to work, but who needs the headache.
And I wonder what banks do where a time and date stamp is important? When you fall back there can be two transactions separated by an hour that have exactly the same time.
And I can't even imagine how much grief it causes for train and plane schedules, or for whoever is programming the TV listings.
Sure it's just a nuisance, but multiply this nuisance by 300 million people and you're wasting a lot of time.
Lets just keep the clocks the same year-round and adjust our work schedules around it.
Don't want kids waiting for the bus in the dark- talk to the superintendent and get the school day pushed back for a semester!
Don't like getting out of work with the sun going down- get the company to move work hours ahead for a couple months!
It's so simple!
It is a great idea. In using a lot of electric usage data it shows up very distinctly and is effective in its purpose. If you do not like it, would you rather stay on Standard or Daylight time?
I get up at 6 AM every day. Before DST it was dark as night when I got up. Now when I get up the sun has already risen. I love it. Couldn't care less about the evenings in the winter.
To the people who seem to be under the impression that DST was created so that children wouldn't have to go to school in the dark, you have things backwards. Switching to DST in the Spring subtracts an hour of light from the morning. Thus your assumption cannot possibly be true.
Everyone seems to like daylight savings time.
Some have a problem of switching back to standard time in the fall.
The Earth changes through out the year. In the winter there is a small window of daylight time. We set our schedules so that the morning and afternoon average commuting time is in daylight.
We set our clocks back to facilitate this.
We set our clocks forward when the days are longer so we will have more day time after work.
So we change the clocks twice a year.
Indiana is on a border of time zones and effectivley switches time zones twice a year.
During my first 42 years as a night owl, I'd have said (a), DST year round, screw morning light.
Now that I've been running in the early AM, I'm firmly in the (c) camp - the current system is good. Last week or two I was really starting to feel the winter blues settle in, and thought it might be from getting up and out and more than halfway through my run before the sun peeked up. Sure enough, this week with some sun by the time I'm out the door, I'm happily back to normal.
Sun's already up plenty early in the summer even with DST, and I can't begin to understand anyone who doesn't enjoy the sun being out until around 9 PM.