vote now - daylight savings time

end the madness! wrote:

Really, what's the point? And if I had my way, I'd rather have more light in the afternoon anyway.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is the point. We're in "normal" time now. DST gives you more evening light in the summer.

you are correct. we are now in ST, instead of DT.

A!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is the point. We're in "normal" time now. DST gives you more evening light in the summer.

Exactly, why just the summer? I mean in the Summer the sun sets at 9pm. Who needs it then? But if more sun later is better, why just the summer? Why not all year long? My first choice is to set it for DST and just leave it all year long.

I'm with you. I get up about 9 or 10 everyday and would love it if that was the time of the sunrise. I now have an hour less I can work everyday.

Daylight Savings is exactly backwards. We should set our clocks forward one hour in the winter and lose an hour in the summer - this would (mostly) even out the days throughout the year. I don't need sunlight until 9 in the summer, and I hate the sun going down at 5 in the winter.

I don't get why we can't just keep DST all year. Everybody hates this time changing shit. I do not think there is any evidence that it saves energy. I had thought about running for Congress on this single issue platform -that I would sponsor a bill tog et rid of DST (or keep it year round).

Now that people work so damn many hours, I don't see how on earth it saves any power - people are either at work before the sun comes up or at home after it sets. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. We should end the stupidity.

end the madness! wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is the point. We're in "normal" time now. DST gives you more evening light in the summer.

Exactly, why just the summer? I mean in the Summer the sun sets at 9pm. Who needs it then? But if more sun later is better, why just the summer? Why not all year long? My first choice is to set it for DST and just leave it all year long.

You need the extra hours of sunlight in the summer to keep the lawns looking good.

end the madness! wrote:

Is anyone out there as annoyed as I am at having to push the clocks back in the fall and ahead in the spring? Really, what's the point? And if I had my way, I'd rather have more light in the afternoon anyway. The government has it all wrong (except for Arizona, Indiana and Hawaii), but what's new about that? Please vote and let me know if I'm alone or can this be a grass roots start to abolishing such a annoying ritual.

a) I agree, very annoying. Set the clocks for daylight savings time and just leave it!

b) I could care less either way.

c) No way, I like it. It's well worth changing all my electronics to have an hour extra light in the morning instead of the afternoon.

I'm in for an A.

Dude, if you want people to take you seriously, learn the English language.

Your option B should read, "I couldn't care less either way."

non sequiter wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is the point. We're in "normal" time now. DST gives you more evening light in the summer.

He's saying that normal time should be shifted ahead one hour, then we can simply eliminate the time change altogether.

But you knew that already, you're just being pedantic.

everything but the food wrote:

Daylight Savings is exactly backwards. We should set our clocks forward one hour in the winter and lose an hour in the summer - this would (mostly) even out the days throughout the year. I don't need sunlight until 9 in the summer, and I hate the sun going down at 5 in the winter.

This is true.

Brian wrote:

I don't get why we can't just keep DST all year.

DST is an artificial affect of the true time continuum. By definition, it must be temporary to preserve the natural connection to the sunrise/sunset cycle. To do otherwise would jeopardize the homosympatic rhythms of each and every living organism. Chaos would surely follow (see Indiana, et. al.).

I'm with the OP. Noon should be at 1 PM forever.

I choose c.

We need to turn it back to have more daylight in the morning during the winter.

Otherwise you are going to work in the dark and kids are waiting for school buses or walking to school in the dark.

I also like the extra daylight during daylight savings time.

It's well worth the change.

I like it. Getting up when it's still dark out sucks, plus it's not safe for kids going to school.

C all the way

Cheese take wrote:

I like it. Getting up when it's still dark out sucks, plus it's not safe for kids going to school.

C all the way

I am so tired of this "kids in crisis" crap. Do you relaly think abductions or accidents to children have gone down since DST began? Parents are so damn worried about their kids safety. Tired of the world being so kid centered. Parents need to cut out the helicoptering and overparenting - you are raising a generation of feebs.

X-Runner wrote:

I choose c.

We need to turn it back to have more daylight in the morning during the winter.

Otherwise you are going to work in the dark and kids are waiting for school buses or walking to school in the dark.

I also like the extra daylight during daylight savings time.

It's well worth the change.

You go to work in the dark either way in the winter. If the sun isn't coming up until 7:30 it may as well come up at 8:30. Who cares if it is dark in the morning. 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) ). I can't believe the pampering kids get and they are being taught that the world revovles around them.

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.

Another vote for "A".

keep dls all year, make it the new "standard time"