Daylight Savings....what's the point?

cowboybob wrote:

Even my dogs adjust in a day or two to the change in time, so why can't you?

Your dogs read clocks?

adsfadf wrote:

cowboybob wrote:

Even my dogs adjust in a day or two to the change in time, so why can't you?

Your dogs read clocks?

Maybe they're watch dogs?

A Skeptic wrote:

If you get off work at 5 then you have to do the afternoon run in the dark in the winter. That sucks.

Dude, there are all kinds of lights on at my fitness center. It's also a cozy 70°, I have 5,000 songs on my ipod, and my own individual tv to watch with the closed captioning on. I didn't notice any difference when they changed the clocks sunday.

It gives me an extra hour of sleep in the fall and ensures the sun is up during my early morning runs.

Get something real to complain about buddy!

year-round DST wrote:

DST should be year round.

The problem with kids going to school is the dark is easily fixed by adjusting school to start one hour later from Nov until early February.

Early February is all you need to wait until for the amount of daylight to be the same as it was on the last day of DST.

Farmers will always go with by their own clock. Whether someone tells them it is 5 am or 6 am doesn't matter. Crops and animals rule their time.

Almost everyone else likes having a bit of sunshine when they go home. Going home in the dark is kind of depressing.

Word. I hate it getting dark at 5:00. All I want to do is go home and drink and watch TV. Winter sucks.

Eventually it will be dark at 6:30 am. So running in the morning has no relevance to most people who have to be ready to travel to work by 7:00. A little brief hour after 5:00pm when you are leaving work would be nice.

The change off DST means I can't run trails at all during the week. I tried today and it was truly awful. Bring back DST!

All I know is whoever came up with this did not have young children. I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old and this entire week instead of getting up between 6 and 6:30 they now get up from 5 to 5:30. It takes about a week to get them to adjust. Makes for a long week. Then in the spring I am battling them out of bed to get ready.

Ricky Rico wrote:

Maybe they're watch dogs?

I lol'd.

just my experience wrote:

Dude, there are all kinds of lights on at my fitness center. It's also a cozy 70°, I have 5,000 songs on my ipod, and my own individual tv to watch with the closed captioning on. I didn't notice any difference when they changed the clocks sunday.

So you're on the 'mill and not a real runner. Not to mention the iPod.

Letsrun Gunner wrote:

All I know is whoever came up with this did not have young children. I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old and this entire week instead of getting up between 6 and 6:30 they now get up from 5 to 5:30. It takes about a week to get them to adjust. Makes for a long week. Then in the spring I am battling them out of bed to get ready.

My point exactly....that's two weeks a year that you have a beat down, minor albiet but a beat down nonetheless. It definately affects your week. If you are regimented and like a routine then all DST does is give you an unnecessary PITA twice a year.

Azaleas wrote:

The change off DST means I can't run trails at all during the week. I tried today and it was truly awful. Bring back DST!

You don't like your work schedule so you complain about the clock.

I don't care if we go with DST or Standard time, but we should pick one and keep it year round. Switching is stupid.

pigglywiggly wrote:

It gives me an extra hour of sleep in the fall and ensures the sun is up during my early morning runs.

No, standard time ensures that the sun is up "early", and ditching DST would help your case here.

In reality, of course, the sun rises whenever it rises anyway, but we arbitrarily offset the clock by an hour for BS reasons. Running with daylight in the morning should be a work schedule issue, not a clock issue.

Ultra runners run on trails in the dark all the time. It's not a big deal. Get a light if it's too dark.

Mill worker wrote:

just my experience wrote:

Dude, there are all kinds of lights on at my fitness center. It's also a cozy 70°, I have 5,000 songs on my ipod, and my own individual tv to watch with the closed captioning on. I didn't notice any difference when they changed the clocks sunday.

So you're on the 'mill and not a real runner. Not to mention the iPod.

Dude, not only that, but I only run 2 times a week (usually about 15 miles each run), never stretch, and read every single issue of Runners World while still cleaning up at the races.

Anyone work in IT and hate DST?

Here's a challenge for you. A 911 call is made at 1:00am Sunday 11/6. Another, related call was made at 2:00am Sunday 11/6. How long after the first call was the second call made?

hey Barry wrote:

Ultra runners run on trails in the dark all the time. It's not a big deal. Get a light if it's too dark.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta. I went for a run yesterday, and it was dark by 5 p.m. I did go out and buy a headlamp, but it would be nice to not have to use it so damn early in the day.

Air in Space wrote:

Wouldn't a better solution be to start school/work 1 hour later? For example, you could be open 9-6 in winter and 8-5 in summer.

That is the exact same thing as turning your clocks back.

Except your TV shows will now start an hour earlier.

If you are in the west, you will miss the beginning of Monday night football.

This is one of those things we continue to do because we've always done it. There is no reason.

DST should become the standard and we stay there year round.