You forgot to mention that it really messes up the cats. They get used to a certain wake-up time, and then we change the clocks. They forget to wait the extra hour before annoying, I mean waking us up.
You forgot to mention that it really messes up the cats. They get used to a certain wake-up time, and then we change the clocks. They forget to wait the extra hour before annoying, I mean waking us up.
just my experience wrote:
Dude, not only that, but I only run 2 times a week (usually about 15 minutes each run), never stretch, and read every single issue of Runners World while still cleaning up at the fun runs.
I fixed that for you. No charge.
jack of all tirades wrote:
I understand why their was a daylights savings time but that was relevant like 100 years ago. I'm pretty sure no one on here is a farmer and is taking advantage of the extra hour of light in the morning....which always defeated the purpose if you like to work late thus you get one less hour of light. All DST does today is screw with peoples internal clocks and I guarantee causes less productivity getting use to the changes. It's not a law or action that another person or entity makes money on (except the people who make the signs to remind you to change your clocks).....oh yeah, then for a week we aren't sure you can't even count on the public clocks to be correct because maybe they haven't changed theirs yet. And some parts of the country don't change their times so you have to know this going from one state to another not to lose track. DST causes more problems than it solves yet we do it because that's how we've always done it.
Farmers don't go by the clock, they wake up when the sun comes up and comes home when it goes down. Has nothing to do with farming.
DST makes no sense at all. Extend the day when days are ALREADY at their longest (spring and summer)? To use that argument we should use DST in the fall and winter when days are at their shortest.
Les wrote:
To use that argument we should use DST in the fall and winter when days are at their shortest.
Days are always the same length.....sort of.
It is because no one "uses" the daylight when it is 4 am in the summer, but they do when it is 9 pm. You guys got it now?
President Cheetoh said he'd favor permanent DST, and I say
GO FOR IT!
Standard time is fine for flyover idiots who sit inside all winter, the rest of us know that daylight is better later in the day, all times of year.
I've already got an extra 4 hours of work in this week. It wouldn't normally matter to me but I like to watch The Price is Right while I run on the treadmill so I had to get up that hour earlier.
Now all it has to do is actually warm up a little and I will run outside.
jack of all tirades wrote:
All DST does today is screw with peoples internal clocks and I guarantee causes less productivity getting use to the changes.
Give me a break. Just go to bed an hour early the night of daylight savings time. You lose or gain an hour of sleep everytime you go to bed at a different time than normal. I doubt anybody goes to bed and wakes up at the same time every day. Quit whining.
We "fall back" again Nov. 7.
Permanent DST for the win. Leave the time alone.
Born that way wrote:
We "fall back" again Nov. 7.
Permanent DST for the win. Leave the time alone.
I think most people would rather have the time at the end of the day, so permeant DLST.
This is a terrible tradition that we just cannot stop. For some reason it just keeps going on and on and on...
(But I think we should only have 3 time zones in the USA too. )
It is very cold and dark at bus stops for children. That is the only reason I favor the fall back.
55YO wrote:It is very cold and dark at bus stops for children. That is the only reason I favor the fall back.
News Flash: It will still be dark (depending upon where you live) and it will still be cold. Besides, what parent lets their kid stand alone at a bus stop today? In the 60's and 70's yes. Now? No, the parent either waits with the kids or drives them to school.
down with DST wrote:
DST is absolutely retarded.
So glad I now live in a country that doesn't entertain such foolishness.
You can move to China where there is only ONE timezone and no DST. The U.S. would have FIVE timezones for such a yuge place.
Daylight Savings Time for the win wrote:
55YO wrote:It is very cold and dark at bus stops for children. That is the only reason I favor the fall back.
News Flash: It will still be dark (depending upon where you live) and it will still be cold. Besides, what parent lets their kid stand alone at a bus stop today? In the 60's and 70's yes. Now? No, the parent either waits with the kids or drives them to school.
The dark in the morning "issue" can be solved by moving closer to the equator. Twelve hour days all year long.
The purpose for changing the clocks is in part for reducing energy costs. Matching more daylight to waking hours results in less demand for lighting. For example, if the sun is rising at 4:30am people are asleep so there are no savings:
https://business.directenergy.com/blog/2019/march/daylight-saving-time
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