Daylight Savings

[joycem10]

yeah thats what I thought Mr. President. DST was intended to provide farmers with more daylight at better times of the day during the prime farming seasons.

i think the rest of the reasons cited above are just tacked on as additional justificiations.

 

[Ozz]

Originally posted by MrPresident
DST is for farmers, not the rest of us "normal" people.

Farmer's got as much use for clocks as their cattle, they run on
thier Biologic clocks. It's fer the outside workin' stiffs, they can
start diggin' at dawn (7) and have daylight til 4.

 

[Martacus]

Originally posted by Shadylookin
all bow to the hoosier people that don't have to change our clocks.

Damn right. One of my favorite things about living out here. Why should I bother? It's an incredibly meaningless and futile gesture. I wouldn't be surprised if Samuel Beckett had written a play about Daylight Savings Time.

 

[Siegmund]

I've nothing good to say about DST. Kill it. Let the sun be up highest at noon in each timezone, not 1 or 2.

Standard time doesn't "waste electricity": people's unwillingness to do things during daylight hours, whatever hours those may be on their clock, wastes electricity.

I am not so lucky as to live in one of the states that doesn't use it - but lucky enough to be in one seriously considering tossing it.

 

[The Yankee]

In order for the sun to be at the peak at noon all year round, you'd have to keep changing the time. That will never work...

 

[bobgote]

I wish I'd seen this the first time around...
Daylight saving is stupid, why does it even exist? The sun goes up and down regardless of what time we say it is. If anything should change, it should be what time people are forced into school or work, not time itself! What a ludicrous idea! Whoever thought of it should be executed, and if they are already dead, they should be dug up and killed again! So just pick a time and set it that way for all time. No more bleedin picking and changing with the seasons! And one more thing: what makes you think that i will lose an hour of my sleep when you decide to change? I will sleep the same amount of time as I would have anyway, and all you DST-is-wonderful people can go to hell! You make me sick! I bet you all like neopolitan ice cream too! Why can't you just stick with ONE FLAVOUR! I mean back in my day you'd be happy to get ice cream at all, and you would be thankful to have ONE flavour! now, there is 3 there, and I bet you'd have even more if you could, wouldn't you? WOULDN'T YOU!??!! bah! I spit at your pathetic existance!

So in short, I think neopolitan ice cream is a bad thing.

 

[The Yankee]

Change the time of going to school or work? Wouldn't that be the exact same affect as changing what the time is for DST? Think of the psychological heartbreak for children everywhere that are used to leaving classes at 3 PM, but must now stay until 4!

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by The Yankee
Change the time of going to school or work? Wouldn't that be the exact same affect as changing what the time is for DST? Think of the psychological heartbreak for children everywhere that are used to leaving classes at 3 PM, but must now stay until 4!

I did say "If anything". I wouldn't do this.
and don't think the kids don't know they're being gibbed nowadays...

 

[joycem10]

plus you cant beat the xtra hour of drinkin on the night when daylight savings kicks in. if you live in a place with last call at 2 AM bars will stay open to, what is in effect, 3 AM. always a higlight of the fall in my opinion.