What do you think about Daylight Savings Time?

[aimeeandbeatles]

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Daylights Savings Time started yesterday for those who have it. What are your thoughts about it.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

In before someone "strikes again" .......I would , but finding the old thread , pasting the link etc etc sounds like work .

It's one of the few things I thank the guvment for .....long summer nights where I can play till 9pm , just perfect .

But I can see how some people would prefer to eat breakfast in the light and dinner in the dark.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

If we were to abolish it I would keep it on the DST time. I don't like when it gets dark very early. But I don't mind the change. Maybe I will in several years but now I dont.

I may have posted a DST thread before but I don't remember. My memory is very short these days.

 

[Traitorfish]

Abolish, and keep it at non-DST. I see the advantages of DST, but it seems to me that if we're at the point where we can feel free to switch the clock around to suit ourselves, then we're equally capable of moving our timetables around- making the working day 10-6, etc.- to achieve the same ends, so we may as well keep the actual numbers consistent with the thing that they're nominally representative of.

 

[History_Buff]

It's tough when you're this far north, either way there just isn't enough light. Personally I'm in favour of tailoring the system so that there is light both before and after elementary level kids attend school, if at all possible.

It's silly, but really not that much of a hassle. I should add that I have flex time at work, so I can vary my schedule with the sun. In the summer I tend to get to work very early, in the winter very late.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

DST is an affront to God and all that is good. Scotland likes it, of course.

 

[Antilogic]

It's tough when you're this far north, either way there just isn't enough light. Personally I'm in favour of tailoring the system so that there is light both before and after elementary level kids attend school, if at all possible.

It's silly, but really not that much of a hassle. I should add that I have flex time at work, so I can vary my schedule with the sun. In the summer I tend to get to work very early, in the winter very late.

I always thought it would be easier to change the time people show up for work and school, but whatevs.

Spring Anti hates daylight savings because he's very tired on Sunday. Fall Anti loves the extra hour of sleep. So it's a wash.

 

[History_Buff]

Well, that would be the more sensible solution. But then you'd probably need local schools and local businesses to synchronize so that parents can get their kids ready and make sure they get to school, and I don't wish that organizational nightmare on anyone.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, the idea that you can just have people turning up to work or having shops open and close when their staff want to seems really bizarre to me.

 

[W|M]

I largely rely on sunlight pouring through my window to wake me up (even with an alarm clock - I sleep very deeply), so DST makes it a lot harder for me to wake up.

 

[LucyDuke]

It's stupid, it should be abolished.

 

[Joecoolyo]

It works for like a week, then it's useless for the rest of it's duration.

(but that week alone is totally worth it )

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I HATE Daylight Savings Time!

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It messes with my ability to tell time by the Sun and stars (yes, I can tell what time it is by which angle the sunlight comes into my windows, and where I see the Moon and planets and certain stars at night).

It messes up my sleep even more than it's already messed up.

I DETEST having to change all the clocks.

It's a pain trying to remember which other regions of Canada and the US use DST and which don't.

When I was a teenager and seriously got into stargazing, I had endless arguments with my grandfather, who insisted that my bedtime was 10 p.m., and not one minute later. During DST, I had to give up a lot of my stargazing, because by the time it got dark enough to see what I wanted to see, it was time to go to bed!

 

[Skwink]

I'm still mad I had to get up an hour earlier than I wanted to this morning.

 

[Bootstoots]

Oops, forgot to vote that I live in place with DST along with my other vote.

Anyway, as a late riser, I'm in favor of setting local noon at ~1 PM year round. This is purely for selfish reasons.

I will note that I had great fun as an Indiana teenager playing the Civ III Democracy game, by setting the turnchat times to X:00 EST (=CDT) and watching people mix it up with EDT and show up an hour early. But then I lost interest in the DG, Indiana adopted DST, and I moved away from the state, so my days of DST chaos ended in 3 different ways.

 

[Glassmage]

DST is an annoyance for the public. Life will go on if it's 1 hour forward or backward so just make us citizens do less work please!!!! We have enough to worry about.

 

[Quintillus]

I love Daylight Savings Time and one of my favorite things that George Bush did during his presidency was approving the extension of Daylight Savings Time a few more weeks each year. Admittedly, a large part of why I love it is that the sun rising at 4 AM instead of 5 AM in the summer would be a complete waste for me, as I'm almost always asleep at that time, whereas I actually get to see the sun in the evening.

But generally, I figure there's a lot fewer people getting up before the sun in the summer than staying up until sunset in the summer, so I think saving daylight makes sense.

So I vote both that we should continue using it, and that we should abolish it and use it all year round instead.

 

[Tycho Brahe]

I'm a fan.

I like having a ritual for the summer.

 

[Luckymoose]

I support it.

 

[LucyDuke]

Yeah, the idea that you can just have people turning up to work or having shops open and close when their staff want to seems really bizarre to me.

Instead, let's all pretend it's four o'clock instead of three!