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Can anybody give me 1 good reason why we should keep Daylight Savings Time?
I've never seen or heard anybody from an electrical power company saying that electrical consumption goes down after or before DST.
I absolutely hate DST, I waste about 1/2 hour every 6 months changing all my clocks and watches.
I don't even want to imagine how much time is wasted as a nation changing time every 6 months.
In fact, for many years, I have used the term "Daylight Wasting Time". I'd rather have an extra hour of light in the morning, than at night.
Here's an idea that should work just as well as "daylight savings time". Every spring, we skip March and go straight from February to April. Then, in the fall, we go back and do September over again. Why wouldn't that work just as well as doing it with one hour on the clock? We would get one more month of summer and one less month of winter.
Here is the one and only good reason for having DST. Rich golfers get an extra hour to play the links. Everybody else hates it. Well, here's an idea for the idle rich. Take off an hour earlier in the afternoon to head for the golf course. You're not needed around the office anyway, you don't do any productive work.
The part of the deal that always puzzles me is this: not all 50 states subscribe to the policy. I know that Indiana doesn't--which creates all kinds of havoc with railroad schedules on the nights when the clock is either pushed back or forward.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the original idea behind DST was to give farmers an extra hour for their work in the fields. But things have changed over the last half century, and this isn't a nation of farmers any more. Daylight Savings Time has become irrelevant. I think we should start taking bets: which irrelevancy will be eliminated first...DST or the Electoral College?
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the original idea behind DST was to give farmers an extra hour for their work in the fields. But things have changed over the last half century, and this isn't a nation of farmers any more. Daylight Savings Time has become irrelevant.
Help farmers?
What determines when a farmer works? The time they clock in and out or how much daylight they get?
Changing the time is not going to make the day longer.
I've always hated this time shifting, when i worked. Instead of 6am, which is already too early, one has to get up at 5am (original time) for work. Time change fits those who start day late, like all those office/government workers, but not the early birds, like hospital staff (nurses, RTs, etc.).
Glad, I don't have to comply with this crap any more.
Unless I'm very much mistaken, the original idea behind DST was to give farmers an extra hour for their work in the fields.
It was the opposite. Farmers hated it. They worked according to the solar day, particularly dairymen, whose cows did not observe DST. Farm states were the ones that did not go to DST when it was optional, they were forced to by city people. People who got up at the crack of dawn did not notice that there was an "extra" hour of daylight, because there wasn't.
It's nice to have some light at the end of the day after work, but I also love the early morning and think it's the best time of the day. I'd be fine with it not being changed.
I moved to a different town in mid-November, and I've barely seen it in the daylight. Right now it's slightly light in the a.m. when I'm waiting for the train to go to work and slightly light in the evening when I get off the train. At least next week I know I'll get an hour of light at one end, anyway.
Can anybody give me 1 good reason why we should keep Daylight Savings Time?
I've never seen or heard anybody from an electrical power company saying that electrical consumption goes down after or before DST.
I absolutely hate DST, I waste about 1/2 hour every 6 months changing all my clocks and watches.
I don't even want to imagine how much time is wasted as a nation changing time every 6 months.
DST is what we're about to move to. In winter, we're on "standard" time. The main plus I can see for changing clocks forward is that it would be light too early by sometime in May. Here in Denver, there's already light in the sky around 4:45 a.m. in June and July, with actual sunrise at 5:30 a.m. Would you really want sun shining in your window at 4:30 a.m.? Obviously this varies by your latitude and what part of your time zone you're in, but most of the country would have light before 4 a.m. during the longest days of the year. By going on Daylight Savings Time, it shifts the light to the evening. As it is, I have problems sleeping in in Summer because it gets light so early. I'd hate to have the sun coming up at 4:30 a.m.!
See I would love the sun awake @4:30 AM!! I don't need it light out til almost 9PM
It finally got to the point that when I left for work @ 6:15 AM it was light out..now next week I'll be back in darkness
Takes me a good week to adjust but I don't have a problem adjusting when the clocks go back
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