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Daylight Savings Time. Whenever we set the clocks back, I always find it a little enjoyable to have an extra hour during the weekend.
What about you?
i think the whole concept is a pain in the butt as twice a year i have to reset clocks and devices all overthe house, as for gaining or losing time thats not really whats happening you are just changing times on clocks, if you actually gained lifetime by moving hands on a clock i'd hook mine up to a highspeed drill and reset my clock to around 30yrs old.
I had to reset
my bedroom alarm clock;
my microwave clock;
my coffee pot clock;
my oven clock;
my answering machine clock;
my DVD player clock;
my living room clock; and
my car clock.
The only clock that set itself was my computer clock.
What an absolute waste of my time. Just like all the other useless government mandates.
DST makes no sense. I live close to a time zone boundary so if DST is better for me it's worse for someone on the other side because now they are on my old time.
For example: Chattanooga is now on Nashville's old time
Nov 3 2013 - sunrise and sunset
Chattanooga: 7:04 AM 5:44 PM
Nashville 6:12 AM 4:49 PM (was 7:12 AM 5:49 PM yesterday)
Leave DST in effect all year. Heck, the Soviet Union not only had DST all year, but moved the time zones to the west to boot. so what if it's dark when you get up. Who cares? You're half asleep anyway for the next two hours. Everybody has a bathroom light to shave. Its that getting home in the dark and essentially "living" in the dark for hours that sucks.
I actually rank places to live by how far west in a time zone the place is. No Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville, or Champaign for me. I'd hang myself some gloomy December day. Honestly - pitch dark at 5 o'clock (might as well be midnight). Yuck! Give me Grand Rapids, Terre Haute, San Antonio, Midland-Odessa, or Thunder Bay, Ont. any day!
The Soviet Union is not my role model for much of anything. I actually lived in Champaign, IL for 7 years. Yes, it gets dark at 4:30 PM at the height of the winter solstice. But you (or I anyway) get used to it.
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Originally Posted by nei
Say you work 9-5. Around December without daylight savings time sunrise here would be about 8:15, sunset 5:20. So you'd see light at both ends. There'd be enough light to bike to and back from work. In particular, the lack of daylight savings time in November is a pain. It's often warm enough, but it's too dark in the late afternoon.By late February, with daylight savings time sunrise would be at 7:30 or so sunset 6:30, giving a decent amount of light on both sides.
According to the Weather Underground Weather History for Chicopee, MA | Weather Underground sunrise in Springfield on Dec. 3 is at 7:01 AM, sunset at 4:18. Now I do not know anyone who has a 9-5 workday; the people I know mostly have to be at work by 8AM or thereabouts. So if you worked 8-5, as many people who work in offices do, you'd have light going but not coming home. If you cut into your lunch hour and left at 4:30, it'd probably still be light enough.
Now I do not know anyone who has a 9-5 workday; the people I know mostly have to be at work by 8AM or thereabouts. So if you worked 8-5, as many people who work in offices do, you'd have light going but not coming home. If you cut into your lunch hour and left at 4:30, it'd probably still be light enough.
I can think of some, well maybe 9-5:30 or 8:30-5. I thought most got to work later than 8 AM.
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I say fall back 1/2 hour, leave it that way year round and put this changing the time twice a year behind us...into the history books. Never going to be able to please all the people all the time, but I think if we quit switching it all the time it might help in the long run.
I can think of some, well maybe 9-5:30 or 8:30-5. I thought most got to work later than 8 AM.
Well, maybe we're just more "up and at 'em" out here, but even when we lived in Albany, DH worked 8-5.
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