For no reason we'll be turning clocks ahead one hour this weekend. I would love to see it ended - keeping the sunrises and sunsets at the standard hour they are supposed to happen.
OT: I hate daylight savings time - worst weekend of the year.
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I love daylight savings time. I hate standard time. I much prefer extending light in the evening than extending it in the morning. Having light up to 8pm or so in the evening in the summer is wonderful. Having it light when commuting home from work in the winter would be wonderful. As it is with standard time in the winter it is dark when I commute into work and it is dark when I compute home from work. You feel like your entire day is spent at work.
I would rather have it dark until 10:00AM and stay light later In the Winter - hate it when it’s dark at 4;30 and you are still at work.
For ten years I’ve been on my soap box saying that this is an antiquated concept that was made unnecessarily with the availability of electricity to virtually everyone who wants it. Before some of you chime in with the benefits that may still exist today... stop it! There is no legitimate reason to keep daylight savings. If it hadn’t been invented before, nobody would consider it a reasonable idea. Let’s stop being stubborn and abandon this now.
The fact is, however, that time is just relative. We were meant to live our lives by the rise and fall of the sun, not based upon what the clock or watch or cell phone says.
one nice thing about retirement is that it doesn't really matter what time it is
Yeah I want the sun up at 4:30 in the morning. Bad enough birds are chirping at 5:30, let's get them going an hour earlier.
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Yeah, and we were all meant to take care of ourselves and families. but we don't live in a fantasy world. Time was a necessary construct to coordinate work, travel, and organize our lives.
And if we stayed on the summer schedule all year long it would stay dark until 9 or 9:30 in some areas. Want your kids going to school in the pitch dark? And how would they do with an hour or more of classes while it is still dark out side?
The system is perfect but it is the best we can have, IMO.
It was actually designed for Farmers around school hours. Kids can get home and work on spring planting, fall harvesting season.
If we don't stop carbon emissions we will only have 1 hour of daylight left by year 2100.
.....but you still need to watch the clock to get the early bird dinner special.
I continue to be amazed with how much of a pussy most men are.
Send your robins my way. In the summer those bastards start at 430a. Hell last week they were up at 515a.
Birds sing? Really? Huh. You learn a lot on this board.
Best weekend of the year! I love being able to get stuff done in the evening during the week so it doesn't take up the whole weekend. Plus, there's time to play golf in the evening.
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Summers in Germany were nuts - it would stay 'light' out until nearly 10:00pm. And then it was up again bright and early. Weird but I really looked forward to it - we would hit the bar on Friday night after work, go in when it's still daylight, do a 'lock in', and wonder back to the barracks when the sun came up.
Nope, it’s archaic and unnecessary. My point about time being relative is that if you want to go to work or school with a certain lighting condition, which isn’t the same relative time at various points of the year, then alter the start time for school or work.
They're tenors. Except the crows, they're just assholes.
Not really. It starts and ends the working day so that there is light for Farmers long ago. You would either have to change the start and end of the school day, which would also be disruptive for noon Farmers, or move the day (daylight savings time). There is also this notion of its value being to not have kids go to our home from school in the dark.
I work weekends and have a 6:00am start time. This is my least favorite weekend of the year.
I am a runner, and love the extra hour of daylight in the evening. Quit your whining!
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+1000. Pick this and make it standard. No more f'n around.
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Wont someone think of the children.
Seriously I'm not sure what time kids in your area go to school but around me some are up and waiting on the bus at 6:00. a.m. Its pretty dark out then. Just sayin.
No, you somehow aren’t able to think outside of the current paradigm. Let’s say that we replace the hours with domesticated animals, to open up your mind. Why would it matter whether you got up at dog hour vs cat hour? the number allows for calculations, but It’s just a name...
If farmers really need time before school, then schools could do a work release program as opposed to screwing up everyone’s body clocks.
If the biggest worry is students waiting for a bus in the dark then the solution is obvious. Instead of approximately three months off in the summer, move the school break to three months over winter. School could end at Thanksgiving and not reconvene until early March. Snow days would become a rarity. Why does a summer break even exist? Yep, it's those farmers again. Having the kids home during the summer was necessary to get work done but times and technology have changed. There are a fraction of the people living on farms and those who still do have a a variety of machinery to choose from to make almost any chore a one man job. It's time to rethink our current education model anyway.
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So you delay school until its light....who stays with the kids when ma and/or dad leaves for work at 7 AM? If school runs until 5 or 6 PM how do you have practice for sports, band, school plays? Especially away events?
How do you synchronize all the schools, factories, businesses, government jobs, retail, and any other job provider? Deliveries?
What a nightmare, all so we don't loose an hour of sleep one weekend a year.
This might be an interesting tidbit for some here. China as big as it is, has only one time zone. Makes the issues surrounding Daylight Savings Time in the US seem like peanuts.
