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Of all the asinine things we do as a species, this has got to be near the top. First, all the premises we heard when growing up were all wrong. "It was for the farmers" but farmers hated it as a result of animal schedules being thrown off. "It saves energy" but that may have been true during Ben Franklin's time when people walked around or used horses. Now, any electricity being saved is being used up with people jumping in their cars and going to the beach, or to the bike path, or out to dinner by the lake or wherever else getting dark at 9 pm brings into the picture. "Oh but it's so nice for it to get dark later" Tell that to the guy that had to get up at 5am as opposed to the worker that has a 9-5 job. Now this guy's body has to get up at 4am. Look at the increase in heart attacks during transition (6%) A baby needs to go to sleep in the dark. Hard to do if its light out at 9. Isn't 7 or 8 pm light good enough? If we really want to save energy, then no one should get up before the sun.
Besides, this started on a premise. Probably the real reason was so Ben Franklin could walk the streets with his mistress in Europe while it was light.
Can we just set the dumb clocks a half hour ahead including Greenwich time, and just leave them alone from now on?

 

[dave1949]

I don't care for it either. For guys who hobby farm or serious second job farm, they might benefit from an extra hour of summertime daylight once they get home from their day job. I suppose there are examples like that where it benefits someone.
Dave.

 

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I also heard it causes the heart attack rate to rise

 

[dcyrilc]

I don't care for it either. For guys who hobby farm or serious second job farm, they might benefit from an extra hour of summertime daylight once they get home from their day job. I suppose there are examples like that where it benefits someone.
Dave.

By mid June it will stay light here until 10pm. Gives me a lot of time for working on the farm after work. It's the getting up at 4am to get morning chores done before work that sucks.

 

[RobertN]

I do not care for it either. It may have been a good idea years ago, maybe. For a farmer, I do not think it matters. They work sun up to sun down.

Arizona does not do the time change. They do just fine without it.

Isn't there one other state that does not change time?

 

[dcyrilc]

I do not care for it either. It may have been a good idea years ago, maybe. For a farmer, I do not think it matters. They work sun up to sun down.

Arizona does not do the time change. They do just fine without it.

Isn't there one other state that does not change time?

Hawaii.

 

[dcyrilc]

Of all the asinine things we do as a species, this has got to be near the top. First, all the premises we heard when growing up were all wrong. "It was for the farmers" but farmers hated it as a result of animal schedules being thrown off. "It saves energy" but that may have been true during Ben Franklin's time when people walked around or used horses. Now, any electricity being saved is being used up with people jumping in their cars and going to the beach, or to the bike path, or out to dinner by the lake or wherever else getting dark at 9 pm brings into the picture. "Oh but it's so nice for it to get dark later" Tell that to the guy that had to get up at 5am as opposed to the worker that has a 9-5 job. Now this guy's body has to get up at 4am. Look at the increase in heart attacks during transition (6%) A baby needs to go to sleep in the dark. Hard to do if its light out at 9. Isn't 7 or 8 pm light good enough? If we really want to save energy, then no one should get up before the sun.
Besides, this started on a premise. Probably the real reason was so Ben Franklin could walk the streets with his mistress in Europe while it was light.
Can we just set the dumb clocks a half hour ahead including Greenwich time, and just leave them alone from now on?

Lazy sucker. He should try getting up at 4am every day.

 

[Mousefield]

The world has changed since they started daylight savings. Not too many people seem to like it. I think in Canada the province of Saskatchewan also does not use daylight savings.

 

[LMTC]

It's always been on my list of most despised ideas. I have a powerful body clock, and while it keeps time very well, and woke me app. 4:15AM for 20+ years without an alarm, it has always struggled with this silly notion. Worst is the spring, "losing" an hour. When I had to get up at a set time it took me a month or more to recover from the spring change. I have no doubt I was less productive for at least that long. Farmer.....I never bought that one. Farmer does his work by the sun and by what is necessary when....I live in a rural area, and don't know a single farmer that farms by the clock.

 

[dcyrilc]

It's always been on my list of most despised ideas. I have a powerful body clock, and while it keeps time very well, and woke me app. 4:15AM for 20+ years without an alarm, it has always struggled with this silly notion. Worst is the spring, "losing" an hour. When I had to get up at a set time it took me a month or more to recover from the spring change. I have no doubt I was less productive for at least that long. Farmer.....I never bought that one. Farmer does his work by the sun and by what is necessary when....I live in a rural area, and don't know a single farmer that farms by the clock.

I am the only one I know who benefits from this. Working a full time job and working on the farm after work until dark many nights through the summer, the extra hour does help. However, I still hate the spring change. I would rather stay on Daylight Savings Time year round.

 

[Bird]

Arizona does not do the time change. They do just fine without it.

I can certainly be counted among those who hate the changing twice a year. But in the summer of 1994, I was doing gas leakage surveys for the gas company in various west Texas towns. I was working alone, so I'd start early in the morning; just as soon as it was light enough for me to read the serial on a gas meter without a flashlight. And I went from that to do a little job in Arizona where the gas company wanted one of their guys to go with me. They didn't start work until 8 a.m. (their time, of course) which was an hour different from Texas and since they didn't use Daylight Savings Time, it was 2 hours different from what I'd been accustomed to. Sitting around in broad daylight until 10 a.m. (my time) to start the work day was tough.

 

[BobRip]

It's always been on my list of most despised ideas. I have a powerful body clock, and while it keeps time very well, and woke me app. 4:15AM for 20+ years without an alarm, it has always struggled with this silly notion. Worst is the spring, "losing" an hour. When I had to get up at a set time it took me a month or more to recover from the spring change. I have no doubt I was less productive for at least that long. Farmer.....I never bought that one. Farmer does his work by the sun and by what is necessary when....I live in a rural area, and don't know a single farmer that farms by the clock.

My daughter has Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrone and cannot adjust her body clock backwards. It probably takes her six months to get back to normal if then. I would pay big time to stop this. Does anybody like it?

 

[smfcpacfp]

I love daylight saving time, being a night owl. I wish we had double daylight savings time. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

We're located about 10 minutes from the western edge of the eastern time zone. They just plunged our kids back into darkness in the morning going to school. If you go outside when the sun is directly south, it is almost 2PM.

On the bright side, we can go outside and I can give my kids astronomy lessons after breakfast! :confused2:

 

[Alan L.]

I hate daylight savings because I don't get sleepy until it has been dark for hours, and I don't like getting up early. The only good thing is that it is at least light for part of my commute home.

 

[ragkar]

I like DST. The most vocal opponents of it are the entertainment industry including food services. People just don't like to go to the movies when it's still light and there's things to do outside.
I've read Ben Franklin's suggestion and I think that he was unfairly credited with it. He suggested that in London there be a curfew to keep party goers off the street late at night. That's hardly DST.
The main pain is reseting the clocks. But I've transitioned to atomic clocks mostly that reset themselves. It only takes me a couple days to reset my body clock.

 

[weldingisfun]

I'll join in with my two cents worth. The idea of changing our clocks twice per year is really dumb, had to have been dreamed up by a politician. It would be better for everyone if all of the states joined Arizona. Guess I need to draft up a letter to send to Governor Perry. Maybe Texas will do it right.

Oh yeh, I really don't care if we stay with DST or Standard, let's just stay with ONE.

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

i don't like switching back and forth but i sure love to come home from work and be able to work outside until 9 in the daylight.......i set dorment all winter and after the time change, i work my butt off.....

i agree, just stick with one or split the difference and leave it alone!