DST.......What do you think?

[Doofy]

Been 4 days since DST began...still waiting for my "Smart" projection clock to automatically change over. That's progress!

 

[MossRoad]

It'll change in two weeks.

 

[JerryK]

Been 4 days since DST began...still waiting for my "Smart" projection clock to automatically change over. That's progress!

I had to turn the DST on with mine.... had to hold the >>> button. They make the instructions as small as possible to not help you out.... I kept wondering why mine did not change, then I realized it was just a poor senile operator.

 

[cqaigy2]

There is no need today for daylight savings time which started way back during WWI.
I would prefer to stay on standard time year round.

Times have changed. No need keep on changing times. :confused3:

I'd rather we kept daylight saving time year round.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

DST is the only way ever devised to get people to go to work an hour earlier in the summer. Working construction our day started at 7 AM DST. With a half hour lunch, quitting time was early enough we managed to miss the worst of the heat. On the farm, our work day started at 5:30 or 6:00, but an 8 hour day was a fiction.

For a while, I worked for a city building department. I tried and tried to get them to start work at 7:00, but they refused. The contractors were really in favor of earlier hours, but 8:00 was welded into the boss's brain. Whoever thought up 8-5 was a moron. DST is the best we can do.

 

[kcflhrc]

Well, after a hard days work until 5 or 6 o'clock I really enjoy the sun being up until 9 in the summer.

 

[Paddy]

As another Indiana member stated, if you live in the western edge of any time zone, you likely don't need it. Time zones are approx solar noon in the center. So eastern edge folks like it. Years ago before IN had DST, our factory had "summer hours". Everyone started an hour early. I feel changing clocks is silly.

 

[MossRoad]

Well, after a hard days work until 5 or 6 o'clock I really enjoy the sun being up until 9 in the summer.

Official twilight here is about 9:57pm at the end of June. It's ridiculous.

 

[Gator6x4]

Most of us can thank Richard Nixon for springing forward and falling back. He upset the Apple cart in 1973.

Nixon’s Daylight Saving Time Still Controversial After 43 Years | Breitbart

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Is that really tzatziki? It looks like sour cream. A gyro isn't a gyro without tzatziki.

 

[Doofy]

Is that really tzatziki? It looks like sour cream. A gyro isn't a gyro without tzatziki.

You are killing me! This looks sooo good!

 

[cqaigy2]

Is that really tzatziki? It looks like sour cream. A gyro isn't a gyro without tzatziki.

Like this, tzatziki on the gyro and Daylight Saving Time, DST all year long.

 

[k0ua]

If we had to choose one of the three choices, I would choose DST all year long. BUT, it really doesn't matter a whole lot to me any more. I don't get up or go to bed by a clock any more, so I really don't care much.

 

[lman]

I always considered it Daylight Losing Time because just as I am beginning to see the sun as I drive to work, the time changes and I lose an hour of daylight in the morning. I don't need daylight at 10:00 p.m. I don't remember much of what Governor Mitch Daniels did when he was in Office, however I will never forget that he signed the bill reenacting Daylight Saving Time. And it is not a good memory. He promised that Indiana would see millions of dollars from business investment. I don't know if that's true, I doubt it. It didn't do anything for me, except I lose an hour of daylight every spring.

 

[Doofy]

Super Stupid for Alaska when it hardly even gets dark in the summer. No benefit either during the dead of Winter when we only have about 6 hours of daylight.

I have blinking digital clocks all over the house and between the power bumps and DST, it has become a losing battle trying to keep everything set.

 

[MossRoad]

Is that really tzatziki? It looks like sour cream. A gyro isn't a gyro without tzatziki.

It might be melted feta, too. :licking:

 

[Mace Canute]

Super Stupid for Alaska when it hardly even gets dark in the summer. No benefit either during the dead of Winter when we only have about 6 hours of daylight.

I have blinking digital clocks all over the house and between the power bumps and DST, it has become a losing battle trying to keep everything set.

I know what that's like. I worked in Clinton Creek for a full year back in 1972-1973, roughly 150 miles farther north than where you are but in the Yukon of course.

 

[Doofy]

I know what that's like. I worked in Clinton Creek for a full year back in 1972-1973, roughly 150 miles farther north than where you are but in the Yukon of course.

You must have been working in the asbestos mine. The Yukon is almost identical to here.

 

[Mace Canute]

You must have been working in the asbestos mine. The Yukon is almost identical to here.

Yep! In the mill specifically first as a pressure packer operator and then as a floorwalker.

 

[RandyT]

Yep. There's 4 counties to our west, from here to Chicago, that are in the CST and stayed on Chicago time year round, as they do more business with Chicago. And there's some counties down in Southwest Indiana that are in the CST, too.

For that matter, my inlaws live about 5 miles southwest of us. They are in the EST, but depending on where you stand in their yard, and which cell tower you hit, your phone can pick a tower out of the CST and change your clock without you noticing. So I disabled auto time zone on most of the familys' phones just because of that. I had a friend that owned a house about 5 miles north of us. His back yard fence was the Indiana/Michigan state line. If he walked out his front door, his phone would be on EST. If he went out into his backyard, it would switch to CST.

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I used to work out of Vincennes but had another office in Princeton. In the summer when Princeton was on DST I went to work at 7 am but in the winter went to work at 8 because if I went to work at 8 in Vincennes and called somebody in Princeton it was 7. Was working there when somebody in the legislature was trying to change DST in IN to just 30 minutes. So it would of been like 10 in Ohio, 9:30 in IN and 9 in IL.