Daylight Savings Time

[Cupcakes]

I personally hate DST. It makes us lose an hour. Did everyone remember to turn the clocks back? Oh yeah, I'm so mad. The made us do it 3 weeks early!!!! Why did they do that, no one knows.

So this is a reminder to turn your clocks back if you haven't already done so. And a DST discussion topic.

 

[Rapid_Assassin]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/10/eveningnews/eyeontech/main2556008.shtml

It was Bush's idea.

I've had an idea for a long time that they should just push the clock ahead by 40 minutes (because DST is approximately 2/3 of a year long), and leave it that way. We'd have the extra sunlight at the end of the day, without having to switch clocks twice a year. The only drawback i can think of is darkness in the middle of winter at 6 am at bus stops. But that'll only last 1-2 months in most communities, and not all school systems have buses running that early anyway. Also if the school systems were revised to be more efficient (entirely different issue altogether), there would be no need for a 6 hour school day to begin with.

 

[agentli]

My radio controlled clock didn't turn back for me. v_v

 

[Cupcakes]

All of my clocks didn't turn back, so I had to do them myself. And I have a lot of clocks.

 

[Crimson King]

Daylight Savings has been proven by environmentalists, somehow, to reduce the need for energy by having daylight longer. Because of that, Bush was pretty much faced with a. support a bill the extends it to the second weekend of March and the first week of November and look like he cares about the energy situation, or b. Not do it and have the environmentalists and liberals who will quickly support this attack him for it. Basically he was screwed.

 

[Chill]

You should be turning your clocks forward not back.

Didn't you notice you're two hours behind everyone else?

 

[Cupcakes]

^Oh yeah. I meant forward.

The only good thing about DSt is when It does turn back an hour. We gain an hour. Woot.

 

[Crimson King]

If you lose an hour now, and gain an hour later, you don't do gain or lose anything. You know that right?

 

[Monk/Honkey/Banana]

I know why we use DST but I don't really see why we use it I mean sure we save a teeny tiny bit of energy...but we still waste a buttload each day.

also it's not like we are bending space and time there are still 24 hours in a day

 

[Eor]

Aye, but it definitely feels like you do.

Though, besides the first few days, I don't notice much of a difference.

 

[petre]

...The only drawback i can think of is darkness in the middle of winter at 6 am at bus stops. But that'll only last 1-2 months in most communities, and not all school systems have buses running that early anyway.

i live in MI, and every winter for at least a month it is dark out till around 630-700 or later already. so i dont think it would matter much either.

 

[Cupcakes]

I know why we use DST but I don't really see why we use it

What? That made no sense..

Also, I know that we gain it right back in the fall, but this extra hour makes me sleepy(for the first 2 days or so).

 

[Xsyven]

Wasn't the idea created by Benjamin Franklin to reduce the use of candles?

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I just think they should just get rid of it all together.

 

[extragrandeben]

Wasn't the idea created by Benjamin Franklin to reduce the use of candles?

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I just think they should just get rid of it all together.

Is it really that big of a hastle? So we have to turn back the clock forward and back in the year, no biggie.

We do save energy, albeit a small bit but every bit does count. And even if we do use a buttload of energy, DST is not a way to end all of the problems, just to help.

 

[Bedi Vegeta]

Considering how much activity in the world is dependent on time, screwing with it isn't exactly the best idea.

Granted, I've never lived in an area that actually used DST, so I don't really know the specifics of how it works, but I can think of all sorts of things that could be stuffed up when the time comes to turn the clocks back and forward, especially when not everybody remembers to do so.

 

[extragrandeben]

America is too prideful to change their ways. We're used to DST even though we complain about it.

We don't use the metric system even though it's used everywhere else in the world. I'm guessing that if we can get along without the metric system, we can get along with DST.

 

[Mic_128]

Western Aus broke down and went with DST, despite a year ago having a referendum tht was suposedly final on it. Despite this, they went ahead and gave us a 3 year "trial." No Trial lasts 3 **** years. And why do we want it? Oh, because the big businesses want to be closer timewise to the otehr states, which is stupoid. If you need to make a lot of calls to another timezone, you just start work earlier and finish earlier. Now we're having hotter afternoons (It's still hot at 7pm >.<; )becomes light later (oh great, it's STILL dark) and gives businessmen the opurtunity to spend more time at home with the family due to longer periods of sunlight (except that they just do what they already did regardless of it being brighter. Except for the kids who can't go to sleep at 7:30 because it's still light outside)


Most ******** idea ever.