Daylight Savings??? What a Crock!!!

It's like a piece of string, 24 hours long. We cut an hour off the front. Now, just for Brown, we'll tie it on the other end, and make it all longer, again.

Well if the complaint is based on "lost" time it's pretty silly. My objection to it is in changing the time just to try to get people to wake up earlier.

I contend that it's much more convenient to just wake up earlier if you want more daylight. You don't need to change what time it is to do that and you get all the benefits without the annoyance of time shifting around so arbitrarily.

Right now it's ridiculous, you've got some states that don't observe it in the US (e.g. Arizona), but then they might have regions within the state (e.g. the Navajo Reservation) that do.

If you do business across time zones, or have to build things that depend on time (you'd be surprised how much does) it's just so much extra complication to get people out of bed earlier in the summer.

And then, if you figure it all out, you have to be ready for the changes that come, because every year there are politicians from somewhere trying to change how their region handles DST and if you depend on time across many time zones you need to keep up to date on all the different changes.

So in practice, if you were to make business logic depend on time, you'd better pick a time that doesn't change, and convert. Because if you base it on this shifting time, you've got all sorts of problems.

Here's a real-world non-technical example: when paying nurses for their shifts, in some locations we were required to pay an extra hour when the change occurred during their shift, incurring overtime for work that never happened.

I don't like DST either.

Don't like it that it stays light later in the evening.

Makes me uneasy.

Love it when the time changes back, and it's dark early early early.

Soothing.

Been this way since childhood, as long as I can remember.

The government interferes with almost every aspect of our lives.
I reckon they should keep their hands off the bloody clocks.
What with all this daylight being saved it's fading the drapes something terrible.
I vote no to daylight saving.

Just curious: Where did the idea of daylight saving originally come from? And on what basis was it deemed to be benificial at that time?

Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153148/Daylight-Saving-Time

* Germany, Austria and Hungaria were the first, in 1916.

(The allies 'gave' us a "double-summertime" from 1945 until 1949.)

Thank you, Walter. So the original idea was to save fuel during WW1! Fancy that!

If you haven't saved anything by changing your clock's reading, you certainly didn't lose anything from the exercise, either.

DST, like other impositions, should be eliminated. It doesn't matter the original intention - it should be reviewed now to see whether it's still necessary (if it ever really was). And I don't think it is. Saskatchewan doesn't change to DST and it does just fine.

I'm very pleased with it. Now the clock on the car stereo I installed last summer is right again.

Heh!

I was happy about the additional light last night, and extremely grumpy about waking up an extremely sleepy sozlet and trying to get her to school on time this morning.

On the balance, grumpy.

EAch day, the grumpy gets displaced by the happiness of the extra hour of light. Soon this entire thread will die and blow away as we get into spring and summer.
I , for one, dislike the summertime sunrises along coastal MAine (At the extreme east end of EDT) where it gets light at 4:30 AM. If it would be EST, that would be 3:30 AM. (AND THE SUNSET WOULD STILL BE AROUND 7:30 PM).

EDT is just fine with me.
Im starting to adjust

Is that a DST-related, or more general, grumpiness?

DST-related, definitely.

But farmerman's right that's its starting to dissipate already... that was probably the worst of it (getting the kid up this AM... she'll be tired tonight and should go to bed earlier and then things will look up from there).

That's it.

Relax and enjoy it.

I'm gonna miss it whenever it stops this year.

Yep. Switching back to standard time is a bad day in my book.

Ya got that right.

My kid is screwed up big time now. I hate DST. I need my sleep...

Really? I love getting back my hour in fall. It's the only good thing about DST.

Of course, the deeper problem is that the stork delivered me to Earth, which is now killing me with its ridiculously short days. On a proper planet, one with a 26 hour day, I could stay up an hour longer every night and stay in bed an hour longer every morning. Life would be wonderful, and DST wouldn't matter. Why don't our politicians fix that?

Well, thyed have to adjust the orbit AND the angle of the axis.
It would take Congress years to agree.

The angle of the axis is fine. I like seasons.