DayLight Savings Time
 

Is this really something we need to fuck with?

I keep asking if it's really something we need! It fucks with my head twice a year, and I don't think I'd miss it.

The more daylight I have in my hours in the day...the better I feel about wasted time...but the later I eat and the more I stay outside and the later I go to bed...only to rise more tired than when I went to bed...


Arrrrggggggggggg! It fucks with my head!

I prefer daylight savings....but bloody Qlders dont have it!

A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)

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LOL Cheyanne .... As I get older ... this playing with the clock get's harder for my body to adjust to (every year a bit harder) .... I can at least say that I'm grateful they stopped doing the Double Daylight savings time a long time ago - I don't remember it, but I've heard it was practiced .... sometime back in the "dark" ages probably! :)

Spring swings back in, and more about Daylight Savings Time

Mike Alger
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
4/7/2003 09:36 pm

"Yesterday, I talked a bit about Daylight Saving Time, and some of the reasons for having it. One is that it apparently saves energy. Webexhibits.org quotes a Department of Energy study that shows Daylight Saving trims a small (less than 1%), but significant amount of energy consumed in the U.S.

Apparently, the savings in other countries is even greater. In New Zealand, power consumption drops 3.5%. Since much of the electricity we consume is in the evening, we need less artificial light, and thus less electricity."

So-o-o-o-o-o...
it would appear that Lixy's energy LOSS is the rest of our energy GAIN...since we all know from the First Principle of Thermodynamics...energy is conserved, i.e., energy can neither be created nor destroyed. :grin:

Just turn it off. There is no need for it in this day and age.

Yes, we definitely need to fuck with so-called daylight savings time. By completely eliminating it.

Almost as bad as time zones ...

Log into pixies in what I think's the morning and Alasse is saying good evening; and someone else is say good afternoon, and someone is claiming it's bedtime. How's a pixie suppose to deal with this. Lets to to one 24-hour clock and adjust what we do to whatever time makes the most sense for us. :rolleyes2





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Lol...absolutely, we need a Pixies Mean Time ;).

My fiance's developed a brand new conspiracy theory that the government is trying to convert us to day light savings time full time, but for political reasons they have to do it one small step at a time.

Honestly, he's usually balanced and sensible ;)

I see only one good reason for DST, that is all the children in rural areas waiting for the bus in the dark early mornings. With people getting their days strarted they may not see the children in the dark.

P.S. GingerV your fiance is righ, it is a conspiracy.

I prefer it honestly... as the year progresses and the light and dark changes my mornings I start to get curious about when we will change the time... of course, if i could make it so that i can always wake to the sun, and come home from work before the sun is setting i'd be happier...

I'm just having issues adjusting to moving to the NE from the south... (nevermind the time zone change) the sun does rise about two hours earlier up here...

makes no dif to me.

I think they should end it. I lived in Indiana that doesn't have daylight savings and it was much better. My nephew is starting highschool this year and has to be at the bus stop at 7am. It will be pitch dark at that time and my sister is not a happy camper.