Lets talk about Daylight Savings time.

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Lets just set our clocks ahead an hour and never put them back again this time please.

Kimosabae said:
Ugh, yes, YES!

And I'm from Florida!

Don't hate me

The correlation to be made with the cold of winter and the dead vegetation, cloudy days and early nights - juxtaposed by the spring season ushering long days of light, blooming buds, colors, rebirth - all that crap - is just too strong for me. I'm just getting jittery thinking about it!

Literally wish I could hibernate Nov - March.
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If you ever figure out a way to make this possible please let me know.
 
So whats the problem with making DST into just standard time and not changing it? Anyone have beef with that?
 
Kimosabae said:
DST has such a positive effect on my psyche (and its ending such a negative one) that I literally count the days every year until it comes again. I'm so fucking happy for Sunday. Literally thinking of throwing a party or some shit.


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I'm the same way. Who gives a damn if you go to work in the dark if you get to get off when it's sunny? During the peak of Summer, the sun doesn't set completely until almost 10PM here in central Iowa. What is better than that?

WhatRobEats said:
So whats the problem with making DST into just standard time and not changing it? Anyone have beef with that?
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I would support this.

PhantomZone said:
The reverse happens in Australia our DST ends on the first weekend in April. It is getting darker quicker at night and taking a lot longer for the sun to rise in the morning already.
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Well, duh. You are in the southern hemisphere.
 
Honestly, I'd be okay if we all went with UTC and just adjusted our operational times. I really don't think local time is a useful tool now that the world is capable of operating without regard to apparent solar time.
 
Farmers actually hate daylight savings time because they work from sunrise to sunset already. If the sun sets a hour later it's more likely things are closed once they stop working and they have no time to run errands in town.

The biggest lobby in favor of it are the retail folks. Another hour of daylight means another hour of people milling about & shopping.

WhatRobEats said:
So whats the problem with making DST into just standard time and not changing it? Anyone have beef with that?
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It'd be dark outside at 9 AM in the winter, so kids would have to wait for the school bus in the dark/cold.
 
It's completely bogus; even moreso if you live in an area where summer lasts for 8-9 months (Southern California outside of the beach areas).

The later the sun stays out, the later it remains 100+ degrees, the later I have to run our air conditioner...... why do we need the sun out until 8 p.m.? 6 p.m. is a perfectly fine time for the sun to go down.. ESPECIALLY during summer. What's not fine is waking up to a pitch black sky at 6-7 a.m.
 
I live in P.R. And I see this as 1 more hour of day light(it usually gets dark here around 6pm. During "summer time" like I like to call it, it gets dark around 7pm). Also it means that when I'm watching tv and they say "x" show lets say TWD starts at 9pm it does start at 9pm and not an hour later :)
 
I have been putting my baby to bed ten minutes earlier each night since Sunday to prepare for the change. She never really got used to the switch in November.

I'd be in favor of keeping DST permanent.
 
Slavik81 said:
That shouldn't really matter. Just shift all the schedules by a couple hours. Wake up 3 hours earlier, open shops 3 hours earlier, close shops 3 hours earlier, and go to bed 3 hours earlier.

The actual time is completely arbitrary.
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I don't know if you realize it or not, but what your describing, is timezones.
 
Gentleman Jack said:
You know when I need not to be depressed? On my way into work, not on my way home.

Fuck daylight saving time.
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Nah, that's why DST is so great: Just as the sun rises so early it isn't useful anymore, boom, it's now an hour later.

I think, though, that American DST starts a bit early compared to European summer time.
 
cwmartin said:
I don't know if you realize it or not, but what your describing, is timezones.
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Well, it's more the opposite. I'm describing what the world would be like without timezones--just a universal time. Time zone are just a notational thing. Without them we'd still wakeup when it's light, have lunch when the sun is high in the sky, and go to bed when it's night. It does illustrate what timezones give us, though.

We get the ability to say "0800" and people around the world understand that's soon after waking up. On the other hand, time zones mean that we can say "The Olympics are on at 9:00pm in Russia" and nobody has any idea when that is for them.
 
Slavik81 said:
We get the ability to say "0800" and people around the world understand that's soon after waking up. On the other hand, time zones mean that we can say "The Olympics are on at 9:00pm in Russia" and nobody has any idea when that is for them.
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The biggest problem with a universal time in my opinion is the date: does it change in the middle of the day? That would be highly impractical, not only for birthdays.
 
Daylight savings means I won't be able to sleep properly... for at least a few weeks, usually up to a month, sometimes the entire period. It messes up my internal clock something fierce, I can't sleep at night, and when I do fall asleep, I can barely drag myself out of bed in the morning because my body is convinced it's still night.

It's unnecessary jetlag being forced on me, and I despise it. Truly, and utterly despise it. It should be banned. It's institutionalized cruelty.
 
I love chillin in the sun on summer days. I hate getting off work at 5pm and its already dark or about to be. I'm down with DST.
 
I love it. I love sunlight. I like to spend time outside in good weather.

Also, without it, it would literally get light at 4 am in the morning where I live. At least for the month around the solstice.
 
Irminsul said:
Nah, that's why DST is so great: Just as the sun rises so early it isn't useful anymore, boom, it's now an hour later.

I think, though, that American DST starts a bit early compared to European summer time.
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Starts earlier, ends later. American DST is the worst. I could tolerate it back when it was actually 'summer' time, but now it's 'spring, summer and autumn' time.
 
Daylight Savings is a gift from our glorious LORD GOD. He hath provided for us more daylight for our days and more darkness for our sleepytimes. He has allowed us to not see the sun go down at 4:30. He hath banished people who enjoy 3:45 darkness to the caves for six months. Amen, praise his name.
 
It was a neat idea back then but in this day and time it's absolutely stupid and pointless.

We should be in DST all year round. Leaving work at 17:00 and it being dark is depressing as hell.
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yep
 
Fuck daylight savings time. It makes for weeks and sometimes months of misery for me while I readjust.

Horribly stupid thing to still be doing.
 
How the fuck does it take people weeks to adjust? It's an hour. After one night of sleep, you should be adjusted. It isn't like spending a day in a different time zone for a week. It's an hour. On a Sunday morning when you're sleeping anyway. Just pretend you woke up early.
 
strobogo said:
How the fuck does it take people weeks to adjust? It's an hour. After one night of sleep, you should be adjusted. It isn't like spending a day in a different time zone for a week. It's an hour. On a Sunday morning when you're sleeping anyway. Just pretend you woke up early.
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yeah I don't get that either. It's not like being in an entirely different timezone. It's one hour.
 
The Dutch Slayer said:
MUST WATCH for everyone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4
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My mind has been blown but at the same time my brain hurts. Thanks for posting it.

What I got out of that video is that DST is arbitrary and a pain in the ass when you're moving between time zones. Also some regions within countries follow it and others don't. The world needs to make up its mind on whether to universally do it or abolish it. Love the extra sunshine but hate having to manually adjust my analog watch and adjust my bed time.
 
I like being outside as much as possible so DST makes it so I can come home from work at five or six and still get a few hours out on my bike. Winter sucks, yeah, but the sun going down at 4:30 in December means it goes down at 9:00 in June, and I'm perfectly fine with that!
 
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