Lets talk about Daylight Savings time.

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demon said:
Nothing is worse than sunset at 4:30. I know there are some brooding vampires here that love the dark and would love nothing more than sunset at noon. I'd rather it not already be dark when I get off from work, though
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yea, whatever spring forward is technically called, is how it should be year round. Fall back blows.
 
captive said:
yea, whatever spring forward is technically called, is how it should be year round. Fall back blows.
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Yep this seems to be the consensus we have come to ITT. We should start a petition .
that won't do shit
 
I hate it. At the height of Summer it can still be light after 10pm. Why would I want MORE Sunlight when it's boiling hot and hummid? Just because some rich old fart wanted to catch butterflies?

November/December is beautiful when it's dark at 4pm, I love Autumn and Winter.
 
Can we all agree to mock the people who continue to use EST/PST (for example) after today instead of the correct EDT/PDT?
 
Red Liquorice said:
I hate it. At the height of Summer it can still be light after 10pm. Why would I want MORE Sunlight when it's boiling hot and hummid? Just because some rich old fart wanted to catch butterflies?

November/December is beautiful when it's dark at 4pm, I love Autumn and Winter.
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...You realize the time doesn't actually change the temperature right? It would be just as hot...
 
Changing the clock sucks, but I agree that there are advantages during Summer.

So, I would propose simply making daylight savings time the standard time all year round. I see no disadvantage of not turning the clock back in Winter.
 
Dr.Acula said:
Remember when under the Bush administration DST got moved over a month and it made everything a billion times worse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylig...d_States#2005_revision_to_dates_of_observance

Fuck G.W.!
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An October 2008 study conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 DST adoption in Indiana increased energy consumption in Indiana by an average of 1%. Although energy consumption for lighting dropped as a result of the DST adoption, consumption for heating and cooling increased by 2 to 4%. The cost to the average Indiana household of the DST adoption was determined to be $3.29 per year, for an aggregate cost of $1.7 million to $5.5 million per yea
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Jesus Christ what a scam.
 
It's stupid and people still get fucked by phones or clocks not jumping forward automatically.

my android phone didn't do it for whatever reason last year.

I'm out of power until Wednesday possibly because of the shitty ice storm a few days ago, so my phone is the only thing I have to wake me up tomorrow for work.
 
I absolutely love Daylight Savings Time.

More sunlight never has any negative consequences.
 
I think it's stupid, though I work third shift so that means tonight I only have to work 7 hours instead of 8. Of course in 6 months I'll have to work a 9 hour day though.
 
djcatskratch said:
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LMAO

A necessary evil :)
 
Well that's the second time it's changed and I don't need to worry about it because I'm on the other side of the world.
 
So the non DST world keeps their clocks on Standard Time year round?

I would prefer we make the DST hours the new ST hours year round.

So I can try to get sunlight in the evenings instead of not seeing it except through the windows during winter.
 
Since I run in the evenings I prefer this time change over the other, I really hate having to put on reflective gear to go for a run.
 
Can someone explain why you "lose" an hour of sleep?

Unless you have to work on Sunday or have somewhere to be, can't you just sleep an "extra" hour? That is, if you normally wake up at 9, wake up at 10 for one day? It doesn't ever affect me.
 
The only two things I dislike about the whole system

a) That first day of DST (like today)
b) How much time it takes to "roll" every clock I own back in the fall. 23 H presses for each and every single little dumb device, argh!
 
rhfb said:
The only two things I dislike about the whole system

a) That first day of DST (like today)
b) How much time it takes to "roll" every clock I own back in the fall. 23 H presses for each and every single little dumb device, argh!
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Agree with this

Y2Kev said:
Can someone explain why you "lose" an hour of sleep?

Unless you have to work on Sunday or have somewhere to be, can't you just sleep an "extra" hour? That is, if you normally wake up at 9, wake up at 10 for one day? It doesn't ever affect me.
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If you normally go to bed at 12am and wake up at 7am, you're getting seven hours of sleep. However, since the clock basically skips 3am, you lose an hour. The trick then is to sleep at 11pm instead so you make up for the lost hour. It also makes for a better transition for the first few days.
 
Y2Kev said:
Can someone explain why you "lose" an hour of sleep?

Unless you have to work on Sunday or have somewhere to be, can't you just sleep an "extra" hour? That is, if you normally wake up at 9, wake up at 10 for one day? It doesn't ever affect me.
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Because I can't just automatically adjust my body where it will be ready to go for the next day.
To wit - tomorrow I have a 10:15 appointment that is a 2 and a half hour drive away. When I leave at around 7:45AM, my body is still going to be feeling like it's 6:45AM.
 
I grew up in Arizona! I set my clock once when I was 5 and it lasted 15 years before I had to touch it again! What a novel idea.

Now I live in Utah and DST is my enemy.
 
terrisus said:
The power never went out, you never moved clocks around, and you never got new clocks?
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No it was a Master clock.

Of course the power went out but you understand my points. Resetting a clock every few years because of a power outage vs. Twice a year for butterfly farmers.
 
McNum said:
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.
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This so much. Fuck DST and fuck it's supporters seriously. Why couldn't that scientist that came up with it have been drawn and quartered before his idiocy spread throughout the world.

Just pick a time and leave it there forever.
 
Y2Kev said:
Can someone explain why you "lose" an hour of sleep?

Unless you have to work on Sunday or have somewhere to be, can't you just sleep an "extra" hour? That is, if you normally wake up at 9, wake up at 10 for one day? It doesn't ever affect me.
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Well some of us are at work. /tantrum
 
Wish we never had to fall back. Most depressing day of the year for me is when we go back an hour, happiest day is when we jump ahead. Being too dark to do anything after work is some miserable shit.
 
Y2Kev said:
Can someone explain why you "lose" an hour of sleep?

Unless you have to work on Sunday or have somewhere to be, can't you just sleep an "extra" hour? That is, if you normally wake up at 9, wake up at 10 for one day? It doesn't ever affect me.
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Not everyone wakes up to an alarm clock. If your body is just used to waking up at a certain time of day you feel that loss in the early weeks of DST.
 
Gentleman Jack said:
Not everyone wakes up to an alarm clock. If your body is just used to waking up at a certain time of day you feel that loss in the early weeks of DST.
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Just get drunk on DST Saturday. Set your clocks beforehand. When you wake up Sunday, any lost time can be chalked up to alcohol. It's an annual thing for me now, works pretty well.
 
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