Daylight saving 2015 - March 8, its that time of the year again...

[BlitzPuppet]

yup and i write my state reps every fucking time change. its time to end this archaic bullshit.

Agreed.

I wouldn't mind DST all year round. This constant struggle with my body telling me it's one time and the clock telling me it's another until I adjust is freaking aggravating.

 

[BurnItDwn]

DAMMIT

I Hate and loath to the infinite power factorial madness insanity putrid extreme anger fuck!

 

[Bateluer]

Arizona laughs at you. Now, back to lassoing llamas.

 

[DrPizza]

It would be interesting to know if there's even someone out there who agrees with the whole clock change thing. Considering Bush single handedly made the entire country, AND Canada change the date, it seems to me it would not be that complicated to just abolish it completely. If he had been smart, instead of being a monkey face, he would have done just that.

The concept of this time change thing is like cutting a piece off the end of an extension cord and splicing it on the other end to make it longer.

I love it. I like the extra hour of daylight when I get home. And, I don't mind that it isn't year round - in the winter, it can get damn cold overnight. It was -18F last night. But, by 8am, it had already warmed up almost 15 degrees. A lot of schools have 2 hour delays in the morning during the winter, to give more time for clearing roads of excessive snowfalls, or for the overnight low temperatures to warm up. Not having the system we have now would cause more problems in the mornings than we already have.

Get up earlier. Changing the clocks doesn't give you an extra anything. It just fucks up my internal clock until things get back on track in early winter.

I don't mind. But, for instance, if you told people, "from mid-March until June, we're going to have school from 7am to 2pm instead of 8am to 3pm" all we would hear are the idiots screaming "7am is too early!" Ditto businesses. "I can't believe they're closed already!" In other words, if we eliminated daylight savings time, very few of us would ever get to enjoy the extra hour of daylight after we get out of work, because the morons of the world are too resistant to changing common times. There's a lot less whining over DST than there ever would be if people proposed changing the clock time that we do things. Further, you can ignore 50% of the whining, because there are plenty of morons who complain that they don't like daylight savings time in the fall, because they'd still like the extra hour of daylight.

Also, your "get up earlier" - how you feel after getting up earlier depends on what it says on the clock? Weird.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Ah, my favorite day of the year. Now when I go for a run after work it will be with the sun.

 

[mugs]

The thing I hate about DST is that every year I have to listen to idiots bitching and moaning about it. DST is awesome, I love having that extra hour to do stuff outside after work. An hour of daylight is useless to me in the morning.

 

[jlee]

Arizona ftw. Plus, as mentioned earlier, we have llamas.

 

[SlitheryDee]

“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... 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 Papers of Samuel Marchbanks

 

[mmntech]

Daylight savings was first observed during the First World War as a way to conserve coal during wartime. It's currently not observed in Arizona, Hawaii, or Saskatchewan. Nor is it in most places outside North America and Europe.

I can tell you from experience that it's true shifting the clocks back in the fall does rise the number of traffic accidents. Usually for about two weeks afterwards. Since DST lasts most of the year now, we should just make it permanent.

 

[yuchai]

I don't really understand the hate towards DST - the premise of it makes a lot of sense. More daylight in the evening during the summer is great, and not having to wake up in the dark in the winter is also nice.

 

[CraKaJaX]

I don't give a damn. My vacation starts the 13th. I'll be springing 6 hours ahead D:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I don't understand how people dislike "spring forward" day. Daylight Savings as a concept is utterly absurd, but at least with the spring forward part of it you get the immediate benefit of the sun staying up into the evening. It's a joyous occasion that heralds the coming of spring and the rebirth of life after a long and arduous winter. Well, for you east coasters anyway; we've had the warmest winter on record over here. But I'm still looking forward to seeing the sun again.

 

[lxskllr]

Also, your "get up earlier" - how you feel after getting up earlier depends on what it says on the clock? Weird.

The clock is precisely tied to the sun. Months go by with only seconds of error every day. I don't know how any observant human couldn't have problems when their clocked gets fucked up by an hour all at once.

 

[MiniDoom]

I don't understand how people dislike "spring forward" day. Daylight Savings as a concept is utterly absurd, but at least with the spring forward part of it you get the immediate benefit of the sun staying up into the evening. It's a joyous occasion that heralds the coming of spring and the rebirth of life after a long and arduous winter. Well, for you east coasters anyway; we've had the warmest winter on record over here. But I'm still looking forward to seeing the sun again.

I've found a lot of people don't understand DST and have it backwards.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I've found a lot of people don't understand DST and have it backwards.

No, it's mostly people just bitching about "losing an hour of sleep," which your body adjusts to in like three days, tops, and then you get to enjoy the sun staying up past 7 pm for the next five months. Frankly, I think they should just keep DST year-round for the nice evening light, but whatever.

 

[BurnItDwn]

No, it's mostly people just bitching about "losing an hour of sleep," which your body adjusts to in like three days, tops, and then you get to enjoy the sun staying up past 7 pm for the next five months. Frankly, I think they should just keep DST year-round for the nice evening light, but whatever.

My body takes a hell of a lot more than 3 days to adjust to waking up an hour earlier. That said, I work a 9-5, even though my natural sleep pattern would have me starting some time in the afternoon or evening.

 

[MiniDoom]

Frankly, I think they should just keep DST year-round for the nice evening light, but whatever.

I agree...

 

[purbeast0]

i'm excited for it. we'll have sunlight for longer now and it means spring is right around the corner.

 

[Jodell88]

Now I have to remember that EST means my time and not an hour after.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I love it. I like the extra hour of daylight when I get home. And, I don't mind that it isn't year round - in the winter, it can get damn cold overnight. It was -18F last night. But, by 8am, it had already warmed up almost 15 degrees. A lot of schools have 2 hour delays in the morning during the winter, to give more time for clearing roads of excessive snowfalls, or for the overnight low temperatures to warm up. Not having the system we have now would cause more problems in the mornings than we already have.


I don't mind. But, for instance, if you told people, "from mid-March until June, we're going to have school from 7am to 2pm instead of 8am to 3pm" all we would hear are the idiots screaming "7am is too early!" Ditto businesses. "I can't believe they're closed already!" In other words, if we eliminated daylight savings time, very few of us would ever get to enjoy the extra hour of daylight after we get out of work, because the morons of the world are too resistant to changing common times. There's a lot less whining over DST than there ever would be if people proposed changing the clock time that we do things. Further, you can ignore 50% of the whining, because there are plenty of morons who complain that they don't like daylight savings time in the fall, because they'd still like the extra hour of daylight.

Also, your "get up earlier" - how you feel after getting up earlier depends on what it says on the clock? Weird.

But there's no extra hour, you're just shifting things around, and once it's winter, it's dark before and after work no matter how you put it. There's maybe like a 1 month period where it might make a slight difference. For summer, it's light out till 10pm anyway and sun comes up at like 4am, so it does not really matter how you shift it either, you'll get light before and after work.

 

[Kalvin00]

I don't really understand the hate towards DST - the premise of it makes a lot of sense. More daylight in the evening during the summer is great, and not having to wake up in the dark in the winter is also nice.

Seriously.

People bitching about doing it twice a year, jesus. Grow a pair and go deal with some real life issues.

 

[mugs]

But there's no extra hour, you're just shifting things around, and once it's winter, it's dark before and after work no matter how you put it. There's maybe like a 1 month period where it might make a slight difference. For summer, it's light out till 10pm anyway and sun comes up at like 4am, so it does not really matter how you shift it either, you'll get light before and after work.

It is where you live, likely only because of DST. But you live in Canada and probably on the tail end of a time zone. Michigan is similar, but we do not have light until 10:00 p.m. in New Jersey. Without DST it'd be dark around 8:00 p.m. in the summer, DST gives us light until 9:00 p.m. If I'm home from work at 6:00 p.m. that's the difference between 2 and 3 hours of light in the evening, and part of that is dinner time. It's a significant difference for 9-to-5ers.

 

[DrPizza]

But there's no extra hour, you're just shifting things around, and once it's winter, it's dark before and after work no matter how you put it. There's maybe like a 1 month period where it might make a slight difference. For summer, it's light out till 10pm anyway and sun comes up at like 4am, so it does not really matter how you shift it either, you'll get light before and after work.

Science lesson - the farther north you are, the later the sun sets during the winter. It never rises at 4am and sets at 10pm in the vast majority of the US. Since you're up in Canuckistan, somewhere near the Arctic circle, of course it sets a lot later for you.

 

[IronWing]

Science lesson - the farther north you are, the later the sun sets during the winter. It never rises at 4am and sets at 10pm in the vast majority of the US. Since you're up in Canuckistan, somewhere near the Arctic circle, of course it sets a lot later for you.

I end up traveling a lot, particularly in high Summer, and it is amazing how much difference even a bit of latitude change makes. Sunset at the Grand Canyon is much later than sunset in Tucson near the Summer solstice.

 

[sdifox]

I don't really understand the hate towards DST - the premise of it makes a lot of sense. More daylight in the evening during the summer is great, and not having to wake up in the dark in the winter is also nice.

Except I will be waking up in the dark with the change tonight. DST is just retarded.