What is the point of having day light savings anymore?

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: lupi
I'd prefer if time across all lower 48 was the same.

Hell, why not just make a universal time???

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: lupi
I'd prefer if time across all lower 48 was the same.

Commerce and productivity would plummet. People in general are more productive in the morning and afternoon as it relates to the sun. The western part of the nation would not survive.

Anything to speed up the demise of California I'm all for.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: lupi
I'd prefer if time across all lower 48 was the same.

Commerce and productivity would plummet. People in general are more productive in the morning and afternoon as it relates to the sun. The western part of the nation would not survive.

No, not really. People would simply adjust their schedules to the new time. Business hours would just be staggered as makes sense for local conditions so stores might open at 8am on the esat coast and 11am on the west coast. It's just that 11am would have what was 8am sunlight. This is what makes DST so worthless: folks change their clocks and then change their schedules to compensate.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Kyle
Doesnt bother me much, but I do agree, it'd be nice to have the extra hour of light year round.

get up earlier.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Kyle
Doesnt bother me much, but I do agree, it'd be nice to have the extra hour of light year round.

get up earlier.

How many times does this need to be repeated before people realize that some people have jobs that require them to be in certain places at certain times?

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Kyle
Doesnt bother me much, but I do agree, it'd be nice to have the extra hour of light year round.

get up earlier.

How many times does this need to be repeated before people realize that some people have jobs that require them to be in certain places at certain times?

About the same number of times this topic will be discussed probably.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Imp
For 21 of the past 23 years, I thought Daylight Savings Time was the action of turning clocks back, and turning clocks forward was Standard.

I like DST more than Standard a LOT. Who doesn't like it when it's still bright out at 10pm at night in the summer. Leaving the office at 5pm and it being completely dark already also sucks.

I think most people are like you. Most like the daylight savings time far better than standard time. Also, most people mistake the two and complain about the same daylight savings time that they love.

I say, keep it daylight savings time all year round. But then, I'm not a morning person.

I am 100% a fan of DST! Let's move to have it year round.

 

[RaiderJ]

DST is pointless in Alaska. An extra hour of daylight is redundant.

 

[torpid]

What else would ATOT talk about during the early days of March each year?

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: trmiv
I vote for keeping DST all year too. I love when it stays light out later. During the early winter it's frigging dark out on my commute home at 5:30, which SUCKS. Then I get home and don't feel like doing anything.

5:30? Hahahaha...try it up north...it's much worse...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: torpid
What else would ATOT talk about during the early days of March each year?

MARCH MADNESS BABY! Da big dance! Dipsy doo dunkeroo baby!

 

[IGBT]

..fundamentalist eco-KOOKS have tons of faux reasons to keep it.

 

[IronWing]

I think we should just skip the 2pm to 3pm hour and add an extra hour at the end of each day. That way the hours in the day would be divisible by five and more readily converted to decimals.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..fundamentalist eco-KOOKS have tons of faux reasons to keep it.

Try as I might, I have never been able to write the dumbest post in a thread.