Daylight Savings Time is THIS SUNDAY

[LiberalElite]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/daylight-saving-2013-petition_n_2819195.html?utm_hp_ref=green

On March 10, Americans will set their clocks forward an hour in the biannual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). But the hour of reckoning could be close at hand for DST, if some online petitioners get their way, that is.

[graham4anything]

1. I love DST. Means Spring is here, longer afternoons.

[Puzzledtraveller]

47. Me too, I'm looking forward to it

[kdmorris]

2. Oh, happy day!!!!

Bring on that extra hour of daylight after I get off of work!! (I do wish they would just have DST be the year round standard, though. It is pretty archaic. Living in Florida - right about the time it cools off enough to be outside, we set our clocks back an hour and can't do anything outside after work, anyway!)

[Skittles]

3. I'll be up all night booting multiple systems

I laugh at the morons who cannot handle sleeping through it

[Cha]

4. thanks LiberalElite.. I was just wondering about

this the other day. It doesn't change here in Hawai'i but it means we're 6 hours behind NY instead of 5.

[KatyMan]

5. If we lived in Hawaii....

I don't think we'd care

[Cha]

6. Nah, I don't care.

[LiberalElite]

10. It doesn't change in Hawaii? There's a couple other states I think it doesnt' change -

I never could understand it as a kid - I still got out of school at 3pm, not 2. Now in addition I hate losing that hour. It seems a pointless empty exercise to me. I'm signing that petition.

[Cha]

12. Besides Hawai'i.. just Arizona and these territories do not observe DST

.. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

I use to live in New York and it helped the kids having more light when they got on the school buses in the winter morns.. and the farmers.

Seems Ben Franklin was the first to muse about the idea..

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

[4_TN_TITANS]

45. I thought Indiana opted out of it too...

but what do I know? I'm just glad for the extra day light at the end of the day

[Chiyo-chichi]

57. Indiana didn't observe DST until 2006, but does now. nt

[Hekate]

44. Hawai'i is so close to the equator that the day/night ratio changes very little

IIRC, it only changed by about an hour year-round, if that.

If they participated (as they sometimes get pressured to do by business) little kids would be waiting for the school bus in the pitch dark for part of the year.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Cool, the jeep clock will now be on time

[LiberalElite]

11. see below -

[LeftofObama]

8. I signed the petition.

Signatures needed by April 04, 2013 to reach goal of 100,000
93,822
Total signatures on this petition
6,178

[LiberalElite]

13. as of about 15 min ago when I signed - I was #6,203

[Texasgal]

9. Ugh.

I HATE this time of year!

*stompsfeet*

[LiberalElite]

14. sign the petition at Whitehouse.gov!

[Delphinus]

25. Me too.

Signed the petition - I thought there were only 6,000 more to go - no, it's 94,000!!!

[scarletwoman]

15. Boo! Hiss!

I hate this DST shit! It finally gets light enough in the morning that I don't have to worry about not being able to see the next suicidal deer getting ready to leap out in front of my car on my way to work, and now it's back to darkness and white knuckles for a totally unnecessary extra 2-3 weeks.

I'd like to leave a pile of roadkill on the front lawns of every idiotic bozo in Congress who voted to extend DST during the bush* maladministration.

[trishtrash]

28. Amen!

I have already hit one deer head on and barely missed another this year. I'm sick of having to change clocks, primarily my internal clock, for no good reason. It's enough to make me a raving libertarian.

[FreeState]

30. +1 n/t

[AAO]

16. I DON'T BELIEVE IT! DO YOU HAVE A LINK???

[LiberalElite]

19. hang on - looking it up now...

[LiberalElite]

20. link to the petition? here it is from whitehouse.gov

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-bi-annual-time-change-caused-daylight-savings-time/ShChxpKh

[MicaelS]

22. Thanks for the link, signed it! n/t

[LiberalElite]

23. Thanks! pass it on! -

[MicaelS]

24. Will do. n/t

[AAO]

58. No, I meant a link that says this Sunday is DST beginning. I haven't heard about that.

But don't worry I looked it up myself, and darn if you weren't right!

[DollarBillHines]

17. It's strange to start drinking two hours before sunset

But I will adjust.

[Ikonoklast]

46. Why do you wait so long to start?

Once over the yardarm, fair game.

[DollarBillHines]

50. I long ago decided to set some boundaries.

One day, I set off to pick up my son and his friend from kindergarten. They got out at noon.

I picked them up, got halfway home and ran my truck into a ditch.

They thought it was the coolest thing, ever. I, however, did not.

These days, I don't start drinking until 5PM. But I do drink with gusto.

[Ikonoklast]

52. Ah! I have spotted the root of your problem.

You needed to drive your truck all the way home first before driving it into a ditch.


Halfway measures are the real problem here.

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. I take solace in knowing it's *ALWAYS* after 5PM *SOMEWHERE* in the world.

Otherwise, I'd have to skip breakfast and lunch altogether!

[JI7]

18. that sucks, i prefer the dark and it messes with my sleep

[LiberalElite]

21. here's the link to the petition that could do away with DST (hopefully) I hate it too

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-bi-annual-time-change-caused-daylight-savings-time/ShChxpKh

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. "online petitioners"

LOL has an online petition changed anything of consequence yet?

[LiberalElite]

27. can we try anyway? or should we just throw up our collective hands? It only takes a minute.

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. Think of Government as "The Lord".

And think of Jim Morrison as the Voice of Reason...

[MH1]

29. F*ck daylight savings time. Stupidest idea ever.

Supposedly it was Ben Franklin's idea. Maybe that's the reverse of the stopped-clock principle - even someone brilliant can have a blazingly stupid idea once in awhile.

Yes, I signed and shared the petition.

[LiberalElite]

31. Thanks!

[MissMarple]

33. I greatly dislike DST!

It's silly. And it interferes with my inner clock for days. We should just change our go to work and school times if an "extra" hour in the evening if we want that. Yet, there are countries that have all one time zone. Imagine how that would work out if every country did that.

And, yes, I signed.

[LiberalElite]

35. Thanks ! There are a couple of US states that don't participate - so why should the rest of us?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

34. Good.

[avebury]

36. I wish that they would change the time

on Friday nights so that we have the whole weekend to adapt to that lost hour.

[LiberalElite]

38. Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night

The whole thing's pointless now and we shouldn't have to adapt to it.

[Ikonoklast]

49. You don't have to wait. I changed all my clocks on Wednesday.

As I travel across time zones every week, I already make adjustments for local time. By the time Sunday rolls around, I don't even notice.


You can fool yourself; set the clocks ahead the one hour upon waking on Saturday, instead of at the end of the day.

[Avalux]

37. I hate it and hope it die.

Not a morning person and losing that hour takes getting used to.

[Mojorabbit]

39. I LOVE Daylight savings time

My hubby and I can sit on the dock sipping an adult beverage and watch the sunset after he gets home from work. I hate that he gets home when it is so dark and I always look forward to more evening light.

[Gemini Cat]

40. I hate DST

Screws me up for days! It needs to go away.

[2theleft]

41. Fellow haters unite!!

I'm signing that petition. Spring forward messes me up for weeks, has since I was a kid. I absolutely HATE it and live for Fall Back. Fall Back is the best day of the year, IMO.

[pacalo]

42. Just signed; it's now at 6820.

[JoePhilly]

48. Wait, what time is 6820 in regular time?

I don't want to set my alarm clock to sometime next week.

[pacalo]

59. Hahaaa!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. We now have DST all but four months of the year

What's the point?
Pick one or the other and stick to it. I end up with jet lag each time we shift, and I don't even get to earn it by traveling!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

51. Yes it is.

[IDemo]

53. They should split the difference and keep it there

Set the clocks 1/2 hour forward and leave it. Everyone's happy.

[Faux pas]

54. Oh yeah, NOW they come up with a petition after

I've retired and don't have to spend 6-7 months trying to recover. Still hate it though

[Blue Owl]

56. I thought it was part of the sequester

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

60. There are 2 (two) reasons for shifting time twice a year:

1) In the winter, you do not want to have a lot of students walking to school in the dark and people commuting to work in the dark only half-awake. It avoids a lot of accidents.

2) In the summer (whether or not this one is good depends on point of view or economic self-interest), longer evening daylight hours encourages gardening and barbecuing and other activities that generate business. Incidentally they also generate and encourage friendship and socialization, which are good things in my view.