I HATE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

[arely staircase]

Stand up to DST and set your clocks back an hour at midnight tonight.

Join me in this nationwide protest.

Together we can make this happen!!!

EDITED FOR SPELLING AND AND TO ADD ALL CAPS

[Texasgal]

1. I agree.

I hate it too!

Completely throws my body off and my dogs too!

[gopiscrap]

2. why do you hate DST?

[arely staircase]

4. because the sun doesn't come up until like noon.

OK, exaggeration. But kids standing and waiting for school buses in the dark is silly. And I don't really hate it as much as I want to use today's GD copycat thread meme to tell everyone to set their clocks back. This is the night to do it.

[gopiscrap]

6. I like the darkness

[arely staircase]

8. me too

at night. not at 7 AM.

[gopiscrap]

9. good point

[Control-Z]

31. Not at 5 in the afternoon either.

I love daylight savings time. I want to keep it year round!

[arely staircase]

34. it should be dark at five in the winter

How dare you disagree with me.

[Control-Z]

39. This is a political discussion board, isn't it?

I thought I was supposed to be disagreeable. Dang. In any case, I am correct! Ha!

[JayhawkSD]

14. You realize you have it backwards, right?

The sun will be coming up an hour earlier, so it will be lighter in the morning and darker earlier in the afternoon. Your kids will be going to school in daylight and you will be driving home from work in the dark.

[arely staircase]

15. uh no you have it backward

while all you say is true it is because DST is ending not beginning.

[Peregrine Took]

3. Saving. n/t

[Control-Z]

33. Yup. This.

I hate when it's not daylight savings time.

[MADem]

5. I certainly prefer "fall behind" to "spring ahead."

"Spring ahead" really sucks--and it sucks even though I am at the stage in my life where I can make my own damn schedule, for the most part!

[pangaia]

7. Sarcasm, right?

[arely staircase]

10. no, you really are supposed to set your clocks back tonight.

dislike of DSM if half-sarcastic.

[pangaia]

30. I KNOW we set our clocks back tonight.

Maybe I had 1 too many mint juleps, but how is that protesting?

[arely staircase]

38. going back to standard tonight is the protest

I suggest we go to a system were we skip the spring forward but continue to fall back an hour one day a year. I know that would become problematic after a few years but it would all come back around after a while and thag would be a whole day of extra sleep every 24 years.

[pangaia]

41. Hummmm....Gotta think on that one.

Sounds feasible. What the heck. Why not?
I wrote a minor dissertation on one of these DST threads. I'll see if I can find it...maybe.
or maybe I won't.

[fishwax]

52. That's a good system

Also acceptable: keep the fall back, and change the spring forward to spring back.

Personally, I think we should just make every Saturday a fall back (spring back, winter back, whatever). But I understand that solution may be too radical for some.

[yuiyoshida]

11. I have heard a rumor where some states..

Turn their clocks back one hour and 50 years... sounds like a lot of winding to me.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. I love getting up one hour later

that means I get up at 6.30 am not 5.30 am. I guess it's all relative. That's 11.30 am GMT. Oh well!

[Warpy]

13. You mean you hate STANDARD TIME

I hate it, too. I hate it like poison. It makes the winter seem darker and gloomier than it already is.

What most people say when they say they hate daylight savings time is that they hate the changeover. It takes me weeks to reset my clock, which is already out of kilter from delayed sleep syndrome. I get that.

I'd like year round daylight savings time. If parents whine about their kids waiting for the school bus in the dark (which kids in the far north do, anyway), maybe they need to start school an hour later.

Standard time was arbitrary when it was set to please the farmers. Few of us are farmers and most of us would like that hour of sunlight in the afternoon when we start home from work. At least we'd see the sun.

Standard time should be banished to the dustbin of failed experiments.

[arely staircase]

16. we go back to standard time tonight

so what I hate is ending.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

17. Move to Arizona. We don't play that game.

[SheilaT]

18. I only hate it the rare times I've forgotten about the change.

I've never been late anywhere, but I have gone into work an hour earlier than I had to. That was truly crappy.

[arely staircase]

19. yeah me too.

I have done the show up too early thing. I had much rather be late. I think they only make the change on weekends now.

[SheilaT]

45. They have always done the change on weekeds.

Always. However, I have always worked shiftwork where I frequently work weekends.

[arely staircase]

46. ah OK

I made that mistake back when I very well could have been working weekends.

[LiberalElite]

20. I hate it too -

it's a stupid exercise in futility. Guess what folks, it's getting to be winter and the days are getting shorter and yes, it will be dark at 5pm for a while regardless. And in the summer the days are longer regardless. It's the same 24 hours no matter how much we screw around with the timepieces. My body HATES losing that hour in the spring and LOVES getting it back this weekend. I wish they'd just do away with it altogether. Most of the world doesn't follow it anyway.

[arely staircase]

21. Mexico does, where I have family

but when the US changed the date for the switchover a few years ago, Mexico didn't and it caused some confusion about what time I would be arriving that year. And yeah, I understand the longer days, but DST causes the kids waiting for the bus in the dark for the first nine weeks of school and then the whole not getting dark until after 9 PM seems a little extreme. I much prefer Standard Time.

[LiberalElite]

26. Most of the

non-western world, Saskatchewan, Hawaii and U.S. territories don't observe it and I obviously wish we'd stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

[S_B_Jackson]

22. I don't mind the end of DST, but the beginning of DST really kicks my ass!

The dog's are going to hate the end of DST cause it means they'll get fed an hour later than their bodies' schedules tell them is proper.

[arely staircase]

23. yeah I love this changeover. nt

[Nevernose]

24. But it's a whole extra hour for drinking!

The Spring one bothers me quite a bit, though.

[arely staircase]

29. this is the night bars and liquor stores stay open an extra hour nt

[Nevernose]

37. I was 36 before I learned they closed

I was on my honeymoon, coming back from Italy, and we were staying for a long weekend in New York. I suggested that we get a drink at a bar and my wife said, "They close in just a few minutes."

"What do you mean 'they close?'" I thought she was messing with me.

I've been all over and I like to drink, but I'm just not much of a bar-patron type. More importantly, I've lived most of my life in Las Vegas. It had never occurred to me that there was a reason for bars to close.

[DesertFlower]

25. i'm in phoenix. we don't go on DST.

[we can do it]

27. I like the time set like it is now, hate it when it's dark at 4:30 in the afternoon.

[RKP5637]

28. Same here!!! n/t

[HereSince1628]

32. All the problems in politics make much more sense now

we just can't agree to do anything that inconveniences us one iota while benefiting others.

[doc03]

35. I hate standard time, it gets dark at like 530pm, it makes

winter even more depressing.

[tabasco]

36. I'M WITH YOU!

FUCK THIS SHIT!

[Beacool]

40. Wise guy, huh!!!!

I HATE leaving work in the dark. It'll be barely 5 PM and it'll look like it's 10 PM. It's depressing.

[gollygee]

42. Then you need to fall back tonight, but not spring forward in the spring

because we are in daylight savings time and just getting out of it. But I agree that I don't like it either, and daylight savings time lasts longer than standard time now.

[RebelOne]

43. You are not the only one. I hate it too.

As I stated in another thread, the idiot or idiots that invented DST should be drawn and quartered and thrown to the wolves.

[hunter]

44. I HATE CLOCKS.

Clocks and money were invented by the devil.

[adirondacker]

47. .

[cui bono]

48. My sign is ready!

Where are we gathering???

[arely staircase]

49. don't know where but it will be at midnight

Or is that 11? Shit.

[cui bono]

50. I was gonna say... DST or what's the other one???

[donheld]

51. I love it being light later during the summer.

I have no problem with Daylight Savings Time.

[Deep13]

53. me too.

If others want to get up an hour earlier in the summer, what's stopping them?