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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy proposal for saving more daylight
Y'know, every year we try to save some daylight by setting the clock back an hour every fall and setting it forward every spring.
When I was growing up, this confused me because nobody would tell me how to redeem any of the daylight I'd saved.
By the time I became a teenager, I'm afraid I'd become quite cynical and even suspected the whole thing was a gigantic scam: they pretend to give you an extra hour of daylight and then they make you give it back, so how are you saving any?
But as I got older, I decided if I can't beat them I should join them; and I've given lots and lots of thought to this. I thought: if we can save daylight by switching the clock around, why not fall back an hour and fifteen minutes in the fall and then spring forward an hour and fifteen minutes in the spring? That would save another fifteen minutes of daylight! Well, some people are pretty conservative, and they thought of all kinds of excuses for why that wasn't a convenient idea, so I thought some more, and now I think I have a plan that more people will like.
My plan is this: Daylight saving time should begin at 2AM on the second Friday of March, and we add 24 hours to the clocks, so it suddenly becomes 2AM on Saturday; then at 2AM on the first Sunday of November, we subtract 24 hours from the clocks, so it suddenly becomes 2AM on Saturday again.
This gives us an extra Saturday every year.
TexasTowelie
(112,249 posts)However, I would suggest starting daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on the second Monday of March and adding 24 hours. I doubt that anybody would complain about losing a Monday after all.
Angleae
(4,487 posts)your friday=my monday
your monday=my saturday
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I'm for abolishing Daylight Savings Time. It's not like the whole world observes it. Hell, not even the whole U.S.A. does. It's a feel-good anachronism. It's time (pun unintended) has come and gone.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Kirk: It's very simple. At 2A on the first Sunday in November, you turn the clock back an hour. And on the second Sunday in ...
Spock: Wait! At 2A on the first Sunday in November, we turn the clock back an hour?
Kirk: Yup! And on the ...
Spock: So what time is it then?
Kirk: When?
Spock: After we turn the clock back an hour.
Kirk: It's one o'clock.
Spock: It's 1A on the first Sunday in November?
Kirk: Of course!
Spock: And what time is it an hour after we turn the clock back?
Kirk: Naturally, it's two o'clock.
Spock: So now it's 2A on the first Sunday in November? And so we turn the clocks back an hour?
Kirk: No. It's very simple. At 2A on the first Sunday in November, you turn the clock back an hour. And ...
Spock: And an hour later it's again 2A on the first Sunday in November.
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: At 2A on the first Sunday in November, we turn the clocks back an hour?
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: So an hour after turning the clocks back, we should turn them back.
Kirk: No. It's very simple. At ...
Spock: Highly illogical.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)We're supposed to change the clocks no wonder nevermind
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)How much daylight is saved when turning the clock back in the fall?
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and that should save lots of light!
olddots
(10,237 posts)Twice a year our dogs could give a shit.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Don't let it get dark.