Oh goody. It's that time of the year when the sun sets at 4:45 PM...

[SmileyBoy]

Hooray...:puke:

I HATE switching to Standard Time.

Can't we just have DST the whole year round?? I don't care if the sun doesnt rise until 8:15 am as long as it's out until 5:45-6:00 PM during the equinox.

I'd rather have the sun rise late than set early.

[Droopy]

1. Me too, seeing as how I sleep mostly during the day

[Was_Immer]

2. Why did they invent this crap

Honestly, Im not kidding, no one ever explained to me why.

I was once taught that it was because of farmers. Is that true? That they needed the extra day light or something???

It just cuts the day shorter.
I hate this SH*T

[SmileyBoy]

3. It's not that the day is shorter.

Today we get as much sunlight as we did yesterday. We didn't lose an hour of sunlight. That's a misconception.

What happened is that the sun now rises an hour earlier and sets an hour earlier.

It sucks, because I really don't care if I start off my day with it still being dark. I get down in the dumps when it SETS at 4:45 pm instead of 5:45 pm. As a 22 year-old college student, that's when my daily biological clock is at its peak.

[sandnsea]

4. It's like they screwed up "time"

And instead of just fixing it one time, they make us all live with the screw up. Kind of like something Bush would do. I bet a President could win an election just by promising to do away with standard time.

[murielm99]

5. Benjamin Franklin conceived of the idea originally.

Of course, who else?

It was adopted in Europe during WWI, but not here until 1918. It was repealed, then made a local option. It was not standardized for the whole country until 1966.

FDR had two years of it during WWII. It was supposed to conserve daylight, which is kind of silly, when you think about it.

It does not help farmers. If you start milking cows an hour earlier, or expecting your chickens to lay eggs on a different schedule, forget it. And it takes the same number of hours of sunlight to grow a crop, no matter what the clock says.

It was adopted to help the war effort. Supposedly, it saves energy to have daylight longer in the early evening hours.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. This is my favorite day!

I'm one of those weirdos who actually LIKES it when it gets dark early. I like thinking it's time to go to bed because it's dark and looking at the clock and discovering it's only 7:30. Call me crazy, but I've always felt this way. I love the extra hour of sleep!

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Daylight Savings Time is ridiculous...

personally, I wish they'd get rid of it. But then, I also wish I lived at a latitude where I only had to put up with six or so hours of daylight in the winter...and don't you mean "solstice" and not "equinox"?

[VOX]

8. I don't like the shorter days either. Sitting in my office, I see the...

sun setting at 4:30 p.m., and I want to go home. But I gotta stick around for another 1 1/2 hours or so.

Driving home in the dark, I just feel like the day is already over, and I never really got out into it.

[BiggJawn]

10. Yeah, it sucks.

By Xmas, it will be still dark when I show up at work, and dark when I leave. And there are no windows, so the only time I'll see daylight is on weekends.

No bike rides, either

So we're on New York time instead of Chicago time now...Ain't Gawd GOOD to Indiana?
(He would be if Kerry wins the state!)

[Dzimbowicz]

9. I sympathize with those of you in more northerly climes...

When I lived in Germany, autumn was hell! The sun set around 4:00-4:15pm and rose around 8:00-8:30am and it was overcast for three months, day after day after day. This really gave me a case of Seasonal Affected Disorder (is that the correct term?). Then came the spring and the opposite happened: the sun rose at 4:30am and set around 10:00pm (I had a case of extreme exhilaration). I loved the spring and hated autumn. BTW, I have lived for most of my life in an area where the hours of sunrise and sunset are not affected all that much by the time change, maybe an hour or so.

[Skittles]

11. I love it, LOVE IT

the earlier it gets dark, the BETTER!!!!!

[tjdee]

12. And it's freaking cold besides :(

Ah, Seasonal Affect Disorder, coming right up!

It's always cold, and dark, and there's nothing to do but sit in your house and eat. :(

I do enjoy the holiday season very much, but that's it. January has to be the suckiest month ever. No holidays, it's got 31 long days...eww.

[bikebloke]

13. Just changed the batteries on my bike flasher.

Drained the juice in my head lamp left over from last winter so I can charge it up anew. I'll strap it on the handle bars tonight. At least I can ride in to work with sunlight. When I used to live in Seattle, it was dark in both directions. And the winters were really depressing in those years without a summer.

[sundog]

14. I like short days -I really don't like when the sun sets at 10pm in summer

I like nights

[Nikia]

15. I know

It sucks. I did much better in in winter in Ohio, even though it was only 4-5 hours south of where I am now because it was on the Western side of the time zone rather than the Eastern part, like in Wisconsin. I might invest in some special lights this year or actually try to get a second shift job. My first winter out of college, working second shift helped because I went to work when it was light and didn't see that the sun had set until I was done with work.

[SmileyBoy]

16. Yeah, there's one semi-good thing out of all of this:

I live on the western edge of the Central Time Zone, which means the sun sets here almost a half hour later than it does in Chicago. Even though I'm more north than Minneapolis, the sun still sets here around 7-8 minutes later.

At least I only have to deal with darkness coming at 4:45 instead of 4:30.

[flamingyouth]

17. Hello from the 47th parallel

And those long, long nights. At least with standard time, we have more light in the mornings, but just barely.