Does daylight savings time really accomplish anything?

[NaturalHigh]

I'm asking because I really hate the whole "spring forward" thing that we had last week. Didn't someone post an article somewhere saying that it really doesn't save energy or increase productivity?

[Aristus]

1. It sells a lot of smoke-detector batteries.

n/t

[DarkTirade]

2. It accomplishes being a pain in my ass for the next month or so until I finally adjust to the new

schedule.

And it does this twice a year.

[kedrys]

3. It's accomplishing pissing me off large

I was getting used to light when I got up - now I have to wait an hour before I can see my keyboard, because I can't turn on the lights without waking up the s.o. F*cking waste of time. :grr:

[Kutjara]

4. I've been saving daylight for 46 bloody years, and every time...

...the damned government takes it right back off me in the fall. I just can't get ahead. What the hell am I going to do for daylight when I'm old and unable to work, if I can't save any up now? The whole daylight savings scheme is a total scam.

[cbayer]

5. I like it.

If it were up to me, I'd have the sun come up at noon and set at midnight.

[1]

10. i like the way you think.

marry me?

[cbayer]

11. Nope. But thanks for asking.

Maybe a discreet affair, though.

[crispini]

6. Somebody did a study, and it doesn't save shit, it wastes money.

I think we should put that on our to-do list, to abolish it.

[NaturalHigh]

18. You have my vote.

If you put together a petition, please let me know so I can sign it.

[stuntcat]

24. I heard this on the news last week!

:headbang:
That in the end they decided it actually waists more than it saves.

[Redstone]

7. It surprises people who don't know it's actually "daylight saving" not "daylight savings" time.

Like it surprised the hell out of me just a few years ago. All my life, I had thought it was "daylight savings."

But in answer to your question: No, it doesn't accomplish jack shit. Except to annoy a large number of people (including me) twice a year, for NO reason.

Redstone

[cbayer]

13. What's the difference between daylight savings and daylight saving?

Both of them save daylight. One of them just does it more than once.

[Ptah]

8. We don't allow it here.

[azmouse]

20. It's just one of many reasons why I love living in AZ!

[jobycom]

9. When they figure out how to compound the interest on the savings

Then we'll be cooking.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. Allows me to play golf on twilight rates

I hate the morning hours so the daylight is wasted there. Minus daylight savings time I would play half as many rounds per year, or less.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. It's a completely ridiculous concept in Alaska

We have 20 hours of daylight anyway in the summer. Why do we need to save it?

[1]

15. so you don't notice...

that there is an extra hour of sunlight at the end of each and every "daylight savings" day?

and you can't you think of anything to do with that? huh.

i can. and that is what it accomplishes...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. It used to save on candles.

Now it just makes us use more gas and electricity.
Duckie

[Deep13]

17. Yeah, it succeeds in pissing me off every year.

If one wants to get up an hour early, who's stopping that person?

[Courtesy Flush]

19. Depends how you define productivity

I get a lot more done around the house, now that I have an extra hour of light after work.

[IronLionZion]

21. wiki

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

[NaturalHigh]

22. Good info at that link.

I kind of thought that DST was intended to help farmers, but according to the Wiki information, it actually hurts them.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. It lets us play outside later

:bounce:



I think we've got it backwards, though. If we're gonna mess with the clock, wouldn't it make more sense to do it for the other five months so it'd kinda balance the days? :shrug:

[KamaAina]

25. Yes. It screws up my cable schedules.

Most cable channels program to both the Eastern and Pacific time zones, bot obviously, none to the Hawaiian zone. Soooo... California springs ahead, we don't, and now all the good cable shows come on at 6 instead of 7. The local affiliates already had the 6 o'clock hour covered. Now it's a struggle to find anything on at 7 most nights. :eyes: