The "Daylight-Savings Time" Poll: Isn't The Tilt Of The Earth Enough?

[Intelsucks]

Why do we bother jacking around with the clocks twice a year anyway? Is it really necessary to have daylight until after 9:00PM in the middle of the Summer? I heard it was something that got started many, many years ago for farmers... All I have to say to that is...

FARMERS DON'T PUNCH CLOCKS!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Don't like it? Move to Arizona

They don't "jack up" their clocks. I like it - it mixes things up. Keeps us on our toes.

:toast:

[Intelsucks]

3. I say "hats-off" to the states that say thanks, but no thanks.

:toast:

[catzies]

11. Big game tonight!

I can't stand the _allas Mavericks. Kick their asses.

:toast:

[Jack_Dawson]

18. Oh Catzies - my boys are depressing the hell out of me right now

:-(

:beer:

[DarkPhenyx]

2. Robb is a dingbat.

That was my other.

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Without Daylight Savings time

In the summer in the northern latitudes, days are 20 hours long AND start well before the average person gets up. This way, we get long days but at a time when we can enjoy them.

[Intelsucks]

7. How far North are we talking about?

:shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

13. 20 hour days?

Northern strip along the 48th parallel...Montana, Idaho, etc.
Certainly 17 hour days in the southern states in the summer, and the same thing still applies-sun comes up earlier than people want towake up...feh.

[Intelsucks]

15. Down here, I guess we are actually the least affected because we

are closer to the Equator than the majority of the nation.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Right

The variation gets more extreme as you move away from the equator.

[libbygurl]

5. Is it still useful today? More like mucks things up. Why does everyone

continue to follow the clock shifts twice a year without complaint? Aren't there a couple of states that don't do it--and have yet to collapse into chaos? Or am I wrong?

[Nikia]

6. It is necessary when you live on the Eastern edge

It gets light too early as it is in June and July. There is no reason that it needs to be light before 5 a.m., don't you think. I enjoy light into the evening. It helps keep me awake, happy, and active after I come home from work.

[cmf]

8. It saves some energy at least.

Having light in the evening when you can use it saves some energy. You can use that natural light for getting things done rather than having to turn your lights on in your house. As it is, here in Seattle, it's light at 5 am during June. I'd rather have that extra hour of light at 9pm than 4am.

[Intelsucks]

10. I guess there is a larger "swing" for some folks, depending on where

they live. Down here in Texas, I find it to be an annoyance. It takes me a month to recover from Springing forward.:-(

[Kholst]

9. Common myth, but

Farmers had nothing to do with it. In fact, they usually oppose it more than most groups. It was an attempt to conserve energy first proposed by Ben Franklin (not really seriously ... he really just wanted people to alter their schedules with the seasons, not for the formal time to change), and first enacted during WWI by Germany (and soon after by the US and UK). In the US, it was repealed after the war ended, but reinstated during WWII. It was Irregularly applied in the US until the mid-sixties when the Uniform Time Act was passed. In the US, it saves about 1% of the day's energy usage per day during daylight saving time. In some countries, and certain parts of the US (depending on lattitude and closeness to the edge of the time zone), the savings are greater than the average.

btw, it's a pain in the ass to those of us in Indiana (and I imagine Hawaii and Arizona) that you guys all change and we don't.

[Kellanved]

19. don't forget the oil crisis

It is true that Germany tried daylight-saving time in 1916, but just once - it didn't work out.
The current European daylight saving time was introduced in 1996, but most member nations already had introduced it in the late 70s, during the oil crisis.

[VOX]

12. I like the longer days -- changing the clocks forward is a ritual of sorts

It definitely communicates the fact that it *is* spring. Same with the fall (the "easy" change).

I wish we'd just leaves the clocks on spring-foward, but then it gets too dark in the mornings for school kids, etc.

Ever since I was a kid, daylight-saving time always meant good things: vacation, baseball, going to the beach, swimming, playing late. So yes, bring on DST!

:toast:

[libbygurl]

14. Guess it's different for me, not having grown up in the US, and I just

find it plainly annoying to keep shifting one's internal and wall clocks back and forth twice a year.

[northofdenali]

17. The changes make absolutely no sense up here, for sure.

Why add an hour in the spring when we already have 18 hours of daylight by mid-April, then take away an hour of daylight when we're getting up and coming home from work in the dark?

On top of that, during Pipeline days, we shifted an hour in order to be more in line with businesses on the East Coast. Now, instead of a 5 hour time difference with New York, it's only 4. So, additional spring and fall shifts really play hell with the old body clock!

And my cats hate it!