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Sun Mar-09-08 03:14 AM
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Argh! I hate Daylight Savings Time. I really hate losing an hour. |
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I'm thrilled when we get our hour back in the fall, but I despise "springing forward". I just glanced at the clock and it's after 4am already. Eeks.
Seems I heard recently that it doesn't cut down on energy use anyway... why do we do this?
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:16 AM
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1. If we're stupid enough to elect GWB, we're stupid enough to keep a system that no longer works |
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I think the Southern Power Company did come out with a study last year saying energy usage was not visibly impacted by Daylight Savings. It's basically an inconvenience at this point, suffered only because "it's a tradition."
Get rid of it, I say. Go back to Standard Time and remain there permanently.
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:18 AM
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2. psst I have it on good authority that the hour will be found, |
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unharmed in the fall, unles it get's the dreaded kidnapped victom syndrom and goe's out to rob a bank.
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:23 AM
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3. I just sleep another hour. |
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And enjoy a bit more daylight.
Works fine for me.
Tom
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:24 AM
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4. to muck around totally in years to come with astrological calculations |
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here >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>have the hour back
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:27 AM
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5. What Is One More Hour Being That |
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I consider the last 7.5 years a total waste.
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:27 AM
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why do we do this? more daylight. i like it when it is lighter out |
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Sun Mar-09-08 10:02 AM
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30. What the hell? What a bunch of snide, uncalled for BS. n/t |
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:36 AM
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:06 PM
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my body rhythms prefer regular time. i always feel out of sorts for a few weeks after the change.
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:52 AM
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8. Um, some of use like the extra hour of sun light. |
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And here you are complaining about a measely hour of your time lost, yet I can enjoy a little more play time in the sun after work.
How bout we do away with standard daylight time? Hhmm?
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Sun Mar-09-08 09:21 AM
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26. It'd be better if they just keep the summer clock year around. |
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I need that extra sun after work even more in the winter, and that's when it gets taken away from us.
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:57 AM
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9. Since I'm not a morning person I love DST |
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I've been counting down the days to getting that extra hour of light in the evening. I have no problems adjusting.
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Sun Mar-09-08 04:08 AM
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11. Same here. Also it's great that we get one more hour of sunlight |
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Edited on Sun Mar-09-08 04:09 AM by Hardrada
since that will help melt the snow and ice more quickly!! :D
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Sun Mar-09-08 01:49 PM
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37. I would expect the ease of transition to be harder |
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for non-morning people.
My body (as a non-morning person) doesn't care whether it is light outside or not in the evening. On the other hand, it definitely cares that it now has to get up at what it believes is 5 AM instead of 6 AM.
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Sun Mar-09-08 02:42 PM
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what damn use in the world do I have with daylight at 5:30 or 6 am...
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Sun Mar-09-08 02:43 PM
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40. I'm not a morning person either |
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but I don't particularly care if the sun is out in the evening. I do care when an hour of sleep/partying is ripped away from me on a Saturday night... =(
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Sun Mar-09-08 04:06 AM
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10. Lets's set the clocks 1/2 hour the difference and leave it forever... |
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Nothing but uselessly annoying...
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Sun Mar-09-08 08:29 AM
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24. Yes! I like the way you think! |
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Sun Mar-09-08 05:13 AM
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12. Incredibly painful for me who has to be at work at 6 am |
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So I had to get up at what feels like 3:30. I will like the more daylight in the evening, though.
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Sun Mar-09-08 05:27 AM
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14. Feels like 3:30??? Maybe because it really is? |
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Sun Mar-09-08 05:24 AM
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13. So called DST is like cutting one end off a blanket and sewing it on the other end. |
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All the time we spend on DST I feel like the day is too short. Something is missing. Maybe it is because I have to go to bed with the sun still shining and get up in the dark most of the year. Each year I marvel at the extra time I have (an hour a day) when we correct the error and go back to the the real time. We are to be subjected to another round of http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2976005&mesg_id=2976005
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Sun Mar-09-08 05:48 AM
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15. ya, this is reallly painful... |
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getting up at the 'crap' of dawn, (as my daughter calls it) and it physically hurts. As if getting up in the morning isn't hard enough, we have to inflict this on ourselves....
But, as I tell myself, who is in charge? Your sniveling, pouting body... or your boggled, foggy mind?
Don't answer that.
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Sun Mar-09-08 05:49 AM
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Who apprecaites daylight at 5 am. But, it sure is nice at 8 pm. Why waste precious daylight while one would prefer to sleep.
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:35 AM
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I get so much more exercise after the spring forward because I have more daylight hours after work.
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:42 AM
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that is the difference between those Morning and evening people. As different as Democrats and Republicans.
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:48 AM
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20. Not sure what that is supposed to mean.. |
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I'm a morning person too. I like being up and busy doing things in the daylight hours. I just prefer having more time daylight hours to spend as my free time over spending the all of those daylight hour working inside an office building.
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:58 AM
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sort of like the difference between tea tottlers and boozers. Just a different outlook. re. AM and PM people.
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:38 AM
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18. hate losing an hour of my precious weekend |
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Sun Mar-09-08 06:59 AM
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22. I once heard a farmer in Indiana call in and rail about DST |
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He was afraid that his crops would burn on the field, because he had an extra hour of sunlight to deal with. I am NOT making this up.
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Sun Mar-09-08 02:45 PM
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41. Some people are just too stoopid for words, eh? |
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Sun Mar-09-08 07:15 AM
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23. I'd rather have them choose DST or regular time and then |
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leave set on that time for infinity.
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Sun Mar-09-08 08:33 AM
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25. of all the things to be concerned with DST |
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come out on top. How do you do it???
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Sun Mar-09-08 09:46 AM
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27. Time is arbitrary anyway |
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""Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once."
Mark Twain
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Sun Mar-09-08 09:49 AM
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28. I miss living without daylight savings time |
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where the day light and adjustments to it are natural. But Bush's slashandburn Mitch became governor - and brought back dst.
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Sun Mar-09-08 02:55 PM
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42. Indiana not having dst was the only reason |
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I moved to Indiana. That's how bad I hate DST.
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Sun Mar-09-08 09:50 AM
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29. And for those who forgot to set the clocks ahead last night... |
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...here's a helpful link. http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/javaJust select your correct time zone. Bingo. That's the time. Set everything to that. Got it??
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Sun Mar-09-08 10:11 AM
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31. Great, I can take the light off my bike, now. |
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I do it, but I don't care for riding home in the murk.
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Sun Mar-09-08 10:14 AM
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I am owned by two dogs and neither one of them can tell time. They have wonderful biological clocks though. They know when my daughter is due home from school, etc. One of them has gone outside at 6:00 a.m. since she was a puppy. No matter how hard I try to explain to her that it is an hour earlier she wants out so for until we go back on standard time I will get up an hour earlier.
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Sun Mar-09-08 10:26 AM
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33. I'm just borrowing it. I'll return it to you with a full tank of gas this fall. |
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Sun Mar-09-08 11:26 AM
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34. I'm the exact opposite. |
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While I don't like "losing" an hour today, I prefer Daylight Savings Time to standard time. I am an early bird, and am up before dawn regardless. I like getting done earlier, and hate having to stay at work an hour later just when the days are too short in the fall.
Even more, though, I'd like to just pick one and stick with it. Daylight savings time, standard time...whatever. Pick one, and stop fucking with my body clock twice a year.
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Sun Mar-09-08 12:45 PM
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35. I desperately need that extra hour of sunlight |
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in the evening. I feel like a troll in winter when I get home from work at 4:30pm and have about a half hour, MAYBE, to do anything outside. The sun is barely up by the time I get to work, so I end up not seeing it at all on MANY winter days. We need to STAY in DST year round.
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Sun Mar-09-08 01:13 PM
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36. I say let the earth and seasons do the natural gradual change |
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Our cats don't care and are ready to eat on earths time not some man made twist of fate .
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Sun Mar-09-08 02:40 PM
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38. wish we'd stay on this time forever.... |
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Sun Mar-09-08 03:02 PM
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43. Why? So people can find the malls easier and "save" money by spending it. |
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