End Daylight Savings Time
This is my semi-annual plug for repealing the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Daylight Savings Time (DST) is disruptive, confusing and always throws my body clock off to the point that I end up getting sick. The days get longer during the summer anyway, so if you want to enjoy more of it then just get up an hour earlier. For more information on why DST is stupid, check out www.standardtime.com (oh, and there is even a quiz link at the bottom of the page).
to my good friend scott, you’re non-farming whimp…
Daylight savings time helps America! Long live DST!
btw, his quiz is wrong; all of Indiana now supports the wonders of daylight savings time
Wonders??? Farmers can deal without an antiquated system. I like the person who called it Daylight-stupid-time…
Why can’t the people who need to get up with the sun just adjust their schedules? And the whole thing about long summer evenings…that’s such a *leisure lifestyle* mentality.
Don’t talk to me about leisure… my back and my 1/3 acre farm will differ. The extra light gives me a chance to get some needed gardening/landscaping/DIY in after the work day.
While I’m not sure I really would consider the extra time “fun,” it is rewarding and getting home with some daylight left lets me feel like I haven’t spent the entire ‘day’ away from home.
Again, for all those couch potatoes who are still crying about their lost hour (oh mommy, please let me sleep in…) they can wait in earnest for the fall when they get their extra hour back
While I admittedly lag behind whenever the time changes, I’m no more wanting to sleep in than you are wanting to get in extra fishing time after work. Those aren’t my arguments against DST. However, I do think that since the original intent is outdated, that nowadays a key reason why many people (not all) like DST is leisure (again, not accusing you of being a slacker).
My main point against DST (to borrow from you) is that it is a feeling. You feel like you have more time to get things done. Whether you call it 8:00 PM or 9:00 PM, there is not “extra time” in the day. There are only 24 hours and it is up to us all how to spend it, whether that means getting up early and hitting the office at seven o’clock, or sticking to the regular 9-5 routine and working in the yard a little later.
Observance of DST vs. ST is not a sanctification issue, so let me be clear that this is just my opinion. Ordering your time is a deeper discussion, but that’s not what this ranting post is about.
It screwed me all up. I was out most of the day Saturday and totally forgot. I missed Sunday School.
In addition to my existential arguments, I would add that we likely saving trillions, no googolplexes worth of energy dollars by not having our lights on for those extra hours :0
btw, there’s more Monday morning sarcasm here than anything of real substance. thanks for letting me play fight.
How about we ditch the changes in time and stick with this one? Think of the greatness that would be if in winter it stayed light outside until 6:30pm.
stelmodad: No worries…I know you know…that was for the folks that don’t know I know you, and that you know me, and that we know we’re being somewhat facetious.
As for the energy savings, I think you might be onto something there. I should probably just get up with the sun and go to bed when it sets. That way in winter, when I am largely sedentary due to the lack of winter activities in this cold and yet snowless place called North Georgia, I could force my body into some sort of semi-hibernation in which I could conserve calories and eat less. It would solve my problem with putting on winter weight and because of the extra sleep I would probably get sick a lot less.
Mandy: I’ve thought of that before…just stay on DST forever. But to be truly fair to everyone, I think we need a more elaborate system to adjust for where people live in accordance to the time zone (i.e., East and West longitudes).
Think about it, here in Chatty we are on the western edge of the Eastern time zone. We get long evenings, but the kids are going to the bus stops in pitch darkness! Those folks fifteen minutes west of here in the Central time zone get the exact opposite effect.
My proposal would be a gradient time system based on a combination of Atomic clock radio signals and the Global Position System (GPS). Miss making your bank deposit by the 5:00 deadline? Just haul balls across town and you can get your outstanding checks covered. Think about it…it could work.
Abolishing the public school system would take care of the kids at the bus stop in the dark issue.
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GPS/Atomic time and abolishd public schools are both good plans. The real question is, why hasn’t W called and offered us any cabinet positions? Any problem solved in a matter of hours.
Yeah, thanks, y’all..some of us go to work so early that it is pitch dark. I hate the change. Last week it was light out when I went to work…this week it is like the middle of the night.
Debbie, perhaps you just changed to third shift and didn’t realize
Daylight Savings is stupid.
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