Some of us who don’t like changing our clocks would like to have DST year-round. Then we wouldn’t have the sun coming up too early in the morning, and we wouldn’t have those late fall and winter days when the sun sets at 4pm, and we wouldn’t have to change our clocks.
It would be kind of depressing having to get up when it’s dark, but I think it’s much more depressing when it gets dark before I get to go home from work.
It’s the switching every six months that keeps you on your toes. You don’t realize how much more on top of things you are, because you’re always ready to handle a change in the time at a moment’s notice. That’s how we beat the commies.
Or else you just feel dumb, because you realize you’ve forgotten how to set the clock in your car (again). :smack:
Yes.
Dumb, but on your toes.
Kinda makes me glad Queensland doesn’t have DST, either.
Problem is, neighbouring NSW does, which causes a lot of problems in the border areas as people forget to show up for work on time, and it’s very annoying when I need to call Sydney or Melbourne or wherever and discover everyone’s gone home at 4pm…
In the winter Scotland has little daylight to save. In summer you have so much you don’t need to save. 
During WWII Britain was on Double British Summer Time which was 2 hours ahead.
I’m in Indiana and while I’m not real happy about the new changes I am looking forward to all the resulting confusion it will cause. 
I’ve been involved in converations about this at work for weeks now. Everytime there is at least one person who absolutely does not get it. Watching the looks on their faces when you try and it explain it is priceless. Especially if you purposely explain it in such a way that they go away more confused than when you started.
Clueless co-worker: So…I have to get up an hour earlier now???
Me: well…if you have always gotten up at 6am, your clock will still say 6am when you wake up, it’s just that what is now 6am used to be 5am, before the spring forward thing.
CC-W: 
so…I’m actually going to get an extra hour of sleep! I mean, if it’s really 5am and my clock says 6am, I’m coming out ahead.
Me: No, that first night your actually losing an hour of sleep.
CC-W:
Sometimes living in Hick Town USA can be fun.
My only gripe with DST is that they carry out the switches in the middle of the nght, when I can’t get any benefit out of it. What they need to do is set the “spring forward” bit to a Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., and the “fall back” a Monday morning at about 0600.
Then you can explain to them how everything you gained in spring is lost in fall. Then you can explain to them (and me) why you even bothered in the first place.
I don’t care if we go with DST or the other, regular time. In summer here, it doesn’t make one bit of difference, when the sun rises at 4 am and sets at 10 pm. It actually doesn’t make any difference in the winter, either - you go to work and back in the dark any way you cut it.
Sorry, that was for Stillwell Angel.
I’m glad you brought that up, I hadn’t thought about the prospect of messing with their minds again when we fall back. Bi-annual torture, YAY!
For what it’s worth I don’t get the reasoning behind it either. I have lived all of my 37 years here with time standing still and I don’t see how it makes us different than anywhere else.
My 62 year old supervisor is more concerned with the fact that she doesn’t even know how to reset her digital clock when the power goes off, let alone how to change the time on it. :smack:
Disclaimer: That was not a slam on her age, she is just very old school, as in “I don’t know nothin 'bout birthing no babies or 'lectronic gadgets!”
Wow sorry, I thought I was decreasing the font size, didn’t mean to yell :smack:
Really, ya Hoosiers, it ain’t rocket surgery. The rest of the country (and most of the world) deals with it just fine. Indiana will not collapse.
You’ll thank us when you go out for ice cream at 8:45, when it’s still light out.
You’ll thank us even more on October 29th when you get one more hour of sitting on the sofa scratching your balls time.
My husband may benifit from this. For me it’s just another hour of watching him scratch his balls. My nether regions rarely require scratching; and never an hour’s worth.
Okay, I’m confused. Here in Saskatchewan we don’t hold with that clock-fiddling DST bullshit either, and it’s light out long past 8:45 for most of the summer. Help me out here.
Its simple. Not everyone has Santa Clause for a neighbor. The daylight time swings aren’t nearly as extreme as you move South.
And you are explaining daylight savings?
Well I told you they walk away more confused after talking to me about it!
Or East within your time zone. Here in MA we pretty much get dark by 8:30 in midsummer. Without DST it would be 7:30, and I don’t think I could live with that. I’d have to put some hurtin’ on the Earth’s rotation.