to abolish Daylight Savings Time
http://www.standardtime.com/
And why is it i cannot remember going a whole year (1973) without switching clocks? (I was 15 - I should remember)
Judging from their Illuminated Site of the Day sticker, people aren’t taking them very seriously. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
I want to start a movement to have Daylight Saving Time all year long. I mean that seriously. Daylight Saving time is superior to Standard Time in most ways. It helps people with seasonal effective disorders, gives people time to do things outside after work in the winter, and saves energy. That is why the Daylight Saving Time bill effective next year got passed so easily. Going off Daylight Saving time is idiotic. Just when we need later daylight the most, they take away an hour of it.
Maybe those people just hate changing clocks and I can get them aboard my plan.
the only Bill i found when I googled, is an Indiana State legistature bill that passed t bring the entire state in line withthe rest of the country (except ?Arizona? (or maybe New Mexico) which has never acknowledged DST)
I was lead to believe, in a conversation with a coworker, that a Bill has passed to abolish DST nationwide
But I agree with you, DST is a good thing; but as far as changing clocks, they’re not really taking the hour away, they’re putting it where we need it - in the morning, so when we drive to work, groggy and coffee-less, we can see where we’re going.
Imagine late November, in your scenerio - sure it’s light until 5:30-6:00pm - but still very dark at 7:00am when most folks are starting their work/school day - not a pretty picture
Are there any daylight savings time fetish sites?
A simple yes or no will do.
Exactly - which is why it only lasted a year. I distinctly remember it and I was only 15, too, but maybe it’s becuase I lived in an area where kids were trying to get to school on ice-slicked roads…in the dark.
I don’t understand how it saves energy, either - once the sun goes down my air conditioner works half as hard. If the time between sunset and bedtime was an hour less per day, how is that saving energy? Can someone explain it to me?
I hate DST, but I have absolutely no illusions that it will ever go away - too many people think it makes them money.
I don’t know. I don’t care to check.
But one thing I believe: If you can think of it, someone will masturbate to it.
You are confused on all counts. DST adds an hour of daylight at the end of the day where it rightfully belongs. It gets dark at 4:00 pm here in Boston on the first day of winter and that is a travesty. Who cares if it is dark at 9:00 am? Who is awake then anyway? (Honest question. I have no idea).
The Daylight Saving Time change was a big story a couple of months ago. It passed and now we will have an extra month of DST next year. The only drawback is that we will be out of whack with the rest of the world for 4 weeks a year. Screw’m. This is a better way and they should adopt it too if they don’t want to appear stupid.
Finally!! Someone who agrees with me!
Daylight savings time should be abolished!!! It’s bad enough having artificially measured “time” without it changing twice a year! Arrggghhh!
If the Commies took over the country and dictated “All Americans will get up and go to work one hour earlier during the summertime. No exceptions.” why, we’d be up in arms! Blood would run in the streets! “No Commie gonna tell me when I have to get up and when I have to go to work!” we would yell from our bunkers. But yet, that’s just what our government tells us right now. I say if that extra hour of sunlight is soooo important to you, then YOU can darn well wake up an hour earlier and go into work. Me, I’m sticking with Standard Time. Don’t drag me into your totalitarian control fetish fantasy
Ya scurvy Daylight Saving loving bilge rats.
I found out about these people a few years ago, when I wrote a jokey “DST is stupid” column in college. And I do think we should get rid of it. I know time is relative, but somehow this notion that we can magically change time by an act of legislature gives me the chills, it’s almost Frankensteinian ‘tampering in god’s domain.’
Congress, ever on the cutting edge of stupid, recently proposed EXTENDING Daylight Saving Time instead of eliminating it. It figures.
I’m on board with your plan. I don’t care which way we go, just stop messing around with the clocks! I lived the first 24 years of my life without changing the clocks twice a year, and I can assure you, it makes no difference whatsoever. Well, except the rate of accidents doesn’t peak twice a year. You don’t gain anything at one end that you don’t lose at the other.
ABOLISH CLOCK-CHANGING NOW!!!
Daylight Savings Time? What is that?
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What is this Daylight Savings Time of which you speak? The only time I have to reset the clocks is when the power goes off.
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Preach it, brother GIGObuster
Shit, give me a triple shot. I’ll get up when it’s blacker than a tax collector’s heart if it means I’ll have hours of precious, glorious daylight after the masters release me from my cage at 5PM. And I mean that for the entire year. I hate winter light. Hate driving to work in the dark, and driving back in the dark. Skew it, already.
I’m all for abolishing Daylight Savings Time. Although, if we extend it year-round, then we’ll have effectively accomplished the same thing. So count me in for that plan.
Another benifit: There won’t be two days in the year when huge numbers of people are an hour late or an hour early.
You do realize that every single child in america is in school by 9AM, and has been for at least an hour, right? (I’m pretty sure, I don’t think there are any school districts that start the day as late as 9). Not that I disagree with you.
I don’t see what the big deal about kids going to school in the dark is, anyway. It’s early, it’s cold, there’s ice, and you’re surrounded by stoopid sleepy peope driving cars. The clock-change does nothing to alleviate those problems.
Not the whole district, but the primary school in my town (k-5) starts at nine. Has for at least eighteen years.
As for DST, making it year round sounds good to me too.
Back when I was a member of the Walking Dead, I drove to work in the winter’s dark and drove home in it too.
I never saw what the outside of my house looked like in the winter except on weekends, until spring.
It is a very weird thing.
- . . now I remember. I was living in Utah that year, going to school in the seventh grade. I remember walking the couple of miles to school, on ice and snow, in pitch dark. The school was supposed to issue all the kids reflective stickers to wear; by the time they did it was Spring.
Arizona still doesn’t do DST (and incidentally, it’s “Daylight Saving Time”, not "Daylight Savings Time). If you travel north from Arizona to Utah in the summer, you have to reset your watch.