But where else can you not buy beer in a grocery store, but purchase strip teases at a drive through?
Drapes will make it even darker in the morning than it already is.
I lived in Hawaii my first 25 years, so I regard DST as entirely unnecessary. I can’t wrap my head around how adjusting clocks twice a year is preferable to never ever fucking touching them ever again. If it was a two hour swing, then maybe it’d be worth it. You can actually do something out of your routine with two hours. But one hour forward in the spring is only good for making me tired on days like today, and one hour back in the fall is only good for pissing away on video games or TV or sleeping.
This is all very ironic, because Daylight Savings Time was originally known as Pittsburgh Savings Time.
Seriously: back in the 1700s, the famous pioneer Walter Elias Pittsburgh founded the city that bears his name by using time stolen outright from the French and Indians. Later, this missing time was restored to France as part of the Louisiana Purchase (though the Indians remain shafted to this day, fortunately; otherwise you’d have to turn your clocks forward an extra half-hour each spring).
However, in the interim, the city of Pittsburgh had grown to the thriving metropolis known today as “America’s Keyhole” by ruthlessly exploiting this looted time. It therefore became necessary for Congress to address this chronological deficit through judicious legislation (in the words of U.S. Senator Philander Chase Knox), “lest the space-time continuum be rent asunder.”
Were it not for this biannual adjustment, the city of Pittsburgh would disappear entirely into a time vortex, traveling hundreds of years back into the past; which would screw the present up irrevocably, because you just know they’d be heedlessly tramping on butterflies and killing grandparents and all kinds of crap like that. Nobody’s happy about this arrangement, but there you go: life isn’t fair.
Meet ya there. I’ll be moving out there over the summer
Woooo Hooooo MST all year round
Well, sort of. Sometimes it’s Mountain; sometimes its Pacific. But it never leaps or falls. That’s what’s important.
Except it is a pain because all the radio and cable shows shift which plays havoc with the DVR…
Ok, we’re totally doing a Phoenix gathering.
Ooooohhh, you’re one of those people. Isn’t it annoying how nothing is open at 5:00 am? 
I like DTS very much, and honestly the change never particularly bothers me. Mostly I like it because 1) in the fall, it means I get extra sleep and 2) in the spring, it means the days are getting longer, there’s light later in the evening, and that means summer is around the corner. Moving stuff around so that DST takes up more of the year I don’t care about; certainly I see no need for that recent change.
Lastly, I think people who whinge about DST are kinda pathetic.
Since Knox was never Vice President, or even the President pro tem, I find it difficult to accept the assertion that he ever concerned himself overmuch with the integrity of the space-time continuum.
If I want Mr. Neville to have income, I am. One of the drawbacks to being a professional astronomer, as he is, is that there are at least 200 applications for every job (not exaggerating here) and there aren’t that many jobs. You don’t get to pick where you’re going to live in his field, and he doubts he’s qualified to do anything else. We were actually about as picky as you can be- we weren’t willing to consider any job that wasn’t in or near a major city with a sizable Jewish population.
I think this happened yesterday. It started out as Monday, but I was pretty sure it was at least Tuesday by the end of it…
It happens on a weekend! Those things are what weekends are for.
Exactly
Last one there buys the beer!
Yeah. It’s gonna suck for me when Arizona is on Pacific Time, 'cuz my current 8:15am meeting on Tuesdays will be at 6:15 am. Yikes!
I’m in.
God damn mother fucking getting up early crap. Fuck, I get up, drink two cups of coffee as quickly as I can, clean up and rush to get to work and I’m still not really awake even though I’ve been at work over an hour crap I need more coffee.
That’s one of the things I miss about The States: 24h supermarkets.
I wish we’d stay on “summer time” year-round. And having different time-shift calendars in different countries is even more stupid than having different electric plugs. After all, if we all went to the same electric plug we’d have to redo the wiring in all those buildings… no rewiring needs to be done if we ever stop doing cartwheels with the watch and calendar.
Anne, I love your having one mol of clocks. Will Mr. Neville be very angry if I hereby declare I’m in love with you? Platonically, of course.
Tired. Still having trouble falling asleep at a reasonable hour. Need caffeine.
And rabid mountain lions. Don’t forget the rabid mountain lions.
Although, if you get to pick whether you will deal with a rabid mountain lion or stand between me and the coffee maker for the couple of days after DST starts, you should probably pick the mountain lion.
I doubt it 
Every time we set the clocks, I feel like I’m living in the Futurama episode where they travel back in time to Roswell in 1947, when they have all the clocks around after they’ve travelled in time. And every damn one of the clocks needs to be set. In fact, I remember my parents having a cat clock in our bathroom that was like the one you see in that episode.
I didn’t mind the change in the spring as much back when it actually did mean that summer was coming soon. But with the new date, it doesn’t.
Also, back when we changed the clocks in April, I wasn’t getting up when it’s dark. Now I am. I don’t like getting up when it’s dark. Dark is God’s way of telling you that it’s too damn early to wake up and you should go back to bed until some civilized hour.
Yes.
In the summer, it doesn’t get dark here until 10pm - who needs that much light?!
Maybe we need latitude based time zones as well as longitutde…
Come here to AZ we don’t observe it. However we have one request, stop fucking with our TV schedules please, I don’t care if you outnumber us, it’s YOUR GUYS’ turn to be subjected toa completely messed up schedule, some stations that adjust and some stations that don’t adjust just around here (not that I really watch TV much anymore but still).
I miss DST, a lot. Nothing sucks more than waking up at 5:00 in the fucking morning because the sun looks like 7:30 or so, which is my normal wake up time. It’s bright out for what feels like half the bloody day before any reasonable person has to get up, and there’s no light in the afternoon when you’d like to be able to do something. Having no Daylight Savings Time at this latitude licks sweaty camel choad.
I hate driving home from work in the dark. I think daylight savings time should be the all-year-round standard time.
I have a somewhat uncommon position. I live in Arizona, but my job is based off Central time. None of our clocks change when DST, but our schedules do, so instead of getting to work at 6:30 am I get there at 5:30 am. This has the interesting consequence of putting me notably out of sync with the 9-5 world. Traffic is light when I go to and leave work, and I eat lunch around 10:30-11:00, before the lunch hour hits. No lines, no traffic.
I like DST. 