# Daylight Savings Time is bassackwards **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375 "2008-11-05T23:40:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/41 "2008-11-06T19:32:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Kind of like when New Jerseyans were faced with pumping their own gas. “I’ll set myself on fire!” Unfortunately, few actually did so. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/42 "2008-11-06T19:40:13Z")
It’s Daylight _Saving_ Time. No “s.” Do you know any care givings nurses? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/43 "2008-11-06T19:41:51Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > It’s Daylight _Saving_ Time. No “s.” Do you know any care givings nurses? Not enough, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/44 "2008-11-06T19:48:58Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > It’s Daylight _Saving_ Time. No “s.” Do you know any care givings nurses? Jeez, pedantic much? [off topic] Seriously though, is this peculiarity prone only to American English? It is Fred **Meyer** people, not Fred Meyers !! [/ot] ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/45 "2008-11-06T19:50:19Z")
> [@Oregon\_sunshine](#): > > I think that since the time change hit, we are now in the dark both directly before and right after my work hours. ☹ I get up and go to work in the dark…I work in an office with no windows nearby…I go home in the dark. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/46 "2008-11-06T20:57:25Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > Jeez, pedantic much? Just trying to fight ignorance, citizen. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/47 "2008-11-06T21:31:00Z")
> [@mshar253](#): > > Just trying to fight ignorance, citizen. Granted. But it seems like _daylight savings_ is [becoming](http://www.kvewtv.com/news/?sect_rank=1§ion_id=18&story_id=10645) [common](http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/1471/2/) [usage](http://medheadlines.com/2008/11/02/heart-attacks-drop-5-when-daylight-savings-time-ends/). I’m not saying this is a good thing, just something I’ve noticed lately that a lot of terms are getting pluralized for no apparent reason. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/48 "2008-11-06T21:44:27Z")
If it’s saving daylight, I want to know where they keep the extra daylight. Is there a Strategic Daylight Reserve? Will they release the extra daylight when there’s some crisis and we need to work in shifts 24/7? Bah. They ought to name it “Daylight-_Shifting_ Time”. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/49 "2008-11-06T22:08:06Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > … > I(t) could also be achieved by leaving the damned clocks alone and getting school boards and business managers to set intelligent hours. Preach it, Brother!!! Why change the damn clocks for all to gain some nebulous and arguable benefit for some? Mankind invented clocks (and the very concept of measuring time, for that matter) as tools to be used, not rules to be followed. How is it even remotely practical to have a standardised framework of synchronicity and then apply it inconsistently? Just tie the damn clock to the passage of the sun (or the frequency of quartz or the decay of certain isotopes or whatever, I don’t care) and be done with it. If your boss needs you to come in earlier, let it be his problem, not mine. or something like that ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/50 "2008-11-06T22:36:07Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > According to a farmer quoted in **Knorf** ’s post #4 link… What? A new Arkansas Traveler joke? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375/51 "2008-11-07T06:24:05Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > You’d prefer to get up and drive to work in the dark? Now that I think about it . . . At that hour I’d prefer not to have to deal with the horrible, horrible sunlight. “Not a morning person” doesn’t even begin to describe it . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-bassackwards/471375.md?page=2)