# Daylight Savings **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488 "2015-03-08T01:06:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/1 "2015-03-08T01:06:42Z")
Isn’t anyone going to talk about the time change tonight? How they like it or hate it, how it’s worthwhile or worthless? I apologize if there is already a thread. I tried searching a couple of times, but each search froze my computer so I gave up. I have few clocks that I have to manually change any more, but I still don’t like it. Pick Daylight Savings or pick Standard, and stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/2 "2015-03-08T01:12:23Z")
Umm… Ok I’ll vote. Keep ‘Daylight savings’ year round. I get up at 5am and go to work. Don’t need light for that. It’s always dark when I go to work. Standard time or Daylight saving. I much prefer having extra light when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/3 "2015-03-08T01:14:38Z")
Now you’ve done it. You’ve opened one of the biggest (if not _the_ biggest) can of worms on the board. The subject of literally _hundreds_ of threads with thousands of posts. Forgetting insulting cat owners or discussing whether the toilet paper should go over the top or not, this is _the_ controversial one. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/4 "2015-03-08T01:20:12Z")
It’s bittersweet for me. I do like the extra light that we’re going to get in the evening. But it takes me about a week to adjust to the lost hour of sleep! Also, when Day Lights Saving Day comes, I’m reminded of how fast the year is moving…which always kind of makes me feel unaccomplished. And soon I’ll have to start dealing with the headaches of spring. Like those damn ants and yellow pollen dust everywhere. And inchworms in my hair. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/5 "2015-03-08T01:26:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Now you’ve done it. You’ve opened one of the biggest (if not _the_ biggest) can of worms on the board. The subject of literally _hundreds_ of threads with thousands of posts. Forgetting insulting cat owners or discussing whether the toilet paper should go over the top or not, this is _the_ controversial one. Yes, I know. 🙂 That’s why I was surprised no one had started a thread! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/6 "2015-03-08T01:53:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Now you’ve done it. You’ve opened one of the biggest (if not _the_ biggest) can of worms on the board. . . . Oh, pish-tush. The “.999…” debate puts it to shame. Heck, even “Star Trek Transporters” is worse. Personally, I kind of like the pseudo-ritual in adjusting the clocks. It’s a kind of pervasive, yet low-impact National Holiday. It reminds us that we’re in charge here. We may not, as King Canute was not, be able to compel the tide not to flow, but we can tell the sun to rise an hour later than it did yesterday. In Roman and medieval times, there was a certain fixed number of hours in the day. In summertime, the hours were longer; in winter, shorter. We’ve been playing pretty much the same game for millennia! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/7 "2015-03-08T02:01:02Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Umm… Ok I’ll vote. Keep ‘Daylight savings’ year round. I get up at 5am and go to work. Don’t need light for that. Screw that: getting up in the morning is hard enough. Having to do so when it’s dark just makes it worse. Why can’t they fix it so that we get an extra hour of daylight in the morning _and_ in the evening, in exchange for an hour of darkness in the middle of the day when I’m indoors working? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/8 "2015-03-08T02:13:22Z")
Thailand does not change its clocks. But I have fond memories back stateside of working the graveyard shift and getting an extra hour’s pay when the clocks changed (never mind losing an hour’s pay six months later) and of the bars staying open an hour later (never mind they close an hour earlier six months later). ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/9 "2015-03-08T02:18:51Z")
I like it. To me I says, “Yeah, the past 4 months have really sucked, but spring is on the way” ---
**Author:** ![Recusant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Recusant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recusant)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/10 "2015-03-08T02:30:45Z")
Point of order: it’s _Saving_, not _Savings_. If you’re going to advocate a system that “saves” energy by consuming more it, at least have the decency to call it by the correct name, congressman. > [@Trinopus](#): > > It reminds us that we’re in charge here. We may not, as King Canute was not, be able to compel the tide not to flow, but we can tell the sun to rise an hour later than it did yesterday. Well, no. You’re exactly like Canute: you shout and yell and bellow and roar and expect the natural world to bow to your will; it just laughs at you. The sun does not rise one hour earlier; it rises when it always does. You simply spend half the year lying about the time it does so. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/11 "2015-03-08T02:40:58Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > I like it. To me I says, “Yeah, the past 4 months have really sucked, but spring is on the way” So much this. So, so much this. I’m getting really tired of these semi-annual bitchings about a one hour clock change, like it’s the end of the world. It’s one fucking hour. Do you never stay up an extra hour? Do you never go to bed an hour earlier? Jesus people. One single hour is such a non-event. Go to bed at 10:00 tonight instead of 11:00 and shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/12 "2015-03-08T02:55:04Z")
Damn it! I wanted to post the first “there is no s” response! Oh well, first on “we don’t celebrate it in Arizona because an extra hour of sunlight would ruin the crops” and “some Amish congregations observe it while others don’t, so in some neighborhoods you can zig zag through time walking from block to block.” I’ll be sure to place my watch next to my phone so I know what time it really is in case my smart phone stupidly adjusts itself. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/13 "2015-03-08T03:40:32Z")
To my fortune I am now located below the latitude of the Tropic of Cancer, which makes DST more hassle than it’s worth, and when some sad misguidance led to it being passed here, more practical types promptly took care of getting rid of it before it could take effect. UTC minus 4 year-round, babe. However, where the difference in the length of the day is much more significant, I can get behind DST – but where it is used in the US I would advocate taking it back to the pre-2006 (start of April-end of October) or even the pre-1986 (end of April-end of October) span. I may favor DST but it’s currently overextended IMO; it’s supposed to be “Spring forward”, not “late winter forward”. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/14 "2015-03-08T03:49:53Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Damn it! I wanted to post the first “there is no s” response! > > Oh well, first on “we don’t celebrate it in Arizona because an extra hour of sunlight would ruin the crops” and “some Amish congregations observe it while others don’t, so in some neighborhoods you can zig zag through time walking from block to block.” > > I’ll be sure to place my watch next to my phone so I know what time it really is in case my smart phone stupidly adjusts itself. Yeah, I live in Arizona, so I get to amuse myself listening to other people bitch about DST. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/15 "2015-03-08T03:51:38Z")
How did I not know that this was tonight? If it wasn’t for this thread I might have spent tomorrow not knowing what time it was and then been late for work on Monday. (Okay, I _probably_ would have figured it out before then.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/16 "2015-03-08T03:51:53Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > … I may favor DST but it’s currently overextended IMO; it’s supposed to be “Spring forward”, not “late winter forward”. Now this, I can get behind, because it robs me of daylight in the early morning driving to work. Still, I like my evenings to be filled with sunlight. ---
**Author:** ![BuzzSaw101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@BuzzSaw101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuzzSaw101)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/17 "2015-03-08T04:59:05Z")
I love it when the clocks change in the spring. I work second shift and the sun shines right in my eyes on my drive to work between 5 and 5:30 p.m. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/18 "2015-03-08T05:07:16Z")
When I was a kid we had two clocks in the house and I really didn’t mind it much. Now there are like 16 things I have to reset and it will take about an hour out of my life. I don’t care which damn one we use JUST PICK ONE DAMMIT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/19 "2015-03-08T05:11:22Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Thailand does not change its clocks. But I have fond memories back stateside of working the graveyard shift and getting an extra hour’s pay when the clocks changed (never mind losing an hour’s pay six months later) and of the bars staying open an hour later (never mind they close an hour earlier six months later). When I used to go to bars, they never stayed open an extra hour (which would have been in the fall, BTW). Maybe it’s a state law sort of thing. But the clock hits 2:00 before it moves back an hour, and that’s that, no extra hour. They did, of course, have to close early on Spring forward. I felt cheated. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488/20 "2015-03-08T05:41:35Z")
I’m with the “Just pick one” group. What the ever loving hell are we accomplishing here? Who wants to come to my house for the next two weeks and get my kids out of bed and ready for school an hour early? 'Cause school days are super awesome in the first place. Just pick one!!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings/714488.md?page=2)