I went to college in Indiana. First 3 years it was standard (“slow”) time all the time and then the last year they passed it.
Freshman year, I had a student ticket to all the football games. I didn’t realize that the “12:30” that was on the schedule was for everyone else in the U.S. (on DST) and not for the Indiana people. As a result, I showed up for the game 12:30 Indiana time (or 1:30 EST), when I should have showed up 11:30 Indiana time. Grrr. :mad:
On the other hand, the fall (of the last year of college after Indiana passed it) semester of college my friends and I did get an extra hour of drinking time. The bars close in Indiana at 3:00 am. Which means that if you go to the bars at, say 11:00 PM, you get 5 hours since the change is from 2:00 am to 1:00 am.
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It should be DST all the time, and anyone who says otherwise must be one of those Morning People. Fuck them.
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I’d actually prefer that we stay on standard time all the time precisely because I’m not a morning person. In early March (on standard time), there’s actually daylight early when I get up for work. Then the hour change hits and it’s more difficult to get up when it’s dark. The extra hour later in the day then makes it doubly difficult because it hasn’t been dark for as long and there’s less of a feeling that you need to get to bed.
Whoa, whoa whoa. The hate is going both ways now. Which side are you hating for? Or are you just joining in the hate, generally, in a Redjack sort of way.
See, this is the problemwith America. We try to solve everything at once and drive people crazy making them have to move the whole hour. We should have started investing Daylight into a 401(k) years ago, and now we could be tanning off of the interest.
Tell you what, Alessan. Why don’t you haul your ass up here and spend a cold sunless morning on this fucking wall of ice before you bitch and moan about DST. I swear, the next grumpkin or snark that I see gets a free pass through the wall so long as they promise to stop by your house first. (I didn’t choose to live up here. I mean when the choice is execution or heading north there really isn’t a choice.)
Meh. Fuck that noise. I love having the extra time after work to take a walk, putter around the garden, etc. I’m not in the mood for any of that first thing in the morning.
Amen! I hate hate HATE having to change all my clocks twice a year. The supposed benefits of DST have never struck me as particularly compelling, either.
We seem to be moving in the direction of lengthening the amount of time we spend on DST (we’re already at the point where we spend most of the year on it) so I say just put us on DST year-round and forget about going back to “standard” time.
There’s also the problem of working in the mornings. Sure, when you spring ahead you work one hour less, but heaven help you if you’re working and have to fall back an hour.
Thankfully I never worked early mornings during a time change, but at one company I use to work for that ran 24/7 I felt bad for those who did. Especially if they had a 10 or 12 hour work day.
Without daylight saving time here, the fucking sun would be rising at 4:14 in the morning in June, and setting at 7:55 P.M. I much prefer 5:14 to 8:55. I can also get 9 holes in after work for a few months longer than standard time.
Funny story about that. Well, maybe an amusing tale. Diverting anecdote? Anyway, in my earlier years I worked at several radio stations, and oftentimes that would include the overnight shift. That made the change into and out of DST interesting. You see, each hour of programming had a page containing the commercial spots slated to run in the breaks during that hour. In the spring, at 2 am you’d turn the clock forward to 3 am … which meant that 2 am page had nowhere to go, as if it was erased from existence! Of course, since it’s 2 freakin’ a.m., there generally weren’t more than one or two spots actually sold in that hour, so it wasn’t a big deal to play an extra spot in the hour before or after.
But in the fall … at 2 am you turn the clocks back to repeat the 1 am hour … and there weren’t any ads to play then at all! An entire hour, commercial free! It would have been sweet, if anyone was actually listening at that time of day …
This, this, a thousand times this.
All I’m doing in the morning is dragging my ass out of bed, getting dressed, and driving to work. I don’t give a rat’s ass whether it’s dark or light when I do this. Then, I’m stuck indoors all day long. It’s when I’m released from my cubicle prison that my day begins, and that’s when I want my daylight, dammit.
The main problem with daylight saving is that it doesn’t go far enough. We need to rearrange our calendar to remove the excessively cold days in December, January and February and also get rid of the excessively hot days in July and August. We will just add them to April, May, September and October so that everyone can enjoy those months some more. I figure if we make all of those months 36 days long, people will have more recreation time, plus we will save tons of money on heating and cooling to boot.
It seems like you’ve both missed something, but mostly you. My point was that, in my friend’s experience, the time change was important to farmers. That argues against the position that we should just stay on DST the whole year round.
For the people arguing that we should be on standard time the whole year round, you are raving lunatics, and arguing against you is pointless. It’d be like trying to convince someone that bathing in water is better than fire.
