>Meep meep<
I’ll admit it.
I do not know DST from non-DST. I know spring forward, fall back. That’s it. Good night.
Honk… I don’t see any problem with it!
Hell, might as well enjoy all the daylight we can until climate change destroys all of humanity.
butbutbutbut…GOD’S TIME…butbutbutbut…
The DST system is awesome. Without it, here in Chicago in June the sun would be rising at 4:15. Keep the + 1 hour to force us into DST the whole time and in December, the sun wouldn’t rise until just after 8 am. It’s the best solution for our situation.
HONK!
I swear, this is one of the few topics that could potentially move me to violence.
The only think I don’t like is DST beginning in March rather than April. We’re ju-u-u-u-u-ust starting to get some daylight at the time I go out to run, and now we get plunged back into darkness for another month or so.
I love Daylight Savings time. I miss evenings outside during the long dark winters.
I hate DST with a passion. Especially the fact that there is a different rule in every country. Yes, Microsoft’s TimeZone machinery in later OSs makes it easier to deal with it, but it is still a huge PITA when you store and display tick financial data for various international and US markets and the program needs to be localized internationally.
AFAIR reading, there is no, nada, zilch economic benefit to having DST. Just get rid of it already.
I don’t mind it. Personally, I wish we had “daylight saving” time all year round. But, shrug: it works.
This year, it happens in the middle of a convention that I’m involved in organizing. I just KNOW that people are going to show up late for Sunday events! But it’s a small price to pay.
Meep meep.
The whole system seems reasonable.
An alternative would be to just shorten the work day in the winter and lengthen it in the summer. Nah, forget I said that.
There’s a petition (The White House) asking for its elimination. Currently, it has 96,000+ signatures (including mine).
So, in 2006 you felt it should be extended?
I also want to point out the irony that since 1987 we are on “standard” time less than 50 percent of the time.
I meant to say it has 96000+ signatures to go before it’s considered.
Yup. Exactly.
I was thrilled when I found out.
Summertime squee!
No honk. According to http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2013/03/07/lets-not-spring-forward/ DST increases heart attacks and accidents and does not even save any energy. It is a huge hassle for those of us who deal with a dozen or more devices with clocks in them, especially given that Congress changes the rules so that automatic systems go through six changes a year instead of two.
Thailand does not change its clocks, but I have fond memories of time changes in the US. Once a year, the bars could stay open an extra hour, which was always fun. (Never mind that they had to lose an hour the other time.) And working graveyard shift like I did in my youth, I either received an extra hour’s pay or worked an hour less. This may not sound like a lot, but it really is good memories.
The only thing I don’t like is that they changed the dates for the change. Should have just left them alone.
I admit I’m not terribly fond of the degree to which DST was extended, but I do like it. I live in a location where, in the peak of Summer, PST would have the sun up at like 4:30am, and contrariwise in the midwinter on PDT the sun wouldn’t be up until something like 8:30am. Switching time works well for me. I know in terms of nationwide safety and productivity, it’s a mixed bag. But it’s traditional and I like it.
I do find the biannual bitch-fest about PDT quite tiresome, I must say. It’s not going away, folks.