It probably had some practical purpose in times past, but nowadays it seems just to confuse people and get in the way. Nobody even knows why we do it anymore, they just do it because the rest of the world does.
So anyways, today I got home from a holiday visit with my relatives and noticed the clock on my bedroom wall was about an hour earlier than I had expected, and promptly remembered how I never bothered to reset it after we entered Daylight Saving Time. Feeling particularly defiant (lazy), I decided to make a statement by leaving it that way. DST just confuses people and seems to have little if any point.
First of all, if there’s any daylight saving to be done, it ought to be done in the winter. In the summertime we have an abundancy of sunlight, what with the way the Earth’s tilt and all. The rationale is that we have an extra hour of sunlight on those beautiful summer evenings, but I say there are better solutions than getting up an hour early every morning. If we want to lay claim to those beautiful summer evenings, it makes more sense to move out of the way what’s there and just let work/school out an hour early. Normally, school is out of session during most of the summertime and a good chunk of the spring anyway. And we don’t need to be doing all the work we currently do – studies show about 1-2% of the work currently done is necessary to sustain a comfortable life for the world’s population.
Anywho, whether out of sheer laze or an unsuccessful attempt to change some minor aspect of society, my clock currently reads 4:35 instead of 5:35.
Well, obviously not the rest of the world. Equatorial countries don’t do it so much because they’ve got plenty of daylight, and there are even areas in the U.S. that don’t do it (east Indiana, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, etc.). But that people generally do it because the rest of their communities do was the point.
I’m not lazy, at least, not when it comes to setting clocks, but I also hate DST. This may have something to do with the fact that I like the night, though.
I don’t believe in it either, and I oh-so-defiantly didn’t change my clocks either.
Okay, so my area doesn’t have DST. It’s just not proper to have a Daylight Saving Time thread without some resident of Hawaii/Arizona/Indiana posting, IMO.
It used to bother me. The change in the fall comes as it’s getting darker sooner anyway, so it’s a drag to suddenly have it be nighttime when you leave work.
OTOH, it seems like it would be a pity to get rid of it now that most computers and appliances have learned to update themselves (I noticed my car’s clock did that).
I live in Indiana where most of us are rebels at heart and have decided to dispense with DST. The only holdouts here are the counties close to Chicago and Louisville who feel the need to comply with the majority because it would be just to confusing to do otherwise.
I can testify that the world as we know it did not cease when we did not spring forward and fall back.
Now if we can only get the rest of you lemmings on the stick!
My digital watch currently reads 18:02…an attempt to change the time that went horribly wrong. Clearly, my watch has also opted to disbelieve DST. And 12-hour clocks, too.
For the eight millionth time, DST is good because it doesn’t waste daylight hours by having people be asleep during them, and makes it so we can enjoy them in the afternoon. Since this is not a consideration for farmers, areas in temperate latitudes with no DST tend to be areas with lots of farmers, such as rural Indiana and Saskatchewan.
We save an hour’s worth of electricity in the evening…just so that we can waste it in the dark of the morning. Sounds like a brilliant plan. Plus, everyone knows that getting up in the dark is great. :rolleyes: It probably wouldn’t be as bad if they moved the start of it back to May, and the end of it up to September. That would sigificantly cut back on the number of people who have to get up in the dark in the morning. Getting up in the dark makes me irritable, it’s cruel and unnatural…aren’t there laws agaist that?
I’m from Indiana, and I hate daylight savings. I’ve never farmed anything anywhere. I have a black thumb and cannot keep a plant alive.
I work nights, and sleep in the day, it is awkward to work nights when the sun is up until 9pm.
