Yeah, that’s right. I’m adding Daylight Savings Time to the ever-growing list of things I am opting out of (i.e. team-building exercises at work, lesser holidays, and most family gatherings). The naysayers proclaim I will be out-of-synch with everyone else, but I say screw it. I march to the beat of my own goddamned drummer anyways. I’m not going to go out and protest DST (like I did with Groundhog day - and I tip my hat to my local ABC affiliate for “covering” my “activities” in “Punxsutawney”). This is more a case of passive resistance. Without the damn dirty hippies, I mean.
So. What do you say? Care to join me? You’ll be an hour early everywhere you go, and who doesn’t like being early?
Well the whole thing was an obvious scam from the start. You can’t create more daylight by changing your clock. It just means that you get up earlier and go to bed earlier. I think it was Flaubert who said something to the effect that late to bed and late to rise is just as productive as what Franklin advised.
But then, I have a job where they use clocks, so I regrettably can’t join you.
(It is nice of MS, though, that Windows will check with you before changing to or from Daylight “Saving” Time.)
I’m in IT, so my pain (caused by DST) is acute. I’ve taken steps to circumvent the entire sordid affair, from a technology standpoint, though. I’ve ordered 500 Etch-a-Sketches, and 500 desk blotter-type calanders. I think we’ll be ok. I’m going to shut down the exchange server at 8:00 this evening, and throw the keys into the mighty Atlantic.
Certainly. But just so as not to lose any geek cred. I am fully capable of changing the time on my VCR. It’s just that I am too lazy to do so. I’ll save the reason for why the time is always wrong on my answering maching for a different day.
But while we are on the subject, doesn’t anyone care to 'splain to me why the US Congress saw fit to change the DST dates this year?
Either use Daylight Savings Time year-round or get rid of it entirely. I don’t care which, I’m just sick and f—ing tired of changing all my clocks and watches twice a year.
Hell no, I’m not in. I yearn for that extra hour of sweet, sweet sunshine every Winter and early Spring. It’s almost like Christmas, that first day when I come home in the evening and still have that glorious sun high in the sky. I LOVE DST.
I always get confused with this, but I think it’s the other way around. If you opt out of daylight saving time, in winter you’ll be on time, and in summer you’ll be one hour late.
More power to ya, Winston Smith. Keep in mind, though, you’ll be rebelling against DST for only part of the year. The rest of the year, you’ll be marching along, in step with everybody else. Maybe you could choose to be 18 minutes out, so you’d never be aligned with anybody.
Yes, the “spring up, fall down” routine is a semi-annual hassle, but opting out is not as easy as it looks. I’m a Hoosier, so I know.
