Absolutely. DST is one of God’s greatest inventions. Along with the sun dress, which always seems to follow.
Not only will I take DST all of the time from here on out forever and ever, amen, but the Summer that goes with it. Daffodils running about, puppies blooming, shorts on my feet, sandals on my bum, I love it all.
DST may be a government scam, but it’s one I buy into with all my heart and soul. Yes, I have 6 clocks to change, but I’m happy to do it. And I bet that’s 5 more clocks than the rest of you have to deal with.
It’s Daylight Saving Time. Saving! Not Savings. Saving! What’s up with people insistings on addings an “s” to a perfectly good participle? Am I alone in findings it incredibly annoyings?
Sorry, Unc. “Spring up, fall down” was a bit of a joke. I like to take familiar phrases and tweak them just enough to make the reader get a quizzical expression. Then they assume I’m a smartass or a iggerant hick. Radio Snack, refrigegator, calcubator, and Toasty Toes tortilla chips are routine for me.
I, for one, welcome our daylight manipulationg overlords. I go to work at 6:30am and get out between 4 and 5-ish with a 25 minute drive home. I’ve had this soul- crushing schedule for 13 years with no end in sight.
So see, it’s not a matter of just* liking * and *wanting * to have 4 to 5 hours of daylight to enjoy when I get home at night. It’s a need. Like oxygen, my body and mind have to have it to survive.
Oh, and our IT guy scoffed, as he did before the whole Y2K scare, at the DST alarmists. It will take him an entire 2 seconds to set the system. What a horrible loss of productivity. :rolleyes:
(Sorry if the whole thing messes up others’ IT department, but I don’t care. I need my daylight, dammit!!!) ::::delirious::::
I just want to stick with one way of time; I don’t care if it’s DST or standard, just as long as I don’t have to deal with jumping forward an hour. Ugh.
(Besides, it’s not a participle; it’s a gerund. What’s up with people who go around calling gerunds (present) participles? Am I the only one who stays up awake all night when people do this?)
I don’t mind going to work when it’s dark, but I hate coming home when it’s dark. I only want to have a few hours of sunlight to the things I want to do in the evening after work. I’d be down for DST all year and DOUBLE DST in the summer.
Yeah, you people think you have it rough. You have to change your clocks, but you’re still getting up at 6 am regardless of whether it’s light or dark outside.
I live in Arizona, so DST isn’t observed here, but I work for a national company that operates on Central Time. My clocks don’t change, but my office’s clocks do, which means that next week I’ll need to start waking up at 6:15 instead of 7:15 to get to work on time. That’ll ruin my schedule for a month until I get my body to adjust.
I actually typed gerund, and then decided that it wasn’t a gerund, because it’s not a noun. If it were called “Time for the Saving of Daylight” then sure, it’s a gerund, but in the phrase “Daylight Saving Time”, “saving” is an adjective and therefore a present participle.
But then such Latin concepts can be ambiguous when applied to English, so I won’t guarantee that I’m correct!
It give you an extra hour of sunlight after work to do all the fun stuff of summer with your family and friends. What do you non DSTer’s do? Go home, shut your blinds, turn on your TV and computers and count the hours till you have to go back to work again? You hate DST because it takes 5 minutes to set the 5 clocks in your house/car? A small price to pay. You can have my DST when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. Viva DST!!
In my experience, most of the people who kvetch about DST (or British Summer Time, as it is called here), when questioned, are actually in favour of keeping it all year round. It’s the change back to standard time, with darker evenings in the autumn, that they moan about!
(I’m with them on this aspect, actually, as I start work late and finish late. More sun in the evening, please!)
Might I suggest a compromise? Set your clock ahead by a half hour now and leave it forever. That way you’ll only be a half hour late this Summer and a half hour early in the Winter and on average you’ll be on time.
My other plan is to change the time by 1 minute a day for 60 days, leave it for the summer and start adjusting it back 60 days prior to the autumnal DST changeover. That way the change is much more subtle and that would eliminate the major complaint about DST.
I can’t opt out, but I am going to Rosarito Beach a week from tomorrow, and, since Mexico is presumably not participating in this, I’ll be opting out for the three days I am there.
Imagine: having to reset my watch because I’m entering Baja!
