I never remember about the changing the clocks thing; my mom always makes a point of calling me and reminding me that night… and I’m 27 yrs old. This year, for the first time ever, she forgot to remind me (and I spent most of Sat. evening with her) so I woke up on my day off, Sunday, thinking “Aah, it’s 11 am, not too late, not too early… wait, why the hell does the computer say it’s noon? And my digital cable box? But the VCR says 11… so does my clock radio… cell phone says noon… FUCK, forgot to turn the clocks ahead!”
It doesn’t fuck my schedule up that much but thank God it didn’t fall any other day than Sunday or I woulda been late for work.
I dunno. I kinda like DST. It’s like a reminder that warm weather is right around the corner, so I can emerge from my winter hibernation and take the spring/summer clothes out of the space bags under my bed.
It also gives me a chance, albeit a slight one, of actually seeing daylight when I leave work.
Since I hate Winter so much, it gives me great joy to change my clocks. I especially like changing the VCR which now reads "Summer Time ‘In’ " Hurray!!!
All I have to say is that my five-year-old did not accept the start of DST gracefully this year. As far as he was concerned, Daddy was being mean and waking him up a whole hour early for school. I had to literally carry a kicking, screaming child out of bed and to the car. He did end up voluntarily getting out of the car and go into school, but he still wouldn’t speak to me. :rolleyes:
I still don’t know what fucking time it is and it’s driving me fucking nuts! Some of my clocks change automatically; some don’t. Now I don’t remember which ones I changed and which ones I don’t. Alarm? No. Car? Yes. Wait, maybe. Not sure.
GRRRRRRRRRRR :mad:
To make matters worse, my VCR changed, but then changed back, and then changed forward again! (I think ) I thought I got to work early. WRONG.
Only consolation is that I’m not half-as-confused as my wife every 6 months about this whole business (too bad she’s away now )
Skogcat, how does DST cause your curtains to fade more? They’re still exposed to the same amount of light for the same amount of time, no matter what the clocks say.
From what I understand (I actually did a reasearch paper on this once upon a time…I wish I still had the paper), Daylight Saving Time was originally instituted to save energy. The later there was daylight, the less electricity was being used to keep houses lit.
A grand idea…let’s do it year around.
I love Daylight Saving Time. I love it when it doesn’t get dark until after ten.
But the opponents of making Daylight Saving Time the norm year-round say it is an issue of safety. They simply cannot envision a world where people are going to work before light. They simply cannot envision a world where school kids are waiting for the bus before dawn.
However, in my state, sunset is at 4:30 during the winter. So, of course, a large number of kids are walking home from school in the dark and a large number of people are driving home from work in the dark. I guess I’d much rather go to work in the dark (when I’m alert) than drive home after dark (when I’m fatigued from a work day and the roads are twice as packed).
However, my biggest qualm against the “changing of the clocks” has to do with the item that happens to be my biggest pet peeve in the history of the world. I simply cannot stand alarm clocks. I trained myself to get up without one. Therefore, my internal clock is set to wake up at 6 o’clock every morning. It rarely strays more than 10 minutes or so early or late. That gives me two hours to get ready for work.
During the spring, I can usually take the hour change. Getting up at 7 still leaves me an hour, albeit a rushed one. However, during the fall when we set our clocks back, I have to endure getting up at 5 every morning for just about a month before my schedule startes to adjust. Three hourse to kill before work is just too much. By the time it’s time to go to work, I’m ready to take a nap.
I once asked my buddy in Mesa, AZ why they don’t set their clocks back. His response? “It’s 110 degrees at ten o’clock. Why the hell would we want it to be 110 degrees at eleven o’clock?”
I should hate to waste an hour of sunlight sleeping. I don’t want to wake up at 3 AM should I wish to observe the dawn on the solstice, for example. When April comes, I appreciate the nice bright kitchen at my parents’ house at dinner time.
The winter months are cold and dark enough without having to sleep through an hour of sunlight.
I should hate to waste an hour of sunlight sleeping. I don’t want to wake up at 3 AM should I wish to observe the dawn on the solstice, for example. When April comes, I appreciate the nice bright kitchen at my parents’ house at dinner time.
The winter months are cold and dark enough without having to sleep through an hour of sunlight.
Hmm, maybe I should say that I’m okay with DST if we could change the clocks to DST and just LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE AFTER THAT. It’s not the DST that I hate, it’s messing around with the clocks. First we set them ahead, then we set them back, then ahead, then back - my poor internal clock gets so confused and I just don’t like it.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to mess with the clocks in Canada anyway. Our winter days are so short, and summer days so long, that the hour more or less doesn’t make a difference anyway. Back to the example of Saskatchewan where they don’t change the clocks - summer days went on forever, and winter days were short and dark at both ends. I haven’t noticed any change in that since moving to Alberta where we do mess around with the clocks, except that when I’m driving east to work and west from work, it’s a huge pain to go through driving into the sun for a couple of weeks, then do it all over again when the clocks are changed.
Me, like matt I like having it there be light during the time I am NOT at work. Living at latitude 18N, that’s easy for me year-round with no DST . . . but MAN was it depressing in winter when I lived in the North. To show up at the office in the dark… and leave also in the dark?
It sucks, I know. I got up Monday morning to find 12 inches of snow. Arghhhhhhhh. We then got another 6 inches throughout the day Monday. This was capped off by freezing fuckin’ rain Monday night.
I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! I hate Winter! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
It saves massive amounts of energy you morons. Thus staving off global warming, pollution, and your death from breathing the crap that power generators spew into the air. It helps save the world, the environment, and even your worthless lazy ass. So- quit bitchin, stop spreading disinofrmation, and get with the program.
) I thought I got to work early. WRONG.
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