Daylight Saving Time Begins This Sunday

We just changed the clocks 3 months ago. DST sucks big time. Where do they get the idea that the evenings are longer? They are not. They are shorter by one hour. When we spring forward, all we are doing is getting up earlier by one hour, and going to bed one hour earlier. So by going to bed one hour earlier how do they think that we are getting a longer evening? It's BS. All DST does is add another hour into the morning rush at the expense of our quiet evening time.

The clock is only a meter to measure time, for many of us rural people we run on the cycles of sunrises and sunsets rather than the lousy clock that has made our lives so mechanical and predictable.
 
I HATE DST. Not only does it mess you up, but part of my state does it and part does not. Then factor in that my city is really the last "major" city in the state just west of the Eastern Time Zone by maybe 50 miles, and you get one seriously messed up schedule half the time. It really sucks for me because my supplier is in Indy and my in-laws are in Louisville. Both of them EST while I'm Central. They should just get rid of the whole thing. It does nothing but goof folks up. It had its place back in the day, but people are run ragged enough without having to mess with their biological clocks every few months.

The one thing that I DO like is that it is earlier now. Before last year, the end of DST coincided with my increased work hours. It was a nightmare. Work for 40 hours a week (easy peasy cakewalk), then in ONE night I would lose an hour of sleep and GAIN 24 hours of weekly worktime. Man, that was rough.

Good news/bad news: I have a self adjusting alarm clock that auto updates to DST and back again...the bad news is that it auto adjusts on the old date, so I STILL have to set the damn thing this saturday night:mad:
 
Are you guys disagreeing with the clocks changing, or being forward?
I'd prefer DST year-round.

IE, it's nice to still have light at 9, 9:30pm in the summer, but winter is dreary enough without it being dark at 4pm, so why not just leave the clocks set forward?
 
DST is just a way for politicians to put in a full day messing up peoples lives & still have time for a round of golf. Pardon me if I sound cynical.
Uplander
 
i've had people tell me it's a good thing because we gain an extra hour every day. i ask them where this 25th hour comes from. why, 'the government added it' they smugly reply. intelligence is a rare and wonderful thing in homo sapiens. poor me, i still seem to only get days with 24 hours in them even with the help of DST.

p.s. - if you want to have light longer after school or work, just arrange them to start an hour early, and leave an hour early. somehow i think orbital mechanics will still provide a 24hr. day no matter what the govt. legislates.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
It had its place back in the day, but people are run ragged enough without having to mess with their biological clocks every few months.
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It didn't even have a place then. It was for FARMERS. All they had to do is get up an hour earlier, not take the rest of the country with them.

Nowadays, it's just flippin' stupid.
 
My dogs don't understand DST and still get me up at the same time every morning even though I've tried to explain it to them. Now, the clock will just say 6:00 instead of 5:00 when they start asking to go out. That's good though, because when I get up at 5:00 I always try to go back to sleep and end up being a zombie.
 
Ugh! I hate DST. I loved living in Arizona and not having to deal with this BS.

Whatever reason it was implemented is no longer valid. I wonder how long the govt. will perpetuate this annoyance?
 
Thank you for the reminder, Eric
 
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