Fall Back -- Daylight Savings Time Ending

Gollnick

Gollnick

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It's time to crank back the old El Primero. Don't forget to turn your clock back one hour before turning in this evening and enjoy an extra hour of sleep.
 
Why can't they leave the time alone, I was tired and ready to go to bed, 9:30cst,:yawn: then I need to go reset clocks to 8:30, that is too early for bed.:grumpy: If I go now, am I going to sleep since it is so early?:o Mind Games:mad:
Tell the government to quit messing with the time, get use to it and leave me alone, They don't have to reset 14 clocks twice a year. End of Rant.;)
 
I was sleepy but then I set all my clocks and watches back and now I am wide awake again. See, it works! :)
 
I have about 15-17 clocks & watches to set back an hour, so I'm going to hold off 'till I wake up tomorrow morning to start.
 
Try Botswana, everything is next week! My wife is always late so changing clocks still wouldn't help
 
I just posted in another thread about DST. But I will repeat some of what I stated.

DST is nothing more than a tax on time. When we go on daylight savings time we do not gain another hour but rather we lose an hour. We are all forced to go to bed one hour earlier and forced out of bed an hour earlier. In essence we actually lose one hour of peaceful evening time and add that hour to the morning rush.

Recently they extended the DST again, so I wonder how much longer before they simply make DST year round.

If they have to keep DST why not make it 6 months long. Sept 21st to March 21st should be standard time, and the other six months DST just to make both sides of the time change happy.

I much rather start my day in the daylight and end it with the night. Now as it stands the children are waiting for the school bus with flashlights for most of the year in the mornings, not safe at all concidering most people are still half asleep at the wheel for the morning commute often driving in poor visibility and fighting the frost on their windshields.
 
Bufford said:
Now as it stands the children are waiting for the school bus with flashlights for most of the year in the mornings, not safe at all concidering most people are still half asleep at the wheel for the morning commute often driving in poor visibility and fighting the frost on their windshields.
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Why not just start school -- and work -- an hour later?
 
I leave my vehicle clocks on DST year-round. I find it simple to make the mental adjustment to the correct time, and it seems to drive other people nuts! They constantly want to adjust my clocks for me, but I refuse, telling them that they will be correct again in a few months. Don't know why it bothers people so, but it is fun to do.
 
Gollnick said:
Why not just start school -- and work -- an hour later?
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An hour later, perhaps 2 or 3 would be better. I always try to book doctor apointments, or other important things later on at mid day or afternoon, when people are into their day and more likely to do a better job.

I also find customer service to be better in the afternoons. Some folks are just not with it early in the day.
 
B Bufford i am the opposite! I want to start my day just before sunrise and drive home from work in the daylight. Makes me ferl like i am getting an early start and not working late. Plus driving in traffic after nightfall is even worse round here
 
Talking (again) about putting MA on Atlantic time. I wish we would pick one or the other and stay with it. But for this to happen I think all of New England and maybe more would have to agree.
 
Bufford said:
Recently they extended the DST again, so I wonder how much longer before they simply make DST year round.
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No one wants to be the new Nixon.

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I AM pleased to sign today H.R. 11324, placing the United States on daylight saving time for a period of approximately 2 years, beginning at 2 a.m., Sunday, January 6, 1974.

We have taken a number of actions to meet the energy crisis, and more will have to be taken. Many require inconvenience and sacrifice. But daylight saving time on a year-round basis, which will result in the conservation during the winter months of an estimated equivalent of 150,000 barrels of oil a day, will mean only a minimum of inconvenience and will involve equal participation by all. Unlike many of our other initiatives to deal with the energy crisis and to accomplish the goal of self-sufficiency in energy through Project Independence, these savings will not require research, new technology, diplomacy, or exploration.

I am delighted that the Congress has moved expeditiously in providing this method of helping to meet the energy shortage, and I am hopeful that we might see equally expeditious action on the more complex and far-reaching legislation which we must have to deal with this problem.

I call upon the Congress to complete action before the recess on Responsible bills to provide the energy emergency authorities we need to deal with the problem and to give a statutory base to the Federal Energy Administration to provide the necessary focused leadership.

Note: The President signed the bill in a ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House.
As enacted, H.R. 11324 is Public Law 93-182 (87 Stat. 707).

Citation: Richard Nixon: "Statement on Signing the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.," December 15, 1973. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4073.
 
I remember that. Along about the end of December the sun didn't get above the horizon until almost 8 AM. A lot of parents raised a ruckus because their kids were walking to school in the dark.
 
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