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2016 Daylight Savings Time - This Weekend!!!!

Dragonfly

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In most of the USofA this weekend is the Spring Forward event so many of us cherish.

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More usable daylight in the evening, darker later in the morning making sleeping in on the weekends a little easier.

Symbolic end to winter. Clear sign that spring is fast approaching.

How I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE daylight saving time.

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Time change, daylight savings time... another relic we cannot seem to move away from. :roll:
 
OrphanSlug said:
Time change, daylight savings time... another relic we cannot seem to move away from. :roll:
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I'm fine with not moving the clocks back and forth, just as long as we leave them in the daylight savings time setting keeping it lighter longer into the evening.

I abhor total darkness by 5:00pm (or earlier).
 
Not where I live!

We laugh at your silly clock moving.
 
WCH said:
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yep - that is funny.

However - that's not exactly what's reality.

Same length of blanket, just making it more user friendly.

Most people don't need, nor want bright sunshine prior to 6:00am.
Most people are far more apt to doing outside activities in the evening, after work.

The daylight from 6:00pm to 7:00pm is more useful to most than the daylight from 6:00am to 7:00am.
 
Dragonfly said:
yep - that is funny.

However - that's not exactly what's reality.

Same length of blanket, just making it more user friendly.

Most people don't need, nor want bright sunshine prior to 6:00am.
Most people are far more apt to doing outside activities in the evening, after work.

The daylight from 6:00pm to 7:00pm is more useful to most than the daylight from 6:00am to 7:00am.
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Winter has a lot to do with that and if you lived in TX you would appreciate those morning hours but, I just want them to leave alone.
 
If we stayed on DST year round in the winter kids in rural areas would be standing in pitch black, out near the roads waiting for their school buses. That's the biggest reason they turn the clocks back in the fall. Safety.
 
WCH said:
Winter has a lot to do with that and if you lived in TX you would appreciate those morning hours but, I just want them to leave alone.
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For most people, morning hours are spent sleeping, getting ready for work, working, or just drinking coffee and planning what to do that day.

For most people, they are not outside at 6:00am cutting grass, working in the garden, washing cars, grilling, sitting on their deck with a cocktail, playing with their dogs...

Having extra daylight early in the day doesn't benefit MOST people. Most people are not awake between 5:00am and 6:00am unless they are working those hours.

It's wasted daylight. For most people.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
If we stayed on DST year round in the winter kids in rural areas would be standing in pitch black, out near the roads waiting for their school buses. That's the biggest reason they turn the clocks back in the fall. Safety.
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Then start school an hour later in winter. Problem solved.
 
I'm the exact opposite, I absolutely abhor DST. Who the hell needs it to be light till 10pm.
 
Dragonfly said:
For most people, morning hours are spent sleeping, getting ready for work, working, or just drinking coffee and planning what to do that day.

For most people, they are not outside at 6:00am cutting grass, working in the garden, washing cars, grilling, sitting on their deck with a cocktail, playing with their dogs...

Having extra daylight early in the day doesn't benefit MOST people. Most people are not awake between 5:00am and 6:00am unless they are working those hours.

It's wasted daylight. For most people.
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It was originally meant for farmers who do get up early so.....

In the middle of Summer here in TX, MOST of us are ready to see that sun set as soon as possible.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Time change, daylight savings time... another relic we cannot seem to move away from. :roll:
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Unless you live in Arizona (and are not part of the Navajo Nation).

If AZ does fine without it why do the rest of us need it?
 
Winchester said:
I'm the exact opposite, I absolutely abhor DST. Who the hell needs it to be light till 10pm.
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You must live on the western edge of your particular time zone.

You may want to invest in some heavy, thick, blackout curtains.
 
Dragonfly said:
Then start school an hour later in winter. Problem solved.
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It's not that simple. Instead of 8am-3pm then it's 9am to 4pm. Then they'll be dropped off in the dark. Also many parents schedule their work hours(if they can) around their kids 8-3 school hours.

IMO it's not that big a deal to change clocks a couple of times a years. We've been doing it for decades, it's expected now, and goes smoothly.
 
Dragonfly said:
You must live on the western edge of your particular time zone.

You may want to invest in some heavy, thick, blackout curtains.
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West and up north. I like it sunny in the morning. :(
 
American said:
Why does it bother you so much?
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"Bothers me so much" is an overstatement, it is just another relic from a time period where the employment landscape of the nation was very different. When a sizable part of the nation was based on farming and agriculture this made sense, today it does not. But we will politically never let this go even though we have no real economic or social reason to keep the practice.

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move the clocks forward and leave them there. doing this twice a year is ****ing useless.
 
Dragonfly said:
Then start school an hour later in winter. Problem solved.
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Or send them out with reflective clothing or flashlights like they tell joggers/bikers who do their thing in the dark and Trick Or Treaters at Halloween.
 
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Ntharotep said:
Unless you live in Arizona (and are not part of the Navajo Nation).

If AZ does fine without it why do the rest of us need it?
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Hawaii too!
 
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