I really hate Daylight Savings Time (1 Viewer)

[Slapdash]

Pick a time and stick with it. Changing is stupid.

I go to bed later but keep waking up at the same time.

Just keep the clock the same all year.

 

[johnnycakes]

It's actually "Daylight Saving Time" (no "s").

I was coming here to make the same smart-### comment.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

It's actually "Daylight Saving Time" (no "s").

I was coming here to make the same smart-### comment.

Looks like I'm also about an hour late.

 

[McGarnicle]

Not participating this year. It's 1:13PM right now #######it.

 

[Jack White]

Pick a time and stick with it. Changing is stupid.

I go to bed later but keep waking up at the same time.

Just keep the clock the same all year.

Short video explains why.

 

[Insomniac]

I'm OK with the way it is but if they wanted to make DST year round that would be fine too. There's no good reason to have the sun come up at ~4 AM. The downside to all year DST is in December/January there would be kids waiting for the school bus in the dark.

 

[Da Guru]

It's actually "Daylight Saving Time" (no "s").

I was coming here to make the same smart-### comment.

Looks like I'm also about an hour late.

The good thing is now we will have that extra hour of daylight to help melt all the ice and snow.

 

[johnnycakes]

It's actually "Daylight Saving Time" (no "s").

I was coming here to make the same smart-### comment.

Looks like I'm also about an hour late.

The good thing is now we will have that extra hour of daylight to help melt all the ice and snow.

 

[NREC34]

Move closer to the equator. (in the winter)

Yep. With a beach.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Hate spring ahead, love fall back

 

[Mr. Retukes]

I'm OK with the way it is but if they wanted to make DST year round that would be fine too. There's no good reason to have the sun come up at ~4 AM. The downside to all year DST is in December/January there would be kids waiting for the school bus in the dark.

Where in the USA does the sun rise at 4 a.m. (besides Alaska)?

 

[Mr. Ected]

I'm OK with the way it is but if they wanted to make DST year round that would be fine too. There's no good reason to have the sun come up at ~4 AM. The downside to all year DST is in December/January there would be kids waiting for the school bus in the dark.

Wouldn't making having DST all year round defeat it's purpose?

 

[Willie Neslon]

No idea why people hate extra daylight when the weather is nice. Turning the clocks back is always the depressing time of year.

 

[AAABatteries]

Hate spring ahead, love fall back

Why? I guess if you have a job that requires you to work nights but having extra daylight after I get home from work is awesome. It was perfect weather in Atlanta the last two days and having extra daylight in the evening just made for an outstanding weekend.

 

[Insomniac]

I'm OK with the way it is but if they wanted to make DST year round that would be fine too. There's no good reason to have the sun come up at ~4 AM. The downside to all year DST is in December/January there would be kids waiting for the school bus in the dark.

Where in the USA does the sun rise at 4 a.m. (besides Alaska)?

Where I live if there was no DST the earliest sunrise would be 4:06 AM.

In New York City without DST the earliest sunrise would be at 4:24 AM.

 

[Willie Neslon]

Best part about it is the clock in the car is finally right again. No more math.

 

[ghostguy123]

Pick a time and stick with it. Changing is stupid.

 

[Mr. Ected]

The first couple dark mornings suck. Especially getting kids up!!

 

[IC FBGCav]

This was started by the Germans during WWI to save energy. We are just too dumb to change it back but messing with peoples sleep patterns for no reason is just idiotic.

 

[Short Corner]

Can get a in a full round after work soon. I'm a big fan.

 

[(HULK)]

How is this still a thing?

 

[MattFancy]

The first 2 days suck, but I'm down with having daylight until 8pm

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Just checked. By April 7th sunrise will be right back to 6:35 AM here.

So all you complainers are really #####ing about the first month...

 

[Jayrok]

Can get a in a full round after work soon. I'm a big fan.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

How is this still a thing?

board upgrade, it was the f'n board upgrade

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This was started by the Germans during WWI to save energy. We are just too dumb to change it back but messing with peoples sleep patterns for no reason is just idiotic.

One more thing we can blame the Germans for.

 

[gianmarco]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

I'm fine with what this does to the day. I don't really care one way or the other but some do.

My thing: Pick one time and stick with it. Enough of this going back and forth.

 

[tonydead]

Just checked. By April 7th sunrise will be right back to 6:35 AM here.

So all you complainers are really #####ing about the first month...

Can get a in a full round after work soon. I'm a big fan.

I'll take more daylight after work to get chit done.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

I'm fine with what this does to the day. I don't really care one way or the other but some do.

My thing: Pick one time and stick with it. Enough of this going back and forth.

Silly idea. I really don't have any need for a 4:10 AM sunrise in June (which is what it would be without daylight savings time). But I do enjoy that sunset doesn't come until after 9 PM in June under daylight saving time.

And that is the "saving" part. What percentage of population is awake before 6 AM? What percentage is awake between 7:30 PM and 10 PM?

 

[Jack White]

How is this still a thing?

Are you listening, John Oliver?

 

[Jack White]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

I'm fine with what this does to the day. I don't really care one way or the other but some do.

My thing: Pick one time and stick with it. Enough of this going back and forth.

Silly idea. I really don't have any need for a 4:10 AM sunrise in June (which is what it would be without daylight savings time). But I do enjoy that sunset doesn't come until after 9 PM in June under daylight saving time.

And that is the "saving" part. What percentage of population is awake before 6 AM? What percentage is awake between 7:30 PM and 10 PM?

What's silly is for the USG to play god and change the time for 7.5 months of the year.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

I'm fine with what this does to the day. I don't really care one way or the other but some do.

My thing: Pick one time and stick with it. Enough of this going back and forth.

Silly idea. I really don't have any need for a 4:10 AM sunrise in June (which is what it would be without daylight savings time). But I do enjoy that sunset doesn't come until after 9 PM in June under daylight saving time.

And that is the "saving" part. What percentage of population is awake before 6 AM? What percentage is awake between 7:30 PM and 10 PM?

What's silly is for the USG to play god and change the time for 7.5 months of the year.

"Play god". LOL

Thanks, Mr. Trying-Too-Hard-Libertarian-Guy

 

[SWC]

like my main man jackson brown says i pack my lunch in the morning and go to work each day and i like to do that with sunlight around this morning it was pitch black again i do not that like that bromigos i wish they had brohan savings time for the old swcer take that to the bank brocachos

 

[Jack White]

I still don't understand how anybody doesn't like this.

Yeah, it is going to be dark a bit late in the morning for a few weeks. Big deal.

Sunrise today will officially be at 7:35 AM and that is a bit late.

But sunset will now be at 7:06 PM.

I'm fine with what this does to the day. I don't really care one way or the other but some do.

My thing: Pick one time and stick with it. Enough of this going back and forth.

Silly idea. I really don't have any need for a 4:10 AM sunrise in June (which is what it would be without daylight savings time). But I do enjoy that sunset doesn't come until after 9 PM in June under daylight saving time.

And that is the "saving" part. What percentage of population is awake before 6 AM? What percentage is awake between 7:30 PM and 10 PM?

What's silly is for the USG to play god and change the time for 7.5 months of the year.

"Play god". LOL

Thanks, Mr. Trying-Too-Hard-Libertarian-Guy

You're welcome, my pleasure, any time.

 

[Parrothead]

This year's time change brought to you by Pepsi Cola- enjoy your extra hour of daylight with an ice cold Pepsi

 

[Jack White]

The

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[Quez]

This isn't nearly as big of a deal as it was a decade ago. Most devices update automatically. Phone, cable box, computer. Stove and car are the only ones I have to change.

 

[Jack White]

This isn't nearly as big of a deal as it was a decade ago. Most devices update automatically. Phone, cable box, computer. Stove and car are the only ones I have to change.

True, but that's really the least of the problems it creates.

 

[Short Corner]

@ problems it creates

It creates an extra hour of sunlite at the end of the day to finish a round of golf, baseball/soccer practice etc as opposed to having that hour when 99% of the general public is still sleeping.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

This isn't nearly as big of a deal as it was a decade ago. Most devices update automatically. Phone, cable box, computer. Stove and car are the only ones I have to change.

True, but that's really the least of the problems it creates.

This is all linked to the secret government plot to control our minds through mass hypnosis utilizing time changes and flouridated water, right?

 

[Ned]

Both of my kids were a complete PIA to get to bed last night.

 

[Short Corner]

This isn't nearly as big of a deal as it was a decade ago. Most devices update automatically. Phone, cable box, computer. Stove and car are the only ones I have to change.

True, but that's really the least of the problems it creates.

This is all linked to the secret government plot to control our minds through mass hypnosis utilizing time changes and flouridated water, right?

The ChemTrails! Don't forget the ChemTrails!

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

Both of my kids were a complete PIA to get to bed last night.

Mine went to bed fine, but I threatened to erase their minecraft worlds. :fatheroftheyear:

 

[IC FBGCav]

A lot of people scared of the dark in this thread. I think the whole point is to pick one and stick with it. The darn thing currently seems like it's run by a bunch of high maintenance women.

 

[IC FBGCav]

2005 revision to dates of observanceBy the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007.[8] As of that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. These changes result in a DST period that is five weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Monday through Wednesday and four weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Thursday through Sunday.[9] In 2008 daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. DST (0200) (1:00 a.m. ST) on Sunday, November 2, and in 2009 it began at 2:00 a.m. (3:00 a.m. DST) on Sunday, March 8.[10] Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[11]

Under Section 110 of the Act, the U.S. Department of Energy was required to study the impact of the 2007 DST extension no later than nine months after the change took effect. The report, released in October 2008, reported a nationwide electricity savings of 0.03% for the year of 2007.[12]

An October 2008 study conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 DST adoption in Indiana increased energy consumption in Indiana by an average of 1%. Although energy consumption for lighting dropped as a result of the DST adoption, consumption for heating and cooling increased by 2 to 4%. The cost to the average Indiana household of the DST adoption was determined to be $3.29 per year, for an aggregate cost of $1.7 million to $5.5 million per year.[13]

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

2005 revision to dates of observance

By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007.[8] As of that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. These changes result in a DST period that is five weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Monday through Wednesday and four weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Thursday through Sunday.[9] In 2008 daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. DST (0200) (1:00 a.m. ST) on Sunday, November 2, and in 2009 it began at 2:00 a.m. (3:00 a.m. DST) on Sunday, March 8.[10] Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[11]

Under Section 110 of the Act, the U.S. Department of Energy was required to study the impact of the 2007 DST extension no later than nine months after the change took effect. The report, released in October 2008, reported a nationwide electricity savings of 0.03% for the year of 2007.[12]

An October 2008 study conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 DST adoption in Indiana increased energy consumption in Indiana by an average of 1%. Although energy consumption for lighting dropped as a result of the DST adoption, consumption for heating and cooling increased by 2 to 4%. The cost to the average Indiana household of the DST adoption was determined to be $3.29 per year, for an aggregate cost of $1.7 million to $5.5 million per year.[13]

Anybody that chooses to live in Indiana deserves whatever they get.

 

[IC FBGCav]

2005 revision to dates of observance

By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007.[8] As of that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. These changes result in a DST period that is five weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Monday through Wednesday and four weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Thursday through Sunday.[9] In 2008 daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. DST (0200) (1:00 a.m. ST) on Sunday, November 2, and in 2009 it began at 2:00 a.m. (3:00 a.m. DST) on Sunday, March 8.[10] Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[11]

Under Section 110 of the Act, the U.S. Department of Energy was required to study the impact of the 2007 DST extension no later than nine months after the change took effect. The report, released in October 2008, reported a nationwide electricity savings of 0.03% for the year of 2007.[12]

An October 2008 study conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 DST adoption in Indiana increased energy consumption in Indiana by an average of 1%. Although energy consumption for lighting dropped as a result of the DST adoption, consumption for heating and cooling increased by 2 to 4%. The cost to the average Indiana household of the DST adoption was determined to be $3.29 per year, for an aggregate cost of $1.7 million to $5.5 million per year.[13]

Anybody that chooses to live in Indiana deserves whatever they get.

I love the "we don't want it dark on Halloween." How do these people get elected?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

2005 revision to dates of observance

By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007.[8] As of that year, DST begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. These changes result in a DST period that is five weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Monday through Wednesday and four weeks longer than previously in years where April 1st falls on Thursday through Sunday.[9] In 2008 daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. DST (0200) (1:00 a.m. ST) on Sunday, November 2, and in 2009 it began at 2:00 a.m. (3:00 a.m. DST) on Sunday, March 8.[10] Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[11]

Under Section 110 of the Act, the U.S. Department of Energy was required to study the impact of the 2007 DST extension no later than nine months after the change took effect. The report, released in October 2008, reported a nationwide electricity savings of 0.03% for the year of 2007.[12]

An October 2008 study conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara for the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the 2006 DST adoption in Indiana increased energy consumption in Indiana by an average of 1%. Although energy consumption for lighting dropped as a result of the DST adoption, consumption for heating and cooling increased by 2 to 4%. The cost to the average Indiana household of the DST adoption was determined to be $3.29 per year, for an aggregate cost of $1.7 million to $5.5 million per year.[13]

Anybody that chooses to live in Indiana deserves whatever they get.

I love the "we don't want it dark on Halloween." How do these people get elected?

I assume they just rotate since only like 43 people live in Wyoming.

But yeah, that is a dumb bit of reasoning.

 

[Jack White]

How is this still a thing?

Are you listening, John Oliver?

Ha, I hadn't seen the episode when I posted that.

Stupid ####### cows!