This is a thing
Like Tam, I discovered on facebook that people hate daylight saving time. You know, I can see that for people in other time-zones. But here, on EST and living an hour away from the switch to central, I find it quite nice.
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March 9th, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Dst should be year round. I hate having it be pitch black by the time I walk in the door 6 months out of the year
March 9th, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Word.
March 9th, 2015 at 8:50 pm
No problems with DST in either AZ or HI, gun laws are better in AZ, the weather is better in HI, so pick what is more important to you.
March 9th, 2015 at 9:10 pm
Pick one setting or the other, just stop changing it back and forth for no better reason than “because we’ve always done it”.
March 9th, 2015 at 11:22 pm
I’ve been a parent of small children for 10 years, and will likely have small children at home for another 10. Every spring the cycle disruption from the DST change gets all the kids sick. Please, make it stop.
March 10th, 2015 at 12:43 am
DST all year round. Makes the best use of available light.
March 10th, 2015 at 1:00 am
As someone who always has to get up early in the morning to go to work, DST was always a kick in the nuts. That I was forced to get up in the middle of the night to improve the already fabulous lifestyles of people who like to swan about in the evening while I struggled to get to sleep caused some resentment. I now live in a state that doesn’t have it, praise Jesus.
March 10th, 2015 at 2:04 am
Hell, there’s people who actually believe that DST gives us a extra hour of daylight.
Folks who believe that would also believe that if you cut a foot off of one end of a 10 foot length of rope and splice it to the other end, you’ll have a longer rope.
March 10th, 2015 at 8:22 am
Folks, go visit the Gormogons blog and search for their excellent post on DST. I think The Czar penned it. He produced a graph comparing the sunset and sunrise times against DST year round and without. It made it pretty clear that this system is the best of both worlds. If your life is severely disrupted by a one-hour shift of an arbitrary reckoning of time, you’ve got bigger issues to address.
March 10th, 2015 at 9:10 am
Gonna need a bigger cup over there…lot more h8rs than lvrs.
Logic? Reason? Pfft. Gov manipulation needs neither.
Even blue sky libertarians (heh) are subject to approving their pet gov meddling.
March 10th, 2015 at 10:21 am
I’m with Linoge: Pick one and be done with it.
Personally, my preference is to set 1200 Zulu to coincide with solar noon in Greenwich, UK on the day of the summer solstice, and then leave it that way. Noon stays pretty constant from year to year, but there is a little drift, so corrections can be made every leap year. Keep the time zones so that 1200 local is roughly the same as local solar noon for most people.
It’s well-documented that the DST shift is immediately followed by increases in heart attacks and traffic accidents, along with an across the board drop in worker productivity. The schedule shift, along with the sudden shift in sunrise/sunset compared to people’s waking/sleeping times, is known to cause physiological issues (a phenomenon also commonly found among shift-workers).
That “one-hour shift of an arbitrary reckoning of time” is a “bigger issue”, all by itself.
March 10th, 2015 at 10:25 am
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March 10th, 2015 at 10:32 am
Pretty fair synopsis here:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/its-time-to-kill-daylight-savings/ar-AA9wsNZ?ocid=mailsignout
March 10th, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Make DST year round! The changeover is rough.
March 10th, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Of course we should make DST year round – those local musicians make way too much money as is.
I mean, if it further impoverishes some borderline malnourished musician or drummer to let hipsters peddle about headlamp free, or hit the slopes after work on a school night, or let’s a senator spend another hour on the back nine, then the economic harm to the local entertainment industry is worth it. Let those pesky working musicians starve in the light! /sarcasm
They can take standard time away from my clock when they pry it from its cold dead hands.
March 10th, 2015 at 1:32 pm
There is no time saved.
There is no daylight saved.
No time is changed.
If people want to change their schedules, there is no need to change the clocks.
You can set the alarm clock an hour earlier rather than changing the time on the clock.
Duh.
March 10th, 2015 at 5:33 pm
I love DST.
I wish it was permanent.
March 10th, 2015 at 5:50 pm
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what number you apply to which hour, you can still do whatever you want to do in that hour, so shut up about ALL of those kinds of arguments. You don’t even know what you’re saying, much less why.
The REAL issue is that politicians think they can actually change the hour of the rising, and of the setting, of the sun, thus proving beyond all doubt that they are batshit, fucking insane. What’s far worse however is that we are fucking crazy enough to take them seriously, and then argue about the merrits of this or that batshit insane assertion or law.
March 11th, 2015 at 9:11 am
Sadly, the guy who signs my paychecks does not agree. Neither do the owners of all the other businesses we have to deal with, or the .gov agencies we deal with.
Clocks are a lot less useful if everyone involved doesn’t agree on a standard.