Daylight Saving Time

[pokerfan]

Poll question: Daylight Saving Time

[NJmaverick]

1. My internal clock seems to like standard time so much better

[pokerfan]

2. It screws up our teleconferences

Not everyone observes DST and if they do, not everyone changes on the same date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world

[GoCubsGo]

20. Me, too. But...

My cats stay on DST. So, now they yowl for breakfast at 5:30 AM, instead of 4:30 AM. They have forced me onto it, whether I like it or not.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear pokerfan!

Well, maybe I'm out of step with everyone else here, but I love DST!

Anything to give me more useful daylight hours is something I can get behind.

So. There.

:P

[pokerfan]

5. What is useful daylight?

DST just forces us to get up an hour earlier and go to bed an hour earlier. You don't need to change the clock to do that. I just looked and tomorrow (DST) we will have the same amount of daylight as today, eleven hours and forty-five minutes.

My dad thought it was silly but then again, he was a farmer. All DST meant to him was that the hardware store closed an hour earlier than normal. Other than that, he worked according to sun time. Unless you work a 9-5 job, DST is useless.

[Capn Sunshine]

7. I'm with Peggy! DST rules!

We should move it up until the sun goes down at 9:30!
The economy would BOOM, I'm telling you.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Why do we still do this anyway?

I don't care. just set it and leave it alone. Leave Time Alone!

[hamsterjill]

33. Excellent idea!

It's the CHANGING that messes me up, not what time it is.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. It makes no sense in Alaska.

It's going to be dark in the winter and light in the summer no matter what the clock says.

[pokerfan]

15. Alaska needs Daylight Saving Calendar

Every time October comes around, just shift the calendar forward to February.

Another problem solved.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. What a great idea!

[Bertha Venation]

8. I need to be able to wear my shades all the way home from work.

An hour and a half drive.

[Shell Beau]

9. A big yay for more actual daylight. A big nay for losing that damned

hour of sleep.


And by more daylight, I mean more daylight AFTER work. I don't get up early enough.

[Quantess]

10. Just pick one and stick with it all year long.

DST, standard time, either one, I don't care.

Enough with this time-switching twice a year nonsense!

[mcctatas]

11. yay and nay...

love it in October, hate it in March

[kentauros]

12. You mean BAFMJL?

"Bi-Annual, Federally Mandated Jet Lag"?

Yeah, I hate it.
Set it once, and

Leave it alone!!11!

Besides, it's ripping me off of one hour from my birthday hours (10:40am today to 10:40am tomorrow)

[old mark]

13. Other. Since I no longer work for anyone else, I don't care BUT

if I had to get up and be on someone else's schedule Monday morning, I would hate it - it fucks me up for a week or so.

My only gripe now is re-setting all our clocks and watches.

mark

[Urban Prairie]

14. Working the graveyard shift in the 90s was the worst on Sat night

anyway, but having to stay until 8:30 am, or 10:30 if my employer had us work a couple of hours of OT on Sunday morning made me feel like just writing off doing anything but eat & sleep that day. Of course now in the brave new world of the 21st century, any kind of overtime, much less having a FT job is a pipe dream for many.

[Tabasco_Dave]

17. I love my extra hour of daylight

:bounce: :woohoo: :party: :party: :bounce: :toast: :woohoo:

[kedrys]

18. You forgot one option: "Meh."

I think it's too early in the year, but it does makes more sense up here than it did in Texas. Having the cats sleep in because it's darker in the morning is a good thing - until June, when it's light outside at 4:30 no matter what. :P And having more daylight after work is awesome. I can deal with it.

[bikebloke]

19. Some wee jet lag.

Without the jet.

I prefer riding home in the light. My bike light can be pulled off for the season - hurray!

[Arkansas Granny]

21. Although it messes up my internal timekeeping for a couple of weeks, I do enjoy

having the extra daylight to play out in the yard after work. The change in the fall is the one that I really don't like. By the time I get home, it's already getting dark and I slip into a semi-hibernation mode.

[hunter]

22. I hate it.

Then again, I tend to loathe doing anything by the clock. I'd much rather follow a natural rhythm, like getting up an hour before sunrise and going to bed a third of a day before that.

[SoxFan]

23. Foolishness

I hate DST. It's a silly anachronism that has no real purpose.

Get real, people. You aren't magically making the sun stay up another hour!

[Skittles]

29. I laugh when I hear people say that

or that they are "losing an hour of sleep". Good lord.

[Terra Alta]

24. I wish we would stay on DST year round.

I hate Standard Time especially in November and December when it gets dark at friggin five o'clock. The more daylight hours the better.

[Odin2005]

25. EVIL! The bane of all autistics everywhere.

YOU FUCKED UP MY ROUTINES YOU FUCKERS!!! :grr:

[nickinSTL]

26. didn't vote, because mostly, I don't care

one hour more or less, doesn't really affect my sleep that much - I have more of a change in sleep on weekends.

What I DO like is that with the change to DST, it means that I'll eventually be able to walk after work when the weather's decent.

I walk at lunch, but I'd also like to walk after work. Meaning, not just after work, but after my dinner has a chance to settle :)

If we kept that schedule all year, wouldn't bother me a bit.

[iris27]

27. Huzzah! More light after work!

I suffer from SAD and work in a basement without windows. I jump for joy every year when DST finally rolls around.

[name not needed]

28. I hate it when there's an extra 2:00 and the bars don't honor it.

[trackfan]

30. DST is folly. It's mid-day when it's mid-day, not when the government says it is.

(I cut and pasted this from earlier posts on DU, which I googled, as this comes up twice a year).

[Lindsey]

31. I love DST! Any extra light at the end of the day is all for me! n/t

[Inchworm]

32. DST assists in regulating my drinking

The sips generally turn to gulps at dark.

More day to sip = less gulping

But really, more sipping too...

Gah, what a pickle!

:hi:

[tjwmason]

34. A myth

As others have said, it doesn't give any extra day-light.

I'd particularly hate to change this early in the year (we change in a few weeks, along with the rest of the E.U.), I'm just getting used to waking up in day-light and don't want that snatched away from me.