I Hate Daylight Saving Time!

Chrisk-K · #1 03-11-2011, 07:12 PM

Research shows that DST doesn't result in energy saving. Why do we still implement it? Don't mess up with time. Just make the normal working hours 8 to 4 during the summer. That would have the same effect as DST.

i_got_a_mohawk · #2 03-11-2011, 07:20 PM

I always thought it had something to do with agriculture? (well, originally).

I hate Daylight savings, in Spring, when we loose an hour, in Autumn tho, it's great, we get an extra hour at the weekend!

lowfreq33 · #3 03-11-2011, 07:24 PM

Originally it was supposed to give farmers an extra hour of daylight to harvest if I recall correctly. But even that doesn't make much sense, couldn't they just get up earlier?

jrthebassguy · #4 03-11-2011, 07:46 PM

I hate DST too - down here during the summer sometimes the sun doesn't set til after 9 pm!

elgecko · #5 03-11-2011, 07:49 PM

DST is awesome! Sleeping through the early part of the day is a waste of sunlight!

SteveC · #6 03-11-2011, 07:59 PM

I wish we'd just split the difference - spring ahead 30 minutes and leave it alone.

39-Bassist · #7 03-11-2011, 08:02 PM

I would prefer to have the extra 1hr in the evening duw to the fact that I leave and it's dark and come home and there's less than an hr to get things done. Plus it gives me more energy in the evenings and not so tired so early. Just my 1-1/2 cents

Cabazon · #8 03-11-2011, 08:12 PM

I think it's largely for tourism/commerce. An extra hour of light is an extra hour of being out and about spending money.

avvie · #9 03-11-2011, 08:17 PM

Not buying that one... Hawaii doesn't do DST. neither does Arizona.

DST is ridiculous.

Cabazon · #10 03-11-2011, 08:25 PM

Daylight saving time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chrisk-K · #11 03-11-2011, 08:42 PM

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I think it's largely for tourism/commerce. An extra hour of light is an extra hour of being out and about spending money.

Then, why not implement DST on Black Friday and Christmas?

Cabazon · #12 03-11-2011, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrisk-K

Then, why not implement DST on Black Friday and Christmas?

That's a good idea. There are those who would say that changing the time twice in two days would disrupt things significantly more than they would help things, but what do those naysayers know?!

duff beer · #13 03-11-2011, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jrthebassguy

I hate DST too - down here during the summer sometimes the sun doesn't set til after 9 pm!

Why is that bad? The extra daylight is much more useful in the evening than the morning. I'd prefer to stay on DST all year round.

Munjibunga · #14 03-12-2011, 12:08 AM

Oh, don't make a fuss ... I'll take your daylight savings, I love it!

Simo98 · #15 03-12-2011, 12:44 AM

Personally, I see one downside to daylight savings time in most parts of the world, and that is that people with young children might have trouble getting them to bed on time when it doesn't get dark till 9pm.

Generally however, its in school holidays, so its probably not super important. Other than that, I personally have never been able to fault it.

Where I live now in the peak of summer we get light 'till about 7. This means after work I have maybe an hour, two if i'm really lucky of daylight.

Where I used to live, i'd get a good 4 before twilight with DST

Also, the sun comes up at 4:30am here.. Seriously, we need about 3 hours of DST imo

i_got_a_mohawk · #16 03-12-2011, 03:44 AM

I guess you could just get up earlier, but having to mess with the time over the weekend twice a year feels better than the mental thought of spending half a year getting into work an hour earlier

**bassdude51** · #17 03-12-2011, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Cabazon

I think it's largely for tourism/commerce. An extra hour of light is an extra hour of being out and about spending money.

Yep! You got it, Cabazon! It's all about money! They jack up the time one hour so that instead of going to bed and getting our sleep like we are supposed to, we are out and about and thus spending money! Big Business wants our money! The Goverment wants our money for the economy! Bastards! It's the REAL reason of DST! Hells Bells, during the summer the sun sets at 20:30 (8:30 PM) naturally! With DST, it sets at 21:30 (9:30 PM)! I love hearing children and lawn mowers at 9 PM when us "night shift workers" are trying to sleep! Rebell!!!!!!..........show up for work an hour late! Everyday! (Don't you wish!)

rob72 · #18 03-12-2011, 05:06 AM

It keeps us I.T. folk busy for a couple of weeks, twice a year. Dunno what it's like for y'all in the 'states but for some stupid reason the local governments in Oz seem to like fudging about with the DST rules every couple of years.

Every feb & august we have to go through all the I.T. systems and work out which ones will change early, late, or correctly & then "do stuff" to make the changeover sufficiently correct.

Fassa Albrecht · #19 03-12-2011, 02:33 PM

Eh, the clocks change at the end of the month here and it's a pain in the backside. CET FTW!

Unrepresented · #20 03-12-2011, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by duff beer

Why is that bad? The extra daylight is much more useful in the evening than the morning. I'd prefer to stay on DST all year round.

+1. As a guy who spends a good deal of evening time outside, having natural light is a huge benefit. 5 o'clock sunsets are a PITA.