Agreed. I love having it be 9 at night during the summer and the sun will still be out. Makes cookouts and nights out all the more fun.
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I Hate Daylight Saving Time!
- Thread starter Chrisk-K
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Agreed. I love having it be 9 at night during the summer and the sun will still be out. Makes cookouts and nights out all the more fun.
Yes, "normal time" is November through March. Also, I agree. They could get rid of DST as long as they stay with this "normal time"
I hate it!!! Keep it one way or the other!! The older I get the more I can't stand it.
We need one of them petition thingies and put a stop to this nonsense!!!
We need one of them petition thingies and put a stop to this nonsense!!!
March 10 is WAY too effing early to start DST.
I know the powers that be don't give a damn about us folks in flyover country but in the Northern Plains we are still firmly in winter. NOBODY around here is out mowing their snow covered lawns or playing baseball on what are still ice rinks or cooking out... that's all at least a month away yet.
And yes, it messes with schoolkids' schedules something fierce. They don't want to get up for school cause now it's still dark again in the morning, and they don't want to settle down at night because it's still light at bedtime.
The logical and most parent-friendly thing would be to tie DST roughly to when most schools are out for the summer, i.e., mid-May to mid-September. That's when DST has the least disruption and the most value.
I know the powers that be don't give a damn about us folks in flyover country but in the Northern Plains we are still firmly in winter. NOBODY around here is out mowing their snow covered lawns or playing baseball on what are still ice rinks or cooking out... that's all at least a month away yet.
And yes, it messes with schoolkids' schedules something fierce. They don't want to get up for school cause now it's still dark again in the morning, and they don't want to settle down at night because it's still light at bedtime.
The logical and most parent-friendly thing would be to tie DST roughly to when most schools are out for the summer, i.e., mid-May to mid-September. That's when DST has the least disruption and the most value.
I am firmly opposed to your proposal. I quite enjoyed grilling carne asada on my patio last night while wearing a short sleeved shirt and flip-flops under a beautiful blue sky.
I hate it!!! Keep it one way or the other!! The older I get the more I can't stand it.
I agree. Humbug to DST...:scowl:
I don't mind daylight savings time, but it comes to early now. I see no point in long evenings when snow is still on the ground or it is still fairly chilly in much of the USA. My other complaint is that for the next two weeks or so, my youngest has to catch the bus in near darkness.
not in my corner. Southwest Indiana ,during the winter I have to leave two hours early to drive one hour to get there one hour later....then when I leave the place I'm visiting I get home at the same time I left .....
I get pretty wicked depressed and lethargic when it gets dark at 5:00 PM, especially when I get home from working and it's dark (or better yet when I don't have any lessons until later in the day and I don't have to leave until it's already dark). I'd rather it be sunlight until 9:00 every day including winter.
In Calgary Alberta it used to be sunny till 11pm some nights. Loved it.
Daylight savings time only annoys me when I forget its happening till the night before. Which is every time.
Daylight savings time only annoys me when I forget its happening till the night before. Which is every time.
I'm firmly in this camp. I hate when it gets dark before 6--and in December, it's dark by 4:30 here. I usually get up at 8, so it's light out when I get out of bed, anyway.
