Daylight Savings Time

[Champakian]

What do you think about it?

Stay on DST?
Stay on regular time?
Keep changing the clocks twice a year?

~~~ or ~~~

You Americans just crack me up thinking that changing the time changes anything...

 

[Champakian]

I really wanted to make this a poll, but I guess that's no longer an option. Pity.

 

[ll74]

They tried making it permanent in the 70s and everybody hated it. It's only a big deal for two days out of the year (maybe with a few days on either side)

 

[Champakian]

Well, I would like to point out that that was 50 years ago and
lifestyles and careers may have undergone just a few small
changes since then that might have some impact on how
people feel about it currently...

 

[JohnnySavage]

What do you think about it?

Stay on DST?
Stay on regular time?
Keep changing the clocks twice a year?

~~~ or ~~~

You Americans just crack me up thinking that changing the time changes anything...

Hate it
Yes
Yes
No

 

[JohnnySavage]

What's that saying... you can't make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off the bottom and adding it to the top?

 

[ll74]

Well, I would like to point out that that was 50 years ago and
lifestyles and careers may have undergone just a few small
changes since then that might have some impact on how
people feel about it currently...

Yah, I don't think much has changed in regards to our feelings about it...maybe just that more people now know that a ton of other people also don't enjoy it.

It would be a trade off.....people would enjoy not having to change clocks but hate the darkness that ensued from never changing.

 

[Chobham]

"Only the white man could think that cutting the top of a blanket off and sewing it to the bottom would make the blanket longer." - Anonymous American Indian

 

[Champakian]

You actually make it shorter in the stitching...

I have too many things that need the timers reset.
Water softener, fishtanks, vehicle clocks, clocks, watches
and it doesn't sound economically feasible to demand a law that
everything dependent upon time/timing be automatically self-setting.

The weather babe was just pointing out how it screws with the modeling
(not that the modeling can prevent my BBQ from being rained out on a predicted sunny day).

 

[Champakian]

As I posited, it makes little, if any difference, when it comes to darkness
and people would quickly, and I mean quickly, forget that it ever existed.
Heck, even though it does exist, it manages to catch many people by
surprise, affecting, even if only briefly, their lives, jobs, activities
because they showed up and hour early or an hour late.
I think people prefer consistency.

 

[ll74]

You actually make it shorter in the stitching...

I have too many things that need the timers reset.
Water softener, fishtanks, vehicle clocks, clocks, watches
and it doesn't sound economically feasible to demand a law that
everything dependent upon time/timing be automatically self-setting.

The weather babe was just pointing out how it screws with the modeling
(not that the modeling can prevent my BBQ from being rained out on a predicted sunny day).

Automation is the key. Tie everything to a central system that addresses them all with a Google statement. Bob's your uncle

 

[ll74]

As I posited, it makes little, if any difference, when it comes to darkness
and people would quickly, and I mean quickly, forget that it ever existed.
Heck, even though it does exist, it manages to catch many people by
surprise, affecting, even if only briefly, their lives, jobs, activities
because they showed up and hour early or an hour late.
I think people prefer consistency.

Depends on where you live. It would impact people more than you think to have less daylight hours.

You could also just adjust office/work hours but that ends up doing the same thing which is much easier ....adjusting the clocks

 

[JohnnySavage]

FFSs... you have the same amount of daylight no matter what you do with the clocks. That's astrophysics, babe.

 

[Champakian]

Really?
There's an option for that.
Just keep it. The earth is on a tilt.
The day lengths are going to keep changing.
We are no longer tied to the land and rural cycles.
In short, people won't notice they need lights any earlier.

 

[MKvDeepSea]

Either stay on daylight savings time or go back, whichever BUT STOP this silly assed flipping back and forth bullshit twice a year. It causes all kinds of mental and cardio health issues.

 

[Champakian]

FFSs... you have the same amount of daylight no matter what you do with the clocks. That's astrophysics, babe.

Exactly.

And an employer who wants to make employees happier can adjust to their wants,
but that really doesn't apply to many modern jobs/activities.
A lot of us increasingly, don't even spend that much time outdoors
(the implication being that they simply won't know, care or miss).

The change, which has here been claimed to be a temporary inconvenience
has actually proven to have long-term health effects on the most vulnerable among us.

 

[Champakian]

Either stay on daylight savings time or go back, whichever BUT STOP this silly assed flipping back and forth bullshit twice a year. It causes all kinds of mental and cardio health issues.

Thanks for beating me to that point.

 

[ll74]

FFSs... you have the same amount of daylight no matter what you do with the clocks. That's astrophysics, babe.

People don't wake up at 4am because it's 4am, not because there's light or no light.

People schedule their life with clocks and calendars, not sundials

 

[JohnnySavage]

Ed Zachary - so leave the clocks alone

 

[Champakian]

Sorry, but I wake up the same time every day.
It doesn't matter what the clock says.

 

[ll74]

Sorry, but I wake up the same time every day.

Which brand of sundial do you use?

 

[Champakian]

Just natural biorhythms...

I sleep in a totally blacked-out room (a nightshift habit)
and therefore, light has nothing to do with when I rise.
Since it is my habit to read several hours a night, it
similarly has little effect upon when I feel drowsy.

 

[ll74]

Just natural biorhythms...

I sleep in a totally blacked-out room (a nightshift habit)
and therefore, light has nothing to do with when I rise.
Since it is my habit to read several hours a night, it
similarly has little effect upon when I feel drowsy.

So then why do you even give a fuck what the clock says or that we change it twice a year?

 

[Champakian]

Okay. Step back and take a breath. What you just posted is not intelligence friendly.

 

[ll74]

Okay. Step back and take a breath. What you just posted is not intelligence friendly.

Lol...did you wake before your cycle this morning?

Just curious why a person who apparently doesn't use clocks wants to discuss time changes