Daylight Savings Time

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

Remember to turn your clocks ahead by one hour tonight. I LOVE Daylight Savings Time. More time to do stuff in the evening. I even think they should turn the clocks ahead another hour in the fall, and then 1 hour back in the spring. The whole idea of time is an artificial assignment of time for all to agree on and follow to keeps things on schedule. Time should be set to allow for the most daylight hours possible so people are awake when it is light and go to sleep when it is dark. I would gladly like to be able to schedule my day by getting up at dawn and going to bed at sunset, but the rest of the world insists on working by the artificial time on the clock and since I am forced to keep certain appointments I have to comply (at least some of the time).

[Joshie]

Daylight savings time has got to be one of the stupidest things our politicians ever pulled outta their tiny little brains. Daylight savings time doesn't save a bit of daylight. We have same number of daylight hours as we would if we didn't change our clocks. Time is time. Just 'cause the government says that it's 1 pm when it's noon doesn't make it so.

[Ravenlost]

I'm with you Joshie. Changing it back and forth is so hard...messes everyone's sleep schedules up. YUCK.

[Horseyrider]

I love it. I enjoy the extra evening time, and DH gets a whole lot more done then the clock springs forward. Yes it's an artificial measure, but his office uses the artificial measure. Until the whole world of commerce decides it's an artificial measure, then we have to wait to spring forward.

[nehimama]

Argh! Twice a year. I never know if I'm coming or going; if I'm ahead of myself or way behind. Guess I have too much time on my hands. . . . .

[MaineFarmMom]

Conversation with a friend yesterday:

Her: We change the clocks tomorrow. I'm so glad the day will be an hour longer.

Me: The day won't be an hour longer, it's still 24 hours.

Her: But it will be light an extra hour, you know?

Me: No it won't. We gain a couple of minutes but it has nothing to do with changing the clocks.

Her: <pause> This is stupid.

[Ronney]

You lucky buggers We're due to put our clocks back at the beginning of April and I'm dreading it. It means the end of summer, the end of those lovely long evenings when it was possible to garden, work on the farm etc.

Already the days are drawing in so that it is just light at 7.00am and getting dark by 8.00pm.

I LOVE daylight saving and apart from the first couple of days, don't have any trouble adjusting backwards or forwards. Nor do the cows. The first couple of days they bring themselves to the cowshed and when I finally arrive they have a look on their face that clearly says "Where the hell have you been?" but then they settle down.

I still get amused at those that can't get their head around the fact that their is no "savings", it's just a transferral of time so that instead of sleeping in daylight, your up and using it.

For those of you that appreciate it, enjoy it and think of me.

Cheers,
Ronnie

[Tom in TN]

I must admit that I like the extra hour of light in the evening, but daylight savings time messes up my morning chores. I'm sitting here right now waiting for a hint of light so I can go out and feed the livestock. The cows are still up in the woods too so I can't put out feed until they decide it's time to get up.

As the days get longer this summer, it will help even things out.

Tom in TN

[Rockytopsis]

I hate DST, what I would like to have seen happen is to run the clocks up 30 minutes and JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. Adjusting my schedule with the animals 2 times a year is the pits.
Nancy

[Micheal]

Taint no big deal here....... That is other than the 3-5 minutes it takes twice a year to change all the clocks. :baby04:
I still get up when I get up, go to sleep when I'm tired, mostly eat when I'm hungry and make no appointments that interfear with my schedule.
I gave up chasing that proverbial clock the day I retired.

[Laura Zone 5]

DST is stupid.
We don't 'lose or gain' anything. We are just MANIPULATING.
Just because I change what my clock says doesn't mean I have some 'power' to change anything.....
I hate DLS.
The sun is supposed to come up at 5am and go down at 9pm in the summer.

DLS is so stupid.

[HermitJohn]

Walmart is open 24/7 so we dont need no stinkin' clocks.....

[painterswife]

I hate it as well.

I am a morning person and more earlier daylight is the way it should be!

[mekasmom]

I don't like daylight savings time either. It's not real, and it just makes our bodies' internal clock confused.

[Belfrybat]

I wouldn't mind daylight savings time if it were from May to September. But this time of year it means the mornings are so dark I can't get my chores done at the right time, plus I just think it's dangerous for the school kids having to wait for the bus in the dark. There is absolutely no reason to have daylight savings time for 7 months of the year. I'll be cranky for the next two weeks as my body adjusts. Plus I hate going to bed when it's still light -- have a hard time falling asleep.

[HOTW]

I HATE DST! It's annoying, and it screws up my ormal adjustment to the natural light change. The whole reason they made it longer was because of a LOBBY group who felt tthat it would improve their sales (which it did) they did notice that people put on their AC's earlier last year so they know its a mental thing too. Give me theold dayd when life was set by the sun not the clock!

[buffalocreek]

I never change my clock. It's always DST here.

[sammyd]

Does anyone really know what time it is anyway?

LOL

So much negativity over such a trivial thing......

[painterswife]

Originally Posted by sammyd

Does anyone really know what time it is anyway?

LOL

So much negativity over such a trivial thing......

Really not such a trivial thing. That extra hour of daylight in the morning would effect my day a great deal. Feeding all the animals on the homestead before I head to work every day is just one of the chores that I need to do. Being able to see where I am going ( with my hands free)and knowing that I am not going to run into a bear, a moose or a skunk means the world to me.

I am asleep before it is dark most nights during the summer. Morning and light is very important to me.

[Bookwyrm]

My internal clock is thrown off by daylight savings time too. Not so much by standard time, though I kind of wish that it could stay at one or the other.