Daylight Savings Time

YuccaFlatsRanch · #41 03/13/11, 03:53 PM

Until we as a people learn to maximize things like daylight, I can't believe we are in the slightest worried about saving energy. Countrywide how much energy in not using lights would be saved?? And please don't get me started on business' keeping lights on all night. Don't go there - I warn you!!!

big rockpile · #42 03/13/11, 04:17 PM

All it does is cut an hour off Turkey hunting time considering we have to quit at 1PM.

big rockpile

Minelson · #43 03/13/11, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ErinP

Ummmm, yes really.
DH, for example, needs to be to work at 7AM and gets off at 5PM (or thereabouts).

From June 1-August 1, the sun is up in our area at about 5:30-5:45 on DST. About the time we always get up, actually.
Without, it would be 4:30-4:45. Wasted time for us.

It sets at about 8:15-8:00 on DST.
No DST and it would set at about 7:15-7:00.
There's a whole lot that can be done with that "extra" hour, not to mention the still-useful twilight beyond it.

See I could live with that. But here it doesn't get dark until 10pm...That part I don't like and trying to get the critters used to the change is a pita.

It's just so not worth it!

sticky_burr · #44 03/13/11, 05:40 PM

i keep saying it for as long as i can remember change it 30 minutes and leave me the @#^& alone (split the difference)

ErinP · #45 03/13/11, 05:42 PM

DH worked on a dairy all through HS.

He said the first week was hard, getting the cows used to the new cycle.
(They HAD to keep the time right because the help was almost entirely students, so they had classes schedules to keep.)

But after that was no big deal. I figure if dairy cows can make the transition, other critters can too...

Personally I've never had animals that cared about the time. But then, we tend to feed "in the evening" or "in the mornig" so they aren't planning on a set time anyway. lol

Minelson · #46 03/13/11, 05:49 PM

Here...I just looked it up
Longest day in June
Sunrise: 5:46am
Sunset: 9:12pm
Day length: 15h 26m

Tomorrow...
Sunrise: 7:42am
Sunset: 7:30pm
Day length: 11h 48m
I get up at 6am and the sun starts to rise while I'm on my way to work.

Minelson · #47 03/13/11, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ErinP

Personally I've never had animals that cared about the time. But then, we tend to feed "in the evening" or "in the mornig" so they aren't planning on a set time anyway. lol

Unfortunate for me that my critters KNOW what time it is supposed to be and let me know it!

Belfrybat · #48 03/13/11, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by barelahh

I go to bed when i'm tired and wake up when i wake up. usually thats around 7 am

How do you know if you don't have a clock in the house and don't own a watch?

mnn2501 · #49 03/13/11, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by barelahh

I go to bed when i'm tired and wake up when i wake up. usually thats around 7 am

Some of us have jobs.

mnn2501 · #50 03/13/11, 08:06 PM

Mar 14, 2011 Sunrise =7:39 AM Sunset = 7:34 PM

I get home from work at 6:30 PM, I now have an hour to get things done, without DST, its dark 4 minutes after I get home.

Jun 21, 2011 Sunrise =6:19 AM Sunset = 8:38 PM

Here I have 2 hours after work to get things done, without it I only have 1 hour on the longest day of the year.

See why I want it year round?

Jackie · #51 03/14/11, 02:13 AM

Ha! Am I the only one here that doesn't have to worry about it at all because we don't change our clocks?? I thought parts of the US didn't either. Saskatchewan does not change the clocks. For half the year we are the same time as Alberta and for half the year we are an hour ahead of Alberta. This is crazy to me because my Fiance lives/works just south of here but across the provincial line 21 days out of the month. So for half the year I am confused about what time to call him and on the way home from his place I lose an hour. So I leave at 8am from his place, drive an hour and a half and get home 2.5 hours later at 10:30! lol! Makes a difference when we both work at the same time...only not really cause I work an hour earlier. lol! It's stupid! Thank goodness we are on the same time for a while.

Although it is fun to drive into Alberta to go shopping in the winter and arrive the same time I left home! lol!

sammyd · #52 03/14/11, 08:01 AM

funny, our cows could care less.
I shifted the first milking half an hour to split the difference but other than that nothing has changed with the ladies.
Our mornings are dark anyway, I needed a flashlight to get the girls before the change and I need one after.
Only difference is now I can get the chores done at the homestead in the evening without having to use a flashlight.
So darkness is a pretty lame argument any way I look at it.

dragonjaze · #53 03/14/11, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Minelson

It's not a trivial thing to me at all. If there was an organization to stop it I would join. Daylight savings is my number one pet peeve. There is no reason for it. I don't need daylight at 10pm...I do need daylight at 7am. It just starts naturally getting perfect where there is daylight early enough for me not to be doing chores in the dark before going to work. It's still light out at 6:30 and that is good and will continue to get longer. And now it's all screwed up because some idiot has to mess with it. It's hard on me, it's hard on my critters and it makes no sense. But everyone goes along with it. If anyone knows a way to get this stopped please tell me so I can complain loudly to the right people. I am very angry

http://www.standardtime.com/

anette · #54 03/14/11, 10:53 AM

I have thought for some time now that it is completely unhealthy to attempt to reset the circadian rhythms of an entire nation twice a year for their entire lives. To what purpose???

anette

Gianni · #55 03/14/11, 02:13 PM

I am another that works for a company wanting me there @ 7:00 AM. I comute in the dark both ways all winter. DST gives me the time in the evenings to work outside, staying light enough to read until 9:45 PM late June & July in MT. I would rather have it year round but will retire long before that ever happens.

Gianni · #56 03/14/11, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by anette

I have thought for some time now that it is completely unhealthy to attempt to reset the circadian rhythms of an entire nation twice a year for their entire lives. To what purpose???

anette

For the majority of people that do nothing but work, sleep, eat and watch TV they will have one hour less of electrical lighting on. That does add up.