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Daylight Savings Time Needs to be Canceled

Posted by JacobDiv • 5/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: daylight savings, equinox

"When people living in many parts of the world move their clocks forward one hour in the spring in observance of daylight saving time (DST), their bodies' internal, daily rhythms don't adjust with them." - Science Daily

Daylight savings time doesn't save enough energy to run a tail warmer for every household. Where is all this energy being saved, in a country where SUVs overrun our highways?

Doesn't it make sense for dawn and dusk to come at 6am and 6pm on the equinox, give or take where you sit within a time zone? This is not what happens, because daylight savings time throws it off by an hour, one way or another. Instead, we all live with 7pm dusk on the Equinox, then BAM, move the clocks back an hour, making the sun come up...later? sooner? It always seems to be going opposite the way I was just getting used to.

more coverage:
danallen.com/blurb.php?dogNow=451

What are your thoughts on this?

User Comments

5/31/08

Jeunelle

Wow MisterDog I honestly never thought about this, yes I suppose it does need to be cancelled.
Besides, I hate having to remember to change the clock back or forward anyways.

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1. 5/31/08
  
  JacobDiv
  
  Jeunelle, you never thought about how it makes you feel having to switch? Or why it's setup the way it is? no way..... really?
  
  I got into this, trying to get a handle on how it came to pass that we call the days by the names we use, why we have a 5-day work week, etc..
  
  To me, daylight savings time is like an extra tweak o' the screw of life, as embodied by the daily grind.
5/31/08

Jeunelle

No I haven't.
I have wondered about the order of days such as: Saturday and Sunday
which one was the actual day of rest for the Lord?
The Roman calendar is not really that precise.

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5/31/08

thewriterspulse

Yeah, I agree -- daylight savings doesn't make much sense, and it doesn't even help anything. In fact, I've never known anyone who has even remotely championed the need for daylight savings...so let's kill it.

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6/06/08

JacobDiv

I'm writing to my senator about this. I'll let you know what he sends back.

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1. 6/07/08
  
  momoftwingirls
  
  My question is this: how on earth do we have the ability to change the clock anyway? Is the DST being changed by the HAARP program up in Alaska? I am still clueless about how this DST thing works, even after reading what it means.
  
  Thanks so much for this post.
2. 7/23/08
  
  kat822
  
  good luck with that danny boy
6/07/08

jan4insight

You're after my own heart. I HATE Daylight Savings Time! And they keep wanting to make it last longer in the name of "energy saving." Bulls*t! It's just a distraction from what we really need to do on the energy front.

There are a few places in the US that don't observe DST. Arizona is one. Now, no red-blooded New Mexican would ever seriously consider moving to Arizona, but sometimes when I'm sleep-lagged from DST, I think about it.

I love the fall when I get my hour back!

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6/07/08

pamelabaker

I think that it is backwards. It makes the short days shorter and the long days longer. Light wise that is. If they did this in reverse, it would make the worst of winter seem a little less like living in a cave. The only draw back is that school children would be going and standing at bus stops in the dark,
Write 'em !!!

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7/22/08

JacobDiv

I am extremely pleased to let you know, my boss successfully lobbied for my hours to shift with daylight savings time, so my time is the same every day. Everyone else will be shifting. That will be weird. It's in effect already. I am due to work at 6:45 standard time, which equals 7:45 daylight time. Those times don't change, what changes is which clock setting is observed by the public, and most of my co workers.

I'd say it's narcissistic of me to request that I get exception to the daylight savings time process, but it's been proven by science that millions suffer from daylight savings time.

Regarding the school kids,why not start them later in the winter, but leave the clocks alone? Just wondering.

science catches up with common sense
more...
danallen.com/blurb.php?dogNow=451 (same link as in start of thread)

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7/23/08

pamelabaker

Thats a good idea !

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7/23/08

lettershome

Millions "suffer?" First I've heard of it. Daylight savings time means you have more time to enjoy the outdoors in summer evenings. And if there were no daylight savings where I live, for example, the sun would rise in June at around four in the morning. Ridiculous.

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7/23/08

kxthy73

I think that it is fairly stupid. I live in Las Vegas and at certain times during the year it's still light out until 9 pm!

Arizona doesn't observe day light savings time. =)

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1. 7/23/08
  
  lettershome
  
  Daylight savings time is great. It's only on in the summer months, the sun rises and sets an hour later. Whoever wants to enjoy sports or the outdoors in the evenings in daylight can do so for an hour longer. What's wrong with that?
7/23/08

rethaw

This thread is awesome, time-shifting in the workplace!

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7/23/08

howisbradley

I LOVE daylight savings time. To me the more sunshine the better. I'd hate to see it go. And I've not only lived in sunny Cali, but also in Phoenix and Las Vegas and felt exactly the same way.

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