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I love daylight savings time!

Posted by calais50 • 9/04/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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In less than 2 months, we will be setting our clocks back. I find this utterly depressing. I am very active outdoors, and when the time goes back, it is starting to get dark outside as I'm leaving work-ugggh. I wish we could be on DST year round. I was so happy that Pres. Bush extended it last year.

Some people hate daylight savings time, which I cannot fathom. Why would you not want an extra hour of daylight???

How do you feel? Love it or hate it?

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9/04/08

BudgetBride

I love it. I remember being with my family a week or so after we had to set it back - we all admitted how the darkeness was depressing us. You would think with just an hour's difference it wouldn't affect you, but it does!

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1. 9/04/08
  
  calais50
  
  Finally, someone who feels my pain
9/04/08

psychosolodiver

The reason that we go back to standard time during the winter is so, during lobster season, hunters can get an earlier start and not have to wait an extra hour until sunset.

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9/04/08

melindaville

I really like daylight savings time too. And I HATE changing it back and forth. This messes me up for a while each time it happens.

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9/04/08

slivatree

It was orginally conceived by the American Benjamin Franklin and was adopted by Europe to save on energy in industry. That's it, however it has been found since that the difference is minimal especially now in this non stop business world of ours.

It does come in useful in the summer as we other wise woudl sleep through much of the sun during the mornings.

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9/04/08

CrystalRaven

I hate it, just one more way humans, the government etc, is messing with our biological clocks, same with months that have 30/31 days

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9/04/08

Svelmoe

I love when we set our clocks back ... an hour of extra sleep. Yaaahh

Frankly though, I rarely care about it, as I usually have no problems shifting my "internal clock" any ways.

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1. 9/04/08
  
  calais50
  
  I have no problem adjusting either. I just miss the extra hour of light.
9/04/08

suburbqueen

Either way works for me. The kids and I play outside even if it's dark. Flashlight tag is fun!

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9/04/08

Phillyzero

Doesn't matter a ton to me, though getting about early for uni on dark cold winter mornings isn't all that fun.

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9/04/08

wigwam2theorem

I don't mind switching back and forth. I do love the extra hour of sunlight in the summer.

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