OT: Warning: Daylight Stupid Time ends

[T]

DST ends November 3rd

[Sam E]

When people say "you get an extra hour" I thought "nobody could be that stupid". I seem to have gotten that one wrong.

[gregz]

When times moves back, you have lived in the future.

Greg

[Cindy Hamilton]

I get an extra hour of waiting for the alarm clock to catch up with my brain's idea of what time it is. Every day for a week or two.

Cindy Hamilton

[Ed Pawlowski]

But think of all the daylight saved over the years. I have so much in my account I can avoid the dark for days.

Florida is one the that states that want to stay on DST all year. Congress have to approve it though so it may never happen.

[invalid unparseable]

I think state legislatures could approve it. It is a PITA twice a year to change all our clocks. Even my atomic clocks get flaky and I have to move them near windows. Nobody like it but nobody has a solution. I say abolish DST.

[Ed Pawlowski]

State can approve to stay on standard time. DST year round needs Fed approval.

Opinions differ as the opposite sides of the time zone have a natural variance. I like the light at the end of the day but if my kids left for school in the dark I may think different.

[gfretwell]

Isn't DST all year long just "T". If all of the businesses and schools want to change their hours, they can. The only thing it screws up is the TV schedules.

[gfretwell]

The federal government controls DST

[gfretwell]

Schools could juggle their hours if they wanted to.

[invalid unparseable]

Saw that one year when I traveled to the end of the eastern time zone - all the kids going to school in the dark. It was weird.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Schools have control over that though. Just start later. Growing up in Philadelphia most factories started at 8, schools were 8:30. Moved to CT and found everything was about an hour earlier. Probably something that was tradition in 1620 and no reason to change.

[rbowman]

It will make my morning commute a little easier but nothing life changing. The sun rising over the mountains is picturesque, dramatic, and all that good stuff but not when you're trying to see the road.

[Thomas]

I 80 e at 7am sun in eyes all the way to nyc. After work, sun in eyes west all the way home. Kinda glad the company sold out to china. Now, my employer is 1.5 miles from home.

[Emory L]

[snip]

I seem to remember that DST was supposed to be a joke. That's what it's good for (other than giving you chances to get your clocks set right).

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

DST is not quite just T. It's effectively changing the timezone, but in a more complicated and confusing way.

Just don't lie about it (by messing with the clocks).

And dogs (animals expecting to be fed at a certain time).

[Terry Coombs]

  Especially big dogs that think their master needs to get up at a certain time ...

[gfretwell]

It is just propagated by people who think if they wake up much after sunrise, they are sleeping the day away. In that regard I suppose it does have some value. The utility for me went away when I started working 3d shift and by the time I was back on days, the company had flex time so you could make your own DST. I also understand a lot of people do not have that option. Now that I am retired this is my clock.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Doesn't matter. I wake up before sunrise all year long. I still hate DST, and I hate the semiannual changes even more.

Cindy Hamilton

[micky]

Until I was 18, I had one clock and my mother had 2.

In college I had only one and my mother was on her own.

Now I have about 10. It's too much trouble to change them all so some I leave on summer time all year round. I only change the microwave, not the stove, because it's the time I check in the kitchen, and the alarm clock