Whilst falling back this weekend

[Sam E]

What I hate is being too stupid to adapt schedules to reality.

[krw]

There is a benefit. In the summer it's not light at 3:00AM. In=20 the winter it is light at 7:00AM.

Bullshit. You apparently confuse easily.

--=20 Keith=20

[krw]

But governments and businesses determine time. By your "logic" we should get rid of time zones altogether and just go bay local solar time; not a good idea.

Stop whining and set the clocks Saturday night.

[krw]

What I hate is whiners. Set the damned clock and shut up, already.

[HeyBub]

The sun does not tell you what time to be at work or school nor does it penalize you for being late. Farmers, burglars, and a handful of other professions govern their lives by the comings and goings of Old Man Sol; for the rest of us, we're at the mercy of a mechanism.

That the mechanism can be adjusted is a boon.

[GWB]

Everyone with an opinion is a "whiner"?

[GWB]

Mebbie to you. DST happens to coincide with the offshore fishing/diving season. I rather like an extra hour of sleep before going out and extra daylight to return to shore.

[GWB]

Where do you live, Norway?

[Mark Lloyd]

What's different is what you CALL 3:00AM. If you don't like it getting light while you're in bed, you could always go to bed earlier (and so get up earlier). That's what you're doing now, just fooling yourself into thinking otherwise.

Why do you think you're changing the Earth's axial tilt by resetting your clock? Apparently, you think writing "home" on a map of Australia is equivalent to moving there. It makes as much sense as this DST junk.

The problem is that I did NOT get confused by this DST nonsense, and you are unable to tell the difference.

[Mark Lloyd]

Then you could have GONE TO BED EARLIER! It's no reason to mess with everybody's clocks.

[Mark Lloyd]

That may be the worst bullshit ever. They may determine standards for MEASURING time. That's a long way from determining time.

[Mark Lloyd]

A mechanism that could control time may seem useful when you've just had an accident and wish you could back up a few minutes and do things differently. Of course, this fails to coincide with reality.

A world where governments and/or businesses and/or clocks could control time would be a very different world from the one we live in.

[Mark Lloyd]

They are to those who wish to attract attention away from their own deficiencies.

[GWB]

I don't wanna. Reset yer clock and quit whining.

[krw]

Well, I'm not a milk farmer, as apparently you are. Where I live=20 businesses run by clocks. Transportation runs by the clock. Work=20 is done by the clock. Perhaps you should simply throw away your=20 clocks if you don't use time. The railroads found standardized=20 time to be quite useful though. DST is simply a method of trying=20 to alight artificial time to natural. Both are useful.

Nope, just moving artificial time zones to be more useful WRT Sol. =20

Nope, you get confused setting clocks. You mentioned this in this=20 thread.

--=20 Keith

[krw]

Vermont.

[krw]

You must be a Democrat.

[krw]

Zactly! ;-)

[GWB]

Close enough.

[GWB]

Thems fightin words, my friend!