Daylight Savings Always Confuses Me.

[nitish]

fuck farmers. Wake up earlier...or later to do your job. Why do we have to suffer along? Let's just stop playing with time. K?

 

[Spiff]

It's really not about the farmers anymore. It's all about the crazy notion that more daylight hours in the evening is better for the economy. Although I've never seen solid proof of this notion.

 

[chillyboi]

Are you a Blonde?

 

[just_mills]

Clocks went back an hour at 2AM last night.. (UK)
It doesn't seem to bother me.. Doesn't feel any different to either..

 

[gabriel1]

when the moon hits the sky
like a big pizza pie

you can go to sleep

In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl here's what they say

When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool
That's amore
When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli
That's amore

(When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore
Lucky fella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool)
That's amore
(When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli)
That's amore, (amore)
That's amore

 

[LarsVenice]

Daylight Savings Time was never intended to be a 'cost saving' measure. It was created specifically to give farmers an extra hour in the evening for them to do their work.

My father is a farmer, and he ignores clocks - he works by the sun, and so daylight savings means nothing to him. Here, DST was created to give office workers more daylight hours after work for play - not for work - at least that's what farmers have told me.

 

[gsdx]

I found this, which is really quite interesting:

Beginning March 11, 2007, Daylight Saving(s) Time will be extended another four or five weeks. It will now begin on the second Sunday of March and will last until the first Sunday of November. This change was introduced as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Proponents claim that the extension will save “the equivalent of” 10,000 barrels of oil per day. But this figure was based on statistics from the Department of Energy Conservation (DoE) during the 1970’s. The DoE no longer stands by the accuracy and relevance of these figures as they do not apply to the energy consumption habits of the nation today. There has been very little research on what the actual positive effects of this extension, if any, there may be.

This extension has stirred up all sorts of controversy and questions. Many are concerned with what effect a change like this will have on our daily lives. Parents and schools are worried about the safety of children who will now be traveling to school in the dark before the late sunrise at the end of their school year. The airline industry is worried about the effect on Thanksgiving travel.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest travel days of the year and forgetting to change a clock in a hotel or wherever could result in a missed plane. Even software designers are worried about the problems that will arise with software that has been designed to auto calculate Daylight Saving(s) Time based on the old tables. This software is in use all over the country and will require labor and manual updates too many systems to get them on the correct time.

Opponents of Daylight Saving(s) Time claim there is little benefit to this extension, or Daylight Saving(s) Time in general. They believe that constant disruption to people’s sleep habits, confusion while traveling, and lost productivity from sleep deprived workers are just a few of the ill effects of a system that gains us nothing.

Many believe that the measure actually wastes more energy, as people coming home from work are more apt to get in their cars and drive to the lake, or go shopping, etc while it is still daylight. They believe that DST is, and always was, a measure to get more money from consumers and increase sales for businesses. People are more apt to go shopping and spend money after work while it is still daylight during the summer. Businesses can reap the benefits of these “extra” shopping hours. They believe the “energy savings” was never a real concern for the government and was just a way to sell it.

Whatever the case may be, it appears that Daylight Saving(s) Time is here to stay; forever altering our sleep habits and ensuring that the entire world remains confused as to what time it really is.

I've only quoted the last part of the article which deals with our discussion, but the first part (how DST came about) is equally as interesting: http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/daylight_savings_time/

 

[sonny10305]

Are you a Blonde?

That's exactly what I was thinking as I read the posts.

Seriously though, Go to bed an hour later than you usually do, and set the clocks back then.

OMG, now I am starting to think like the rest of them.

 

[gsdx]

My father is a farmer, and he ignores clocks - he works by the sun, and so daylight savings means nothing to him. Here, DST was created to give office workers more daylight hours after work for play - not for work - at least that's what farmers have told me.

Well, since it was Ben Franklin who first suggested it (either seriously or in jest), there wasn't much to do way back then except to sleep when it got dark.

 

[teadrinker]

It always takes me a day or two to get used to missing that hour.

I had to get up early on the Sunday that daylight saving started, so I set the clock of my PDA (which I'm currently using as an alarm clock) forward before I went to sleep, and then set my alarm to the (daylight saving) time of 7.00am. However, what I had forgotten was that my PDA is clever enough to adjust itself to daylight saving. So: it added another hour to the one I'd already given it, and so I was woken up two hours earlier than my body clock.

But I like long summer evenings (when they're not too hot), and in general I like daylight saving.

-T.

 

[Spiff]

Otherway around. Technically it starts... it's called daylight saving... thus we're saving day light by changing the clocks.

In spring, when the lighter nights come along etc, we come off Daylight Saving Time.

Wrong. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
The U.S. is still on DST until Nov. 4. After Nov. 4 we will no longer be on DST, hence it ends and becomes standard time. My original reply was specifically regarding the US (go back and read). Doesn't matter though, because the UK is the same except DST ends 1 week earlier -yesterday, Oct 28.

 

[Shepherd 2]

Spring forward, Fall backward!
The internal body clock, says what the fuck
is going on here? I want to eat now,
or why aren't we having sex and in bed?
Shep+

 

[just_mills]

Otherway around. Technically it starts... it's called daylight saving... thus we're saving day light by changing the clocks.
In spring, when the lighter nights come along etc, we come off Daylight Saving Time.

Wrong.

Wrong. http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
The U.S. is still on DST until Nov. 4. After Nov. 4 we will no longer be on DST, hence it ends and becomes standard time. My original reply was specifically regarding the US (go back and read). Doesn't matter though, because the UK is the same except DST ends 1 week earlier -yesterday, Oct 28.

Right.

 

[morgaes]

I'm just happy that we don't use it over here

 

[crowboy]

A divisive issue.

I'm waiting for someone to say they don't like Daylight Saving because it fades the curtains.

 

[ambiguity]

Or you can be like Saskatchewan and just not participate in the whole daylight savings debacle. Hooray for never having to adjust my clock!

 

[ozguy]

I'm waiting for someone to say they don't like Daylight Saving because it fades the curtains.

..... or it kills your plants.

 

[Joe King Jay]

Anyone else find they are a bit disorientated when daylight savings starts??

I hate DST. My head gets so confused - I go from liking girls to guys to girls again . Okay, that was totally lame , but it does mess with my head for the next few days .