Guess we deserve it.
Posted on 03/10/2018 5:08:34 AM PST by sodpoodle
1. “I say it is impossible that so sensible a people .....(trunc) if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.” — Benjamin Franklin
2. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” — Winston Churchill
3. “There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding.” — Michelle Franklin
4. “Daylight time, a monstrosity in timekeeping.” — Harry S. Truman
5. "Love prefers twilight to daylight." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
6. “Don’t forget it's daylight saving time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.” — David Letterman
7. "With the coming of spring, I am calm again." — Gustav Mahler
8. "We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later." — Winston Churchill
9. “You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight saving time.” — Dave Barry
10. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.” — Victor Borge
11. “Daylight saving time occurs because Chuck Norris hits snooze on his alarm clock.” — Unknown
12. “Daylight saving time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.” — Anonymous
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More people will die of heart attacks the first week of DST than any other week of the year. Death by government happens every year.
Just leave the damn clock alone. Most of the country is not involved in farming and most of the harvest is mechanized today.
Remember Spring ahead all through 70’s and 80’s as fourth Sunday of April (I see 74 and 75 were Jan and Feb). Then in 87 moved to first Sunday in April. Now second Sunday March well before Spring.
>>Just leave the damn clock alone. Most of the country is not involved in farming and most of the harvest is mechanized today.<<
We were on year-around DST in the 70s (and early 80s?). We should return to that.
Isn’t #12 a Reagan quote?
At 2:00 AM the first Monday in March the calendar is moved forward to 2:00 AM on Friday.
At 2:00 AM on the first Tuesday in October, the calendar is moved back to 2:00 AM on Friday.
You heard it here first
I’ve heard that explanation before - that it was to give farmers extra daylight. While I believe the explanation is real, I think the idea behind it is bogus. Farmers don’t punch a time clock. They’ve got work to do, and daylight to do it in, they’ll get up and vet it done. It doesn’t matter what the clock says. I believe it could be similar with manufacturing jobs too. If a company wanted to save money by operating in natural light they could just change start times twice a year. We don’t need to fool around with the clocks - just apply a little common sense.
It’s a stupid twice-a-year exercise. But there’s no better solution being suggested.
Keep DST all year-around.
Like snowbirds spending winters in Florida, people who don’t like daylight saving time can spend their April - October months in Australia where daylight savings time changes are reversed.
Blame the annual variation in daylight hours on the 23.5° tilt of the Earth’s axis relative to its orbital plane.
DST allows one daylight hour to be switched from the morning to the evening during the summer period when more people spend non-working time outdoors.
This article seems to explain it all.
Farmers DON’T Like it.
Yup - love it. Much more natural to be outdoors in the evening than in the early hours of the morning. Who wants to be outdoors at 5am?
Standard time is depressing to me. Give me DST all year......
If you did that, in the Winter, the Sun would rise at 8am and set at 6. In the Summer, of course, 6 to 8.
Without DST, you get 7 to 5 daylight and in the Summer 5 to 7 daylight.
I actually prefer the shift.
If you can get people to believe that “noon” is not necessarily when the sun is at its highest in the sky, you can get them to believe that “marriage” is not necessarily between a man and a woman.
It changed to the current dates in 2007 and at that time I worked for a television station and you wouldn't believe how much grief it caused us with various automation and scheduling software packages that had the old spring and fall date rules baked into the software, and in some cases in the firmware.
"If you're cold, put on another sweater."
Guess we deserve it.
I agree with the quote by dave barry and the no. 12 quote. I grew up when DST was instituted and the bogus arguments for it never made sense to me. Just keep it the same all year. I don’t care if they move it forward and leave it, just leave it alone.
DST. Love it. They should move the clock 2 hours forward.
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