History of Daylight Saving Time – Ending

BillPetro ^ | October 28, 2013 | BILL PETRO

[ErnBatavia]

[trisham]

:)

[Da Coyote]

you live in massachutes.....we don’t expect much from you
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Thanks. At least we have some excellent private schools here where we learn, among other subjects, spelling and grammar.

But not economics.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Good one!

[Theophilus]

I hate it. It is very disruptive.

[old and tired]

Same here. And if you’ve got kids, the aggravation is multiplied. We’re grandparents now, but my wife still jokes that the people who invented it certainly didn’t have small children.

[trisham]

:)

[nothingnew]

hahahaw!...good one!

FMCDH(BITS)

[trisham]

It doesn’t bother me, but I can understand that it might be bothersome to some people.

[trisham]

:)

[old and tired]

I’m in Pennsylvania, but I’d vote it out in a heart beat. I’d help you if I lived in California.

[hoosierham]

Daylight savings time is a stupid game of let’s pretend. The Sun isn’t fooled..

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Perfect illustration of "Marketing."

If you issued an edict that everyone had to get up and go to work one hour earlier, they'd all be bitchin' and grumbling.

So you make up a story about "taking an hour from the morning and attaching it to the evening," or simply setting the clocks one hour ahead and everybody's happy.

[DeFault User]

a clock that automatically adjusts itself so you can have 40 hours in a day. You’ll still have to work eight hours but through creative adjustments this will only take about 15 minutes.

-Or- you could move to France, where this is strictly practiced. 15 minutes of work per day and retire at 50

[trisham]

Probably not.

[forgotten man]

I remember when we went to daylight savings time in February 1974. A lot of kids got hit by cars when they were going to school in the dark. It was real bad in the northern states. You cannot fool mother nature.

[The Great RJ]

I have long thought than any energy savings from DST is meaningless as most modern buildings do not depend on outside light and things like air conditioning run 24/7. However, the longer evening light is great during the summer. It might make more sense if DST went from Memorial Day to Labor Day

[jttpwalsh]

I remember that well, in Connecticut, in ‘74. We froze our behinds, waiting for the bus, in the morning darkness. One day, a kid brought a flask of bourbon, to stay warm. I never tasted hard liquor, before that time, but I took a good chug, and remained warm for some time !

[Arrowhead1952]

< blonde gal>

I just love getting up at 2 AM to reset all the clocks. It disrupts my beauty sleep.

< /blonde gal>

[GreyFriar]

Thank you :), I’ll just have to remember to tell my alarm clock.