Posted on 03/31/2006 11:43:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
If I had my choice between brain surgery w/o anesthesia and resetting my clocks.....
"I really hate daylight savings time.
"Just leave the time of day alone."
In most of Arizona, we do just that.
Not real fun going to a little league
game that starts at 8:30 in the evening with the sun
still beating out 115 degrees.
Jiggering around with time is a bad thing.
I believe Captain Kirk proved that on many occasions!
Scotty's transporter is not as good as it looks. When I arrived before I started, my butt hurt just like I'd been sitting on a plane for 10 hours.
Believe me, Drhogan, my husband hates DST more than any creature in heaven, on the earth, or under the earth. He hates it so much, clocks fall off of walls when he walks in the room; calendars ignite; cellular phones go back on the Julian calendar; the Russian Orthodox all move to a different time zone (they've been around the world several times now) and my husband issues a ROAR that sends all vertebrates within hearing range back to the Jurassic.
Please don't provoke him when the time change comes, or your monitor will melt and the letters on your keyboard will go blank...and all your daffodils will go back in the ground...
You forgot to add, NYANYANYANYANANA...!!!
Still - a lot of explaining to do about foisting McCain on the nation.
Argh.
By the way, I hated DST before I was born.
I protested within the womb and came out in my own dam time!
Screw standard time too, it all sucks. Smash the clocks.
FReep infinitely!
FReep ON!!
A pox on those who invented this horror!!
Trying to change four childrens' schedule is just a nightmare.....
"we can say it's for the CHILDREN!"
Amen. I really hate that excuse. Most of the time when I was in school, we had to get up and walk down to the corner in the dark anyway, and we turned out OK...sort of.
If we're going to have Daylight Saving Time, it's probably better to move the Spring change out of the Easter season into late March -- it is always an extra annoyance when the start of DST coincides with Easter Sunday.
Which lead my "wise" daughter to once ask, "Dad, if Daylight Savings happens on Easter, does that mean that Jesus has to rise an hour later?"
"it's also very rewarding and the camaraderie with my co-workers (American AND Iraqi) is wonderful."
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That's great.
Sometime maybe you could write about your experience and post it, reading a first hand experience like yours would be great. And if you do, please ping me to it, I wouldn't want to miss it.
And I bet you have some hearwarming stories to share, which the MSM buries so deep, they never see the light of day.
I hate loosing the hour each fall and having to drag my sorry a$$ earlier to the office. Just leave the time of day alone, already.
no DST for Arizona
"maybe we can trick congress into extending DST longer and longer every year, until it lasts for the entire year. "
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There you go!
History of daylight saving time:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin (portrait at right) during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." Read more about Franklin's essay.
Check out the next page too, it's a long history.
Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. Other countries immediately adopted this 1916 action: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Tasmania. Nova Scotia and Manitoba adopted it as well, with Britain following suit three weeks later, on May 21, 1916. In 1917, Australia and Newfoundland began saving daylight.
The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. until 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. [See law] It both established standard time zones and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918. Daylight Saving Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. After the War ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than people do today) that it was repealed in 1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's veto. Daylight Saving Time became a local option, and was continued in a few states, such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in some cities, such as New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
"There may be many on here who dislike DST but those of us on the northern border really appreciate it."
Bump to YOUR COMMENT!!!
(from WASHINGTON!)
And I AM REALLY looking forward to next year when it will start earlier and go later!
Right now (well in March) we could barely have T-Ball practice because the kids get home from School about 4:00 and it is already getting dark by about 5:30...ACK!
I hate that it will be so dark in the morning...but it will be GREAT in the afternoon!
"hate loosing the hour each fall and having to drag my sorry a$$ earlier to the office. Just leave the time of day alone, already."
Actually you GAIN an hour in the fall (fall back)..you lose and hour in the spring (spring ahead)...
Or maybe what you mean is that you "lose" an hour (of daylight) in the morning?
I'm already ahead of the game. Never got around to changing the clocks in my cars.
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