Posted on 03/31/2006 11:43:42 PM PST by FairOpinion
Millions of Americans will lose an hour's sleep Saturday night, as daylight savings time returns.
Officially clocks should be moved ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, but most people will change their clocks before going to bed Saturday night.
The lost hour will return October 29 when clocks fall back to standard time.
Congress has passed a law changing the dates of daylight-saving time, from March 11 to November 4, but that doesn't take effect until 2007.
hey...my husband did the same thing last weekend from Korea..
Left at 11:00am (Sunday)...got home at 7:00am (Sunday)...pretty LONG day!
"extending DST longer and longer every year, until it lasts for the entire year. "
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Guess what?
"During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called War Time, from February 2, 1942 to September 30, 1945. "
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
fall=spring duh!! LOL
See see...it upset me so much I can't get the seasons straight. :)
I'm a late riser, and I like having the extra hour of daytime that I get from DST. I live far on the eastern side of my time zone and I'm tired of it being dark at 5:30.
I guess I'm the only one.
"I'm tired of it being dark at 5:30.
I guess I'm the only one."
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No you aren't. That is the good part of the DST, that while everyone has to get up an hour earlier, but after work, there is still some daylight left.
But that doesn't make it any easier to get up an hour earlier.
Hah! I set my clocks ahead last night so now I've got
24 more hours than you! Neener neener!
I could not agree with you MORE about the Daylight Savings nonsense. I absolutely HATE it and, even as a little kid, could never see the point of it.
But isn't it more natural to spring back and fall forward?
The only thing I'm grateful for about DST is the longer Friday, which gives me the extra hr. to prepare for the Jewish Sabbath. Otherwise, I see no point in it.
The twice-a-year NATIONAL STUPIDITY TEST. This all started because a bunch of damned yankees wanted extra daylight to play in once they gained the 40-hour work week. We should stop screwing around with people's timepieces, and let those that choose to just figure out how to get to work early.
OK, you win!!
i have conceded on this. i had thought i hated DST more than anyone, but i stand corrected!
"During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called War Time, from February 2, 1942 to September 30, 1945. "
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we could propose year-round dst as a way to honor FDR. then no one would have the nerve to oppose it.
we could explain that it will stop global warming, save the environment, increase business productivity, lower taxes, save social security, and strengthen the military.
S'okay - Shrub's gonna sign a bill changing the dates of the Equinoxes too.
Fine, then leave it on DST. Just leave it ALONE.
That's true, except for the large Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona, which does observe DST.
Mouse over the northeastern corner of Arizona (on the map in the site below) and you'll see what I mean about DST on the reservation.
http://www.time.gov/
This site may be especially helpful for you, wai-ming, since you make frequent calls to the US; it tells the current time in any of the US time zones.
Thanks to Mitch Daniels, Indiana's worst governor ever, we now have to play this stupid game. The day his one term governorship ends will be the greatest day in Indiana history since it became a state. The sigh of relief here will be so great that it will push the jetstream south.
What's the political situation there for governor?
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