04-02-2006, 03:43 AM | #1 | ||
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Its daylight savings time once again!
Its daylight savings time once again!
Be sure to set your clock forward one hour. Damn we lose one hour sleep. |
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04-02-2006, 03:45 AM | #2 |
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april fools!
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04-02-2006, 03:50 AM | #3 | |
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Well, maybe you poor schlubs who actually have to be up in the morning lose an hour's sleep. Me? I just lose an hour's wakefulness. |
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04-02-2006, 08:11 AM | #4 |
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*grumble*
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04-02-2006, 08:31 AM | #5 |
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this is great! the clock in my car is right again!
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04-02-2006, 10:00 AM | #6 |
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I hate DLS. And now in a couple of years they are going to make it longer! Ack!
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04-02-2006, 10:08 AM | #7 |
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Americans. Always a week late.
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04-02-2006, 10:35 AM | #8 | |
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WTF?!? Longer? |
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04-02-2006, 10:44 AM | #9 |
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This sucks.
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04-02-2006, 11:02 AM | #10 |
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I just missed McDonalds breakfast because of this crap...
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04-02-2006, 11:16 AM | #11 | |
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I actually thought the exact same thing! I'd trade the hour of sleep to be able to be outside until 7:30 tonight anytime. |
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04-02-2006, 11:17 AM | #12 | |
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Yeah, I think they are moving up daylight savings time by a few weeks and extending it a few weeks in the near future (maybe as soon as 2007?). |
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04-02-2006, 12:27 PM | #13 | |
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i personally would be grateful for that... |
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04-02-2006, 12:47 PM | #14 | |
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The way I read your original note, I thought you meant moved by another hour or two. |
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04-02-2006, 12:52 PM | #15 |
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I don't work on weekends (right now), so I am thrilled for daylight savings time. It will mean I can play soccer during the week now.
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04-02-2006, 12:55 PM | #16 |
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Normally, I love daylight saving time. Unfortunately, I start a new job tomorrow which requires me to be at work at 6:30am every day. I'm already not a morning person as it is, and now it's going to feel like I'm getting to work at 5:30 in the morning! Ack!
At least when I leave work at 4:30, it'll only feel like 3:30, I guess.
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04-02-2006, 12:56 PM | #17 | |
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Also, if this is good for America how can States that do not recognize DST, defend their position if it is Bad for the American Energy Plan? |
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04-02-2006, 12:59 PM | #18 | |
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04-02-2006, 01:35 PM | #19 | |
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I did too. |
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04-02-2006, 04:30 PM | #20 |
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it's earlier this year and will be even earlier next year..
From Wikipedia The U.S. federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandated that daylight saving time begin nationwide on the last Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October, effective in 1967. The schedule for 2006 in the United States is that DST begins on the first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006), and changes back to standard time on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006). Beginning in 2007, DST will start on the second Sunday in March, and change back to standard time on the first Sunday in November. Under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy is required to study the impact of the daylight saving extension no later than nine months after the change takes effect. Congress has retained the right to revert back to the daylight saving schedule set in 1986 if it cannot be shown that there are significant energy savings from an extension of daylight saving time
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04-02-2006, 05:16 PM | #21 | |
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I missed late-night drunk Taco Bell last night because of this |
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04-02-2006, 05:29 PM | #22 | |
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Also from Wikipedia: On July 8, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1986 into law which amended the starting date of daylight saving time to the first Sunday in April, to take effect the following year.
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No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor. Last edited by Pumpy Tudors : 04-02-2006 at 05:29 PM. |
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04-02-2006, 06:28 PM | #23 |
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After I recover from getting up at 4am today (3am), I'll love DST because the sun's out until 10:30 pm around here come June and July. That's infinitely preferable to the alternative of the sun shining in my window at 4:40 am.
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04-02-2006, 07:26 PM | #24 | |
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You'll never take Hawaii!
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04-03-2006, 01:08 PM | #25 | |
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Because we have plenty of daylight in Arizona. We don't need to save any of it. |
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04-03-2006, 05:04 PM | #26 | |
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why waste our energy to set a clock to have to reset it later. We save our energy by leaving it the same. |
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03-09-2014, 12:07 AM | #27 |
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Bump for asswhites like me who had no idea it was today.
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03-09-2014, 04:57 AM | #28 |
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The first day of DLS is usually one of my favorite days of the year. I love late sunlight and a beautiful twilight.
Of course, I live in California.
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03-09-2014, 05:50 AM | #29 |
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Working a closing shift and then an opening shift. Yep. I get 9 hours between two 8+ hour shifts.
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03-09-2014, 06:32 AM | #30 | |
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Shaddup. Gotta get on a 6:30 flight tomorrow AM, which means that to get to the airport on time I have to wake up at about 3AM body time and then work all day. |
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03-09-2014, 06:43 AM | #31 |
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My kids don't know, nor care, that we lost an hour sleep.
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03-09-2014, 09:42 AM | #32 | |
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I wonder if that study ever took place. I just don't see a lot of savings coming from DST in this day and age with, you know, electric lights and a significant decrease the agricultural population in this country. There are now just a bunch of silly "hey, Billy's baseball practice has more light" or "I hate getting up earlier" stories but nothing besides silly anecdotes. SI
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03-09-2014, 09:47 AM | #33 |
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I work all over the clock. I love DST! We live on the western side of Eastern and the late nights are my favorite. Plus with the time change it means that I'm working in the daylight a lot more which is much easier on me than night flying.
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03-09-2014, 09:49 AM | #34 |
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It is dumb and antiquated.
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03-09-2014, 09:53 AM | #35 |
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03-09-2014, 12:50 PM | #36 |
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I think Daylight Savings Time is the bees knees. Now where did I set down my Farmers Almanac?
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03-09-2014, 12:53 PM | #37 |
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This thread is incomplete without a lungs commentary on DST
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03-09-2014, 12:56 PM | #38 |
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God bless Arizona
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03-09-2014, 02:17 PM | #39 |
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There's a bill floating around the Idaho legislature right now that would get rid of Daylights Savings time, ala Arizona. I don't know how much support it has, but it's getting a fair amount of media attention.
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03-09-2014, 02:30 PM | #40 |
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If you're tired after day light savings, set your clock two hours forward. If that didn't work, try four hours forward. I'd you're still tired then maybe daylight savings isn't for you. Last edited by mckerney : 03-09-2014 at 02:31 PM. |
03-09-2014, 02:34 PM | #41 |
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I have a friend who lives near Indianapolis, Indiana.
Apparently Indy doesn't recognize DLST..to make matters worse work is in a different time zone than home and wife's work. So depending on time of year home/work are as much as 2 hours ahead or 2 hours behind...I cant remember the particulars and trying to figure it out hurts my head....but thats the gist. |
03-09-2014, 02:56 PM | #42 |
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Indiana follows DST now. We didn't use to, but the government made it one of their big sticking points one year and now we do. Most of the state is eastern, but near Chicago and the southwest are Central.
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03-10-2014, 07:29 AM | #43 |
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Very interesting study about this and trying to explain why we have dinner at 10pm in Spain
How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog
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03-10-2014, 07:36 AM | #44 | |
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I did find this pretty interesting to read. thanks! I guess it also helps explain why I tend to want to eat dinner so early, since I live in a green area of the map. |
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03-10-2014, 11:32 AM | #45 |
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Today is a really good argument for getting off DST
SI
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03-10-2014, 11:40 AM | #46 |
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03-10-2014, 02:36 PM | #47 | |
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I hate giving up the extra hour of sleep. I'd actually be all for just staying on DLS time to have sunlight later at night. Reverting back to standard time sucks because it goes from being able to do stuff outside to it being to dark to do stuff outside. Now to convince the world to shift the time zones ahead an hour... |
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03-10-2014, 03:50 PM | #48 | ||
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Thanks for psoting...but God this was a brutal read: Quote:
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03-10-2014, 04:20 PM | #50 |
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