View Full Version : Daylight Savings Time
Mayberry
10-28-2006, 02:43 PM
Well here we go again. Don't forget to turn your clocks back and loose an hour of daylight. Winter sucks bad enough without it getting dark at 5 PM. Shouldn't we do away with this ridiculous flip flopping of the clock?
piratemonkey
10-28-2006, 08:40 PM
I grew up in Arizona, where they don't do Daylight Savings Time.
Do ya know what happened?
Nothing. We actually all went throught life just fine.
What's the argument for it again?
underdawg
10-28-2006, 09:31 PM
If anything, I think we should be setting our clocks an hour ahead so that we have more daylight in the evening than in the morning
It drives me nuts! WHy we just can't stay on one time is beyond me.
What's the argument for it again?
Wasn't it to make more use of daylight in harvesting or saving energy?
Cobra
10-29-2006, 02:03 AM
I like daylights saving, I just changed my clocks and got back a whole hour. No real reason justs think it's cool. Didn't it come about during the cold war when we were competing against the Russians. They were allready up and working while we were still in bed or something like that
Buck Laser
10-29-2006, 03:24 AM
I like daylights saving, I just changed my clocks and got back a whole hour. No real reason justs think it's cool. Didn't it come about during the cold war when we were competing against the Russians. They were allready up and working while we were still in bed or something like that
It was called "war time" during WW2, and as I recall, it ran year around. Daylight time is just a means of coping with the fact that during the summer, many of the daylight hours come while people are still asleep. But the effect of daylight time depends on where you are in the time zone. If you live near the eastern edge of the zone, the sun will rise much earlier than it does near the western edge. And in northerly latitudes (like IL, where I lived for over 30 years, it rises ungodly early in the summer). Indiana doesn't have daylight time because it's at the extreme western edge of the eastern time zone.
When the first "energy crisis" broke in 1973, the administration decreed that daylight time be enforced year round. Some of my relatives in FL were pretty upset because it meant that they had to send their kids to school in the dark. And in IL, standard time meant that it was full dark by the time you left work in the afternoon.
Cobra
10-29-2006, 03:33 AM
It's dark by the time I get home in winter but doesn't bother me. No different then the daytime when it comes to going places. Why are parents afraid of there kids going places in the dark.
Why are parents afraid of there kids going places in the dark.
Cobra........trust me, I don't mean this as a slam........but you can tell you're not from the city!:cool:
Cobra
10-29-2006, 03:40 AM
Do the bad guys come out at night? Anyway I really like the dark, walk in it every night about a mile and don't have a bit of trouble driving in it.
No, the bad guys are out all the time..........you just can't see them in the dark.:P
Cobra
10-29-2006, 03:45 AM
Ohhh, maybe ya'll need to carry more guns so the bad guys won't be so apt to mess with ya dark or no dark.
..........ummm.........you want more guns in Detorit?
Cobra
10-29-2006, 04:03 AM
Hummm, how many guns does Detrorit already have? Do the criminals own all them gun? It isn't supposed to be the nicest of cities I've heard.
Professor
10-29-2006, 01:38 PM
Back to daylight savings time…
I think there should be national regulation. With different time zones and different states within the time zones not adhering to daylight savings time, it’s rather chaotic. There needs to be uniformity, with daylight savings.
Every state has a right to determine whether it wants to be on DST or not. I understand Indiana finally bit the bullet this year. I like it myself. Shakes things up a bit and seems to make summer last longer.
Ok.......you live in Texas........you have summer 365 days a year!
cs0564
11-01-2006, 03:01 AM
Lily your so right. I wish we would do away with DST, but the bad people are always out there. Just tougher to see at night.
cs0564
11-01-2006, 03:02 AM
Texas is GREAT, but not summer 365. No more than 297 :).
Mayberry
11-04-2006, 11:24 PM
Ok.......you live in Texas........you have summer 365 days a year! Nah. In South Texas, it's only 320 days. As a matter of fact, it was pretty chilly here today, only 80 degrees. Brrrrrrrr!:P
.......as I watch the snow fly and my heat kick on! Cruel, so cruel!
Mayberry
11-04-2006, 11:53 PM
.......as I watch the snow fly and my heat kick on! Cruel, so cruel! He he he!
firefox
11-07-2006, 07:06 AM
It doesn't make any logical sense, and the rest of the world is on "daylight savings" all year, so why not change it back to the way it used to be? "standard" time sucks I light my daylight! :D
cs0564
11-07-2006, 10:26 PM
Do away with it and stop confusing us :)!
firefox
11-10-2006, 02:35 AM
Ok, more daylight for everone! Woo! :D
Mayberry
11-10-2006, 02:55 PM
Boo getting dark at 5. Hoo-RAY DAYLIGHT!:D
MAP2010.wireless
11-11-2006, 02:16 AM
Its a real pain I would vote it to stop.
cs0564
11-12-2006, 12:07 AM
It takes me about 6 months to catch up anyway. Where can I vote to stop the madness? :)
Where can I vote to stop the madness?
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