Daylight Savings Time SUCKS!!!

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,753
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Someone remind me why we do this. If anything, I think we should go the other direction. Who the hell wants it to be dark at 5:30pm??? :mad:
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  • rs159
    rs159 Posts: 1,027
    edited October 2003
    For some reason I like the nightime so.....
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited October 2003
    really....lets just leave time the way it is and wake up an hour later neway
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  • rs159
    rs159 Posts: 1,027
    edited October 2003
    Hey kids, life lesson - don't overdose...on anything. Right now I couldn't give two squirts of piss about daylight savings time, I'm tired regardless.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,090
    edited October 2003
    I'm with F1 on this one....wtf, it's dark before I get home from work.

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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2003
    Why would you even worry F1? You don't wake up until Noon?? :D
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,753
    edited October 2003
    Right, so I only get 5 effn hours of dayight!!!

    So does anyone remember WTH we do this?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2003
    October 26th 2 AM freak! As in you should have allready freaking done it :)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,753
    edited October 2003
    No, you didn't understand the question, WHY do we have DST???
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited October 2003
    http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by F1nut
    Someone remind me why we do this. If anything, I think we should go the other direction. Who the hell wants it to be dark at 5:30pm??? :mad:

    As the sun goes down the tubes brighten up. It is time for some enjoyment. The SDA's come up to volume and the world seems a little brighter. Yes, it is a little darker outside but inside, life is blissful! I'm all for it!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited October 2003
    I think that it has something to do with farmers......More light during one part of the year or somethin like that....<<shrug>>

    I know AZ doesn't have to change, but what other states don't go by DST?
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  • Turbota
    Turbota Posts: 255
    edited October 2003
    Daylight Savings time is done in the interest of [Child Safety]. Since the days are much shorter in the winter, the clocks are set back so the little kids are not standing out at those bus stops in the dark during the early morning hours.

    Even though it will get dark very early when Daylight Savings is in effect, the kids are usually out of school prior to darkness.

    As far as Arizona ... They don't do Daylight Savings. It has something to do with the farmers, but I don't have a clue what the major **** the farmers have with it is.

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by Turbota
    As far as Arizona ... They don't do Daylight Savings. It has something to do with the farmers, but I don't have a clue what the major **** the farmers have with it is.

    Ron,

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  • bignorm
    bignorm Posts: 120
    edited October 2003
    I dunno..I kinda like it...less ambient light means I can watch more
    movies!!!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,753
    edited October 2003
    That's it, I'm moving to Arizona!
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  • Polk-a-nizer
    Polk-a-nizer Posts: 225
    edited October 2003
    I kind of like it myself. I prefer the nighttime..... the call of the midnight air.... the beauty of the mother moon in her fullness.. the feel of a young virgins carotid atery just inches below your teeth.......Uh.....wait.....where am I?.... What happened.. why is my shirt all bloody?.......Oh **** not again............:D
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited October 2003
    I'm glad it's now dark early. I get home, it's dark, I can light up the fire pit, sit with a good cuban smoke and a beer and enjoy the cool ocean breeze and stars and the quiet, because all the little skateboarding rug rats are inside.


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  • section19
    section19 Posts: 90
    edited October 2003
    Originally posted by Turbota
    Daylight Savings time is done in the interest of [Child Safety]. Since the days are much shorter in the winter, the clocks are set back so the little kids are not standing out at those bus stops in the dark during the early morning hours.

    Even though it will get dark very early when Daylight Savings is in effect, the kids are usually out of school prior to darkness.

    As far as Arizona ... They don't do Daylight Savings. It has something to do with the farmers, but I don't have a clue what the major **** the farmers have with it is.

    Ron,

    First of all, Daylight Saving Time STARTS in April, thereby making for later sunsets and (seemingly) longer summer days. In October Daylight Saving Time ENDS. So we are now back to Standard Time.

    I've never heard the "kids at the bus stops in the dark" reason for it.

    The only explaination I've ever heard is that it would give farmers an extra hour of daylight in the summer to work their fields. DST was created quite a long time ago when farming was even more labor intensive than it is now. It was before the existance of much of the labor saving farm equipment used today.

    With modern farming being a much more effecient enterprise these days, many people feel DST has outlived it's usefulness.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited October 2003
    *cough* AHEM *cough*

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