Daylight savings nonsense rant.

[outofwater]

Anyone else agrees that this is one of the most useless and annoying thing ? I started getting mildly annoyed at it a few years ago, now it's really getting on my nerves guess I'm just getting older and crankier. But still, the fact remains, I don't see how it makes sense and it's utterly annoying.

Rant off.

 

[Rocky998]

For the farmers!

Anyways... Yah it can be kinda annoying but I don't mind it lol

 

[connorlindeman]

There's the possibility it may be disposed of soon. Idk, it always helps me wake up earlier. I wake up at 5 and it feels like 6. Not bad.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I forgot and woke up an hour early, smh

 

[WhistlingBadger]

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Here in the great white north, I really wish that we could stay on DST all year. I like having the extra light in the evening to go for a run or get some outside work done. But really I'd be happy if they'd just pick one and stick with it.

 

[Crispii]

Honestly. People from Arizona and Hawaii are probably laughing their butts off and boasting that they don't have to deal with this crap.

 

[JuiceBox52]

 

[jaylach]

Actually DST has an odd history. People think that it is a United States thing but isn't. It actually started in Canada but there is a lot of discussion as to if this is true with many believing it actually started during World War One to help troops conserve fuel. Others claim that it was started by the railroad companies to simplify shipping schedules.

History of Daylight Savings Time | Bureau of Transportation Statistics

On the first Sunday in November millions of Americans turn their clocks back 1 hour to mark the end of Daylight Savings Time (DST), an annual practice that has its roots in transportation.

www.bts.gov

29-30 states have tried to abolish the time changes but failed. The problem is that DST became law in 1966 in the US and can't be done away with on a state by state basis. Such states as Arizona are exempt from this an they never originally opted in the thing. While there has been a lot of efforts to abolish this foolishness it has never succeeded as it takes a very high percentage of state votes to get rid of it and the number has never been met. Since it became law it takes an act of Congress to be rid of the thing.

Technically DST falls under the department of transportation but I think the real power that keeps it going is energy companies. Let's see... in the fall the days are already getting shorter then we set the clock back an hour making darkness come even sooner. Now you turn on your porch light an hour earlier and the energy companies make more and more money.

Pros and cons on time changes...

Cons:
1) Increase of suicide rates.
2) Messes with our pets.
3) Causes an increase in depression ( relates to 1) )
4) Messes with people suffering from dementia.
5) Increase in crime.

Pros:
1) Well I guess we get a little exercise reaching the wall clock to change the time.
2) Really trying but 1) seems to be it...

 

[GaryE]

We should just decide and stick with it. I'm a morning person, so I appreciate the earlier light. But it changes nothing fundamental, and very few of us are farmers anymore. Computerized combine harvesters don't care about sunlight.
It'll soon be getting dark at 4 in the afternoon, but if that were at 5, big deal. You adjust. I used to work in a factory that had no windows, and you wouldn't see sun for five days a week there, unless you stepped out at lunch into what were usually howling winds.

And try having a large fishroom with timed lighting... I'm going to be adjusting a lot of timers today (didn't have 'time' yesterday). I'll have the phone out resetting the fluval lights, and I'll be doing contortions to reach the manual timers. I think that's how the Cirque du Soleil was invented in my hometown. Someone saw me trying to reach the timers.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Another favorite DST meme. Then I'll stop.

 

[outofwater]

Lol, it seems most agree it's kinda pointless. The memes are fun too, good to start the week with laughter. Carry on, people of the past. Carry on.

 

[Slaphppy7]

Senate introduced a bill in March to keep DST, let's hope the House does the same.

I hate Standard Time.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Yeah, I don't know anybody that likes it. Makes me wonder why we keep it. Jaylatch might be on to something.

 

[outofwater]

*tinfoil hat on*

They do it to keep messing with our circadian rhythm and further weaken and demoralize us.

Yeah, I don't know anybody that likes it. Makes me wonder why we keep it. Jaylatch might be on to something.

Rant off.