Author Topic: Stupid daylight sving time. (Read 1323 times)

miko2d · « **on:** October 27, 2003, 01:49:42 PM »

I wonder what's the casualty rate due to this idiotic socialist invention.

miko

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:50:58 PM »

Casualty rate, how so?

gofaster · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:51:40 PM »

I sleep later. Can't be anything wrong with that.

Curval · « **Reply #3 on:** October 27, 2003, 01:53:40 PM »

Yea, it's when time goes ahead an hour that you end up with "casualties"...in fall you just have a bunch of people showing up an hour early.

I missed a flight once because the clocks went forward.

doh!

AKIron · « **Reply #4 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:08:28 PM »

I have always hated Daylight Savings Time.

Krusher · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:12:34 PM »

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Originally posted by AKIron
I have always hated Daylight Savings Time.

I know it is supposed to save energy, but it is a pain.

Maverick · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:15:32 PM »

In Arizona we don't save any daylight. We have so much of it we try to export the darn stuff.

wklink · « **Reply #7 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:16:04 PM »

It supposedly was designed to give farmers more daylight to get their crops in. I have never really figured out how this does that but I supposed they can get home quicker that way.

miko2d · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:16:32 PM »

Casualties? Sure.

How many people went to bed later but woke up at the same time they were used to and not being able to go to sleep again. How the heck would one explain to a two-year old to sleep longer and not wake up his parents an hour earlier? How long would it take to get him used to teh new schedule?

Same happens in the spring shift if not worse. Many people are not capable to fall asleep an hour earlier and are awoken by alarm clock in the morning when it's still dark and deary and they fill terrible.

A missed hour of sleep by many drivers? That must have some effect on the traffic accident rate. As if we did not have enough sleepy drivers on the reguar monday-morning commute.

As if people could not decide without the government when they should get up or go to bed. Who the heck prevents any company from setting its own hours of operation? I work in the security industry and stock exchange opens 9:30 New York time. That means we have to be at work by 8:00. Tens of thousands of people in the same occupation on the West Coast have to be at their desk at 5 AM - and out of the office at 2PM. They seem to have no problem managing themselves.

miko

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:19:56 PM »

The Department of Energy estimates that the US lowers its total electricity demand by 1% as a result of daylight savings time. California for the past two years has seriously considered moving to DST the whole year round.

miko2d · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:20:29 PM »

wklink: It supposedly was designed to give farmers more daylight to get their crops in. I have never really figured out how this does that but I supposed they can get home quicker that way.

Those must have been really dumb farmers if they did know by themselves when the sun rose...

I live in a jewish area of Brooklyn and for religious ones the Sabbath starts with the sundown on Friday - when they have to be at home, not working or driving. So they have calendars telling them the exact minute when it starts every Friday of the year. Neat trick, eh?

miko

capt. apathy · « **Reply #11 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:29:24 PM »

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Who the heck prevents any company from setting its own hours of operation?

whats to precent you setting your own hours? when everybody sets there clocks back just stay on regular time. no big deal, just when you make out your schedual convert the time they think it is into 'miko standard time'

seriously though, it does actually leave you with a lot more daylight freetime in the summer. really would you get up at 4:30 am in july to take advantage of the extra daylight? you'd likely just sleep right through it and let it go to waste. what could you get done early in the day before work? you couldn't take care of the lawn or anything like that because most niegbors would ***** about the mower running at 5am

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:37:54 PM »

Daylight Savings Sucks. Time Zones Suck. IMHO everybody in the world should run on Zulu.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:40:35 PM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Daylight Savings Sucks. Time Zones Suck. IMHO everybody in the world should run on Zulu.

Yeah, that's what I want. Sunrise at Noon.

miko2d · « **Reply #14 on:** October 27, 2003, 02:41:02 PM »

capt. apathy: whats to precent you setting your own hours? when everybody sets there clocks back just stay on regular time.

If my company or NY Stock Exchange shifted time, I would be ing about them. As it is, it's the government and I am pissed of with it.
I am yet to see a single person who would be personally happy about the time shift - which is distinct from quoting the supposed justifications for it.

seriously though, it does actually leave you with a lot more daylight freetime in the summer.

Not so sure. My free time starts when I put my child to bed, and it's easier to do when sun is not shining.

really would you get up at 4:30 am in july to take advantage of the extra daylight? you'd likely just sleep right through it and let it go to waste.

I often wake up early - especially in a sunny weather - and use an extra hour to read.

I am not trying to argue that there are no material benefits to the time shift - though I doubt they are significant, considering the adjustment costs.
But a few hundred killed and maimed people would surely have affected the calculation and I doubt they were accounted for in monetary terms.

miko