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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: miko2d on October 27, 2003, 01:49:42 PM
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I wonder what's the casualty rate due to this idiotic socialist invention.
miko
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Casualty rate, how so?
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I sleep later. Can't be anything wrong with that.
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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!
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I have always hated Daylight Savings Time.
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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.
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In Arizona we don't save any daylight. We have so much of it we try to export the darn stuff.
:p
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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' :p
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
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Daylight Savings Sucks. Time Zones Suck. IMHO everybody in the world should run on Zulu.
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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. :D
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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
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Daylight Savings Sucks. Time Zones Suck. IMHO everybody in the world should run on Zulu.
Damn imperialist britsh lover male chauvenist racist pig, the time should be set in some impoversihed nation to improve the peoples self esteem - not in Greenwich.... :aok
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Originally posted by 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.
I think this is untrue. I was a farmboy in another life and the clock wasn't something we concerned ourselves with. The boss would simply say things like, "We start at sunrise."
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
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.
Fine by me. Pick a time zone and stay in it year round, just like Arizona. :)
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Fine by me. Pick a time zone and stay in it year round, just like Arizona.
the anount of benifit decreases signifigantly the farther south you go. I can see why southern states wouldn't want to deal with it as the payoff would not out way the hassle (which is probably why HI doesn't use daylight savings time as the would get no benifit at all).
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
the anount of benifit decreases signifigantly the farther south you go. I can see why southern states wouldn't want to deal with it as the payoff would not out way the hassle (which is probably why HI doesn't use daylight savings time as the would get no benifit at all).
Hawaii isn't very far south.
I'm for keeping DST all year round. So what if the sun doesn't rise till 8:30am, at least sunset will come at a reasonable hour. Now, during 'standard' time, the frikken sun sets at 4:30. I will never get used to that.
ra
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I was SURE deylight swine time was an capitatlist amereekan pig invention !!
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Daylight saving time was not to assist farmers, it was to keep school children off dark roads whilst waiting for the school bus and to save energy.
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Really? i thought it was so politicians got more light to practice their golf game in their off hours. Huh, go figure. hehe :)
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its set up so that when you wake up it isnt pitch black outside...its a safety thing...up here in canada saskatchewan doesnt use dst because it messes up the cows milking schedule (its actually because the farmers are to damn stupid to compensate)
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Originally posted by vorticon
its set up so that when you wake up it isnt pitch black outside...its a safety thing...up here in canada saskatchewan doesnt use dst because it messes up the cows milking schedule (its actually because the farmers are to damn stupid to compensate)
Actually no vorticon, it is designed to make me late (or early) for every single squad night. ;)
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Move to Arizona. Where we don't believe that our citizens are smart enough to change a clock twice a year so we don't have it.
:aok
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So what if the sun doesn't rise till 8:30am, at least sunset will come at a reasonable hour. Now, during 'standard' time, the frikken sun sets at 4:30
most people who work out side start at 7am. all construction and farm sights would have to be lit ( a bit of an expense for 1 hour of light, and by the time you got them up and running it would be light) of course we could just start later and be on the road the same time the rest of the people are.
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Ok here's an attempt at a positive spin on DST:
When I was stationed in Arizona we were right on the california border.
Last call in arizon was 1AM. last call in california was 2AM. Of course arizona doesnt use DST so when ever the clocks got turned back an hour (in california) it would be 1AM in arizona (last call) but only 12pm in california thus giving us another 2 hours to drink in california.
Of course the town that was close to us had only one bar named kikis that had nothin but fat old woman that were missing most of there teeth, but those extra two hours were nice :cool:
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You mean after a night at Johnny's and Lute's you didn't think that moving over to Kiki's was the best way to finish it off?
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HA HA HA HA HA.....so there's a fellow Yuma survivor out there.....actually some of the best nights i've had were doin the rounds at yuma (famous sam's pop a top johnnys luts red's birdcage, jimmy d's Platinum caberet, toppers) than hittin up kikis and stop by paradise casino on the way home for a .99$ breakfast lol
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My family farmed in Welton. I spent far too much time hitting the Yuma hotspots after I turned 21. Such as they were :)
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The worst thing of you Amerikaner setting your clock one hour back is that here in PR all my fav shows start one hour later damnit!
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
HA HA HA HA HA.....so there's a fellow Yuma survivor out there.....actually some of the best nights i've had were doin the rounds at yuma (famous sam's pop a top johnnys luts red's birdcage, jimmy d's Platinum caberet, toppers) than hittin up kikis and stop by paradise casino on the way home for a .99$ breakfast lol
I have no idea what in hell you are talking about. But i'm sure it was fun and something you wouldnt tell your mother about.
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Originally posted by Dune
Move to Arizona. Where we don't believe that our citizens are smart enough to change a clock twice a year so we don't have it.
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Are you telling me that the time can be set on a clock? :)
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Up here it gives us an earlier sunrise. Without it alot of kids would be off to school in the dark.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Up here it gives us an earlier sunrise. Without it alot of kids would be off to school in the dark.
Lazy bastages should learn to see in it like I did. 6 miles uphill bothways in the snow and dark.
the french musta invented daylight savings time.