Daylight Savings Time already? This coming Saturday/Sunday.

WHY!?

I am cheerier to get out of bed after more daylight. I would gladly trade an

extra hour of wake-up sleepy head sunshine for evening rays.

It sure feels like "they" sneeked the California primary later and the change to

Daylight Savings Time sooner.

Also, I oppose the move to standard time the week after Halloween. For children's safety it should be the week before Halloween.

Let's just stay on Standard Time All Year, please. That will be a priority upon my anointment.

Moi

Standard Time advocate

Actually Moi, when we are on DST it costs less, true, we use less electricity, businesses. So as for keeping one over the other I would choose DST not ST. but if you want to stay on ST the year around move to Indiana.

River

It seams this is an issue every where. TO keep or get rid of DST...

Here in Australia during the ST we have 3 time zones... Eastern, Central, Western. Which makes it easy to call loved ones etc but when we enter DST we then find it a little harder with Eastern being split into 2 EST (Brisbane) and EDST (Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart), central has the same fate CST (Darwin) and CDST (Adelaide) and western stays as they are because unlike the states that enter DST they know that it is an unneeded practice.

So if I was ever asked to keep or get rid of DST I would vote in favour of being DST free. Six months is enough to live in 2 different Time Zones (GMT +10 and GMT +11)

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:35 pm Actually Moi, when we are on DST it costs less, true, we use less electricity, businesses. So as for keeping one over the other I would choose DST not ST. but if you want to stay on ST the year around move to Indiana.

River

Uh... not anymore. Your MAN bitch... (er...Mitch) put an end to that. Now we have daylight until 10 PM in the summertime.

Spring ahead and Fall back and curl up and die...

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:35 pm Actually Moi, when we are on DST it costs less, true, we use less electricity, businesses. So as for keeping one over the other I would choose DST not ST. but if you want to stay on ST the year around move to Indiana.

River

He could also move to Arizona. They stay on standard time all year long. In winter they are with Colorado, in Summer they are with California.

I never understood why Arizona didn't switch until I was down there in May when the temperature outside was somewhere between dry sauna and the depths of hell. Staying on Standard time gives the people who live there more DARKNESS in the evening, which means they can go outside and play when it gets cooler.

--LT

moi621 (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:21 pm Also, I oppose the move to standard time the week after Halloween. For children's safety it should be the week before Halloween.

Wait don't you have that backwards? Having an extra hour of daylight Halloween night is safer for the kids.

i just love the extra daylight in oregon

i guess it is where you live and how close to a times zone border

i eat a little watch the news and go do chores till the sun sets

no more darkness

my sleep schedule is so irregular I don't even notice -- my cell phone and computers correct themselves, and pretty much keep me on time

The one good thing that PC and Phones can do lol. I still have to run around and update the Microwave and Clocks all over the house.

purpletomato (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:56 am my sleep schedule is so irregular I don't even notice -- my cell phone and computers correct themselves, and pretty much keep me on time

Well, Russia moved from DST, but in wrong direction. We are now at eternal summer time, TWO hours ahead of the proper time by the sun. One hour from DST, another hour - from "Decree time", since 1930.

And in my case at least, constant summer time was really difficult in this winter (dark in the morning, so the way to work is still in the dark, dark in the evening, so the way from work is already in the dark. It really messed with my sleep schedule and with my moods. You know, I am not a drow, who is content with living in a cave, I do need sunlight.

Oh, this move to abandon DST, brought chaos on a lot of computer systems here.

I am not saying that this is bad, I just say, that in Russia, it was done the wrong way.