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Die daylight savings time, DIE!

It says the rest of the world doesn't do it...but we do. I live in Sweden and we just switched onto it...my parents in Australia being in the southern hemisphere just went off it. So instead of being 10 hours apart, we're 8 hours apart...that's about the only hassle....it takes my mum calling me at 1am a few times to figure out the time shift!!!

What's the problem with day light savings??
 
I HATE when the clocks go forward... Feels like you lose an hour in the day. But then it goes back again which I love, keep it I say.
 
I love daylight savings time...I love knowing that when I leave work I still have a few hours of light to enjoy.

I get depressed during the winter months, and really look forward to when we turn the clocks forward...even though I don't like losing that hour of sleep!
 
LMAO... sounds about right.

William Willit (1865-1915), is the British builder who was the first to seriously advocate adopting daylight saving time, in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" in 1907. When he was asked why he didn't simply get up an hour earlier, What was Willit's reply?
A. "What?"
B. "Well, I could do that, but I would prefer to condemn thousands of people to die in fiery car crashes."
C. "But if I did that, how would I be able to mess up the farmers' schedules, exactly?"
D. "That's an excellent idea. I withdraw my proposal."
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Traci1 said:
I love daylight savings time...I love knowing that when I leave work I still have a few hours of light to enjoy.
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Amen to that...I love this time of year (minus the 2 feet of snow we have...but that's another thread...)
 
I love knowing that when I leave work I still have a few hours of light to enjoy.
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Precisely the reason I hate daylight saving time. I feel like I get robbed in the winter when the days are short enough and suddenly it's dark at noon. I really miss living in Arizona and Indianapolis where they don't switch. It was much nicer. Dogs don't have to relearn when dinner time is. Time schedules don't feel off for weeks of the year. The sun doesn't set at noon all winter and the sun come up at 3 am all summer. I have an idea...lets just move all the time zones over one hour. Get the "extra" hour of daylight all year round.

Man, I forgot how much it bites to have the time changing all the time until I moved to Illinois. Note to self, time to relocate.
 
Hurley said:
Precisely the reason I hate daylight saving time. I feel like I get robbed in the winter when the days are short enough and suddenly it's dark at noon.
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Well, you DO get robbed in the winter in the northern climates, regardless of standard or saving time. Personally, if I can watch a sunset over whatever body of water I'm near at 9:30 pm in June, I'm all for it.

Dogs don't have to relearn when dinner time is.
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Harrumph. Just condition 'em to free feed. ;)

I have an idea...lets just move all the time zones over one hour. Get the "extra" hour of daylight all year round.
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Now THAT I can agree with!

regards,
jazz
 
Something I love about high summer in Malmö is that it's not really twilight until about 10pm. When my boyfriend had a normal hours job, he'd come home and we'd have dinner on the balcony at 6pm and then walk down to the beach to sunbake until 8.30. Alternately, we'd take the little portable grill and have a BBQ on the beach with our friends and then all go home after watching the sunset...now tell me why you'd want to take that away???
 
I don't see what this has to do with being able to hang out at the beach till sunset.

BTW, the petition is written to the US Congress...
 
I personally kind of like daylight savings time. I like the few extra hours of sunlight in the evenings this time of year. It really makes it feel more like spring in my opinion. In fact, I have actually been looking forward to the time change. I vote to keep it!
 
I'd rather spring forward and then leave it there. That way it stays lighter later and permanently.

Among other things, if you are in the IT business you know what a huge pain it can be for some computer systems, phone systems, billing systems, programs, and/or system interfaces when the time changes forward and back for no *logical* reason.

Personally, in my global company alone, we waste hundreds of man hours per year proactively and reactively dealing with the technical ramifications of clocks changing around the world. To make matters worse, some countries do it at different times (Australia, for example, moves their clocks back two weeks before the US moves forward) and some states within countries don't move at all.

The whole concept seems archaic and unfounded - Time is the one thing in this world that should be constant and consistent - why should time artificially and optionally jump forward or backward?
 
It doesn't have ANYTHING to do with hanging out at the beach till sunset.... it has EVERYTHING to do with being on that beach until 10 pm without having to light a fire.

regards,
jazz
 
To me it just means you just have an extra hour of day light in the evenings when you're awake to enjoy it. Who cares if the sun comes up at 4 or 5 am...I'm almost never up at that hour anyway...but the evenings...that's another matter!
 
I love living in Indianapolis! We don't mess with our clocks. We just laugh at everyone else. I don't miss daylight savings time at all!
 
I hate daylight savings time. I stayed up until what I thought was 3 this morning chatting on the Corn Snakes 2 forum (Y IZ NO 1 TALKNIG 2
MEE!!!!11) and ended up sleeping through my 8 am class, cause I thought it was still 7. Arrrr!

Curse you daylight savings time! Curse yooouuu!!!
 
how the HECK do people die because of it????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
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