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Die daylight savings time, DIE!
- Thread starter Serpwidgets
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princess
Cornaholic
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??
What's the problem with day light savings??
Itsnowingcorns
Stuffy Brit
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.
Serpwidgets
New member
LMAO... sounds about right.
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.
jazzgeek
The Rule Of Thirds.
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.Hurley said:
Harrumph. Just condition 'em to free feed.
Now THAT I can agree with!
regards,
jazz
princess
Cornaholic
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???
Serpwidgets
New member
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...
BTW, the petition is written to the US Congress...
ozone
New member
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?
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?
Sisuitl
I dig'em!
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!!!
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!!!
sXe_corn_sXe
R.I.P. ashes
how the HECK do people die because of it????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????