Topic: Effin daylight savings time

[azuredesign]

Last week when I woke it was to a sunlit morning. Granted, it was under 10 degrees, but this morning its dark as can be,  and I just kicked something and hurt my foot.
I feel like we have gone backwards in putting winter behind us.

Anybody else question the reason for daylight savings  time?

[70CB750]

The government knows better when morning comes, fark the sun rise! 

[honda_dog]

As a relative newbie to DST, I can only say that I hate it......

[WhyNot2]

It sure is a giverment thingy..........sux

[Grnrngr]

I kind of like it. Every time we have a time change, the computers at work get screwed up and it's an easy half day before they get it back up. But yeah, it is just some corporate inspired crap to sweat more work out of the labor class.

[ofreen]

I like it. I'd rather have the light later in the evening than earlier in the morning. I get more done outside after work.

[Bob Wessner]

I'm not a big fan of it myself. Partly because we live rather far west in our time zone so it stays light way to late for me. I think the original rationale for it was sketchy and more so today. Just my $0.02 though.

[Damfino]

As a relative newbie to DST, I can only say that I hate it......

I miss my days in Indiana when they didn't FARK with the clocks!!

[Damfino]

I'm not a big fan of it myself. Partly because we live rather far west in our time zone so it stays light way to late for me. I think the original rationale for it was sketchy and more so today. Just my $0.02 though.

Yeah Bob, in Indiana it would be light out until around 10pm(ish), here it stays light till around 9pm.

[Bob Wessner]

It aggravates me even more when we go up to the western U.P. each summer. It's even farther west (Lake Gogebic) so it's daylight until 10:00 P.M. Even worse, if you drive two miles down the lake, or a few miles west on M-28 towards Wakefield, boom your in the Central Time zone, but still in Michigan. 

[ofreen]

One thing I miss from living in Alaska was the long hours of daylight in the summer.

[andy750]

I like it. I'd rather have the light later in the evening than earlier in the morning. I get more done outside after work.

+1 I like for riding home in the light.

[honda_dog]

As a relative newbie to DST, I can only say that I hate it......

I miss my days in Indiana when they didn't FARK with the clocks!!

Yep, 24 hours is 24 hours, except when it's 23 hours one day of the year and 25 hours another day.....

I've always been an early riser and fairly early to bed, so I like the light in the morning, not so much late at night.

I also haven't figured out why we (Indiana) are on Eastern time..... I guess the sun rises and sets the same time here as it does in New York? We should have been on Central time, we have our former governor to thanks for that..... idiot!

[knowsnothing]

I like it. I'd rather have the light later in the evening than earlier in the morning. I get more done outside after work.

+1 I like for riding home in the light.

I just like not having that depressed crushing feeling when you leave work and its already dark.   Ben, get up later and leave work earlier, the teeth can wait.

[edwardmorris]

I miss my days in Indiana when they didn't FARK with the clocks!!

+1, they started that a few years ago didn't they?

[Blasbo]

I don't care for it, but I'm trying not to complain too much. Now I drive to work in the dark and drive home with the sun in my eyes!

[Duanob]

I like it. I'd rather have the light later in the evening than earlier in the morning. I get more done outside after work.

Yep i wish it was DLST all the time. Especially in June when it's light until 10PM around here. You can get lots of riding in even after work.

[flybox1]

Good for nothing but effing up my sleep patterns 

[bjatwood]

This spring time change is definitely the hardest one to get "over" IMO. It has to do twith the daylight change. Waking up in the dark basically sucks dog balls!

[Markcb750]

If y'all listen real close you can hear me playing the violin for ya... 

It reduces lighting use.

Every day you loose 1+min of dark in the morning, and 1+min of dark in the evening.  A least to June 21st.   

Rate of change varries with lattitude and date, passing thru zero at the longest & shortest days of the year.

It will be light when your cranky butts have to climb out of bed soon.   

[70CB750]

Hitler loved the summer time, it helped in ammo production 

[TwoTired]

When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’

[Markcb750]

Wise old Irishman says; "It is not where the beginning & end of the blanket is, its where you place your cold ass under the blanket." 

[azuredesign]

I like it. I'd rather have the light later in the evening than earlier in the morning. I get more done outside after work.

+1 I like for riding home in the light.

I just like not having that depressed crushing feeling when you leave work and its already dark.   Ben, get up later and leave work earlier, the teeth can wait.

I am an early riser by habit, and when I have a day or two off to go riding, I love putting some miles on before everyone else gets going. If it's light out I don't worry so much about deer, although I do keep an eye peeled. I also try to finish with work by 2.30, because otherwise it interferes with my nap.

[flybox1]

If y'all listen real close you can hear me playing the violin for ya... 

or is that a banjo?

[Markcb750]

SNOHOMISH, WA

I bought some really good wine there, or close to there 10 years ago.

[Bob Wessner]

SNOHOMISH, WA

I bought some really good wine there, or close to there 10 years ago.

It's all gone now, right?   

[Markcb750]

SNOHOMISH, WA

I bought some really good wine there, or close to there 10 years ago.

It's all gone now, right?   

It never made it back to NC. Most was consumed at the Paradise Inn on Rainier. Good Times!

[Stev-o]

Good for riding bikes after work....

[flybox1]

SNOHOMISH, WA

I bought some really good wine there, or close to there 10 years ago.

Its mostly the south/central part of WA state that produces the majority of the wines here, but there are two really small ones in Snohomish.
Quil Ceda Creek Vinters and Dubindil Winery

[Bob Wessner]

Good for riding bikes after work....

What's this thing you call "work?" 

[Stev-o]

Good for riding bikes after work....

What's this thing you call "work?" 

Not really "work", it's more like driving around and checking progress on various projects. 

[Blasbo]

I never understood the reduces lighting use thing. Now I turn on lights earlier in the morning instead of earlier in the evening. It's like TwoTired said, cutting the end of the blanket and sewing on the other end expecting a longer blanket.

[dave500]

 the extra sunlight fades your curtains more and dried my lawn out!

[Retro Rocket]

the extra sunlight fades your curtains more and dried my lawn out!

Kills the fcuking roses too Dave   

[Markcb750]

Has anyone ever determined if DST affects the way synthetic oil lubricates the clutch plates?

[TwoTired]

Has anyone ever determined if DST affects the way synthetic oil lubricates the clutch plates?

Yes, they no longer wear in a timely manner.

[Bailgang]

Years ago daylight savings time wasn't an issue in my part of Indiana. In the winter we'd go to EST then come summer we'd switch to CST, basically we never had to change our clocks. The problem was not every county followed the same time zone so it was a mess. Now most Indiana counties are on EST year round.