for all You Daylight Savings Time people

[sammy2fish]

You poor people have to reset your clocks today... November 4th, 2012.

I live in a place where we stick to "our" timezone 12 months of the year.

[agmg]

In my place, clocks were reset on October 28th...

[YouCanToo]

You poor people have to reset your clocks today... November 4th, 2012.

I live in a place where we stick to "our" timezone 12 months of the year.

Some places in the US do not change their time back and forth, like Arizona.  Why we feel the need to bounce back and forth is just crazy.....

[kjpetrie]

The closer you live to the equator, the less the benefit. Nearer the poles (I live at 51.5 N) the difference between summer and winter day length is much more noticeable and daylight is short in Winter.

In high Summer advancing the clocks means it stays light throughout the evening which is a real boost. However, in winter most people would find having no light in the morning too depressing.

It's not just silly. It brings a psychological benefit most people would miss. The UK tried to abolish the change in the late sixties, but it didn't work.

[The Chief]

How about a compromise?  Everybody set their clocks half-way between and leave them - forever.

[MGBguy]

Well, at least I got my extra hour of beauty sleep.

Yeah, I know; I surely/sorely needed it. 

[YouCanToo]

It reminds me of something the government would try to sell you on.  I'll cut a foot off the top of the blanket and sew it to the bottom and tell you it is a foot longer.

[YouCanToo]

How about a compromise?  Everybody set their clocks half-way between and leave them - forever.

Well that would just make way too much sense. Our officials wouldn't do anything that makes some sense.

[ThirdOfSix]

How about a compromise?  Everybody set their clocks half-way between and leave them - forever.

I have my own compromise.

Half the clocks in the house are set one way and the rest the other.

When the silliness happens I soon adapt to which I should pay attention to when dealing with others.

I don't have to play the game of trying to figure out which way to change them twice a year.

Most of the time I don't care as I don't follow 24 hour days and schedules.

Of course a big part of this is that I turned off the radio and TV about four years ago and being basically a hermit, I shop in the middle of the night at 24 hour stores.

[jaydot]

The UK tried to abolish the change in the late sixties, but it didn't work.

ha! sez you.  it was a peaceful couple of years until the nitwits restored the accursed clock swivelling.

[sammy2fish]

Where I live, life goes on as usual.

Time from day to day, month after month, year after year... It goes on as usual.

[Just17]

I recall visiting relatives who did not change their time pieces and referred to the time in terms of
'one o'clock new time' or 'one o'clock old time'

Of course we were not such a connected people then ....  visits from neighbours would be the only outside influence during the week. Main news on the radio might change by an hour, but that was easily accommodated

It would not be so easy to ignore the change these days.

[sammy2fish]

...from WIKI...

The practice has been both praised and criticized.[7] Adding daylight to evenings benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours,[9] but can cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun.[10][11] Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity,[12] modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.[13]

DST clock shifts present other challenges. They complicate timekeeping, and can disrupt meetings, travel, billing, record-keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment,[14] and sleep patterns.[15] Software can often adjust computer clocks automatically, but this can be limited and error-prone, particularly when DST protocols are changed.[16]

If politics or business has a hand in it... it is meant for their good, not ours.

The world is mostly (vertically) divided into timezones.  We/I here in Saskatchewan, Canada... have no problem going on with our lives, not using Daylight Savings Time.

I guessing this was somehow thought of, for business to gain from it.

Seriously......... nothing changes in my life, because I'm in a province that refuses to use DST.

[The Chief]

I guessing this was somehow thought of, for business to gain from it.

As I remember it, there were two main reasons.  To save energy and to not have kids standing around in the dark waiting for the morning school bus.  Or maybe my memory is turning selective....   

[horusfalcon]

Let's get it said properly first of all:  It's Daylight Saving Time - no "s" at the end.

Now, let me just second what YouCanToo said about the blanket bit.  Very apt analogy, that.  Nicely done!

Studies have shown time and again there is no positive benefit to the twice a year time-shift that is not outweighed by definite drawbacks.

I've been busily working on my time machine just so I can go back to the point when this madness was first devised and kick everyone's butts until they give up on the idea.  Just about got it workin', too, by gum!

Later ON,
D