Daylight Saving Time

[jay-ell]

Don't forget to "Spring Ahead" tomorrow.  (Void where prohibited.  Restrictions apply.)  

Pedro hates the very concept of Daylight Saving Time.  I find it harmless, and laugh at him for spending time and brainwaves thinking about how much it irritates him.  What do you think?  Love it or leave it?  

And let me issue a pre-emptive "sucks to you" for those who live in states/countries that do not observe DST.  I know what to expect from you troublemakers.  

Non-conformists.  

Hippies.

Right.

[Limmo]

I hate it when we "fall back," but I love days like tomorrow, when we get a whole extra hour of sunlight at dusk.  So it all evens out.

On the list of Things That Bother Me, DST falls somewhere in the low 900s or so.

[Asherdan]

DST means long sweet summer nights that I get to waste coaching little league.  Gone is the "OK roll it up it's dark" excuse.  Also, it throws my dog off and she will now be demanding fud at an earlier hour than usual.  By demanding I mean running around slobbering on stuff and generally being a blarky fool.  It also throws my sleep pattern off and turns me into a crank.  And how the heck do you get a kid to go to sleep if there's still twilight in the sky?  Yeah, I know, Nyquil.

I'ma packin' for Arizona...they may have desert, ghastly heat and wrinkled retirees but that's what air conditioning and early bird specials were made for.

[CortJstr]

I'm against it this year since I'm supposed to be at a concert in Bawlmer until 2 which means I'll be there until 3 plus travel time.

But mad props for not pluralizing daylight, which is a pet peeve of mine.

[wombat]

I don't see why it can't stay Daylight Saving Time all year round.  Why do we ever change back?

And I hate that getting up an hour earlier thing.

[V-Adore]

I am sort of vaguely opposed to "spring ahead," since it will cost me a whole hour of sleep before my flight back to school on Sunday, but given as I will likely spend the entire flight sleeping anyway, who cares?

[Choop]

I used to be an opponent of DST, because I thought it was an outdated measure taken to guarantee the economic safety of the nation what with farmers being able to rise at the right time by the clock and what have you. I read a study a few years ago which caused me to switch to being a proponent of DST - as it turns out, all of our drains on the planet are lower due to the time change: less electricity is used in the summer to keep lights on, etc., and less gas is used in the winter to keep heat on, etc.

Bottom line, I'm all for less energy consumption. Especially when that energy consumption is directly related to the sizes of my bills.

[side_show]

I hate DST. Fuck you farmers!

[jough]

I wish time changed all the time by random increments.  Then NO ONE would know what time it was.  All of a sudden it would get dark because the time changed, and then the next minute it would be high noon again.

I'M TALKING CHAOS HERE, PEOPLE

[slink]

I hate DST. Fuck you farmers!

Beat me to it.
And there aren't even any farmers left over here after foot and mouth. And they all have floodlights on their tractors. And they all suck.

I don't see why they have to fuck with time!

[CortJstr]

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_052.html

http://tf.nist.gov/general/daylightsavingtime.html

[Nabubrush]

I wish time changed all the time by random increments.  Then NO ONE would know what time it was.  All of a sudden it would get dark because the time changed, and then the next minute it would be high noon again.

I'M TALKING CHAOS HERE, PEOPLE

I'll go for that. We could have like six time changes in a week, and then nothing for two years, and then all of a sudden have the month change on us. Good times!

[andalucia]

Dammit, despite this board's debate, I still forgot to change my watch forward this morning, and thanks to a Saturday night with this stuff, was quite perplexed and enraged by the whole concept this morning.

[wombat]

Yup, and I forgot to change my alarm clock and was late for work.  First time in my life I forget to change the clocks and it would have to be when I have a job where I work on Sundays.

[V-Adore]

As duly predicted, I got shafted an hour of sleep before my flight. At least I managed to catch a nap on the plane, which gave me the incredible sensation of having been transported from Lincoln to Chicago instantly.

(And my night was all about a long, creepy nightmare in which at one point Steven Seagal hurled insults at me about my virtue. Mind you, in my subconscious this was terrifying. Go figure.)