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View Poll Results: Do you like or dislike Daylight Savings? The same year round DLS or Gods time.
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Keep it year round Daylight Savings Time
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Daylight Savings Time, Like or Dislike?
Thought I'd take a simple poll as to who likes or dislikes daylight savings time. Or if it were to stay the same year round which would you like it to stay on. My Dad always called regular time, Gods Time, so that's what I'm going to call it here. Hope that's ok.
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I really don't care which we use just as long as we stick to it year round.
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That extra hour of daylight burns up my crops.
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I'm retired, so I really don't care at all. I get up when I feel like it, and go to bed when I'm tired. Then I tend to eat when I'm hungry. If I'm eating at home it doesn't matter, and restaurants tend to serve paying customers whenever.
I do get a bit aggravated at the folks causing traffic jams. Why do all of them clog the road going into town in the morning and back out in the afternoons? Must be that work thing. I don't get the attraction.
I just looked outside. Its dark out there, and I'm not hungry. All is well with the world.
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I like it and would prefer to have it year round.... Ahhhh.... I remember the good ole days when time didn't change!
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Your poll has one choice as "God's time" ...............I doubt if God has a watch or even cares at all how we mortal's keep time.
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The Millenium Sundial located in a plaza area of downtown Lafayette, Indiana shows Daylight Savings Time to be two hours OFF from "God's Time."
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standard time year round suits me
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I prefer Rail Road Time year round. Then again I'm retired now so time don't mean doodley any more. Don't like weekends anymore either. To many people on the range. Anyone here from Indiana? I understand they have 4 different time zones in Indiana in the summer time. Eastern time Central time and some counties go to dst and some stay on standard time. Nuff to make your head hurt.....
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I live every day on Gods time.
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I like Daylight Savings Time. I call the other Daylight Wasting Time. So let's vamoose. We're burnin' daylight.
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the current practice of changing the time on clocks is a useless obsolete action. This needed to end when buggy whips and ice tongs were no longer made.
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Only the government would think you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it on the bottom and think you could get a longer blanket.
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The best way is simple: split the difference between standard and daylight time and LEAVE IT THAT WAY all year -gives you a little more light in the evening for folks who like that, and preserves a little more light in the morning for folks who prefer that.
My view, of course.
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Quote:
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The best way is simple: split the difference between standard and daylight time and LEAVE IT THAT WAY all year -gives you a little more light in the evening for folks who like that, and preserves a little more light in the morning for folks who prefer that.
My view, of course.
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That's exactly what I always thought would be the best solution.
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Keep the Government out of manage the clock, before long they'll screw that up too. Oh wait, they already have.
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Amen to that!
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I used to like DSL. When I was a kid, it was my job to set all the clocks to the new time. Now, it's not as fun and everything has a clock built in, even the thermometer.
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It does not matter to me. There are 24 hrs in a day. Nothing changes that. I will get up in the mornings no matter what the time but usually I am up before time can matter anyway.
Time is only a concern if you need it. I have to be court at 9am on Monday. That time matters.
I get woke up often during the night for accident or crime investigation. Time does not matter since I will be there when I get there, often the next day.
I will head for bed when I get sleepy. That may be 2pm or 10pm. Time does not matter.
As long as one wakes up and able to get up, he is blessed with time.
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after the gun show yesterday.. SWMBO said i'm on "borrowed" time
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I believe we should establish rolling DST -- pick an index locale halfway between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, and keep adjusting the clocks on a weekly or even daily basis so sunrise there occurs as close to 6:00 AM as you can keep it. I nominate Monaco, because dawn on the French Riviera is magical. Sunset then gets to happen whenever it wants to on any given day. In Southern California that would be any time between about 4:00 PM in December to about 9:00 PM in late June. We can leave the time zones the way they are, because there is no fixing that mess.
This suits me because I'm mostly a morning person. Kind of unfair to the half of the human race that doesn't hit their stride until around noon, but hey -- if something doesn't kill you it makes you strong. Or angry. Or something.
Basically I don't care, but I don't know why we just don't run DST from solstice to solstice instead of starting it 10 days early in the spring and five weeks late in the fall. Who came up with that idea? Maybe the French, whom I actually like even though I remain perplexed by them.
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I think when we set the clocks back it should still be on the weekend but when it's time to set them forward again we should do that in the middle of the work day. Just not at lunch time
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Here in Arizona we don't do the Daylight SAVING (No "S") Time thing. We stay the same year round. Although some of the Indian tribes (For you Politically correct types that's "Native Americans) do up North
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I hate DST. I'm sleepin' 9-5, so I like it dark when I go to bed and getting light shortly after I get up.
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I grew up on regular old standard time and quite frankly liked it.
I can do without daylite saving time for sure.
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Dick burg said my position on the matter. All my working years I was on graveyard anyway. I think I might hold a world record for most graveyard shifts. So it never mattered anyway. Now that I am retired we adjust resturants, shopping, trips etc around the people that pay my social security.
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I have always figured they are doing it backwards. I like having the light later in the day, and dislike it when it is dark by 5:30 pm in the winter. There's plenty of light in the evening in the summer, so why not roll the time ahead in the winter and back in the summer if they are going to insist on dinking with the clocks?
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I blame the Mayans. Oh well come December we won't have clocks or time to worry about anymore after the world comes to an end. I think the Klingons and Romulans were behind it all.
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I enjoy it to be light out until 8-9pm, as I can do stuff after work without it feeling like bedtime at 5pm.
I don't care what it is in the morning, it's going too get light anyway.
+1 for DLS time
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No kidding, it takes a full week twice per year for my internal clock to sync with the time change...
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Actualy I liked it work wise. I worked graveyard and once a year it ment I worked 7 hours and got paid for 8 and once a year I got a hours overtime.
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I'm not a morning person, never have been and at my age I don't think I'm going to change now. I just love having the extra hour of light in the evenings. Soon it will be the season to have a beverage on the back deck as I wait for the grill to warm up .
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Sort of use to it after all these years.
At my age the only thing that concerns me is "Will there be a tomorrow".
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Huh?
What's Daylight Savings time??? (I live in Arizona)
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It wreaks havoc on seniors when we go back to standard time in the fall. Think of it this way; you make an appointment late in the day a month ahead but forget to consider the time change, when your appointment comes you are driving in the dark and you don't see well at night. OR this real world example. a local father and son bicyclist were caught less than 1 week after the change to standard time. They had been on the trek many times pervious but got caught in the dark on racing bikes with no reflectors, the father following behind his son got to see a neighbor of mine make a left turn from a highway to a residential street and struck the son bicyclist who died in route to hospital by helicopter. The driver of the car went through years of therapy. I believe this tragic accident would not have happened if not for the time change. They would have returned in daylight leaving at the same TIME they had always before. You can tell I hate the time change, it kills more than it saves!
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As a kid I liked it. It meant that sunset came later and we could stay and play at the park an extra hour before we had to be home.
Now, it doesn't make a lot of difference one way or another. It's something that's basically a victim of its own inertia. It isn't going to go away because no one with the authority to change it cares enough to try and end it.
Merril, I remember that from graveyard too. But I'd rather have worked days than get those two "benefits" of night shift.
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What Time Is It?
Either way makes little difference to me. Just stop switching it back a forth, please stop!
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I remember when DST went into effect during WW2. We caught the school bus a quarter to Seven as we had a long ride to school. It was pitch black in the AM but gave us extra play time in the afternoon.It's been SOP for so many years I don't think about it anymore.Being retired helps too.
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Arizona rules!!!
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Daylight "savings"? Is there some sort of sale going on?
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I wonder how much it costs the airlines and other carriers that have to change their schedules twice a year because some locales do change time and others don't.
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I don't mind getting up in the dark but hate getting home in the dark. That was when I was working , now that I'm retired I still get up usualy just before daylight every day no matter what time it is. My wife loves it ...................she don't get up till she has to, I have 1/2 a days playing done by then.
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I go to work at 4:30 AM and get home at about 7:30PM. I really like not having to drive in the dark both ways.
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As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted,
I agree with Captain Eddie.
TIME DOES NOT EXIST!
No other animal in nature needs a clock to tell them when it's time to eat, drink or sleep!
TIME is a contrived concept to control our lives and SELL CLOCKS!
It is unnatural!
And ANOTHER THING!
Closing time is just another fiction forced upon us by an oppressive government. They just want us to go home, sleep it off, go to work, be productive and pay taxes!
Now I know that everybody has to believe in something.
I believe I'll have another drink.
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I can do without DST, thank you very much Ben Franklin.
Standardized time wasn't a big deal until trains came along and started colliding head-on.
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The biggest problem with it is getting your grandchildren and great grandchildren to go to bed when it is still daylight outside!
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The biggest problem with it is getting your grandchildren and great grandchildren to go to bed when it is still daylight outside!
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Guilty as charged. In July we'd go visit the grandparents in Alberta and still be out in the field playing baseball at 10PM. Still light enough to have no problem seeing.
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I voted to keep it on Gods time. I don't like going to bed when it's still daylight. Don
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Thought I'd take a simple poll as to who likes or dislikes daylight savings time. Or if it were to stay the same year round which would you like it to stay on. My Dad always called regular time, Gods Time, so that's what I'm going to call it here. Hope that's ok.
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