Do you hate Daylight Saving time?

[vonn]

I like the daylight after work! When it is dark before I can even get home it really makes it hard to get anything done. Leaves all the daylight chores to be done on the weekends.

 

[Targets Guy]

I don't hate it. It is just so stupid. Very much like the clowns that keep it in place.

 

[medic15al]

DST permantly, codified into Federal Law. No exemptions except for military to be on Zulu time.

 

[Chuck24]

Umpire high school and college fast pitch, some hs don't get out until 4 and not all have lights so it makes it easier to get the whole game in,especially in early spring.

 

[RobertJ.]

and causes health and other problems.

Pardon my ignorance, but what are the health problems?

I agree that it's a PITA to change all the clocks twice a year, and is completely unnecessary.

 

[italiansport]

Another good reason to move to Arizona. We don'y go on no stinkin DST!
I'm told the drive in theater operators petitioned the State to stay on regular time
year round so they could start their movies earlier and we've avoided DST ever since.
Jim

 

[susieqz]

i hate dst with a passion,
when the sun says noon, i want the clock to agree.

 

[03Std]

this clock changing thing twice a year is an obsolete activity that no one seems to have enough courage to stand up and end it.

lets keep this thread going until the ENTIRE S&W FORUM population signs the petition. if we ring the bell loud enough maybe it will be heard on the hill.....

I read last month that NY, Ma and Maine are considering doing away with it and going with Atlantic time. They will probably spend a bazillion dollars doing feasibility studies before deciding to leave things as they are.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

i hate dst with a passion,
when the sun says noon, i want the clock to agree.

Who said that noon meant the sun was in a certain position??? It's all relative you know. The only reason we even have time is so the trains can run on time. Back in the olden days we got up when it got light enough to work and went to bed when the light was gone. The country started going to hell when they started to screw with nature with artificial light. Used to be you went to bed alive with a full belly and you had a GREAT day. Now you have to watch FOX news and facebook to see how you stack up to others and only then can you determine if your day was any good or not.
You get older you start to think about things like this a lot..........

 

[vonn]

Reading this thread got me to thinking(I know that is dangerous) and after checking,solar noon today in Houston is at 1:28,maybe we should kick the clock back another hour and a half?

 

[wood714]

Seems Florida is trying to keep it year round. Hope it does!

Florida lawmakers vote to stay in Daylight Saving Time all year long - CNN

 

[Bill Bates]

I HATE changing the clocks but I Love DST!

 

[NYlakesider]

Hate no, it might have been needed years ago, but today just an old habit that should be done away with!

 

[HARDWARE]

i dont need daylight until 9pm. not sure if thats DST or whatever the other is. ive accepted that im chained to yardwork all weekend and when i get home during the week im done.

 

[susieqz]

noon, by definition, is when the sun is straight up.
now, if i leave the house when the clock says noon, the sun says 11am.

 

[Weimar]

I can say that when I lived in Pennsylvania, the same time period of EST - the sun would be going down, but in Washington state the same time period PST would still be up.

somethings screwy..... maybe its the large country we live in?

But I wish they'd pick one or the other and I have read that when they switch over in winter, its safer for kids and drivers in the mornings since its light, but then isn't it dark a lot earlier? Seems it kicks you one way or another...

 

[Marshwheeling]

I prefer Daylight Savings Time to the alternative, Daylight Wasting Time.

 

[LVSteve]

Haven't changed a clock for the last 15 years....luv Arizona!

As the wise Indian Chief said:

… "Only the government would believe that if you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

It's one of the reasons I probably WON'T retire there. Growing up in a northern latitude, I became used to long, light evenings in the summer. In Arizona the sun is gone by 2000 even in high summer. That's just wrong.

 

[LVSteve]

noon, by definition, is when the sun is straight up.
now, if i leave the house when the clock says noon, the sun says 11am.

Are you smack on a line of longitude a multiple of 15° from Greenwich? If not, the sun will not be at its zenith at 1200 if your timezone operates in integer hours.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...if they could make it so that it stays light out 'til 9 pm all year round...I'm for that...

...of course that means the sun will come up at noon on Christmas Day...