Does anyone know when we set our clocks back. I'm guessing the 30th but would like to confirm. Wasn't it Halloween last year. What a circle jerk.
Time To Fall Back
- Thread starter blackrock13
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Sunday 14 March 2010 2am local time
until Sunday 7 November 2010 2am local time
see: Daylight-Saving-Time.com for details
until Sunday 7 November 2010 2am local time
see: Daylight-Saving-Time.com for details
Good!
The longer it takes to change the clocks, the better! I detest 'Standard Time' and it's depressing 4:30pm nightfall. It's a living grave.
I'm so glad they added the extra three weeks a couple of years ago. It stimulates everyone for the better!
I must confess that I don't really get DST. Isn't it supposed to be for farmers or something? We're not exactly a farming society anymore.
We need Standard Time in the winter or it would be after 8:30 am before the sun rises.
So, you'd rather have a 9:00 a.m. sunrise??
That's the great fallacy of Daylight "Savings" Time - the amount of sunlight doesn't change, DST is designed to make us get up an hour earlier so that we can "put the daylight to better use". Just another example of Big Brother trying to legislate every detail of our lives.
If you love the daylight so much Don, just continue getting up early in the winter - no need to sleep in that extra hour. That's the beauty of a free society - we can all arrange our own schedules as we see fit. Too bad we don't really live in a truly free society.
I don't mean to sound confrontational to you Don (or anyone else for that matter), so please don't take it that way. I just truly detest Daylight Stupid Time. It never really had a persuasive purpose (other than Big Brother Government trying to prove that it knows best what we should be doing with our lives), and whatever weak arguments there may have been for it when it was forced onto the general population 100 years ago or thereabouts are no longer applicable. Daylight Stupid Time is yet another example of something that has outlived its usefulness, but we still do it because we've frankly forgotten why we started it. It's now another one of those "it's just always been this way" things that really ought to be discontinued.
Adding three more weeks onto it a few years ago was the stupidest thing the U.S. government could have done (and our own government, of course, followed suit, because Heaven forbid we actually take an independent stand ... Pierre Trudeau, where are you?). DST only used to be five months out of the year ... then six months ... then seven months ... now it lasts eight fucking months! Christ, what next? And you know what's the best part? A recent energy study showed that we use *more* energy as a result of Daylight Stupid Time, *not* less! So of course we extend it ... *muttering under my breath*
Okay, rant's over. I'm going to go back to being my cheery, bubbly self again, lol! Anyone that wants to see me next week so I can prove that I'm a very happy girl and love what I do can PM me! ;-)
I do get up early in the winter. Usually between the months of January through March. When I visit my assorted friends and family in Mexico, Cuba, Malaga, Panama, Colombia and Cadiz.
Why would I stay anywhere where there is shortened sunlight for 5 months?
That's the beauty of a free society - we can all arrange our own schedules as we see fit.
You mean you did not know ?
You guessed the 30th of October, then express dismay that it is one week later ?
You mean you did not know ?
You guessed the 30th of October, then express dismay that it is one week later ?
Ya I know. I also don't know how to make great rice every time nor much about String Theory.
I like to have an idea as it effects people that work /with for me. It no real biggie.
Much better than the sun setting around 5PM before most of us get home from work.
What is the point of getting up an hour earlier when many of us have jobs that do not allow us to get home until the sun sets? Most of us do not have flexible work schedules like you may have.
I may disagree with you but I think you are cute
What is the point of getting up an hour earlier when many of us have jobs that do not allow us to get home until the sun sets? Most of us do not have flexible work schedules like you may have.
I may disagree with you but I think you are cute
I've travelled and worked in parts of the world that experience 24 hr daylight and night, so it's no biggie for me. You can get a lot done in 24 of daylight and people do just that. You sleep when you tired and you work when you need to work, but don't pull too many 20 hour days in a row. Other people get all whacked when the clock changes 1 hour and insurance claims show that out.
You all do remember, don't you, that "standard time" is the ACTUAL TIME? During standard time the sun is at Zenith at noon which is what noon actually means so why is that a bad thing?
The sun really does set before 5:00pm in the middle of winter. Moving the clocks won't change the fact that days grow short in the cold months.
If you want to experience all the light in the day, wake up at sunrise and stay up till sunset. Don't make the rest of us change our clocks just because you can't figure it out for yourself. Next thing people are going to complain that January is too cold so lets shift the calendar by a couple of months so January falls in the spring.
I don't know if anyone has actually calculated just how many billions of dollars were spent in North America alone to adjust for the change in the DST schedule several years ago but I think that whatever the perceived benefit, it was not worth the cost.
The sun really does set before 5:00pm in the middle of winter. Moving the clocks won't change the fact that days grow short in the cold months.
If you want to experience all the light in the day, wake up at sunrise and stay up till sunset. Don't make the rest of us change our clocks just because you can't figure it out for yourself. Next thing people are going to complain that January is too cold so lets shift the calendar by a couple of months so January falls in the spring.
I don't know if anyone has actually calculated just how many billions of dollars were spent in North America alone to adjust for the change in the DST schedule several years ago but I think that whatever the perceived benefit, it was not worth the cost.
Mostly correct, although Rome did indeed change their clocks it was not quite like our current DST. Rome divided the daylight hours up into 12 equal chunks (so summer hours were longer than winter hours) and had scales for their water clocks for each month to account for that.
Correct, the modern DST was originally proposed in 1895 by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, but the first implementation of it was by Germany and it's WWI allies on 30 April 1916.
Debatable. There are many claims to both the pro and con side of DST but studies to prove the points are often contradict each other or show negligible results.
