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Are you for or against Daylight Savings?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by zenMachine, Mar 14, 2011.

  1. zenMachine

    zenMachine Just another Onionhead

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    Count me in as one that loves that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. I love having some daylight after getting home from work. I am for going year round with daylight savings time.
     
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    DavidA Prius owner since July 2009

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    Doesn't work for me anymore. The concept, once marginally sound in decades past, has lost its purpose. Messing with people's sleep rhythms twice yearly, not to mention the real dollar costs of re-scheduling factory production, train and air traffic 2x/year has me wondering why we keep this practice at all.
     
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    For, but leave it there! Hal
     
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    didn't like it yesterday morn, but lovin' it this eve!
     
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    amm0bob Permanently Junior...

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    I am for DST...

    It's really for the kids...
     
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    I love the extra daylight at the end of the day. To me it only make sense to leave it this way. Millions of lights do not have to come on for hours later......does this not save energy.
     
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    We have already moved the dates to make DST last longer. With just a couple more adjustments like that, we will be on it permanently.
     
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    i live on the far west side of my zone, so i enjoy it being daylight until 10pm in june/july.

    some people say it costs more for energy during dst because the a/c has to run longer in the evening. i really don't see that as realistic because in the summer, it's hot day and night.
     
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    Hehehe. Changing the clock by itself wouldn't run the a/c more or less.

    I had a boss that told me for nine straight years to change the timer on the outside store sign by an hour, twice a year, to compensate for the time change. He didn't want the sign to light up an hour late the next day or to light up an hour too soon when the clock changed again in the fall.

    And just as sure, I repeatedly informed him that the sun didn't fail to rise an hour later (or earlier) than it did the day before just because we decided to change clocks. He never really understood that the rise/fall of the sun actually changed only a minute to 2.5 minutes every day from the change of seasons. And he grew up on a farm. Science? - "didn't understand all that stuff."

    I did always change the timer anyway by advancing the rotating disk, and then reset both on/off points by the same hourly change. And it still wouldn't have made much a difference in the sign.
     
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    Of course living in Arizona, we don't do DST. Guess it would be kinda weird if we started now.
     
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    I have lived in places that have it and places that don't. Right now in Hawaii we like Arizona do not subscribe to Daylight Savings Time. It doesn't matter to me either way but I would rather not have it. I still have to keep track of what time it is on the mainland because of friends and family thought.
     
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    Come June, it still gets light at 4:30am, despite DST. We need DOUBLE DST for three months in the summertime--in other words, set the clocks TWO hours ahead in May, June, and July.
     
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    Probably the most important concept in time man has conceived of.....
    Just ask anyone on DST Saurday night at a bar that closes a 1am ...yay, look, another hour to drink!
     
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    I love the "fall back" but hate the "spring forward", so keep the former and get rid of the latter.
     
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    That's just wrong!!!

    heathens......
     
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    I think we should mark "High Noon" at every point on Earth and designate that as 12:00 Noon. No DST, just hundreds of time zones at one-minute intervals.

    Problem solved!

    You'll thank me later. :)
     
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    Some studies show otherwise. It some cases the reduced lighting in the evening is offset by increased lighting in the morning. Other studies have shown reduced lighting loads being offset by other increased loads, such as air conditioning.

    Changing the clock won't change anything. However, changing when people get up and go to bed will.

    As a scientist and engineer, changing our clocks twice a year bothers me. Time is a reference standard. Yanking it back and forth is inconvenient at best. I would much prefer summer and winter schedules to summer and winter time.

    Our location has a particular problem with Daylight Savings Time. Michigan elected to go with Eastern Time so as to be on the same time as the east coast. Unfortunately, we live on the far western part of Michigan, which essentially gives us daylight savings time all year long. In the summer we effectively end up with double daylight savings time. Add that to our northern location, and it doesn't get really dark here until 11 p.m. in the summer.

    Tom
     
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    I'm for leaving the time on DST year round, I really don't care what they call it. I don't like it in winter when it gets dark at 4:30 pm...
     
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