How did you "spend" your Daylight "Savings" time?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 4 2007, 11:29 AM) [snapback]534629[/snapback]</div>

Agreed!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 4 2007, 03:29 PM) [snapback]534629[/snapback]</div>

Agreed.

 

I love it, I get more time swimming in my pool in the daylight on hot evenings. I head to work before the temperature hits 35C and come home before I'm sick of the heat.
Anyone who can't see the advantage should try going outside more in summer, particularly summer evenings.

 

Sunday morning, I enjoyed that all too rare commodity, sleep.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(patsparks @ Nov 5 2007, 04:59 AM) [snapback]534857[/snapback]</div>

Me too. I wish we had it all year round.

A one hour earlier sunrise never did much for me (because I'm either sleeping, or going to or at school or work).

But a one hour later sunset? Wow. In winter, it means being able to leave school or work while there's still some daylight left. And in summer, it makes some magical summer evenings possible ... playing full matches of tennis, playing full games of softball, having a picnic dinner in the park, going for a long dip in the pool, going to the beach for a swim, dinner and sunset. As Bruce once sang, "Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun ... Oh but mama that's where the fun is ..."

 

I'm not exactly sure how I did it, but between 01:00 and 02:00 I was twice as productive.

 

Teaching my students about the history, rationale and quantitative measurement of daylight saving time, the origin of DST by William Willett, and how DST shifts apparent sunrise and sunset. Wikipedia has a great 365-day graph that shows the one-hour shift in April and shift back in early November. Russia, with 11 time zones, is on permanent daylight saving time year-round (primarily because of the high latitude).

Most countries that straddle the equator do not observe DST because every day has 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark. DST is primarily a northern hemisphere phenomenon. Not enough people or land to be of concern in the southern hemisphere.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 5 2007, 09:11 PM) [snapback]535207[/snapback]</div>

Why do you think so?

 

How about this as a solution:

EVERY night, we set the clocks back an hour. That way we could sleep an hour longer every night. True, we'd have to give up all our prejudices about day and night, but wouldn't it be worth it to get an extra hour's sleep every night? And once we've given up those silly ideas about day and night, there'd no longer be any reason to insist on keeping the calendar in sync with the equinoxes, and we could just have a year be 12 months of 28 days each, or whatever other arrangement we decide we like.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ 2007 11 06 07:44) [snapback]535498[/snapback]</div>

I vote for 13 months, and an extra day off for new year's celebrations.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 5 2007, 09:11 PM) [snapback]535207[/snapback]</div>

I don't hate daylights savings time, I hate changing time twice a year. I prefer to have daylight shifted to the evening instead of the morning so I would like to have CST+1 all year. I see extra daylight in the morning as a waste as I only use it drive to work. If we stayed on +1 time in the winter I would still have about an hour of light after I get home from work.

I don't see a safety problem with kids starting school in the dark. Here in Birmingham, AL kids do not walk to school. Kids are either dropped off at school by their parents or picked up by buses. The kids that ride the bus don't walk to a central bus stop for a city block or subdivision but instead the bus goes house to house picking up individual kids! It drives me crazy to be behind a bus that will literally pick up a kid, drive two driveways and pick up another kid.

I agree with you that school should start later in the day. However, as you mentioned, school is used as daycare for kids. It is much easier to be sure the kids get to school if they go to school at the same time the parent goes to work.

I am also a strong believer in year-around school. I my mother is a teacher and the first marking period of each year is spend reteaching last year's topics. It makes no sense to have children suspend learning for a 3 month block every year.

BTW, I didn't get my extra hour this year. I traveled from the CST to EST and as such lost an hour. Then we "fell back" for daylight savings so I gained an hour. The net effect, Zero.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jhinton @ Nov 6 2007, 08:03 PM) [snapback]535939[/snapback]</div>

I believe this is a throwback to when most people lived on farms and the children were needed to help with field work in the summer.

 

Adelaide has half an hour of daylight saving through winter and one and a half hours in winter.

Are you joking about kids starting school at 7.30AM? Here school kicks off at about 8.45AM and wraps up around 3.00 to 3.30PM depending on the school.

School terms are 10 weeks each with 2 weeks holiday 3 times a year then a summer break from 1 to 2 week before Christmas until the first Monday in February, around 6 or 7 weeks. There are 4 terms per year.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(patsparks @ Nov 7 2007, 01:48 AM) [snapback]536036[/snapback]</div>

Here we are discussing the merits of how adding or subtracting an hour or so messes with peoples' minds . . .

You people went way overboard and added or subtracted half a freakin' year!!!!

What do you people do, flock your Christmas trees with sand? :lol:

Having spent a Christmas down-under, it felt, well, weird . . . but extremely fun.