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So...How Many Ways Does It Sucks?
Nothing like going out for a 2 hour hike and getting to the area around dusk!
Buddur
8:02:55 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Doing them after work hikes are ya?
walkindude
8:09:00 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
It takes me a few days to get use to it. Does anybody really know why the time change is needed? And how much daylight are we saving by turning the clockes back an hour.
Briar Rabbit
8:15:04 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Supposedly, it cuts down on energy usage by reducing the need for extra lights in the morning when people are getting around for work.
sklukaz
8:18:49 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I don't understand how it's saving daylight if we just move the clocks foward again in the spring. Why bother?
Some states don't even fool with DST.
walkindude
8:19:37 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Night hiking kicks ass Buddur, where's your sense of adventure? I can see your massa Tom gettin tripped up on rocks and stuff in the night but not you with all those legs you beast.
steve hiker
8:21:39 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
It sucks more in the Spring. I had an 8 AM Calculus class turn into a *7 AM* Calculus class once.
Tilt
8:22:45 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Night hiking rules but around here all the parks are off limits after dusk.
Nigal
8:24:20 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
lol Tilt, my 8 AM PChem class did the same thing. The prof let us bring in a coffe maker!
sklukaz
8:25:43 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
BTW guys, here's your link.

Daylight savings explained
sklukaz
8:27:48 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Ask Spock about daylight savings time. He can explain the Korean system of daylight savings time. Sort of.
bacpac
8:30:26 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Yeah...night hiking kicks ass if you're on a nice & cozy trail, Mr.Hiker. Got a stick in the eye tree times tonight while walking through the woods. My dog dug it, though!

Actually night hiking isn't so bad.
Buddur
8:30:45 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Not once, not trice, but tree times!
Buddur
8:31:45 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I thought it was kinda punny.
sklukaz
8:32:52 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
So Tom's your dawg? How's that for the tail waggin the haid?
steve hiker
8:33:00 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Arghhhhhhhhhh! Spock is doing a Vulcan mind meld on me.

Daylight Savings Time is an Extremist Right Wing Republican concoction to make the working class toil longer so that the corrupt American government and big business can whip up support for an immoral war in Afghanistan in order to build a pipeline. Ultimately, it is all Israel's fault.

Spock, get out of my brain.................

Wow, I got lucky, he almost took over, but BaSO4 remains.
BaSO4
8:39:15 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
You need that Facemelt character back on your side or your mind will get Spocked up by the end of the week.
steve hiker
8:43:49 PM
10/30/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I read a Reader's Digest story a long time ago that suggested DST was promoted by the retail merchant lobby. Somehow they thought people spent more; I can't remember the logic.

When I lived in Indiana we ignored DST.

Is this an actual law?

Are there any organizations fighting this?

I'm a creature of habit and it messes me up twice a year. I'd like to see it removed.
Le Subtil
7:21:00 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I love the early morning light. 7 AM was too late.
LyndyS
7:27:15 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Le Subtil, it does promote the retail merchant lobby. If it is nice and sunny outside, you are less likely to visit the mall until after sundown. With DLST, people come to the mall 1 hour earlier, in theory, and the malls can rake in profits.

BTW - I'm sure big oil is behind it too.
Buddha Bear
7:30:10 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
i don't drink, until it gets dark.

DLS rocks!
radagast
8:59:53 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
BB ain't that backwards? DST is in effect in the summer, making the daylight last longer. We are back on Standard now.
Le Subtil
9:09:57 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
It took 22 posts to straighten that one out?

I wish we were on Daylight Savings Time all year. Remember when Nixon instituted it to conserve energy but everyone was up in arms about little kids waiting for the school bus in the dark?

If it were up to me we'd change the clocks 4 times a year so it would be light until 10pm or so during the summer. Who needs light at 5 am?
Violent
9:22:28 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Arizona and Hawaii didn't buy into it! They're on Standard Time all year.
Aero
9:26:55 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
There is a small area down in Florida that never changes too isn't there?
Nigal
9:33:10 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I'd rather be on Daylight Savings Time all year 'round. I'd rather have the "extra" daylight in the evening when I want to be doing things outdoors.
skullz
9:35:42 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Q: "Who needs light at 5 am?"

A: The farmers
Sassafras
9:40:09 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
My dad says the real reason for the time changes is to extend the early tee times (golf).
skullz
9:42:59 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
sklukaz, that link you gave has another link to "The Origins of Time"...thank goodness, i was sort of wondering about that, LOL!!!
leer-a
9:53:13 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
What would we do without clocks, anyway?
skullz
10:06:27 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
We'd always be late but no one would notice.
humanpackmule
10:11:49 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
I like standard time.
baume 66
11:00:19 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
leer-a
11:11:53 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
On Sun. morning I got up at 6 w/ my daughter. I thought it was pretty dark still for 6. That's when I realized it was daylight savings time and it was actually 5. Arrrghhhh! Don't babies like to lounge around til noon on Sundays . . . just once!?
newgirl
11:17:59 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Violent
11:32:04 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
look, mr. "Violent," if you're tryin' to one-up me...congratulations! hehehe! ;-)
leer-a
11:36:12 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Anyone that wants to be on DST all year should move to Indianapolis.

Central Indiana is geographically in Central time, but legally in Eastern time. Legally, central Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time all year, but in effect it is on Central Daylight Time all year long.

I hate DST. I love 5 AM sunrises.
wsexson
11:37:58 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks

Hey! That one got away from me!
Violent
11:45:03 AM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks



Time
Tilt
6:32:21 PM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Time is relative.

Means....

When you have a house full of relatives time drags on forever.
gordon
7:14:04 PM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Yup.
LyndyS
7:18:43 PM
10/31/01

RE: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Newgirl, I've found a shot of pediacare will make Abby sleep in longer.










JUST KIDDING!

I don't like daylight savings time anymore. It's no fun when you've got a little person who just doesn't understand she can sleep in for an hour.
Sassafras
10:13:53 PM
10/31/01

Standard time. What a concept. Einstein would laugh.
Alaska
10:32:33 PM
10/23/03

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/19/indiana.timezone.ap/index.html

Poor Indiana caught in the middle... so why TF does the DOT control daylight savings time zones?
treebait
10:29:10 AM
1/19/06

Because they were invented by and for the railroads.
bitpusher
10:31:10 AM
1/19/06

Oh yeah forgot about that.
treebait
10:33:57 AM
1/19/06

i'm soooo glad that we are finally going to be a part of the rest of the world...you don't know how confusing it can be when someone asks what time zone you are in...it's going to be so nice having that extra hour...i think it's gonna suck for those people in the southwest part of the state who are going to be on central time, although they're economically tied to illinois so it is of some benefit...one thing that is gonna suck is all the monday night football games are gonna be on at 9:00 now
thriftyhiker
12:25:45 PM
1/19/06

the whole point of going to dst was to eliminate confusion for neighboring states, therefore businesses with out of state customers would not suffer (in theory). so what do we do? while most of the state is going to est, 8 counties get to go to cst, creating what? confusion! that was the whole fcking point, eliminate confusion!

i was against dst from the start, so i came to accept that, then i preferred cst, but we went to est (mostly), and finally the last straw for me was when we let 8 counties go against the grain. pick one, people, and everybody follow it! they went about this all wrong. im protesting by going on my own time. right now, in crashbang county, it is 30 x pi after grape. sunset is at aries rising, sunrise is betelgeuse past fahrfoognoogen
crash bang
3:43:00 PM
1/19/06

eastern time zone sucks
Ewker
3:46:09 PM
1/19/06

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