Reminder: daylight savings time ends tonight!

[Angcuru]

"Doctor... I have these fantasies about... non-consensual time travel! *sobs* What's wrong with me?!"

MANY MANY THINGS! Now if you wouldn't mind filling out this little disclaimer...

 

[d4]

i'm glad i'm not working nightshift any more.

not only do we have to work an extra hour tonight, but payroll invariably forgets to pay us for the overtime.

 

[hunter1828]

Ick...That means it's that time of year where when I get up, it's dark outside. And when I get home, it's dark outside. It's ok for the first few weeks, then it starts getting depressing...

hunter1828

 

[johnsemlak]

Thanks for the reminder PC

As a slightly OT question, does anyone know for sure why daylight savings was created? My understanding is the main purpose is to save electricity. My wife and I were discussing this today.

 

[Gez]

Consensual time travel. Gotta love it.

Not that consensual. I'd like to do "actual" time travel to kill the inventor of daylight savings time before he would come up with that idea. Hate, hate, hate DST. Hooooooo, how much I hate it.

Edit: So I was told it was good old Ben Franklin. Man, I'm disappointed -- I had a great opinion of him.

Well, I'll be magnanimous and just wish to get him drunk until forgetfulness each time this stupid idea would creep up in his mind.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

It was strange sitting here when the change happened. Really throws me off mentally. I'm at work. I was at work when we went forward too. As if working third-shift isn't odd enough.

 

[Norfleet]

Back to dark at 5:00. I hate saying goodbye to the sun.

I hate sunlight. It's bright. It burns. I never did understand why people still keep this archaic ritual going. Daylight is, frankly, much overrated. Fortunately, I don't have to really care what time it is, or whether it's light or not, since I'm retired and live underground.

Sunlight is bad for you. It's annoying, it's bright, it burns, and it's the primary contributing factor to declining eyesight in old age. I've spent most of my life in the dark, and as a result, my eyes remain excellently sharp despite my advanced years. Sunlight is bad, 'mkay?

 

[Gez]

I hate sunlight. It's bright. It burns. I never did understand why people still keep this archaic ritual going. Daylight is, frankly, much overrated. Fortunately, I don't have to really care what time it is, or whether it's light or not, since I'm retired and live underground.

Sunlight is bad for you. It's annoying, it's bright, it burns, and it's the primary contributing factor to declining eyesight in old age. I've spent most of my life in the dark, and as a result, my eyes remain excellently sharp despite my advanced years. Sunlight is bad, 'mkay?

I'm atheist, but I want to say it nonetheless:

AMEN!

G "Likes the sun only when there are clouds to shield us from the light" Z

 

[rpgHQ]

Thanks for the reminder PC

As a slightly OT question, does anyone know for sure why daylight savings was created? My understanding is the main purpose is to save electricity. My wife and I were discussing this today.

To save myself from making a large paraphrasing this link should cover most folks interest in Daylight Saving Time:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

Talks about standardizing time too, very nice and easy read for all ages of folks.

But daylight savings boils down to conservation of fuel, how folks connect it to farmers and harvesting crops I dont know as it seems the vocal disent has always mostly been farmers against Daylight Saving. In the USA the major use of daylight saving was during WWi and WWII to conserve fual resources during the war efforts. Nothing to do with farming.

You'll note too that there are two states in the USA that do not observe daylight saving. Indiana is where I live and its one of them, and its a pain, two time zones pass through Indiana to top it off. Also most places in Indiana that are along the states border where there is a major city in the other state close by that is those border county's economic lifeblood they DO observe daylight savings. For some of us near the two time zones and near the state border it becomes very confusing at times and a real pain in the butt. For instance the Indiana counties which straddle border near chicago IL, cincinatti OH, and louisville KY all observe daylight savings. I live down near louisville KY, and in Indiana here if I go less than an hours drive west I go from Eastern Time to Central Time, yet some of those coounties though along the border with kentucky are rural with no major population centers on either side of the state lines and so they go by state law and do not observe Daylight Savings but as you get further west along the indiana border with kentucky there are some counties that do observe daylight saving. Driving north less than an hour and though we're still in the Eastern time zone daylight is once again dropped. Going east towards cincinatti daylight is dropped less than an hour away but once again observed as you near the line with ohio and the city of cincinatti, thankfully still int he same time zone going that way though. So within two hours drive of the counties inside Indiana opposite of Louisville Kentucky you have in effect at various times of the year 4 differing times. A real pain in the butt

 

[Lola]

whoops... bad link nevermind