Are You Tired Today?
By Erick Posted in Daylight Saving Time | Republicans — Comments (24) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Are you tired today? After all, we did spring our clocks forward by an hour yesterday. Whose fault is it? Why, that would be the Republicans. Seriously.
I'm all for being on the team, but I happen to believe the GOP's desire to play God and mess with the clock was the big tip off that their control of Congress had jumped the shark and they deserved annihilation. Certainly it would have been better if they had been annihilated in primaries instead of the general, but we should pause to remember that their "energy plan" was the height of hubris.
Congressmen went on record in 2005, talking about saving daylight, an impossible task. Democrat Congressman Ed Markey went so far as to say,"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use." He jumped on board the GOP bandwagon, but mother nature still failed to create more daylight.
And so the last Republican Congress shortened the period of the year under which we have standard time and, in the process, cost many companies much money in man hours and upgrades to fix a long established timeframe for DST -- a timeframe still kept in the other countries practicing DST.
So, if you are tired this morning, you legitimately can blame the GOP, and you should.
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in a northern latitude! It's pretty dark in the morning now for no good reason. We could just opt out of DST, but four time zones from the East makes things difficult enough without making it different during DST.
Might make some sense, to the degree that DST makes sense at all, to do it at the equinox, at least then the whole planet has twelve hours of daylight, but doing it earlier just makes the kids have to walk to school and the bus stops in the dark that much longer in the northern latitudes.
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I'm in North central Wisconsin and school starts at 7:50 AM. I could see for miles when they left.
And I love the fact that my kids get an extra hour to be outside before it gets dark too.
I personally love it and wish they had pushed the fall back to after Thanksgiving.
anywhere if they'd key it to the equinox; there's 12 hrs of daylight all over the world then, so even here the day wouldn't start in the dark early and late in DST. This time a year we gain six or more (much more in the far North) minutes of daylight each day, so a week or so makes a big difference.
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But since Erick is posting about "this morning" at 1:26 p.m. . . .
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
...that my company has wasted literally hundreds, if not thousands, of man-hours trying to get everyone's computer back in sync with the new clock.
Just another example of well-intended people doing more harm than good because they never paused to consider collateral consequences.
By the way, for the first time in months I woke up this morning and had to turn all the lights on in my house because it was dark! Who could have predicted *that*?
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"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Every spring, my company pays people working during the time change 12 hours pay for an 11 hour shift. Every fall, they pay 1 hour at overtime rate to everyone who has to work during the fall time change, for working a 13 hour shift. Extra costs imposed by DST.
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Unions grieved; we said we'd pay them eight or twelve each change, period. They groused and we said see you in Hell or Court. They decided eight or twelve each change was a good deal.
In Vino Veritas
They absolutely should've done this. It's a smart move, and they should go further.
Now change out of your PJs, dude.
I like the time change--it is still light when I get out of work.
DST all year.
Two thirds of the world is covered by water, the other third is covered by Champ Bailey
Who needs light at 6:00 in the morning? I like to be able to do things outside with my son after work. DST makes it easier, especially in the early spring.
I noticed the comments all of a sudden have a 1 hour gap.
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We’re having some rather dramatic brush fires here in SoCal. Yesterday, an anchorman mentioned how the firefighters were fortunate because they had an extra hour of daylight to fight the flames. Think about that one for a minute . . .
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If we just keep shifting the Daylight savings time, before long there will be no more nightime. Then we wont need to burn those wasteful incandescent bulbs.
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a FULL night's sleep ..... here is Arizona .....
I was at my cousin's in Mesa last October when everyone else fell back. That morning I saw my cousin changing his clock. I quipped, "What are you doing? I thought Arizona didn't do DST." Turns out he had to change his clock back after it had automatically adjusted for the end of DST. Said he didn't know how to disable that feature. I guess you can't win.
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My wife is in Arizona. Last week, she would call me at 2300 EST, because she was 2 hours behind and her classes end at 2030 her time.
Now she calls me at midnight...
I hate DST...
There are those who look on Dresden and Tokyo and Hiroshima as some of the greatest evils ever perpetrated by man. I look on them and thank the perpetrators for saving millions.
Weren't they originally suppose to add 6 weeks? They should have gone ahead and done it.