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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaylight Savings Time is THIS SUNDAY
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/daylight-saving-2013-petition_n_2819195.html?utm_hp_ref=greenOn March 10, Americans will set their clocks forward an hour in the biannual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). But the hour of reckoning could be close at hand for DST, if some online petitioners get their way, that is.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)kdmorris
(5,649 posts)Bring on that extra hour of daylight after I get off of work!! (I do wish they would just have DST be the year round standard, though. It is pretty archaic. Living in Florida - right about the time it cools off enough to be outside, we set our clocks back an hour and can't do anything outside after work, anyway!)
Skittles
(153,212 posts)I laugh at the morons who cannot handle sleeping through it
Cha
(297,774 posts)this the other day. It doesn't change here in Hawai'i but it means we're 6 hours behind NY instead of 5.
KatyMan
(4,211 posts)I don't think we'd care
Cha
(297,774 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I never could understand it as a kid - I still got out of school at 3pm, not 2. Now in addition I hate losing that hour. It seems a pointless empty exercise to me. I'm signing that petition.
Cha
(297,774 posts)http://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html
I use to live in New York and it helped the kids having more light when they got on the school buses in the winter morns.. and the farmers.
Seems Ben Franklin was the first to muse about the idea..
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)but what do I know? I'm just glad for the extra day light at the end of the day
Chiyo-chichi
(3,587 posts)Hekate
(90,848 posts)IIRC, it only changed by about an hour year-round, if that.
If they participated (as they sometimes get pressured to do by business) little kids would be waiting for the school bus in the pitch dark for part of the year.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Signatures needed by April 04, 2013 to reach goal of 100,000
93,822
Total signatures on this petition
6,178
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Texasgal
(17,048 posts)I HATE this time of year!
*stompsfeet*
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Delphinus
(11,842 posts)Signed the petition - I thought there were only 6,000 more to go - no, it's 94,000!!!
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)I hate this DST shit! It finally gets light enough in the morning that I don't have to worry about not being able to see the next suicidal deer getting ready to leap out in front of my car on my way to work, and now it's back to darkness and white knuckles for a totally unnecessary extra 2-3 weeks.
I'd like to leave a pile of roadkill on the front lawns of every idiotic bozo in Congress who voted to extend DST during the bush* maladministration.
trishtrash
(74 posts)I have already hit one deer head on and barely missed another this year. I'm sick of having to change clocks, primarily my internal clock, for no good reason. It's enough to make me a raving libertarian.
FreeState
(10,584 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)But don't worry I looked it up myself, and darn if you weren't right!
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)But I will adjust.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Once over the yardarm, fair game.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)One day, I set off to pick up my son and his friend from kindergarten. They got out at noon.
I picked them up, got halfway home and ran my truck into a ditch.
They thought it was the coolest thing, ever. I, however, did not.
These days, I don't start drinking until 5PM. But I do drink with gusto.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)You needed to drive your truck all the way home first before driving it into a ditch.
Halfway measures are the real problem here.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,201 posts)Otherwise, I'd have to skip breakfast and lunch altogether!
JI7
(89,276 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)LOL has an online petition changed anything of consequence yet?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)And think of Jim Morrison as the Voice of Reason...
MH1
(17,608 posts)Supposedly it was Ben Franklin's idea. Maybe that's the reverse of the stopped-clock principle - even someone brilliant can have a blazingly stupid idea once in awhile.
Yes, I signed and shared the petition.
MissMarple
(9,656 posts)It's silly. And it interferes with my inner clock for days. We should just change our go to work and school times if an "extra" hour in the evening if we want that. Yet, there are countries that have all one time zone. Imagine how that would work out if every country did that.
And, yes, I signed.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)on Friday nights so that we have the whole weekend to adapt to that lost hour.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)The whole thing's pointless now and we shouldn't have to adapt to it.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)As I travel across time zones every week, I already make adjustments for local time. By the time Sunday rolls around, I don't even notice.
You can fool yourself; set the clocks ahead the one hour upon waking on Saturday, instead of at the end of the day.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Not a morning person and losing that hour takes getting used to.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)My hubby and I can sit on the dock sipping an adult beverage and watch the sunset after he gets home from work. I hate that he gets home when it is so dark and I always look forward to more evening light.
Gemini Cat
(2,820 posts)Screws me up for days! It needs to go away.
2theleft
(1,136 posts)I'm signing that petition. Spring forward messes me up for weeks, has since I was a kid. I absolutely HATE it and live for Fall Back. Fall Back is the best day of the year, IMO.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I don't want to set my alarm clock to sometime next week.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)What's the point?
Pick one or the other and stick to it. I end up with jet lag each time we shift, and I don't even get to earn it by traveling!
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Set the clocks 1/2 hour forward and leave it. Everyone's happy.
Faux pas
(14,695 posts)I've retired and don't have to spend 6-7 months trying to recover. Still hate it though
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)n/t
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)1) In the winter, you do not want to have a lot of students walking to school in the dark and people commuting to work in the dark only half-awake. It avoids a lot of accidents.
2) In the summer (whether or not this one is good depends on point of view or economic self-interest), longer evening daylight hours encourages gardening and barbecuing and other activities that generate business. Incidentally they also generate and encourage friendship and socialization, which are good things in my view.