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Hilarious video captures just how terrible daylight saving time really is: (Original Post) kpete Mar 2015 OP
End daylight savings... set it and forget it! Cosmic Kitten Mar 2015 #1
Yes GeorgeGist Mar 2015 #3
no wait; daylight savings time is good; its Standard time that fucked us all up. I think ?? zebonaut Mar 2015 #2
My company Newest Reality Mar 2015 #4
I'm gonna be pissed central scrutinizer Mar 2015 #5
The Devil Made us Do it! Ernest Partridge Mar 2015 #6
Some of us are old enough to remember the year we decided NOT to revert to standard time markpkessinger Mar 2015 #7
We caught the bus at 6:45 AM. It was so dark you couldn't see the hand in front of your face... 1monster Mar 2015 #8
I Heard Once that Benjamin Franklin Invented Daylight Saving Time. panfluteman Mar 2015 #9
lol LiberalLovinLug Mar 2015 #10
K&R DeSwiss Mar 2015 #11

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. My company
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:28 AM
Mar 2015

has discovered the stash of saved daylight. We will be offering hours at a reduced price at our forthcoming website: Daylight Banker.

We are also working on a fantastic and phenomenal hour eraser to provide the ultimate flexibility for our valued time customers.

Our motto:
"We will sell no hour before its time!"

central scrutinizer

(11,652 posts)
5. I'm gonna be pissed
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:27 PM
Mar 2015

if I die before the clocks change back in November - I will have been cheated out of an hour of life

Ernest Partridge

(135 posts)
6. The Devil Made us Do it!
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:45 PM
Mar 2015

IF GOD had approved of Daylight Saving time, he would have created the world so that the sun rose and set one hour later than it does.

That's why the Bible (and the Constitution) says nothing about Daylight Saving time.

markpkessinger

(8,401 posts)
7. Some of us are old enough to remember the year we decided NOT to revert to standard time
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 02:45 PM
Mar 2015

It was the winter of '73-'74 -- I was in the 7th grade. Was very weird traveling to school, and arriving at 7:45 a.m., and still the sky was pitch black!

1monster

(11,012 posts)
8. We caught the bus at 6:45 AM. It was so dark you couldn't see the hand in front of your face...
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 04:23 PM
Mar 2015

As we lived in farm country, there were no street lights and the house was a quarter of a mile from the road.

Full moon days were a great blessing that winter. There were many times that we dived for the narrow strip of land between the white wooden guard rails and the creek gully when cars were coming around the corner way too fast.

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)
9. I Heard Once that Benjamin Franklin Invented Daylight Saving Time.
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 05:09 PM
Mar 2015

He just proposed it as kind of a joke, and never thought that anyone would take it seriously, my source told me. Does anyone want to research the history of Daylight Saving Time? Arizona just said, we have so much daylight, so much sunshine that we don't need to save it - or at least, that seems to be a reasonable conclusion as to why AZ doesn't have Daylight Saving Time. You might also be interested to know that the Mexican state of Sonora, which borders on AZ directly to the south, doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time either, although neighboring Chihuahua, bordering Texas and New Mexico, which both observe DST, does. And our last Pres, W, changed the "fall back" from October to November, so that little kids wouldn't have to trick or treat in the dark on Halloween - but heck - that's the whole point of Halloween, don't you think? To be dark and scary, like this trailer.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,175 posts)
10. lol
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 05:17 PM
Mar 2015

They say it was changed for farmers.

Yet Canada's main farming province, Saskatchewan opts out of changing their clocks.

I don't get it. Why not "save daylight" all year round?

One of the excuses is that in winter, people use that extra light in the mornings to drive to work. I say, in the morning, when you're on autodrive who cares how dark it is? IMO I'd much rather have more light when off work in the afternoon.

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