Spring Forward

[Dave Shepard]

Used to be dst happened late enough in the year that it wasn't dark when you got on the bus. Somebody went and changed it though.


Dave

[pigman]

  Plus, daylight saving time reduces energy consumption and decreases the number of automobile accidents nationwide.  So I think it's worth the two minutes that it takes me to change the 3 clocks in my house.

I have heard that reasoning before, but would someone explain to me how DST saves energy consumption.  As to the increase in daylight afer work, that makes sense. Also, couldn't employers just have the work day start five hours earlier so the employees can have five more hours of daylight to do their thing. ;)

[SwampDonkey]

It's not dark here at school bus time in the spring change, it is dark in December and January, but dawn with some morning light. Bus goes at 7:30 am here. The official sunrise is 7:45 am at the first of this week, but you can see well for 15-20 before that. Next Monday it's 7:30 am. That's for Saint John, with it a little earlier up north here. Must have been some northerner that changed the timing of the DST.  :D

[Faron]

For some reason or another, most of Indiana is on Eastern time.  Geographically, it looks to me like we should be on Central time.  If that were the case, as it is in the five counties south of us, it wouldn't be dark while the kids get on the bus, Savings time or not.  When Indiana started observing Daylight time a year or two ago, five more counties bordering those got on Central time. I thought that was fine.  Then Crane employees started crying because many of them had to cross time zones to get to work.  They applied pressure to County officials, and got those five to apply for a change, and ultimately changed back to Eastern time.
Monday morning I had clocks upstairs reading 2, 3, and 4 AM. :D  My wife turned her alarm forward, and then at 2:00AM Sunday, it rolled itself forward another hour.

[sawguy21]

If everyone changed it would not be such a pain. Like Coon, I had to keep track of where I was and who I was calling as some parts of B.C. don't change. Half the year they are on Mountain time, the other half on Pacific.

[Warbird]

DST does not save energy.

[SwampDonkey]

What would save more energy is having well lit offices with big windows turn their lights off. But, no. How many times have I been in an office with lots of sunshine light and see all the lights on. How wasteful can you get.

[Tom]

DST does not save energy.

Sure it does!   The "Government" said that we saved about 300,000 barrels of oil by extending DST.  They say folks go on picnics in the afternoon and don't burn electricity since they created another hour of daylight.

'Course, they are traveling around in their cars, so I guess it gets used anyway.

What do the chickens do with the extra hour?

I wonder if the school kids like it as much as the adults.  They are the ones that have to stand in the dark, waiting for the schoolbus at 5:30 in the morning.

Then there is the assumption that the hour of invented daylight is free time.  Most folks I know use it to encrease the work day. Trying to make more money to pay the higher fuel bills

I just never understood tampering with stuff like this.  It must be folks sitting behind a desk in a skyscraper that think it up.  I don't know what their concerns would be, they never go outside anyway. :P :D

[Part_Timer]

So how about we stay on DST and stop changing the clocks?  I don'c care what time they make it just keep it there. 

Faron I think it is so funny the guys that complained the most didn't get their way and stayed on Central just like they did before. 

[Don_Papenburg]

If you want more daylight time after work ,START WORK EARLIER, don't go messing with my time machines. It is a pain in the but to have to change the time on all my windup clocks . The grandfather clock does not like its hands moved back It tends to sound the time that it was before the move unless you spend the time to run it through the chimes as you reset it .   The bango clock I hjave to unhook the pendulum and let it run wild so time flies . But it takes 20 min. or so I get bored and go off and do something important . Come back later and the clock has sped into tomarrow and then I have to stop it and hope I remember to start it at the right time the next day.    That reminds me I have to start it before 9:00  .Never mind I'll do it tomarrow.

[Furby]

Some will call me crazy for saying this, but there is nothing new there.
I'm sorta liking the earlier DST change.
It was REALLY hard the first couple days, harder than I ever remember it being before.
But it now feels so much later in the year than it really is.
I know it's a psychological thing, but it sure has helped end the long winter.

[Dan_Shade]

i'm liking it too.

the world works on an 8-4 clock, people are kind of trained that way.  going to work an hour earlier doesn't fix the fact that you're needed until 4 o'clock