Daylight Savings Time!

Leap forward tonight!

Working nights this weekend, so tonight I work 11 hours and get paid for 12

And I get to spend an hour running around the house resetting all the clocks.

We don't take kindly to daylight savings time around these parts.

I don't like it.

Bah!

Humbug!

So, you guys all move the sun around now, right? I'm quite glad we don't try to defy the laws of nature around here. Sounds tough.

I really wish we wouldn't do anything about it. Either leave it one way or the other, or switch it to 30 minutes and leave it forever. In the summer, it is light when I wake up and often light when I go to bed. In the winter, it is dark when I wake up, and often dark when I leave work. What the hell difference does it make? The Farmers will farm farm when it is light, so that argument is gone.

More durn guvment meddling, is what it is.

Zomby Woof wrote: Working nights this weekend, so tonight I work 11 hours and get paid for 12

Today I work 23 hours and get paid for 24.

just means that fabled spring thing is near

My little ones will be very happy that it won't get dark too early now.

81cpcamaro wrote: I don't like it.

I love it …just not so happy with the change over … 2 1/2 hr dr to an a-x this morning .. so instead of 4:15 alarm, it's (for all intents and purposes) 3:15

Dear federal oppressors, please stop screwing with my time.

So what do I do? Forget. We're late for Church.

stroker wrote: So what do I do? Forget. We're late for Church.

lulz

mtn wrote: I really wish we wouldn't do anything about it. Either leave it one way or the other, or switch it to 30 minutes and leave it forever. In the summer, it is light when I wake up and often light when I go to bed. In the winter, it is dark when I wake up, and often dark when I leave work. What the hell difference does it make? The Farmers will farm farm when it is light, so that argument is gone.

This. I don't get it either. Who gives a E36 M3 what time it is when the sun comes up or down. A farmer is gonna wake up when the rooster calls anyways.

Daylight savings time is so stupid.

Woody wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote: Working nights this weekend, so tonight I work 11 hours and get paid for 12

Today I work 23 hours and get paid for 24.

What happens in the fall? I'll bet no one works 25 and gets paid for 24.

Adrift wrote:

Woody wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote: Working nights this weekend, so tonight I work 11 hours and get paid for 12

Today I work 23 hours and get paid for 24.

What happens in the fall? I'll bet no one works 25 and gets paid for 24.

Unless they are salary.

Complaining ain't much good, it's their sandbox and they make the rules.

One good thing when adjusting the time is bumping the hour up only one click on a digital instead of going all the way through AM/PM to fall back. Still gotta turn the hour hand w/ an analog.

I know... it's minimal.

I like DST. Why? Because I like it being light at 8PM at night in the summer, rather than having a useless hour of daylight in the morning before everyone wakes up.

Alas, we always seem to wind up with an autox scheduled on DST morning, with me in the morning rungroups. Getting up at effectively 4:30 AM is brutal to me.

mtn wrote: I really wish we wouldn't do anything about it. Either leave it one way or the other, or switch it to 30 minutes and leave it forever. In the summer, it is light when I wake up and often light when I go to bed. In the winter, it is dark when I wake up, and often dark when I leave work. What the hell difference does it make? The Farmers will farm farm when it is light, so that argument is gone.

DST was originally implemented in Germany during WWI, as an energy saving initiative.

Now it gives people that work a traditional 9-5 day an extra hour of daylight beyond their work hours.

In reply to NGTD and codrus:

I understand the extra hour at night in the summer... soooo, why don't we just leave it at that time?

I don't mind DST; I just hate the week or two of dislocation. Leave it one way or the damn other.

Somewhere or other I read that heart attacks peak at Christmas and at DST.