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DST sucks
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:00 am
by krampus
What is the point, I have never heard a reasonable explanation as to why we have to change the time twice a year. they don't do it in Phoenix and they are seem to be getting by just fine. Mondays suck enough as it is, why would we have to make them even worse once a year?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:03 am
by pigsteak
because it makes them better once a year?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:10 am
by ynot
Some idiot president made a bet with congress that he could sell the American public anything and they came up with daylight savings time and sure enough we got sold.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:13 am
by krampus
but is it really a 50/50 good bad thing, cus for me it usually ends up as being me just waking up an hour early for work once a year scratching my ass saying "now what am I supposed to do"
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:24 am
by Meadows
I don't get the complaints - the time changes on Sunday so we have a day before Monday to get our bodies adjusted.
After living in a no-change zone for nearly all my life, I kind of enjoy it. It means I can head out to the Red after work or go running later in the evening.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:41 am
by SCIN
Try being an IT guy this year and dealing with the new changes. You'd think it was Y2K all over again with the amount of patching we've had to do.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:49 am
by krampus
Meadows wrote:
I don't get the complaints - the time changes on Sunday so we have a day before Monday to get our bodies adjusted.
True, but when you leave louisville at 7 am to go to the red on sunday, you really want that extra hour of sleep. My body has not adjusted.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:40 am
by rhunt
it does suck BUT I am psyched they extended it. I am with Meadows, today I will start running again outside now that I will have plently of daylight after 5pm...and three weeks earlier this year! Next fall you'll have an extra weekend of evening daylight to get a few extra burns in on your proj.
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:05 pm
by krampus
I still don't see the point, I am definitly pumped about the extra daylight but why don't they just give us the extra daylight all year round?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:12 pm
by Crankmas
the arguments for doing it earlier were interesting: less energy for burning lights etc. people would buy more grills and charcoal, the golfing industry would have increased sales, but the research shows people just drive more to go shopping which burns more fuel and produces more greenhouse gases