So tonight we “spring ahead” again and just like every year it irritates the crap out of me. In addition to being a waste of effort and a waste of resources, the moving forward and back of the clocks is wildly unpopular. I frankly view the continued existence of daylight savings time as a perfect example of the ineffectiveness of our current government. DST and its retreat is wildly unpopular, with like 80% or more of the population wanting to end this practice. A supermajority of politicians want to end this practice. This is not a new development either as the general population and a majority of politicians have been in favor of eliminating this practice for years. Yet here we are about to go through this asinine process again. Why is it, we can stop illegal border crossings, topple 2 foreign regimes, spend trillions and trillions of dollars and they still can’t end this stupid damn practice? If anyone from President Trump’s regime is monitoring this forum, can you please ask him to make ending DST his top priority? I’m at the point that I don’t care what else we do, or if we do anything else - end this damn stupidity. Let’s make this the most important thing the government plans on doing. Stop the madness!

I hate it too as my birds now get to stay up another hour before I can go to bed as I get up at 3:00AM to go to work.

Daylight Saving Time isn’t about farmers. The farmer story stuck because no one asks follow-up questions once livestock are involved. The real purpose is daylight redistribution. Surplus daylight is stored in secret underground federal reserve facilities through winter. In spring, the illumination is loaded onto tanker trucks overnight and delivered to dispersion depots disguised as gas stations. The “fuel pumps” are mostly for appearances but they double as pressurized daylight regulators. This allows municipal utility crews to safely load the unpressurized light into the buckets on their trucks and release it into the sky evenly across neighborhoods. From the street it mostly looks like routine line work. So, if your evenings suddenly feel longer over the next week or so, your area is probably receiving its first deliveries.

(Additional note: Ever wonder why “Trucks Entering Highway” signs sit at oddly specific highway entrances? They mark access portals where tanker trucks surface from the underground tunnels nightly. DOT has never formally confirmed it, but the signage pattern is fairly obvious once you start looking for it.)

V_Tail, does this explain the tree-cutters and lineman's trucks that have been in my neighborhood for the past week?

I like it…

I wish they’d stay in DST, if we had to pick.

I agree op. It is stupid at this point.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
I like it…

I wish they’d stay in DST, if we had to pick.

I agree, I like more light later in the day.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I hate it too as my birds now get to stay up another hour before I can go to bed as I get up at 3:00AM to go to work.

ouch, never thought about that

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Originally posted by Patriot:
I like it…

I wish they’d stay in DST, if we had to pick.

Same here.

Yup to light in the evening. All hail DST. I'm happy to be in the dark in the morning. Morning is for sleeping, and pooping, and work, and coffee, and breakfast, and waking up, and things that can be done in the dark.

Evening is for farm work, and fishing, and enjoying time outdoors with the horses, and shooting, and fixing shit. All of which go better with light not provided by bulbs or toobs.

Let's go all year DST! Call your local lizard and make your opinion known, unless you disagree with me, in which case, be silent and go hide in your garage.

ETA: We have a rant section. Just sayin'...

I work with 2 countries that don't follow DST. Microsoft Outlook springs ahead all of the US calendars 1 hours, but leaves their calendars fixed. This week will be a nightmare for recurring meeting schedule conflicts and next week won't be much better. Happens twice a year and I hate it. I wish I had a nickel for every time I'm told someone has a conflict 15 minutes before the meeting (i.e. when the reminder goes off).

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
Let's go all year DST! Call your local lizard and make your opinion known, unless you disagree with me, in which case, be silent and go hide in your garage.

Yes, let's stick with one year around and pick DST. I love more hours of daylight after work.

I just go with the flow.
PST, PDT, both OK by me.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
Yup to light in the evening. All hail DST. I'm happy to be in the dark in the morning. Morning is for sleeping, and pooping, and work, and coffee, and breakfast, and waking up, and things that can be done in the dark.

Evening is for farm work, and fishing, and enjoying time outdoors with the horses, and shooting, and fixing shit. All of which go better with light not provided by bulbs or toobs.

Let's go all year DST! Call your local lizard and make your opinion known, unless you disagree with me, in which case, be silent and go hide in your garage.

ETA: We have a rant section. Just sayin'...

With ya, Artie. You make a good argument that I can agree with.

50% like it 50% don't so your 80% doesn't compute.

I'll tip the scales...I hate it.

I don’t care which way we go, just pick one and stick to it. My reference to 80% is the percentage of people that want to do away with the switching back and forth, not necessarily those who want to do away with DST as there are lots of people that would prefer to keep DST year round. I don’t know of a single person that likes the switching back and forth and I’ve seen a number of polls that tend to support my understanding of its unpopularity. In a perfect world, we’d probably do away with DST so as to coincide with the majority of the planet. I would not be opposed to sticking with DST year round though as long as we didn’t change back and forth throughout the year. Like I said, pick a choice and make it permanent.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I just go with the flow.

Bingo.
Adapt & deal with it. Go to bed an hour early tonight. Stay up an extra hour in the fall. There are much, much bigger issues in life.

I look forward to the twice-a-year b*tch sessions.

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ETA: Super Double Extra bonus points to Mr. V-Tail for finally unearthing the conspiracy.

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Set your clocks and teach your critters to tell time, y’all, I’m goin’ to bed! See ya in the [early] morning.

I am with the camp of just pick one and stay with it.

I'll be the one who thinks it makes sense to keep switching. I just barely remember when we stopped switching clocks in the 1970s during the Nixon administration. We went permanent daylight savings and it was a shitshow. The grumbling you hear now about switching clocks, became a giant roar in the ear of Congress. They reversed their stance, and and we came running back to switching clocks after a year. However unpopular switching clocks is, the adjustment to a permanent schedule will have people screaming louder.

You get one of 2 things, permanent standard time we have sunrise at 5:00am in the summer, or on permanent DST we have sunset at 4:00pm in the winter. I can make adjustments and live however, but I think what we have now is the best option.