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Originally posted by flashguy:
frayedends, yard work is what Saturday is for.

flashguy

Boom. Exactly right.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Why not make Standard Time standard???

Because that makes too much sense?

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

If those legislators in Washington really wanted to accomplish something they would require that each day should have twenty-six hours instead of twenty-four, the added two hours would be daylight hours.

Yeah, but that would fuck people born on February 29 out of ever having a birthday.

If you think that's a problem, consider the Hebrew calendar. There's a "leap month" that exists for seven years in each nineteen year cycle.

Imagine his much time you will save if you don’t have to reset all your clocks, the microwave, the oven, alarm clock radios, watches ….

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Imagine his much time you will save if you don’t have to reset all your clocks, the microwave, the oven, alarm clock radios, watches ….

I have many clocks. Some digital ones change automatically. The only others I change are my alarm clock and the one in the car.

I don't find that activity the reason for my dislike of DST, though. I don't like it on principle.

flashguy

I'll be one of the odd guys and say I'm comfortable with the ritual of changing my clocks twice a year, but I did enjoy the text I got from a nephew this morning:

"If I was President I would eliminate Daylight Savings Time and institute "chaos hours" which would shift the clock at random intervals every few days, announced via emergency broadcast system."

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Let's just split the difference at the 30 minutes between and make that permanent.

That's probably the most sensible solution.

Just came across this little gen:

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There’s been a bit of talk about the drought lately, but has anyone stopped to think of the impact daylight saving time has had on the climate? The extra hour of sunlight causes more evaporation and therefore drought. The two states that don’t have daylight saving - Queensland and WA - are not in drought. It seems to me that we never had drought in this country before daylight saving time came along.
letter to the editor, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia

I'm at a loss for words.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Just came across this little gen:

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There’s been a bit of talk about the drought lately, but has anyone stopped to think of the impact daylight saving time has had on the climate? The extra hour of sunlight causes more evaporation and therefore drought. The two states that don’t have daylight saving - Queensland and WA - are not in drought. It seems to me that we never had drought in this country before daylight saving time came along.
letter to the editor, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia

I'm at a loss for words.

flashguy

You can't fix stupid.

And these people procreate and vote.

^^^^^ In Australia, at least in this case.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Just came across this little gen:

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There’s been a bit of talk about the drought lately, but has anyone stopped to think of the impact daylight saving time has had on the climate? The extra hour of sunlight causes more evaporation and therefore drought. The two states that don’t have daylight saving - Queensland and WA - are not in drought. It seems to me that we never had drought in this country before daylight saving time came along.
letter to the editor, Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia

I'm at a loss for words.

flashguy

You can't fix stupid.

And these people procreate and vote.

Come on, you two telling me this isn't sarcasm????

No, I refuse to believe anyone can be so stupid. It may be true but nope, just nope.

Google couldn't locate the Australia version, but did find it via Snopes in Arkansas

One such item quoted above was indeed published as a letter to the editor by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on 16 April 2007:

You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in Arkansas when, on a normal year, we might see a snowflake or two.

This should come as no surprise to any reasonable person. As you know, Daylight Saving Time started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they?

Perhaps this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat. Perhaps next time there should be serious studies performed before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects.

CONNIE M. MESKIMEN
Hot Springs

However, this missive was not intended to be taken literally, as its author, Connie Meskimen, is a Little Rock lawyer known for penning sarcastic letters with tongue planted firmly in cheek

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Why not make Standard Time standard???

Because that makes too much sense?

Bingo, winner winner-chicken dinner!

Just heard on the radio that congress is getting a lot of pushback on this and sleep doctors etc we’re saying that STANDARD TIME was what was needed and not DST.

Give me more afternoon daylight.

Let the kids walk to bus stops in the dark.

^ HA I read “afternoon delight” , and I’m all for more of that!

That, too.

I'd be happy, if the whole state was the SAME time!

Whoever was in charge of drawing a diagonal line across the state and having different times WAS AN IDIOT.

Freaking Mike Pence and the damn time changes here in Indiana. Freaking Dr. Who "Time Lord" wanna' be.

Throw in the fact that northern Indiana borders with Michigan, which frequently is on a different time, and also north western Indiana which want's to be on Chicago time. Jeez, if you want Chicago's time so bad, move there!

It all boils down to a big mess. If some one can step up and tell me what time it's going to be for the next 12 months, I'm all for it. Time changes make me kind of wonky until I get used to it.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
frayedends, yard work is what Saturday is for.

flashguy

Boom. Exactly right.

Sometimes I get home on Friday night and after dinner I mow the lawn. I grab a beer and the ride on and get it done. Sometimes that beer turns into 10 beers. On Saturday the lawn is already done and that’s good because I definitely don’t feel like mowing.