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'Fall into the abyss' is nearly on us. Remember to change your clocks this weekend. Frown

I well recall Boston winters, when darkness would fall long before starting the commute home...yuck!

Can't wait for 'Spring out of despair' to restore normalcy on March 9.
 
Posts: 15190 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: October 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Ah. The return to normalcy this weekend. Standard time is standard.
 
Posts: 3507 | Location: Tampa, FL | Registered: February 09, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Go to work when its dark. Work in a windowless room. Return home when its dark. At least there will be a month of relief from Florida Swamp Ass.
 
Posts: 840 | Location: Crestview Florida | Registered: July 23, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Why don’t they just standardize DST and kill this whole stupidity?
 
Posts: 2352 | Registered: October 26, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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It seems every year there’s an effort to kill this but it fizzles out. Changing our clocks is so dumb, I don’t care which one we choose but we should stop this practice. I’ve never met anyone who likes it.
 
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Why don’t they just standardize DST and kill this whole stupidity?


Agree 100%. Used to be our state didn't engage in this BS but they changed back in the early 2000s to help with interstate commerce. I wish the whole country would just dump it altogether. And the extra hour of daylight in the evening after work would be a whole lot more useful than biasing it towards the morning.
 
Posts: 9380 | Location: In the Cornfields | Registered: May 25, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Why don’t they just standardize DST and kill this whole stupidity?

 
Having lived in AZ for over 20 years, I would propose just the opposite. Standardize standard time and do away with the stupidity that is "savings time". Probably most of you have never had the chance to experience standard time during the summer. I for one like having the continuum of time throughout the year, and after a year or two, you do not even notice the absence of the changeover.



When in doubt, mumble
 
Posts: 10887 | Location: South Congress AZ | Registered: May 27, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by reloader-1:
Why don’t they just standardize DST and kill this whole stupidity?

 
Having lived in AZ for over 20 years, I would propose just the opposite. Standardize standard time and do away with the stupidity that is "savings time". Probably most of you have never had the chance to experience standard time during the summer. I for one like having the continuum of time throughout the year, and after a year or two, you do not even notice the absence of the changeover.


If you standardize DST, you get the exact same continuum you are seeking with no changeover.
 
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So the kiddos don’t have to go to school in t dark?



Serious about crackers
 
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Either 1 hour forward or 1 hour back, depending on the time of year. Why can't the world compromise and just change everyone's time zone by 30 minutes and leave it alone? JMHO.
 
Posts: 530 | Location: Middle Alabama | Registered: February 27, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I’ve never met anyone who likes it.


I am generally an early bird. And I like it because it keeps the sunrise fairly consistent. Right now it's about as late as it gets, a bit after 7am. But with the change it moves back to just after 6am. And then as the days shorten, it creeps back towards 7am. And then the reverse happens in the spring. I know, I know, I am the oddity.
 
Posts: 2373 | Location: Orlando | Registered: April 22, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Sigh. Confused

Try dealing with DST with young kids

They will be off for a full week, sometimes two now


 
Posts: 34844 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: November 12, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Here’s a weird idea:

Live on solar time.

Ignore the clock. Admittedly, my family has almost always lived on farms/ranches and sunrise is vastly more relevant that the number on a device on the wall.

As the birth of my daughter, and first child, comes nigh, I have realized I will not be subjecting her to the horrors of a school.

Aside from the social exposure which I want to shield her from, I don’t want her conditioned to the idea that neither she nor her parents have any say or rights in the face of the socialism, or that she is to spend a day, confined and bored, controlled by the whims of the bureaucracy.
 
Posts: 5961 | Location: Republic of Ice Cream, Low Country, SC. | Registered: May 24, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Get my pies
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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Here’s a weird idea:

Live on solar time.

Ignore the clock.


Sounds good on paper. I doubt that works in the real world where you will always be an hour ahead.


 
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Why don’t they just standardize DST and kill this whole stupidity?

And be forever unto eternity out of sync with the whole rest of the world, instead of only for 8 months? I'd rather standardize Standard time. I walked to school in the dark when I was a kid. Five miles in knee-deep snow. Uphill both ways. Wink I survived.
 
Posts: 7461 | Location: Idaho | Registered: February 12, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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If you standardize DST, you get the exact same continuum you are seeking with no changeover.


Except 120 degrees and sunset at 9pm really fucking sucks. No thanks. Apparently Arizona tried DST for all of a year before they realized it's a horrible idea.

I lived in the great frozen or rainy north for 22 years. I more than get the whole "get up and go to work in the dark, come home in the dark, never see the sun" thing, but I'm solidly with henryaz on this one.


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Posts: 17760 | Location: Sonoran Desert | Registered: February 10, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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No big deal. It's a cycle of life -- seasons, hours of light, hours of darkness. I have lights on the car, lights at work, lights in the house.

What I really miss with the change in seasons is the ability to do outdoor activities late in day. Golf, shoot, ride a bike, go for a walk, work outdoors, have an outdoor picnic -- at 8pm and it's still light. Skiing around Christmas kinda sucks, as the north-facing slopes are gloomy dark at 3:30.
 
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Honestly, while I have my preference, I don't really care if they go DST or standard...just stop switching back or forth! By December I'll be both going to work and coming home in the dark either way.
 
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Try dealing with DST with young kids



2 dogs and 6 cats, they know what time is eatin time



 
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After work, I want as much daylight as possible. I despise the early darkness.


No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain
 
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