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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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

Started feeding the dog 15min later each day on Tuesday. Hopefully his belly gets the message by the weekend.

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Originally posted by Expert308:

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
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. I survived.

I prefer standard time as well but most European countries also have DST.

I'm a morning person, and prefer standard time, though we are quite west for our time zone. Still, there is no reason starting/ending times for businesses or schools couldn't be adjusted as seasons change if they want to. Keep clocks the same.

During the war, Britain stayed on double DST for years.

Being retired it mostly doesn't matter, except for appointments with the outside world.

What Fly-Sig wrote. Quit screwing around with the clocks. Stay with Standard time.

You want an extra hour of daylight after work? Start an hour earlier. What's so hard about that?

Just you wait until the new Florida school start time law takes effect in 2026! Those kids will never see the light of day. All because somebody decided high school students shouldn’t start class until 8:30am because they need their beauty rest.

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Originally posted by jhe888:

It used to be standard to work 10 or 12 hours a day, six days a week and to die at age 60. "Standard" does not mean desirable.

To you in this instance. Not to me.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
So the kiddos don’t have to go to school in t dark?

Sit in mom's car until the bus comes in the dark.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

You want an extra hour of daylight after work? Start an hour earlier. What's so hard about that?

Most of us don't pick what time we go to work. We have to be there when they tell us to be there.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:

Most of us don't pick what time we go to work. We have to be there when they tell us to be there.

"They" can adjust working hour schedule twice a year, instead of screwing with the clocks twice a year. I'm retired now, but when I owned a business, I took my employees' needs into consideration when I set the work schedules. It's not that difficult, other than dumping the "we've always done it that way" mentality.

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Originally posted by holdem:

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:
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.

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Well you’re the first person I’ve heard who enjoys switching clocks.

Burn the witch!

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
"They" can adjust working hour schedule twice a year, instead of screwing with the clocks twice a year. I'm retired now, but when I owned a business, I took my employees' needs into consideration when I set the work schedules. It's not that difficult, other than dumping the "we've always done it that way" mentality.

I don't disagree, but good luck getting "them" to do that, much less getting "them" to coordinate with all the other "thems" so that there's any kind of consistency and inter-operational productivity across the board. It's a lot easier to just set the time. I have no problem with established times or time zones, I just think changing it up twice a year is stupid, especially in the age of electric lights.

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Originally posted by arabiancowboy:

Well you’re the first person I’ve heard who enjoys switching clocks.

I have some clocks that do not have a "back" setting, only a "forward." That means that once a year, I have to step the damn things 23 hours, and if I use the fast setting and miss the target, I have to go all the way around again.

I appreciate these notices here because I don’t pay attention to the BS media et al. where it might also be mentioned. I always change my many clocks that don’t reset by themselves the day before so I know the correct time when I wake up on Sunday morning.

There is, of course, no daylight “stolen.” The Sun and the Earth don’t care in the least what we pitiful organic entities choose to do. I’m reminded of how amused I used to get when farmers would complain that the switch would upset their cows. If they get upset, it’s because the farmers evidently believe their activities are firmly bound by what a clock says, and don’t adjust their schedules to stay in line with the Sun’s rising and setting, not because the cows know the first thing about our clocks.

Pick one and stick with it-nationwide

I don’t really care one way or the other.

Retired. Don’t wear a watch,don’t care what time it is.

Ah. Everything feels... Standard this morning.

Hello darkness
My old friend
Soon you’ll start
At five PM

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by Expert308:

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Originally posted by reloader-1:
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. I survived.

I prefer standard time as well but most European countries also have DST.

Really? I did not know that, I thought DST was just an American thing.