Daylight Savings Time

[Little Blue]

.... Just wanted you to know that Daylight Savings Time is this Sunday.
You know the drill, spring ahead One Hour. ...

So what does this do for me, absolutely nothing. It makes the sunshine start one hour later.

Maybe someone out there has a good reason for doing this 'Time Game'?

Please Post Your Best Guess. ......

Thanks and have a wonderful Day. .....

[blacklightning]

I actually like the extended daylight that we get from the spring change. The only thing it will do for me in the mornings is that I will be taking my "heat" with me when I go to the park for my 7:00 am walks. With it being light at 7 now, I had started to slip and left my "heat" at home on most days. But when it is slightly dark, it is always with me.

[Bangorbob]

Now I will be able to sleep until 6am. They really need to quit this time change stuff. Of course that's my opinion only.

[RayBJ]

I believe like so many other inane laws DST was enacted to extend shopping at retailers during Christmas shopping season. It's past it's useful life and should be ended IMHO.

[MNBK]

Many states have passed legislation to stay permanently on DST contingent on the federal government passing similar legislation. Minnesota passed it and the legislation states it will be enacted upon federal law enacted as such.

[Knizar]

I believe like so many other inane laws DST was enacted to extend shopping at retailers during Christmas shopping season. It's past it's useful life and should be ended IMHO.

Sorry, but DST ends well before Christmas in my part of the country, it doesn't have to be light outside to shop. I believe that DST is for the 9-5 people so they can play golf, outdoor BBQ, etc........Bill

[spyderdave]

Overall, I believe DST was adopted to make better use of resources and man-hours from sun-up to sun-down; in my region of the country, think farming.

[KenF]

Whatever was or is the reason. "JUST STOP" Stay on standard time year round.

[canamjhb]

We don't participate in DST here in Arizona. Neither does Hawaii. The sun comes up and the sun goes down. We can't change any of that no matter how much we play with our wristwatches...... Jim

[Elwood58]

Here in Arizona it is something that happens to everybody else.

[EdMat]

Reminds me of the old Indian cartoon with the caption something like "Only white man believes he can cut a foot off top of blanket and sew it back on bottom, and have longer blanket"

[Peter Aawen]

Reminds me of the old Indian cartoon with the caption something like "Only white man believes he can cut a foot off top of blanket and sew it back on bottom, and have longer blanket"

But if you're lying in bed with cold & uncovered shoulders while there's a heap of unused blanket extending down below your feet, isn't it only sense to pull it up a bit & cover your shoulders?! . Or at least you could slide down the bed a bit further so that you make better use of the full length of the blanket and cover all of you instead of only using the top half to cover your lower half.... . That's really all that daylight saving does - there's no cutting or sewing involved, just a little bit of 'pulling' or 'sliding' so that you are better covered by the available blanket... err, daylight!

Obviously it's not a biggie where the blanket/daylight is big/long enough to cover all of you all of the time; but further North (or South ) where the nights can be looong or short depending on the season &/or blankets can be critical to keeping you warm or barely needed at all, it can be a pretty handy thing to have the sense to pull the blanket up or leave it down around your feet, can't it?!?

Just Sayin'

[Little Blue]

...Some of the better comments I have heard on the use of DST. Here in good ole Indiana, the State People
keep saying we need to change this. Nothing has happened for the last 10 years. So just make the best of it. ................

[troop]

Spring the clocks ahead on Sunday and leave it.

[ARtraveler]

I am somewhat in the minority, but I like DST.

I actually like the "extra" hour of daylight at the END of the day. I am not much into night riding anymore. The old eyes, just are not what they used to be.

In Alaska, there was just too much light in the summer. We did get "paid back" in the winter time though. Five hours of daylight on the shortest day was a bit much even for me. Light from about 10 AM to 3:30 PM.

Changing it out, is above my paygrade or ability, so like you all, I have learned to be happy with what I have.

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

Lots and lots of chatter about this ..... and even though the majority of folks here are " OLDER " ..like me I don't see why there is so much confusion about WHY it began ..... The FARMERS ... like Dairy farmers, that have to tend the Cows are the reason this idea was started ..... at least that's what I have heard from decades ago .... Mike

[ARtraveler]

Lots and lots of chatter about this ..... and even though the majority of folks here are " OLDER " ..like me I don't see why there is so much confusion about WHY it began ..... The FARMERS ... like Dairy farmers, that have to tend the Cows are the reason this idea was started ..... at least that's what I have heard from decades ago .... Mike

Me too on the start reason.

[MONK]

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[canamjhb]

My memory of DST is that it is met to save energy by better using daylight when the sun comes up earlier in the spring and summer..... Jim

[Pooch]

If our lives were not ruled by the clock we would not feel the difference.

[Little Blue]

....Cows and the Farmers, A very interesting thought about how DST started.
I will try and study more on this one. ......

[bigbadbrucie]

....Cows and the Farmers, A very interesting thought about how DST started.
I will try and study more on this one. ......

Actually, I was told the same by my mother and father back in the early ‘50’s. I was born in the ‘40’s.

[Little Blue]

...Remember to Spring forward on your clocks tonight.

[canamjhb]

....Cows and the Farmers, A very interesting thought about how DST started.
I will try and study more on this one. ......

I don't think cows and crops care what time it is or if we mere mortals fiddle with our clocks...... Spring ahead if you must..... Jim

[Steve W.]

Does a farmer really care whether he gets up at 4am or 5am? Probably not. He gets up an hour or so before it gets light, so he can grab some grub, then make sure the equipment for the day is ready to go. Depending on what is on the day's joblist, the equipment is likely to have enough lights on it to simulate a very localized 'daylight', so it really doesn't matter what the clock says.

I have always heard that to a farmer, there is no such time as "bright and early".
If it's 'bright', it's certainly not early. If it's 'early', it dang sure isn't bright.

For me, I don't care if we stick with standard time or daylight saving time. Just STOP CHANGING.

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