I just had to get that off my chest as yet another TIME CHANGE approaches. Oh yeah, and will someone please tell my critters that they really won't need to be up at the same time as their internal clocks? Thanks, bye.
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Ursa Falcone
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10-30-2004 05:29
I am so sick and tired of having to adjust my entire living cycle two times a year. Its just got to stop! Some states (well, Arizona) don't force daylight savings time on all of their citizens. It made sense at one time perhaps - back when none of us can remember, but all right already - we deal with alot of sh*t so I think we can deal with a little more/less light/dark in our days.
I just had to get that off my chest as yet another TIME CHANGE approaches. Oh yeah, and will someone please tell my critters that they really won't need to be up at the same time as their internal clocks? Thanks, bye. _____________________
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Neehai Zapata
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10-30-2004 06:57
I agree.
It's even worse when you try to explain the system and the reason to people in other countries. "Um, well, you used to be 5 hours ahead but we have this thing..." _____________________
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Camille Serpentine
Eater of the Dead
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10-30-2004 07:46
What if we just changed it a 1/2 hour and then left it that way forever?
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Malachi Petunia
Gentle Miscreant
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10-30-2004 07:47
The last change in US daylight savings time was lobbied for by the summer recreation industries so we could have a couple of extra weeks of barbeques and beers. Rationality pales in the face of powers like that.
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Merwan Marker
Booring...
Join date: 28 Jan 2004
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10-30-2004 09:37
Boycott time!
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
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10-30-2004 11:58
We should just have a chip in every clock that would make it 6am whenever the sun came up.
It's a lot healthier to live in sync with the sun and we already have the technology to do it. _____________________
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Einsman Schlegel
Disenchanted Fool
Join date: 11 Jun 2003
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10-30-2004 12:27
I never really understood the time change. I don't see why we need it now either. Just another hassle.
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Ironchef Cook
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10-30-2004 12:30
It's a lot healthier to live in sync with the sun and we already have the technology to do it. You mean like roosters? |
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Ulrika Zugzwang
Magnanimous in Victory
Join date: 10 Jun 2004
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10-30-2004 12:47
Before you rescind daylight savings, you should understand the reasons why it was enacted and what the costs to our society would be, if it were removed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/daylightsavingtime/ Although first instituted in 1915, the idea of Daylight Saving Time had been batted around for more than a century. Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea more than once in the 1770s while he was a minister to France. But it wasn't until more than a century later that the idea of Daylight Saving Time was taken seriously. William Willett, an English writer revived the idea in 1907, and eight years later Germany was the first nation to adopt Daylight Saving Time. The reason: energy conservation. Britain quickly followed suit and instituted British Summer Time in 1916. Several areas, including parts of Europe, Canada and the U.S., followed suit during the First World War. In most cases daylight saving ended with the armistice. During the Second World War, a different form of daylight saving was reinstated by Britain and clocks were set two hours ahead of GMT during the summer. It was known as Double Summer Time. The saving didn't stop with the summer, as clocks were rolled back to be one hour ahead of GMT through the winter. The Uniform Time Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966, established a system of uniform (within each time zone) Daylight Saving Time throughout most of the U.S. and its possessions, exempting only those states in which the legislatures voted to keep the entire state on standard time. Read More... It's a standard utilitarian argument. Daylight savings seeks to maximize efficiency in a resource-limited world to by modifying the time in which the general public and industry are active. If Europe and the Americas were to come off daylight savings, what would that do to the price of coal and oil? What's interesting is that historically energy consumption has always been an issue of which humans have been acutely aware. Have we lost that awareness? ~Ulrika~ _____________________
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Cross Lament
Loose-brained Vixen
Join date: 20 Mar 2004
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10-30-2004 13:58
I think we should all switch to Swatch Internet Time.
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
D- in English
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
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11-01-2004 06:36
Fortunately, I use the Mayan Calender....but It will only be good until 12/23/2012. After that, I suppose it won't matter, much.
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Dismay Wilde
Bleed Designs Owner
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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11-01-2004 06:37
I dunno in the fall i like geting that extra hour of sleep for that one day ROFL..and in the spring..i like when they take that hour back..one less hour of work..teehee
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Jack Digeridoo
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11-01-2004 06:42
Daylight savings seeks to maximize efficiency in a resource-limited world to by modifying the time in which the general public and industry are active. If Europe and the Americas were to come off daylight savings, what would that do to the price of coal and oil? Air conditioners have to run longer though. _____________________
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