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Old 03-07-2020, 01:08 PM   #1
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Daylight Saving Time Again!

It’s that time again, fellow forum members. We lose an hour tonight, so don’t forget to turn your clocks ahead.
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Yah!! I like daylight savings time. I hate it when it gets dark at 5:30.
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Old 03-07-2020, 01:27 PM   #3
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Spring forward, fall back.

Will this be the year we finally get rid of this anachronism (pun intended)?
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not here...

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Old 03-07-2020, 01:29 PM   #5
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It's actually Daylight Saving Time, not "Savings", but I like it also.

I always think it's funny how the media says we lose an hour of sleep. My sleep varies a lot anyway, so it's never been any more noticeable to me than the typical night of sleep, but an easy solution to the time change and the supposed lost hour of sleep is just to go to bed an hour earlier.

Now, I'll have more hours of light again after I get off work. I probably wouldn't care much about what time the clock read if I was retired.
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I already changed the clocks. Nice how once retired, losing the hour on the clock really doesn't matter much no alarm to wake me up.
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Our kid (26) starts a new job on Monday after having been off work the past three weeks (known layoff). Unfortunate time to start a new job with the time change.

I have a haircut scheduled for Monday at 9:30am, so I guess I will have to suffer through the time change for that.
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Yes indeed it's DST time again! [emoji87]
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I've been going to bed earlier and waking up earlier in preparation, otherwise I'm tired for days afterwards. The fall isn't so bad, I just feel like I'm staying up a little later and sleeping a little later, which is my normal inclination when I don't have to w*rk.

I just find it ludicrous that we declare it earlier or later for no good reason. People find reasons to like it, but really, there's no point in relabeling time.
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Yeah.
Tampa FLA already has on average 30-40 minutes more daylight than the NEast where I came from.
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DST is much easier for me to adjust to.
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Yah!! I like daylight savings time. I hate it when it gets dark at 5:30.
5:30 is not so bad. Have the winter it is dark by 4P by me. I hate having 8 hours of daylight. I can't imagine how people live further north where they have no sunlight for several months.
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Old 03-08-2020, 12:00 PM   #14
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I just wish we would pick one time and stick with it!
I have always had difficulty adjusting, its just not as bothersome now that I am retired.
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Old 03-08-2020, 01:24 PM   #15
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Yeah, I would just as well they had permanent DST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perman..._United_States

My second choice would be to keep switching between DST and standard as we currently do.

My last choice would be to stay on standard time.
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I would prefer permanent Standard Time.

IMO, DST is like cutting two feet off the bottom of your blanket, sewing it onto the top of the blanket, and thinking you have made the blanket two feet longer.
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I would prefer permanent Standard Time.

INMO, DST is like cutting two feet off the bottom of your blanket, sewing it onto the top of the blanket, and thinking you have made the blanket two feet longer.
I really don't care which way we go. I just want the time changes to end.

Where we live on the 46th parallel, though, year round DST means sunrise at something like 8:45 AM on the shortest days of the year and there is concern about kids going to school in the dark.
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The kid in me wants to see the switch back to Standard Time done the last weekend in October, not the first weekend in November. Trick-or-treating is meant to be done after sunset!
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I want time to end. Let me explain: I think there should be one time everywhere. Let's say it's currently 7 am in NYC. That would mean in our current system it would be 4 am in LA. Who cares? Let it be 0700 everywhere in the world. NYC and LA. If you lived in NYC and you worked you would go to work at 0700. If you lived in LA you would go to work at 1000. If you lived in HI you would go to work at 1300. One time for the whole world. Yes, if we used my suggestion it would be easy to figure out that the sun would come up there(in HI) at 1200 or so and I would go to work at 1300.
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They should just leave it at Daylight Savings Time and not change it.
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