Don't Forget About the Time Change

[naekelsey]

Remember that we lose an hour on Sunday. Don't forget to set your clocks ahead Saturday before you go to bed

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

In recent years, there have been some fairly compelling arguments for the repeal of Daylight Savings Time. Most people don't even know why we change our clocks, they just go along with it. The old saw is that DST "…helps farmers." Pffft. Farmers don't care what the clock says, they're more concerned with daylight. It wouldn't matter if the clock was set to 3:00 AM when the sun comes up, roosters don't give a crow about what time it is (ask anyone who lives near chickens) it's all about sunlight, regardless of clocks.Daylight savings time was implemented during WWI in order to, well, save energy with fewer people using lights in the evening. After the war, the US went back to standard time, all the time, still observed in Arizona, Hawaii, Alaska, and in some parts of Michigan and Indiana. (As it is, Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone, which I don't understand. Michigan is in the far western side of the zone, so it's still daylight in Michigan while it's dark in the rest of the time zone.)Daylight savings time was implemented again during WWII for the same reasons. WWII is long over so why is this anachronism still in place? (Along with excise tax on tires, now that I think about it. Government ideas just never go away once implemented, bad or good.) Congress didn't standardize DST for the second weekend in April to spring ahead and the last weekend in October to fall back until 1986 but couldn't leave well enough alone. Now we spring forward in March, which cost a small fortune for industry to adjust automated systems. Some advocates tell us that we're safer using DST and there are fewer accidents. Well, okay then, if that's so great, why don't we just implement DST year 'round? Congress tried that in 1973 and it was, well, awful. There are only so many hours of daylight in a day, and if you make it lighter in the evening, you're making it darker in the morning. There were more school bus accidents in the morning hours in 1973 than at any other time.I listened to the arguments for and against daylight savings time with some amusement for the last couple of years, but I'm starting to think that maybe it's time (so to speak) that this anachronism be dumped and just set our clocks to Standard Time and be done with it once and for all.At least we'd all get a full night's rest in April…er…March every year.

 

[pampered1224]

You are so right there. We milked cows for years and they could care a less what time the sun comes up. All they know is that when it starts peeking over the eastern sky, it is time to head to the barn. Heck, even my cat does not know if the sun comes up at 7, 6 or 5 a.m.! All he knows is that it is light, he wants to be fed. I do remember 1973! We had to be at school at 7:55 a.m. I remember walking there in the dark! It was actually scary as we lived right next to what is known as Frost Park Woods in Williams Bay. It was well over 200 acres of deep, dark scary woods. Walking the two blocks through it, well, ran through it to be more precises, was a pain! There were always weird sounds coming from in there! And of course, there were always the stories of many who got lost or murdered and never came out of those woods. Funny how in daylight it never matters, we always played in there, but when it is dark, NO WAY!