I WANT MY HOUR BACK, DAMMIT!

[LostLassie]

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html

The idea of daylight saving time was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 during his stay in Paris. He published an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” that proposed to economize the use of candles by rising earlier to make use of the morning sunlight.

Spending a lot on candles lately, are we?

DST was first adopted to replace artificial lighting so they could save fuel for the war effort in Germany during World War I at 11:00pm (23:00) on April 30, 1916.

Oh, that Germany! Always first in line with ideas to benefit humanity.

Daylight saving time is now implemented in over seventy countries worldwide and affects over a billion people each year.

That's a billion (mostly grumpy right this minute) people who were never asked if they wanted someone screwing around with their time.

Here's a thought: Why not just pass a law instead that forces employers to allow flex time for all employees. Then, everyone who just has to have an hour to jog in full daylight after work, or is phobic about entering open-24-hour-a-day retail stores after dark, or who enjoys chilly houses and would never punch the thermostat up a notch once they're out of bed, and has also memorized the placement of the furnishings in their home so they don't need electric lights when they rise in total darkness: those people could just get up and go to work an hour earlier, and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

 

[LostLassie]

 

[LordJeffBuck]

I added another poll response, one that you forgot to include.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

All the clocks are changed.. 2nd cup of coffee done.. I'm ready to get on with it

 

[buckeyeintn]

Oh, that Germany! Always first in line with ideas to benefit humanity.

Yes, before the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Tennessee is currently considering legislation that would take it off of DST. If it passes (and it looks like it has a high probability), our time will not go back this fall.

 

[WyoBuck]

Great idea if you lived pre 1800. Shitty Idea now.

 

[buckeyebri]

Yes, before the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Tennessee is currently considering legislation that would take it off of DST. If it passes (and it looks like it has a high probability), our time will not go back this fall.

Indiana finally got on board with DST about 7 years ago. Let me tell you from a business perspective it was the best thing they ever did. I can't tell you how many meetings that were with folks in other states got F'd up prior to this. It would be a huge move backwards for TN to do this. One thing I would like to see is the time zones be adopted that make sense. I shouldn't drive East or South from Indy and be in a Central time zone, for example Nashville is central.

 

[WyoBuck]

Indiana finally got on board with DST about 7 years ago. Let me tell you from a business perspective it was the best thing they ever did. I can't tell you how many meetings that were with folks in other states got F'd up prior to this. It would be a huge move backwards for TN to do this. One thing I would like to see is the time zones be adopted that make sense. I shouldn't drive East or South from Indy and be in a Central time zone, for example Nashville is central.

You could affect the same effect by doing away with the nonsense altogether.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Wee.... 10pm sunsets here we come... Yes either do away with DST or redo the timezones...

 

[jwinslow]

Indiana finally got on board with DST about 7 years ago. Let me tell you from a business perspective it was the best thing they ever did. I can't tell you how many meetings that were with folks in other states got F'd up prior to this. It would be a huge move backwards for TN to do this. One thing I would like to see is the time zones be adopted that make sense. I shouldn't drive East or South from Indy and be in a Central time zone, for example Nashville is central.

Yes it was best because everyone else is too stupid to stop using an archaic, disruptive and costly disruption, thus they had to join the masses.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[buckeyeintn]

Indiana finally got on board with DST about 7 years ago. Let me tell you from a business perspective it was the best thing they ever did. I can't tell you how many meetings that were with folks in other states got F'd up prior to this. It would be a huge move backwards for TN to do this. One thing I would like to see is the time zones be adopted that make sense. I shouldn't drive East or South from Indy and be in a Central time zone, for example Nashville is central.

Nashville is in Central? Thank you for telling me. I never would have known that. And so far as meetings with those in other states, I deal with people in all 50 states. Sometimes in person, sometimes phone, sometimes video-conference. Making sure you understand what the time difference is (if there is one) is not rocket surgery. A businessperson should be able to figure it out. And on a personal note, living in the far eastern portion of the central time zone, it will be nice for it not to be dark at 4:30.

 

[buckeyebri]

Nashville is in Central? Thank you for telling me. I never would have known that. And so far as meetings with those in other states, I deal with people in all 50 states. Sometimes in person, sometimes phone, sometimes video-conference. Making sure you understand what the time difference is (if there is one) is not rocket surgery. A businessperson should be able to figure it out. And on a personal note, living in the far eastern portion of the central time zone, it will be nice for it not to be dark at 4:30.

Just using it as an example of time zone scenarios that don't make sense in the scheme of things, not pointed towards you if you took offense to something. Yes, you would think business folks could figure it out, but it was a problem numerous times. Consistency across the country would make sense to me, whichever way it is.

 

[muffler dragon]

DST is bull shit. Wish the time change would just go away for good.

 

[LostLassie]

I added another poll response, one that you forgot to include.

I didn't forget. It wasn't relevant to me. Yes, eventually it comes back. In November. After a mere 239 days--or two-thirds of a year--of distortion later. My issue with the practice isn't about ONE HOUR. It is about 5736 HOURS that are ALL altered, year after year, every year, in an absurd, unnecessary ritual whose primary achievement is that it inconveniences and irritates countless millions of people.

Your added response would be covered under I Love It (What's Wrong With You, Anyway?). I didn't include your addition because it wasn't anything I would have said. If you're going to edit my posts, rather than reply to them, please find a method of specifically indicating within the actual edit, which words are mine and which words are not. Although I didn't intend this as a serious thread, I do take seriously having statements added anywhere in my posts that may be attributed to me that are not mine.