Daylight Saving Time

[James]

I think it's pointless. It's not like we magically get any more or any less sunlight.

Daylight savings is the worst. Does anyone other than the USA do this? And Arizona doesn't even do it.

A lot of other countries, mostly in the Western World, comply with DST.

 

[Erzengel]

It also depends on where you live. South like Florida gets an extra hour of sunshine then compared to up North in NY.

 

[Manic]

I think it's pointless. It's not like we magically get any more or any less sunlight.

I think you'll find that's the point. It's meant to keep the days feeling roughly the same length during the parts of the year where the Earth's rotation gives us significantly more or less sunlight.

 

[Anubis]

This just shows you how untech savvy I am but I can't figure out how to change the time on my cellphone that didn't set itself for Daylight Savings.

Power it off then turn it on again.

 

[James]

I think you'll find that's the point. It's meant to keep the days feeling roughly the same length during the parts of the year where the Earth's rotation gives us significantly more or less sunlight.

I get that. All it does is make people feel like they're getting a little extra daylight. The majority of the population of the planet seems to get by fine without it though.

It's not really like it's a huge deal, turning the clock back or forward takes all of ten seconds and then it's done. I can live with it. But if I had the option to keep DST going or cancel it forever, I'd do the latter.

 

[Boy Scout]

Personally, I think it's pointless.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

 

[SuperHeroHype]

Wonders how many people in this thread know that Daylight Saving Time is actually ending tonight and we're going back to Standard Time tonight instead of the other way around. But yes, it is silly.

 

[KevanG]

Uh-buh-wah? Again? Didn't we just do this dance?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It also depends on where you live. South like Florida gets an extra hour of sunshine then compared to up North in NY.

In December. In June it gets dark earlier in Florida than New York.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I think we should just have DST in effect all year round.

I'd much rather have it be dark at 7am in the winter if it could be light out into 6 or 7.

Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Daylight Savings Time is great. It is Standard Time that sucks.

Reading this thread there seems to be some confusion as to what's what. Just to clarify for everyone:
Daylight Time = Light Later = Summer Time
Standard Time = Dark Earlier = Winter Time

So if we kept EDT year round, here in Florida it would get dark at 6 PM in the winter instead of 5 PM like it does now under EST.

 

[Anubis]

I prefer the Daniel Tosh method. You know, so the night owls can get some daylight.

 

[redmarvel]

I get that. All it does is make people feel like they're getting a little extra daylight. The majority of the population of the planet seems to get by fine without it though.

It's not really like it's a huge deal, turning the clock back or forward takes all of ten seconds and then it's done. I can live with it. But if I had the option to keep DST going or cancel it forever, I'd do the latter.

Takes all of 10 secods? No, it takes 10 seconds per clock, so my den clock then to my kitchen where I have to change my oven, microwave and coffee maker clock. And the oven one gives me a sore finger because I have to hold the button until it reaches the correct time (the bleeping thing) and it only goes up (can't go backward on it). The microwave is better, it has a dial I can turn forward or backward. Then up to the 2nd floor where I have to change the time on my office clock, on both my son's clocks and my bedroom clock. Oh and it takes gymnastics to reach one of my son's clocks.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Takes all of 10 secods? No, it takes 10 seconds per clock, so my den clock then to my kitchen where I have to change my oven, microwave and coffee maker clock. And the oven one gives me a sore finger because I have to hold the button until it reaches the correct time (the bleeping thing) and it only goes up (can't go backward on it). The microwave is better, it has a dial I can turn forward or backward. Then up to the 2nd floor where I have to change the time on my office clock, on both my son's clocks and my bedroom clock. Oh and it takes gymnastics to reach one of my son's clocks.

Gotta love first-world problems.

"Oh, I have to reset the time on ALL of my clocks and electronic devices. And on multiple floors!"

 

[Teelie]

I hate "first-world problems" as if it were something to dismiss as unimportant. There's a whole diatribe of why that reference is stupid but for another time.

Anyways DST is related to an increase in deaths for all kinds of indirect and a few direct reasons. The most obvious direct example is people's schedules are thrown off by an hour making them often more sleepy or disoriented causing traffic accidents and related sleep-deprivation accidents because their concentration and reaction time is off.

 

[Doctor Evo]

I hate "first-world problems" as if it were something to dismiss as unimportant. There's a whole diatribe of why that reference is stupid but for another time.

I'm sorry, but the complaint that you have to change the time on oh so many of your electronic devices on multiple stories of your dwelling should most certainly be dismissed as unimportant and, within a much broader social context, absurd.

 

[Teelie]

I'm not going to get into the overuse and absurdity of spouting it off either. Or the irony of you sitting in a first world house/office/country with a first world computer, on a first world message board, about a "first world" issue and so on.

 

[Doctor Evo]

Or the irony of you sitting in a first world house/office/country with a first world computer, on a first world message board, about a "first world" issue and so on.

...how is that even remotely ironic? I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.

 

[Teelie]

You use cliched phrases from other sources way too often.

Also, you've decided it's more important to defend your attack on first world problems than the problems DST causes.

 

[Doctor Evo]

You use cliched phrases from other sources way too often.

That doesn't answer my question. Redirection only works when it isn't painfully obvious.

Also, you've decided it's more important to defend your attack on first world problems than the problems DST causes.

Your point being...?

 

[Teelie]

Okay, since you seem to have missed your own redirection, let me explain.

You use a catchphrase to dismiss someone else's problem as "first world" while living in the first world, with all the luxuries of the first world, and doing absolutely nothing to help the rest of the world. It's a trite and tired phrase, much like YOLO. And while irony was meant to originally mean the opposite of an intended word or meaning it has spread to become more generically the opposite of anything, or in your case, complaining that someone is suffering a first world problem while you yourself are enjoying the benefits of first world life. In other words, you missed that your own first world problem is living in it.

And my point was as you so clearly stated, redirection only works when it isn't painfully obvious. This thread is about DST not first world problems which despite your assertion being a first world problem, still has very real problems of people you know, dying from it.

 

[Anubis]

Nah, I think he's right. It's a completely boos**t thing to whine about.

 

[Quasimod0]

Changing a bunch of clocks twice a year doesn't sound like much of an issue. I know it's not fun though.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

The problem with DST isn't the act of moving clocks though.

 

[Anubis]

I don't live in Hawaii, (though with all the hot Hawaiian Trannys, I wish I did)

I'm not an international businessman, Nor do I plan to ever step foot in effin' Arizona, so It continues not to matter.