Teh bewbies...

Simple solution: get rid of DST. I never saw the point.

Danarchy84: Simple solution: get rid of DST. I never saw the point.

I like daylight savings time. Get rid of the "standard" time instead.

/Or just put our timezones halfway between the two.

And more pedestrian accidents at the other switch.

Daylight Savings Time lets the terrorist win.

Like most Americans, I drive by the position of the sun.

Smellvin: Danarchy84: Simple solution: get rid of DST. I never saw the point.

I like daylight savings time. Get rid of the "standard" time instead.

/Or just put our timezones halfway between the two.

we've had people say that here - 'for the children' who have to walk to school in the dark in winter, or even 2 hours ahead - this would however mean our sundials no longer worked

maybe 'cause people wake up late and are in a panicked rush?

Good thing I don't work on Mondays eh?

/Usually have Sunday-Monday-Tuesday off
//So yes, I'm at work right now

Like most Americans, I drive by the position of the sun.

I was advocating solar time during a time zone discussion last week but I couldn't get any backers.

How many people are genuinely affected by the loss of one hour of sleep? I mean, night after night, I could see it. But for one hour on one night to throw things into a tailspin? I'm not buying it.

I smell a tri-fecta. Next headline: Palistinians refuse to observe DST. It's not Jews, it's Fark.com

sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with it being dark again when a lot of people are driving, at least in areas with long commutes. Thursday, it was a bright and sunny when I left for work at 6:30. Monday it will be pitch black with sunrise around 7:20. Daylight Savings Time is nice in the summer, but it sucks in March.

Daylight Saving Time

That is all

mark12A: I smell a tri-fecta. Next headline: Palistinians refuse to observe DST. It's not Jews, it's Fark.com

Fark already had that:
Knot tying guide "It's knot news"
Gnus in Africa: "It's not Gnus"
Some zoo story: "It's not zoos".

Sigh.. yay trend cycles

FTFA
The poll, Sleep in America, randomly sampled 1,000 Americans and found that 36% nodded off or fell asleep while driving.
Paging the scary tag! WTF

There's plenty of reasons to quit switching the clocks back and forth like braindead ninnies besides this.

/End Daylight Stupidity Time

Where does this daylight get saved to? Is there a daylight savings and loans that i'm not aware of? When can i withdraw all my saved up daylight? Can I take out one months worth and use it at night?

Daylight savings time is an evil terrorist plot perpetrated by liberal muslims in order to take away our freedoms.

How many more brave Americans need to die before we finally get serious about this?

The Global War on Daylight Savings Time (GWDST) has now begun!

It's time to get down to business! There are too many rogue nations with TCMD's (Time Changes of Mass Destruction), and we need to fight this war now so that future generations will not have to.

Naw, just kidding. I've read that the drivers getting the sun in their eyes is what causes most of the accidents. I guess we could change when the time change occurs so that fewer drivers die just because Franklin had a good idea that worked a long time ago.

Wait, are you telling me that twice a year, for no particular reason, you all get together and change your clocks?

//Arizona

Clearly people just fail to take into account that it is suddenly dark outside when they're driving to work again.

They expect the time of day car accidents happen to shift along with the hour of time change, with no account for the lighting? Silly.

Been there, done that, ran into a light pole in a parking lot at work...worst part is that my pickup didn't even have license plates yet, it was that new.

This 'fact' is meaningless until they count how many fewer accidents happen when you fall back, because by their own logic the effect should be the opposite since there are much fewer drowsy drivers.

Plus. they're basing this on 4 years in one state? Dont they have stats for....oh I dont know, 50 states for the last 30 years????????

I live in Arizona, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Well, at least now I won't have to drive straight into the sunrise to get to class. It'll just be dark when I get there.

Danarchy84: I never saw the point.

The point is, what does it benefit anyone to have the sun rise at 5am and set at 5pm*?? That's several hours of daylight inthe morning that are wasted, as people generally don't wake up at 4am, but rather 6 or 7. And, it's also several hours in the afternoon/evening that are dark, making them more dangerous to drive home in, and it makes doing anything after work require artificial lighting.

THe idea behind DST is to shift the clock an hour, so that the 'extra' hour in the morning is shifted to the evening. This eliminates the unused morning time, and adds to the daylit time in the evening.

*or whatever the actual times are. I can't be farked to look it up, and adjust for local conditions, etc.

DST is stupid.
Pick a time and stick with it the whole year.

broomballwilson: This 'fact' is meaningless until they count how many fewer accidents happen when you fall back, because by their own logic the effect should be the opposite since there are much fewer drowsy drivers.

Plus. they're basing this on 4 years in one state? Dont they have stats for....oh I dont know, 50 states for the last 30 years????????

I remember reading an article last fall (probably posted here) that said there was a spike in afternoon rush hour accidents, especially involving pedestrians, in the first week or two after the "fall back".

Both might technically be true, but I doubt they are statistically significant (especially, as you point out, once they stop cherry picking the criteria). Yet another bogus stat for the "it's not you, it's the system" crew.

fredklein:

The point is, what does it benefit anyone to have the sun rise at 5am and set at 5pm*?? That's several hours of daylight inthe morning that are wasted, as people generally don't wake up at 4am, but rather 6 or 7. And, it's also several hours in the afternoon/evening that are dark, making them more dangerous to drive home in, and it makes doing anything after work require artificial lighting.

THe idea behind DST is to shift the clock an hour, so that the 'extra' hour in the morning is shifted to the evening. This eliminates the unused morning time, and adds to the daylit time in the evening.

*or whatever the actual times are. I can't be farked to look it up, and adjust for local conditions, etc.

I wake up at 4am, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

Next week I'll wake up at 3am, seeing as work will begin an hour earlier. And in the summertime, I have to goto bed when the sun is still up.

/doesn't change his clocks
//is a big hit at parties
///franklin was a troll
////he invented the post office, too, remember that

I belong to the fark timezones crowd. Timezones are a hassle and all you get as a benefit is that everyone non-nocturnal gets up between 4 and 10 am their local time. Big deal.

Fark that, seriously. It's not worth the constant heads. Put everyone world over on GMT. It'll take you a week to get used to it, and we never will have any of this crap ever again (well, until we go lunar or Marsy).

In case I haven't been clear.. FARK TIMEZONES.

Agrees.

drivingsouth: sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.

I'd like to know how many accidents are caused by people on their way home after a night shift. One hour time change twice a year is nothing. I work shifts and change 12 hours twice a week.

The stupid thing is the clock diddling. For some bizarre reason, a lot of people adore diddling their clocks twice a year. I HATE diddling with my clocks. Nobody I know actually likes diddling their clocks twice a year. But the government forces us to diddle our clocks. Let the damned clock-diddlers move to some island where they can indulge their sick and twisted clock diddling to their hearts' content and let us sane people who are not turned on by diddling clocks just pick a damned time zone and stick with it all year around.