Well as a slight defense it is early this year.

It's stupid whenever it's scheduled.

Stupid, I tell ya!

Just leave the damn clocks alone. We have this amazing thing called electricity now.

Why cant the rest of the states be like AZ and have the balls to say GTFO to daylight savings?

Reggaenomics: Why cant the rest of the states be like AZ and have the balls to say GTFO to daylight savings?

Sign me up for one newsletter, please.

I can't wait to get the coupon packet in the mail. Savings, here I come!

For something proposed to save whale oil a couple of hundred years ago, I think it is time to LEAVE MY FARKING CLOCK ALONE!

I didn't know, thanks for reminding me!

You know, every single person I know hates the time change yet not only do we still have it, Congress continues to tinker with it. Yet again, democracy has completely failed us.

Setting clocks forward one hour?

Not impressed...

Bufu: It's stupid whenever it's scheduled.

Stupid, I tell ya!

/what you said
//we don't do that where i live.

yikes. until this fark post, I didn't know it was tonight. i keep thinking first weekend in april, last in october... thanks, subby!

Reggaenomics: Why cant the rest of the states be like AZ and have the balls to say GTFO to daylight savings?

I agree. It's outdated and unnecessary. I'd be happier without it.

I'm for it half the time, when it involves an hour more sleep

/Short-sighted I know
//Also illogical, but so what?

You know who is 'way ahead of everybody in this time zone business? China, that's who. You know how many time zones there are in China? One. That's right, one. Everybody has the same time in China. You know how they save daylight in China? They get up an hour earlier, that's how.

This About That: You know who is 'way ahead of everybody in this time zone business? China, that's who. You know how many time zones there are in China? One. That's right, one. Everybody has the same time in China. You know how they save daylight in China? They get up an hour earlier, that's how.



You were not put on this Earth to "get time zones", Mr. This About That!

Aw crap, I forgot to set my calender back 1 day because of leap year.

It's FARKS.COM and Daylight Savings Time, dammit!

Grrrr... That's one less hour of boozing on this, the evening of my Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary.

FTFY

Daylight Saving Time.

No s on the end of saving.

".....our jam-packed days the round-the-clock availability of satellite and cable TV, all our Internet and email activities, and all-night shopping, and it's easy to see how the U.S. population is indeed getting progressively more sleep deprived."


Shopping? Don't just hate those shopping hangovers?

This About That: You know who is 'way ahead of everybody in this time zone business? China, that's who. You know how many time zones there are in China? One. That's right, one. Everybody has the same time in China. You know how they save daylight in China? They get up an hour earlier, that's how.

Yeah. They have only one time zone because they had to shut the time zone factory down after it was discovered to be putting too much lead in them.

I hate Daylight Savings Time. I think I'll boycott it this year...just show up to everything an hour late until the fall rolls around.

MAN, I am glad we don't have to go through that clusterfark like we had last year, patching all our servers for the DST change of date thing. What a monumental pain in the ass that was.

Only thing that could be make it worse, is that if the dumbasses in congress decide they were dumbasses to change it, and double their dumbassness by undoing the dumbass move that they made, entering a case of recursive congressional dumbassnessocity.

Who am I kidding. They're already in recursive dumbass state. Sorry.

Well I like it. Nyah.

Global warming never became a problem until we started adding an extra hour of daylight in the spring.....

I like how there's always a bunch of Farkers who hate DST because it's "unnatural" and "messes up your cycle".

What's really unnatural is to wake up at a fixed hour. Up until a few hundred years ago, humans woke up by the sun, which meant getting up earlier in the summer and later in the winter. (Sound familiar?)

The clock is the unnatural thing here. DST actually brings us closer to our natural, humanlike behavior of waking up near dawn.


/Arizona has good reasons not to use DST
//everyone else, not so much

Why not just split the difference? We'll just set our clocks ahead 30 minutes and be done with it... FOREVER!!!

E Arkhe: I hate Daylight Savings Time. I think I'll boycott it this year...just show up to everything an hour late until the fall rolls around.

I know a guy like that, but it could just be that he developed a drinking problem.

/Then again, drinking is never a problem for Farkers

Reggaenomics: Why cant the rest of the states be like AZ and have the balls to say GTFO to daylight savings?

I live in Sonora, Mexico. And we also said GTFO to the whole daylight savings shennanigans.

It's wonderful, let me tell ya.

Saving, FFS.

SAVING.

THERE'S NO FARKING "S" ON THE END!!!

/pet peeve

Man, an awful lot of people biatching in here. Gives me an extra hour to go play outside with the kids after school/work. What's the big deal?

I mock your clock changing ways. Mine will remain the same as long as I'm here. Ha Ha, I say!

Wasn't it two weeks later last year, submitard?

aerojockey: I like how there's always a bunch of Farkers who hate DST because it's "unnatural" and "messes up your cycle".

What's really unnatural is to wake up at a fixed hour. Up until a few hundred years ago, humans woke up by the sun, which meant getting up earlier in the summer and later in the winter. (Sound familiar?)

You know what else humans did a few hundred years ago? They died really young.

I for 1 LOVE it!
Gives an extra hour of daylight each night to golf or go bike riding w/ my boy.

djh0101010

I'm guessing they probably will.

The thing about DST is that is works best when it's exactly half a year. If it's any longer or shorter, society will react to it. If it's longer, there will be periods of the year where it's too dark in the morning, and people will tend to move schedules slightly later to compensate, which takes away the advantage in summer. And vice versa if it's shorter.

(BTW, I won't implicate any specific brands, but any decent OS wouldn't need to be patched for such a silly thing.)

They write about it every year because those like the submitter keep forgetting (or never knew) that it's Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings Time. There's no such thing as Daylight Savings Time, technically.

What a bunch of crybaby biatches you all are.

You'd rather it be dark at 5:00pm than 6:00???

The problem isn't having Daylight Saving Time in the summer, it's that we don't have it ALL YEAR LONG!!

Ace Frehley's Ghost

You know what else humans did a few hundred years ago? They died really young.

Not quite. Human natural lifespan hasn't really changed. Back then, a larger number of people succumbed to disease, starvation, and so on, but the ones who didn't lived the same lifespan.

None of that has any connection to DST.

aerojockey: What's really unnatural is to wake up at a fixed hour. Up until a few hundred years ago, humans woke up by the sun, which meant getting up earlier in the summer and later in the winter. (Sound familiar?)

I don't know where you are but DST for me means driving to work in total darkness. And it being broad daylight at 9:00pm. That doesn't seem too natural to me.

mouell: Global warming never became a problem until we started adding an extra hour of daylight in the spring.....

Put me down as for DST. The Boston area is on the eastern side of the time zone. Without it, in June, it would be dark around 8 pm and light at 3 am. No thanks.

Maybe 'savings' is the confusion here...we should switch to:

daylight being used more judiciously time

-or-

DBUMJT

/my liberal plot, let me show you it

Chotchkie's

The problem isn't having Daylight Saving Time in the summer, it's that we don't have it ALL YEAR LONG!!

This is my pet peeve: there's no such thing as year-round DST. The point, which most people miss, is that DST is about sunrise, not sunset. Human beings tend to wake up near sunrise, and generally arrange their lives to do that as closely as possible.

If you move the clock forward a whole year, all you've done is change an arbitrary number. Humans will continue to wake up near dawn, which means sooner or later they will adjust schedules an hour "earlier", that is, to the same time it had been before.

OTOH, if you change the clock, then everyone automatically moves the schedule towards dawn. That way we have the comfort of a fixed time reference, while having a slight bit of the benefit of waking near sunrise.

Daylight Saving Time

"Just leave off the S for Savings"

phillydrifter: mouell: Global warming never became a problem until we started adding an extra hour of daylight in the spring.....

HA I came here to post this....

phillydrifter: mouell: Global warming never became a problem until we started adding an extra hour of daylight in the spring.....

Holy crap. That may be the funniest thing I've ever read.

/ignorance = bliss
//I want to be blissful