I hate repoters.

That's a repot.

Seriously, if you can't handle a 1 hour change in time, you might as well just shoot yourself.

FTFA: Ben Franklin couldn't abide wastefulness. So, as an American envoy in Paris, he thought nothing of firing off a crotchety letter to a French newspaper complaining of Parisians who daily squandered daylight.

Just to be clear, he wasn't being "crotchety": it was intended as a joke. Ben Franklin, truly one of the greats in the history of trolling. He's still getting bites hundreds of years later.

Ban Daylight Savings.

I go to Home Repot for all my repoting needs.

Not all articles have to be about suicide bombers and killer toothpaste. I think this article provides a rather nice historical overview of DST for the uninitiated.

/approves of headline

Ric Romero has a speech impediment?

Lucky me, I work midnight tonight and only have to work 7 hours instead of eight while the crew that comes in for daylight gets less sleep.

Internet Superhero: I think this article provides a rather nice historical overview of DST for the uninitiated.

I read that as 'un-urinated' for some reason.

/don't you dare pee on me!

And typing apparently as well.

Internet Superhero: Not all articles have to be about suicide bombers and killer toothpaste. I think this article provides a rather nice historical overview of DST for the uninitiated.

Can you expand on the DST initiation process?
Did I miss rush week?

/Panty Raid?

thereadlines: FTFA: Ben Franklin couldn't abide wastefulness. So, as an American envoy in Paris, he thought nothing of firing off a crotchety letter to a French newspaper complaining of Parisians who daily squandered daylight.

Just to be clear, he wasn't being "crotchety": it was intended as a joke. Ben Franklin, truly one of the greats in the history of trolling. He's still getting bites hundreds of years later.

That's true. People tend to forget that he had a sense of humor.

Stupid daylight savings time. I grew up in Indiana and so never had the misfortune of having to put up with it until I moved to Ohio for grad school. If we really want to save energy, the clocks should be "moved up" all year round, which would be fine, no more farking with things.

/already crotchety at 31

I have to be at work at 5 AM instead of the normal 6 AM this Monday, so it is going to feel like 4 AM, so I am not getting a kick.... yadda yadda.

I saw a report about this on the local news last night (granted, watching the local news was my first mistake) and I was half surprised I didn't hear the line "what you need to know to protect your family" uttered. It was complete with a talk with a sleep therapist about what you need to do to prepare yourself for the time change. Seriously, it's 1 hour. Get a grip.

if you can't get used to it a day or two, there's something with you.

Alex Chilton: I saw a report about this on the local news last night (granted, watching the local news was my first mistake) and I was half surprised I didn't hear the line "what you need to know to protect your family" uttered. It was complete with a talk with a sleep therapist about what you need to do to prepare yourself for the time change. Seriously, it's 1 hour. Get a grip.

It may be just an hour to you, but dammit, it was MY hour!!
/will be fine in the morning

John Buck 41: if you can't get used to it a day or two, there's something with you.

wrong with you

FTFM

Alex Chilton: I saw a report about this on the local news last night (granted, watching the local news was my first mistake) and I was half surprised I didn't hear the line "what you need to know to protect your family" uttered. It was complete with a talk with a sleep therapist about what you need to do to prepare yourself for the time change. Seriously, it's 1 hour. Get a grip.

Yup.

And here's how you deal with it:

Get plastered Saturday, have a truly tremendously hangover on Sunday, one of those where you could easily drowse all day because at least that makes the headaches subside a little.
Then eat a heavy dinner with loads of meat late in the evening, and as you get a drowsiness boost from that meal, go to bed and sleep until the alarm starts up the next morning.

After a shiatty hungove Sunday, Monday at work will feel blissfully easy.

Ahhh, daylight shavings time, where women all over the USA trim off the heavy layer of winter growth.

I can repot that I wore a tuxedo to my vasectomy.

I figured if I was gonna be impotent, I may as well look impotent.

I hate that it starts so early now. It'll be dark when I leave for work for the next few weeks. As for the article, without DST I have the feeling the 4AMish sunrise in June & July would screw me up more than moving the clocks forward.

To be technical, it shouldn't be called Daylight Savings Time. It should be called Daylight Shifting Time.

God, such a pet peeve of mine. Daylight Saving Time, not Dayight Savings Time. Congress isn't bailing out the sun or anything here.

Ric Romero repoting that daylight savings messes with body rhythms, sleep schedule and spelling.

Anyone seen my pants: Internet Superhero: I think this article provides a rather nice historical overview of DST for the uninitiated.

I read that as 'un-urinated' for some reason.

/don't you dare pee on me!

I might not be able to help it. Daylight savings time is messing with my body rhythms.

I know it's just an hour, but I farking hate it.

Someone on the radio told me to be sure to spring forward so I wouldn't be late for church in the morning.

mynameist: Seriously, if you can't handle a 1 hour change in time, you might as well just shoot yourself.

How about we shoot the people messing with our clocks instead? 'kay?

deevo: God, such a pet peeve of mine. Daylight Saving Time, not Dayight Savings Time. Congress isn't bailing out the sun or anything here.

Are you SURE they aren't throwing piles of cash into the sun?
There might be a clause or earmark or two in their bill about that...

It's an hour... ONE HOUR.

"Messing with body rhythms, sleep schedules..." move cross country, spend a month in Europe, Asia, then talk to me about "sleep schedules." An hour is barely noticable.

Krymson Tyde: I know it's just an hour, but I farking hate it.

Someone on the radio told me to be sure to spring forward so I wouldn't be late for church in the morning.

HA HA, you go to church.

I repotted after 2 cups of coffee this morning.

and who can forget the poor computers?

i'll be up Sunday morning at 0130 monitoring how the time change affects the computers at the local nuke plant. no meltdown in the offing, just a potential middle of the night (morning) trip to help restart 4 computers. holy Y2K, batman.

/nobody listens when i suggest putting them all on GMT
//whine, whine, moan, moan.

screw saving energy, but I love daylight savings. It's an extra hour of daylight to do things outside. Next week I can play golf after work, or go fishing, or go to a park.

Or drink in the sun on a patio.

How can you not like DST? It takes about two days to get acclimated to it.

Archie Goodwin: To be technical, it shouldn't be called Daylight Savings Time. It should be called Daylight Shifting Time.

It should be called Daylight Waste of Time.

Such BS.

I hate winter time.

I work a night shift and almost every weekend I convert my schedule back to a more conventional one and back again for the next week. that's about a 6 hour shift. I won't do it if I work more than 4 days though... I need at least a 3 day weekend to handle the turnaround and back. However.... one hour? Psshhh.

DYLIGHT SAVINGS IS great

I'm all for abandoning DST, as long as the Boston area gets moved to the Atlantic Time Zone

/even with DST, it's light at 0430 in June.

That's what that damn statin repotin'll getcha!

lazymojo: Krymson Tyde: I know it's just an hour, but I farking hate it.

Someone on the radio told me to be sure to spring forward so I wouldn't be late for church in the morning.

HA HA, you go to church.

I will be attending St. Mattress in the morning.

srsly?

Man, people are soft.

I'm already screwed up. I've been up since 4 am. My brain gets ahead of things sometimes.

bingethinker: Man, people are soft.

Exactly. Having the government mandate clock changes because some nancies want more sunlight. Man up and tell your boss you want to come in earlier during spring and summer months instead of forcing everyone to fark with their clocks twice a year.

CruJones: screw saving energy, but I love daylight savings. It's an extra hour of daylight to do things outside. Next week I can play golf after work, or go fishing, or go to a park.

Or drink in the sun on a patio.

Exactly what I love about it. Now if only we could spring forward and keep it there. I know we'll eventually lose some after work daylight as the year goes on, but I don't care. I love sunlight until 8PM.