Spring forward!

This is like a night shift holiday. We work 11 and get paid for twelve. The other one sucks though.
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ug. i'm already gonna have to be up at 430ish - i guess that means 330ish
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My current shift doesn't require nightshifts all that often or getting up at 0400 hours. I don't miss it at all!
 
Nothing wrong with eyes drooping as the sun goes down. Just get up earlier. Like the old guy at the hunt club used to say when the dogs weren't on the ground at sun up....... "you're burning daylight, boys".
 
BowWow said:
Despite his greatness...…. DST was not a winner.
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He suggested it as a way to save candle wax, if I recall correctly. Maybe under that scenario, it wasn't a bad idea. No need for it now.
 
cubrock said:
He suggested it as a way to save candle wax, if I recall correctly. Maybe under that scenario, it wasn't a bad idea. No need for it now.
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Actually it wasn’t Ben Franklin. He is the one that suggested it to the French or someone in Europe as the ambassador.
 
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MikeDawg46L said:
Actually it wasn’t Ben Franklin. He is the one that suggested it to the French or someone in Europe as the ambassador.
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LOL. You made me do some reading just now.

I remember my textbooks in elementary and junior high crediting him with the idea. Guess that wasn't entirely correct. :)
 
MikeDawg46L said:
Actually it wasn’t Ben Franklin. He is the one that suggested it to the French or someone in Europe as the ambassador.
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AHA! See?! It was an early 'Murican strategy to undermine the culture & strength of a Foreign Nation! Now, our subtle weapon has been turned upon us by traitors!

I knew it.
 
Jayne said:
.gov can't fix anything, but they sure can make it worse. be glad some fool doesn't suggest 3 or 4 time changes a year. Have we thought of the children? have we?!?!
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Uhhh....

In 1905, independently from Hudson, British builder William Willett suggested setting the clocks ahead 20 minutes on each of the four Sundays in April, and switching them back by the same amount on each of the four Sundays in September, a total of eight time switches per year.
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https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html
 
I spent most of my career writing computer programs for nurses, and DST was always tough. Take a 4-hour pain pill at midnight, then the next one at 5:00. Fall was worse, check on patient every hour at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 2:00, and 3:00.
 
In 1905, independently from Hudson, British builder William Willett suggested setting the clocks ahead 20 minutes on each of the four Sundays in April, and switching them back by the same amount on each of the four Sundays in September, a total of eight time switches per year.
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In the Navy, when our ship would cross the Atlantic, we'd sometimes have a clock change three days in a row.
 
MikeDawg46L said:
People have been doing some sort of daylight saving for a very long time. The ancient Romans used to adjust the time daily as to correspond with the amount of sunlight in any given season.
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Plautus had something to say about Roman timekeeping (see: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/hacked-days)!

The gods confound the man who first found out
How to distinguish hours! Confound him too
Who in this place set up a sundial
To cut and hack my days so wretchedly
Into small portions! When I was a boy,
My belly was my sundial: one more sure,
Truer, and more exact than any of them.
This dial told me when it was time
To go to dinner, when I had anything to eat;
But nowadays, why even when I have,
I can’t fall-to unless the sun gives leave.
The town’s so full of these confounded dials,
The greatest part of its inhabitants,
Shrunk up with hunger, creep along the streets.
 
Guarantee I’ll have 3 or 4 grown men who will be late for work tomorrow using the time change as an excuse.:confused:
 
I went to bed at 8:30 last night and still overslept this morning.
 
BassicNate said:
Guarantee I’ll have 3 or 4 grown men who will be late for work tomorrow using the time change as an excuse.:confused:
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I knew this guy, Roy. He'd be late an hour at the fall time change., and blame it on that too....
 
I lived in Arizona for about 10 years, they didn't observe DST....and it was awesome.

No mayhem, the earth didn't stop rotating, no flopping back and forth, the time was the time. The hardest about not observing DST was trying to figure out if it was too late to call your buddy on the east coast - sometimes it was a 2 hour difference, sometimes 3 hours.

I know the basic premise as to why we started to observe DST, but I haven't found anybody who actually knows why we still observe it. There are a bunch of people who think they know or have an opinion and are more than happy to offer it up as fact, but nobody seems to really truly know. I also haven't found anyone who loves it, the majority of folks hate it, a few are indifferent, but no one loves it.

I hear it's (1) for the kids so they don't have to wait for the bus in the dark, I hear it's (2) for the farmers, I hear it's (3) to save electricity, I hear it's (4) a government conspiracy to keep our schedules constantly fluctuating keeping us in a perpetual state of unbalance so the mind control can continue to work.

1. F the kids, I stood in the dark waiting for the bus, so can they. It builds character, and they're in dire need of character.
2. Farmers don't give a F about the clock - crops and cows don't know what time it is. The only time farmers care about the clock is when they have to take product to market because the market operates by the clock.
3. Sure. Just like 55mph saved fuel.
4. Unlikely, but more plausible than 1, 2, or 3.

Do any of you actually know why DST is still a thing?
 
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^^^ I stood in the dark waiting on the bus too. My bus route took an hour and a half, so I was standing in he dark most of the school year. Didn't save us a lick of electricity - when it's dark, you TURN THE LIGHTS ON, if you have to be up. And between a long rural bus ride and living on a dairy farm, we were always up early. DAMN DST...we never got any good out of it. It's basically an excuse for the suburbanites to play at night, and they don't understand where their food comes from anyway.

DST switching is nothing but a mild form of sleep deprivation torture.
 
Brian K said:
Do, do any of you actually know why DST is still a thing?
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Because traditions die slowly or never die. It's just like one of the tax/fees on your telephone bill. One was to help pay for a war that ended over 100 years ago. Spanish American war I do beleive.

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I don't know about everyone's part of the country but it has been years since I have seen kids waiting on a bus. Most of the school busses I see are only half full. What I do see a lot of is school parking lots packed with cars when it is time for school to take in or get out. My guess is that more kids are driven to school by parents/grandparents than ride the bus. Also, out in the country, I see a lot of cars sitting in the driveway within sight of the house, ideling, waiting for the bus both mornings and evenings. "It's for the kids" doesn't hold water any more.

What I hear most is people talking about how much more time they have in the evenings to do outside stuff. Many companies I know if now offer flex time yet I don't see too many people going to work at 5 AM so they can get off at 2 and have that much more time in the evenings.
 
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