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Day Light Savings
It's a great idea. 15 (68.2%)
It's just stupid, stop messing with time. 7 (31.8%)
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Day Light Savings; ...good idea?
Topic Started: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:55 pm (661 Views)
Fayt
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A number of countries/states around the world make the annual adjustment to, and from Day Light Savings time during the year.

Where I used to live, it occured, where I do now, it does not.

What are your thoughts, good idea, or not?

While I love living in QLD (Australia) I really dislike how it's not happening up here. Apparently there was a vote, statewide on it before I moved here and for some reason it never got in. So obviously many don't like it.

I think it's crazy though, honestly, who wants to see the sun come up at 4:30am? That's nonsense, move the time forward so the sun up at 5:30am during the summer months, and move that daylight to a more appriopriate time in the evening.
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Jasonic
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Im not really bothered by it. Ive always enjoyed the switchover where we set our time an hour back, extra hour of sleep for that one day :P , of cource it has the opposite effect on the other switchover. I think everywhere in the US uses Daylight savings time, except for Arizona. The start up of it was originally a good idea to give farmers more time in the morning, but i dont think that is much of a reason for it anymore, i think now, it is simply because of it being used for a while, that they are not going to stop using it.

This just shows who uses it in the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png
blue - uses it
orange - used to use it, but no longer does
red - never used it
Edited by Jasonic, Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:05 am.
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Jsun
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Well in the US all the states follow this except Alaska and Arizona (Where I am Now) so it's kind of weird for me when I get back home (Maryland) because the sun is out still around 7:30pm.

I have to say that the extra hour helps greatly for like a week or so, but then when we lose the hour it's like WTF. You just get used to it I guess.

I prefer Arizona weather over Maryland weather though. Sunny all day and slightly cool at night.
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Manji
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I thought the excuse today is so that when children wake up for school it's not too dark out? But doesn't it waste a lot of energy since we have to use indoor lighting earlier?
I actually think it's sorta a hassle but hey, it's only twice a year. :P
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ShinUsagi87
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Supposedly DST was like the old way of "conserving energy" thought up by Teddy Roosevelt (I think, correct me if I'm wrong). Even though I think it's a silly idea, but it's not as bad as crossing the International Date Line. After my vacation to Hong Kong, it took me about 2 weeks to get back to my regular sleep patterns.
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Nutella
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I never really understood why there was daylight savings. I've never used it before. Living in Singapore, doesn't make it a need to have since our days and nights are almost equally long.
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Godlikephoenix
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i find it very annoying...but still necessary though -_-

i hate losing that hour of sleep, but i like gaining that hour of sleep at that other time...i dont really pay attention to the dates when it actually happens though ^_^
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Bai Xue
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I think it's fairly necessary to have as we can't get time in itself exact and make it simple to track at the same time. If we didn't use daylight savings we'd slowly lose time until the hours that were light and the hours that weren't would be completley different i.e. living nocturnally.

It'd be like not having a leap year, I think :S
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Astus
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I don't mind it really.
I like the extra hour or so of sunlight, has its uses :hehe:
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Taigong Wang Mystic
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I don't mind it much. Never understood why they do it tough. But like God-like phoenix said as well, I hate losing that hour of sleep, but i like gaining that hour of sleep at that other time.
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zacattack214
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:rolleyes: It was originally a joke made by Ben Franklin, he wasn't serious at all--it was about saving candle wax. Unfortunatley some people don't have a sense of humor and took it seriously... It wasn't meant to be. Mankind really needs to stop trying to manipulate time, something he has absolutely no power over.
Edited by zacattack214, Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:51 pm.
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zenkokuku
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It's just stupid, stop messing with time.
It's either I lost one hour of sleep or that I have one hour to spare.
I think time should be left alone, for people who don't pay much attention to the news, they'll simply arrive late or too early for their work, which is ridiculous because it shouldn't have been a problem if there was no DLS.
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Taigong Wang Mystic
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Yes, that may be a problem if you don't pay attention.
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Bai Xue
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honestly I like having to pay attention. Keeps me alive a little longer - if I didn't have to care about it, it'd be one less event in my already almost-dead life. I know it sounds dramatic, I don't mean it to be, but I'd honestly hate not having daylight savings that much.
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shodrive
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I never understood DST. We don't have it here anyway, since the day is 12 hours and night is also 12 hours. :P

But I don't see the point of DST. :mellow: Even if you loose an hour of sleep or get an extra one it doesn't really matter because you can't increase or decrease the 24 hours in the day so whatever you do it'd still be in 24 hour timeframe, logically.
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T.e.n
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Up here, if we didn't have Daylight Savings time - well, our days would be seriously screwed-up, in a context of having daylight to help us recognize in our internal clocks what the day is.

It's important here - as of now, the sun sets at 5PM and will only rise at around 8AM, give or take 15 minutes here and there. That means our nights are about 15 hours long.

There are many industries here that are predicated on working in the daylight, obviously - construction, anything involving wilderness cultivation, etc. As well, it's an important step to take that allows us to save what little we can on Hydro (since we'll be out during the daylight more, rather than during the dark).

Daylight Savings Time is really for the areas that are further area from the Equator than say... Egypt, or Arizona, or Kyushu. It's primarily for the people whom live in areas that are much further away; closer to the poles. The upper class Western World doesn't live in a world where time is predicated by when the sun is up, persay. But it is important to keep our internal clocks in check as well.
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Kuran
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I don't like the idea of daylight savings it messes me up sometimes and i always don't know whether to change the time an hour late or early.
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Jasonic
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I don't like the idea of daylight savings it messes me up sometimes and i always don't know whether to change the time an hour late or early.
Fall back, Spring forward :whistle: thats how I remember it. Of course that is if you are in the North Hemisphere, im not sure how it goes in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Jsun
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I'm so glad Arizona doesn't follow DLS. The time difference really kills when it's 3 hours ahead on the east coast.
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Ziggurat
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I still dont know anything about it, my mom tells me when it is tho. But when shes not ther, thank GOSH for tv guides auto change :lol: :lol: :rolleyes:
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bain_nick
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Time has blended in so much that I get up at 11-12 in the day anyways, and sometimes see the sun rise.

Just depends on the area you live in I guess.
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Day Light Savings have saved us hundreds of billions of dollars in the US alone. It saves on oil and other forms of heating and electricity. While it messes with the archaic sundial, on average it has done far more good than harm.
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