the "extra hour of daylight" benefits convenience stores, gas stations, golf courses, the bbq

[niyad]

industry and all outdoor sports, along with increased pollution from the extended use of cars. what do we the people gain? a chance to watch the sunsets with our loved ones. that was what I just heard on a segment of the national news. oh, and in case you were wondering why it now goes into nov--apparently at the behest of the candy industry--seems more kids go out for halloween with the delay in returning to dst.

[Scuba]

1. And it killed the drive-in movie industry.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Meh...

I think that urban and suburban sprawl and light pollution did that. There's pretty much nowhere where it's dark enough to watch a movie on an outdoor screen any more that's reasonable driving distance.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. We are lucky in that there is a drive in less than a 20 minute drive away from

our suburban north Houston home. North Houston is odd. We have cows grazing less than a half mile away, and yet we are in the middle of modern suburbia.

[ChazII]

18. Agree with you 100%.

I am near the Salt River Indian Reservation and they have a 6 screen drive in theater on the reservation.

[AverageJoe90]

36. Frisco, TX here.

I live on the edge of town and we've got farms & ranches of our own not far from my neighborhood. But just a few miles south....and there's just about every kind of restaurant and other business you could imagine!

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Not true. We have had DST all my life,

and drive-in movies were very popular in my younger days. But maybe we just stayed up later than these kids do today.

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. The ever increasing cost of real estate was what killed the Drive-In.

Acres of land that could only be used after dark turned out to be a losing proposition in the context of business models.

[Scuba]

34. Real estate prices may have been a contributing factor in some areas, but I know of several ....

... abandoned drive-in theaters that have been sitting idle for 30 years.

A quick Google search suggests the advent of DST was at least as influential on the demise of drive-ins as real estate costs.

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. I guess growing up in Southern California gave me a near-sighted perspective.

I've always wanted to open a drive-in covered by something ultra lightweight that could be supported by cables running from the top of the screen to the ground in the back. Matinee Drive-In.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. So, is this the new thing to be mad about?

Just trying to stay hep.

[TexasProgresive]

47. It has pissed me off since the 60's

I spend a lot of time outdoors. The position of the sun is how I sense time. When the Sun is as high overhead it is noon not 1:00PM. It really irritates dairy farmers-the cows will come in at 6 and not 5 regardless of what the clock says.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Well, I am one of those people who loves daylight savings time.

I get outside more when it is light later. All winter long, I don't take walks because by the time I get home from work, it is dark. I am ready to go to bed when the sun goes down, so I don't seem to get anything done in winter.

I am not opposed to businesses benefitting as well, although I don't really think that it matters...people with money to spend will spend it. And those golfers...they would be up and on the course at 5:00 in the morning if it was light out, instead of later in the evening.

[seattledo]

5. You could take a walk before work...

if you really cared.

[dionysus]

8. can't play a round of golf before work,or do as much yardwork as you could otherwise...

[Curmudgeoness]

11. Pitch black before work too, in the winter.

And I hate alarms more than anything in the world----including Faux News---so getting up even earlier to go for a walk is just out of the question.

[dionysus]

13. as a shill of Big Golf, i can testify that when the clock changes in the fall it is the death knell

of the golf season. love being able to play until almost 9 in the summer!

[Travis_0004]

25. Our cycling club pretty much dies when DST ends

So I agree with you. We go from 50 riders on a certain weekday ride to about 15 the week DST ends. Due to snow, cycling is not a year round activity for most people, but DST brings a premature end in the fall. I expect to see a bunch of people out this Monday who I haven't seen in a few months.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. It was always the last Sunday in October anyway.

The major change is in the spring, go forward date... which was moved from the last Sunday in March to the second Sunday in March. I hardly think it's at the "behest of the candy industry..." Oy.

[dionysus]

10. you're just a shill for Big Candy...

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Curses!

I'm caught!

[dionysus]

15. smarties are the gateway candy to sugar daddies!

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. .

I really needed to laugh tonight! Thanks you!

[dionysus]

20. remember those? so sticky they'd almost pull a tooth out!

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. The picture literally made my teeth zing!

[left on green only]

26. For Me It Was Always Bonomo Turkish Taffy.

I was so happy in my adult life to see that they have re-issued the original recipe. That was until I realized that I now have capped teeth that are in danger of being swallowed. LOL.

[niyad]

12. the ending date is now in november. and I am not the one who said that, it was somebody being

interview on the national news about dst.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. I'm sorry, I didn't think you were. The ending date is exactly 7 days after the original

ending date which is no big deal.

The crap part of growing up in WI was that trick or treat was always 3-5 p.m. the Sunday closest to Halloween, so DST wouldn't/doesn't matter there, and we get eleventy billion kids here in dark of night Houston by the time trick or treat starts, so I can't see it mattering to candy co.s.

March is where the change is noticeable. It will still be somewhat light out here at 8 p.m., because we are at the far edge of CT.

[Jenoch]

45. Did you grow up in a small town in Wisconsin?

I grew up in rural Minnesota and have lived in the Twin Cities for over 20 years and trick or treating has always been on October 31st.

[bigwillq]

17. I will enjoy the extra hour of daylight.

And I will enjoy the warmer weather (hopefully!) that comes with it.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Words cannot contain my white-hot rage at the oppressive corporate conspiracy the changing clocks

represent.

Smash! Smash! SMASH THE CLOCKS, MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

[dionysus]

23. what do we gain? the ability to enjoy "convenience stores, gas stations, golf courses, the bbq " at

later hours...

everything you mention is exactly what "the people" gain... not to mention the later hours for yardwork, outdoor activities of all kinds, ect.

are you afraid of Big Softball and their evil leagues??

[Jamaal510]

24. Why can't they

just keep the time the same one way or the other? Do we still need to keep changing the time back-and-forth like this in the 21st century?

[upaloopa]

27. Always someone who sees the glass half empty

[dionysus]

28. in my day i've seen DU get outraged at many wierd things... this might take the cake...

[Yo_Mama]

30. I share those sentiments

Never mind poverty, a ridiculous degree of surveillance, a corporate/political structure which appears to be slowly strangling the country, endless wars, drone wars, the political snarl in DC, a growing list of domestic problems with a growing list of excuses, calls to cut retirement benefits, millions of people who can't find ANY full-time job, much less one with benefits. ...

I'm sure all of us older people who remember the country the way it used to be could add to the list.

But no, we must eradicate the DST menace in our time?!

[Codeine]

29. All of those things are used by "the people."

If those businesses are benefitting it is because people are able to use their services at the times they'd like more conveniently, yeah?

[Lex]

44. Exactly!

I wondered WTF when I read the OP.

[TlalocW]

31. So my question is...

Are we returning to, "the correct time," - what time it would have been if we never had DST and just let the hours and years pass without any clock resetting, or have we been on the correct time and are now going to jump an hour ahead of it?

TlalocW

[winter is coming]

41. Oh, it's more complicated than that.

You know those embezzlement scams where someone skims a penny or two off of a shit-ton of bank accounts?

Every time we switch back and forth for DST, an evil scientist skims off a few minutes and sends them into an alternate universe and that time is lost to us forever!

[cherokeeprogressive]

33. "...extended use of cars." Last I heard, cars had headlights. n/t

[niyad]

42. that was referring to the pollution, not the headlights.

[AverageJoe90]

35. I'm not sure I really buy that, TBH.

I don't doubt that industry has it's influence, but candymakers behind the extension of DST? That sounds more like a bad Onion piece than anything close to reality, TBH.

BTW, there's a lot of small businesses who benefit from DST, too, not just the big guys.

[alcibiades_mystery]

37. OH FFS

[whistler162]

38. Next up... How the sun rising in the east benefits.......

who knows what nuttiness will be written until they decide!

[CK_John]

39. And my electric bill.

[flvegan]

43. Aha, something new to be laughingly pissed about, I see.

Pointing fingers at Big BBQ and Big Outdoor Sports (damn you childrens and your outdoor sports! why can't you exercise inside like...oh, wait).

I don't get the "extended use of cars" though. Shit, the bbq crap is more pollution many times over than the cars are.

Sunset haters!!

[Jenoch]

46. I like DST. it only takes me a few days to adjust.

I like the late sunsets in June as much as I dislike the early sunsets in December.

I don't know how I would like living near the equator where the length of day/night barely changes. It might be interesting to spend some time in Quito and find out.

[Earth_First]

48. Sweet. I was kinda hoping for a new outrage du jour...

...but nothing that'd last more than a day or so.

Enter: DST