What do you think of extending Daylight Savings time?

[CatWoman]

Me?

i think it's bullshit.

they needed an "energy bill" to come up with THAT???

[El Supremo]

1. It sucks

I don't like getting up before the sun comes up.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Oh, I dunno... Why NOT extend DST? n/t

[CatWoman]

6. I have an even BETTER idea

why not put together a REAL energy bill?

My truck won't run off two extra hours of daylight.

[SteppingRazor]

15. I grant you that. I'm just saying there's nothing...

wrong with an extra two hours of daylight. Naturally, it's not a substitute for any sort of real energy or conservation agenda. But in and of itself, I don't see anything wroong with it. I like daylight. I like sun. And warmth. And beaches. And frozen drinks at beaches. And those little umbrellas that come in those drinks. Oh! And bikinis. And ripping down A1A half-cocked and fully wired with the top down and the stereo cranked to something suitable, like Jet or The White Stripes or The Killers or something.

See, these are all daytime activities. More daytime means more of them. :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

3. As an Alaskan,...

...this idea really amuses me. As if a change is going to make any difference in how much light we have in the summer and how much dark in the winter. Geez.....

[CatWoman]

5. Hey -- I've heard that you guys get sunlight up the ass!!!

:D

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Quite a lot...

Here in Anchorage on the longest day the sun rises at about 4:15 a.m. and sets a little after 11:30 p.m. It never gets completely dark. Today sunrise was 5:37 and sunset will be 10:33. We're losing a little over five minutes of daylight each day now. On December 21, the sun rises about 10:15 and sets a little after 3:30. There's nothing they can do with the clock to change these facts of life.

[KOBUK]

52. I was just in your beautiful state last month !

Up above Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle.22 hours of sunshine,sun would go down a couple of hours and pop back up !I could read a newspaper the whole while it was down,never very dark.Stunningly beautiful state !

[Blue_In_AK]

54. :-) Thanks. I like it, too.

[newyawker99]

56. Hi KOBUK!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[KOBUK]

58. Thank You !

I like it here !

[Walt Starr]

4. It'll give computer programmers and IT folks something to do

Need to apply patches for the new Daylight Savings scheme.

[newportdadde]

7. Time to get on the phone to India.

[tridim]

11. And we like to work in the dark anyway.

:crazy:

[mtnester]

34. VCR's, TV, Clocks, Cell phones

think of all the things that do this automatically

That was off the top of my head.

[Walt Starr]

45. Well durnit, you'll just have to go out and buy new VCR's, TV's and clocks

but damn, the cell phones usually get it downloaded by the central facility so that won't be spurring on the economy.

[militaryWife]

8. if Paul Harvey is against it, then I tend to be for it

that guy is a putz. Last week, I was stuck in car forced to listen to him and he goes on this forever rant about the evils of daylight savings time (basically that it was gov'ts arrogance ONLY), showing a lot more passion about that than anything else it has ever been my misfortune to hear from him.......

err, sorry, what was the question again??????

:rant:

[Tactical Progressive]

9. Love it.

Wish they would extend it for one year instead of just one month. That is, keep daylight-savings time year round as the new standard time, with the current daylight-savings time remaining on top of that so that it wouldn't get dark until 10PM in the summer.

We are a much later-rising and later-night society than we were forty years ago. Farmers will still get up at dawn, it will just be 6AM instead of 5AM, and schools can simply change their hours, which impacts nothing.

[PunkPop]

10. How about extending it all year

and just living on DST permanently. Or get rid of it altogether. I don't care one way or the other - JUST SET THE DAMN TIME AND LEAVE IT WHERE IT IS.

[tridim]

17. We might as well switch over to metric time while we're at it

and a metric year. 10 months/year, 10 hours/day, 100 minutes/hour, 100 seconds/minute.

Calendar makers and clock makers would have record sales!

[Tactical Progressive]

36. What does metric have to do with

pushing the clocks ahead year-round by one hour?

[tridim]

42. Nothing

Twas :sarcasm:

[Demeter]

12. Since Michigan is On Daylight Savings Time All Winter

and double that in summer, I think it's terrible. We really ought to be on Central time, but the industrialists wanted to be on New York's clock.

Imagine waiting for the sun to come up at 9 am in the dead of November.

[AngryAmish]

13. Great idea

[madinmaryland]

14. Until they write an energy bill that includes conservation,

Energy bills will continue to be bull-shit handouts to the oil industry.

The time difference may save a few thousand barrels of oil a day, but increasing the national fuel standards by just 1 mpg could increase saving by nearly a million barrels a day. Imagine what an increase in 10-15 mpg would do for us!

Its nice to dream. Won't happen with this misadministration.

[Gruenemann]

16. They tried it year-round under Gerald Ford

It was a debacle.

[anitar1]

18. I like Arizona's idea, NO dst. I loathe it.

But pols just have to screw around with every thing.

[Deep13]

27. here, here!

[City Lights]

35. Agreed.

No DST is one of the few things I like about Arizona.

[KamaAina]

49. It was Hawai'i's idea, too.

We don't do DST, either. Not a great deal of daylight to save here in the tropics. Day length varies only from around 11 hrs. at winter solstice to 13 hrs. at summer.

Just this minute one of my colleagues was unable to reach Ohio (NE Ohio, not the 2nd), because it was almost 5 in the afternoon there. Now they want to keep us six hours apoart (instead of five) from the entire Eastern time zone for yet another month. Criminetly.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Hate it!

[ChickMagic]

20. I hate it with every fiber of my being.

I have chronic insomnia and I tend to sleep a little better if it's dark for a while before I hit the rack. This extended daylight blows elephant.

[Gregory1230]

21. DST

This is wrost "energy bill" idea in my life. We don't need change times. Leave them alone.

[CatWoman]

24. Welcome to DU, Gregory 1230

:hi:

[newyawker99]

57. Hi Gregory1230!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[noonwitch]

22. No-I hate DST to begin with

Especially when I have to spring forward. All summer, I never get used to the time and I end up waking up too early. I would prefer to be on the same time all year round.

[Tactical Progressive]

29. How on earth do you wake up too early in the summer?

It starts getting light here in New York at 4:30AM!! in June.

[Eurobabe]

47. Actually because I have an early waking disorder that

strikes in the fall/winter, it might be beneficial for me. When the sun sets at 5, I fall asleep by 8 and end up awake at 3 or 4. It sucks. Letcha know.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. If they do that, why bother having Standard Time at all?

:shrug:

[Deep13]

25. Amature astronomer, so I hate it.

As it is, it doesn't get dark here in the summer until 10 pm. I hate that the official time doesn't match the real time. How can 12 o'clock be midnight when it doesn't get dark until two hours earlier? People are programmed by evolution to function in accordance to the actual day and night cycle, not a mechanical clock. If people want to get up an hour earlier or be open for business and hour earlier, who's stopping them?

I don't like hitting the sheets in daylight or getting up when it is still dark. I don't like having to wait another hour for observing.

[Lilith Velkor]

26. Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care?

[CatWoman]

30. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

[Lilith Velkor]

48. Thanks, you've been great

Please remember to tip your bartenders and waitresses this evening.

Still got that song stuck in my head. Dammittall. :banghead:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Just more hours for the serfs to work for the fatcats.

Beyond that, I don't like DST at all, personally.

[MadHound]

31. Stupid, meaningless idea that is going to fuck up Halloween

Among other things. Now kids will be trick or treating in daylight:wtf:

And the real sad part about this is that it won't be providing us with anymore extra daylight, since it isn't like we're slowing down the Earth's orbit or anything. We're just imposing our own perception of time upon matters.

Oh, and this will be costing the US money, as they have to restructure another sixty days of the year to be out of step with the rest of the world. More money thrown down a rathole.

[etherealtruth]

32. Not to mention ...

... the effects that these imbecilic time changes have on personal productivity and wellness!!!! (obviously I've got personal issues with this)

[MadHound]

38. Oh I hear you!

I suffer for a couple weeks after time changes, but nowhere near as bad as other people I know. Frankly I think they should just set the clock at Greenwich mean, and leave it alone.

[lynettebro440]

41. Didn't you get the official memo from the White House

they cancelled Halloween from now on because it's a satanic holiday that should have never existed. :sarcasm:

[trackfan]

33. It's pure dumbassedness

[Locut0s]

37. Looks like Canada will be following suite :( In order to..

keep on the same "economic clock" as the US.

[HughBeaumont]

40. You know what I would like?

To EXTEND THE DAY, PERIOD.

How does anyone find time to do anything anymore and still get at least five hours of sleep a night?

I would just like two extra hours a day. Just TWO extra hours.

Of course, that would only mean employers would even scarf those out of you in their run-rabbit-run lifestyle they force upon everyone.

[ThomWV]

43. As if I gave a shit NT

[CatWoman]

44. wow, Thom

were we separated at birth?

[Ksec]

46. I like it for my own selfish reasons

I like light.

And the more light the better.

Now the mornings are another story

[Lone_Star_Dem]

50. Lame, asinine, inept attempt at best.

In other words, it's just what I was expecting.

[ironman202]

51. wish i lived in one of the states that didn't have it at all

why must they irritaate me twice a year? can't the fucking farmers or school children or what have drag their asses out bed an hour earlier and call it good?

[cally]

53. Quit changing the time at all

I hate it and think it's nonsense. Just stop this ridiculous system of different times.

[dr.strangelove]

55. I don't really care

It does not effect me. I get up at the same time, but the lighting changes. I get home the same time, but the lighting changes. Whatever.

[shanti]

59. hate it

my body clock runs much better on 'regular' time.