Daylight Savings Time! (Warning Political)

ARE YOU CRAZY! Do you know what that could mean?! The clock in my car would NEVER EVER be right again, as it IS it's only right 6 months a year!

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I went to school in Arizona for 2 yrs and that state doesn't observe DST and honestly, I couldn't tell one bit of difference having lived in TX all my life.
Which for us simpletons proves to me DST means absolutely NOTHING.

I HATE daylight savings! Arizona has the right idea they don't change their times, except in res. areas...

ha ha yep I opened it. lol

Fall back--love it. Spring forward? hate losing the hour. I like when it gets dark earlier because I am a crockpot, put on pjs right after work kinda girl in the winter.

I like daylight savings time. I would leave it on daylight saving time all year round. Why? Because I would rather have an hour's extra daylight in the afternoon when I am already awake.

Good luck to you and yours.

J. - thank you for the laugh! I was trying to figure how the heck daylight savings time could be political. I'm all for cancelling it; I can't see the point nowadays when we all have electricity. But... bringing it back to politics... wouldn't it be funny if one candidate advocated keeping daylight savings and the other wanted to get rid of it? Maybe that would help some of the undecided voters!

I don't get the point anymore. We are not a land composed primarily of farmers. I say split the difference and have one standard time. (i.e. move it back .5 hours instead of an hour and never touch the clocks again). I do realize that this is an impossible solution from a world wide standpoint - it's more of a "what I would do if I ran the world" ;-)

I am a night owl I generally don't go to bed until 1-2 am.

Well... since you warned us..

I love it in the fall when we get an "extra" hour, but not in the spring when it gets taken away. I don't like it being dark when I come home at 7:00 either. Of course, even WITH the time change, it will eventually be dark by 5:30, but still.

I HATE daylight savings time.

It's my goal to move to either Arizona or Hawaii where they are smart enough to just leave things alone.

To answer your direct question, I am not a morning person. I never have been. Maybe it's because I was born in the afternoon, I don't know. That's usually when I seem to hit my stride.

What difference does it make? Just about the time my body clock gets adjusted, it's time to switch things up again.

I have never liked it getting dark so early. I have a long commute home from work. It's bad enough dealing with maniacs on the freeway in the daylight.

That said, there was also an upside. My kids were ready for dinner, bath and bed super early because it felt so late to them. My youngest is 17, and he's still that way. He's not exactly a morning person either, so I never had to worry about him bouncing off the walls too early in the morning to make up for it. He's like a bear....he's happy to hibernate.

I have a hard time with my giddy-up-and-go during the short and dark days of winter. If I could stay home all the time, it might not be so bad. Heck, who am I fooling? I still wouldn't like it. The time change just throws me off even more.

Oh well. As they say..."It is what it is".

From W.P. Kinsella's The Fencepost Chronicles
And later on,the Prince say to Chief Tom,"I've heard that the idea for daylight-saving time came from the Indian Nation." "Oh,yes," says the Chief,act like he know what's going on,"we Indians are responsible for much of the progress in Canada..." and he talk for three or four minutes. The Prince wait for Chief Tom to stop,then say without a trace of a smile, "An old Indian chief set the example by cutting off one end of his blanket and sewing it on the other,to make it longer."

Also, for those who don't like springing forward, I vote that we make the time change on Friday at 4:00 p.m. and it will be much more popular.

While I do love the extra hour of sleep in the fall I hate the early darkness that it results in. I am totally a night owl and feel so much less productive in the winter. It is cold so I already don't want to go out, and when it is dark at 5 I feel like the day is over and "can't" go out and run errands and such. I may hate the short days in winter more than the cold and snow (and I live in Chicago!). Since I am not a morning person I do not get the extra hour added to my morning, it is only taken away from my evening. Hate it.

J.,

You have such a great sense of humor! The main reason I opened this post was to see how daylight savings time could possibly be political!

I hate it. I think we should just stay on the same time. Every fall I have a hard time getting to sleep for at least a month because of the time change and like another poster said, when it gets dark at 5:00 I feel like my day is over and I can't do anything else.

Being in AZ, I hate it. WE never change times, but I tend to have a hard time figuring out when everyone elses time is. lol

J., you're hilarious. I honestly sat there for about two minutes wondering what in the world could POSSIBLY be political about daylight savings time before I opened!! :D

Here's my hope (futile, I realize.) My two year old has the worst sleep schedule possible. I cannot fix her in on a single nap time, or bedtime, or even sleeping through the night...it's a train wreck, honestly. I'm hoping that SOMEHOW the combination of daylight savings and the fact that we will now be starting church at 1 PM vs. our previous 9 AM will somehow shock her into a normal sleep schedule. (Of course, I realize that the opposite is far more likely and that my poor five hours of sleep may get sheared even further. Oh, my aching back.)

I like it when it gets darker earlier...when it starts to snow, then it's just so pretty. Snow is always pretty at night. I love the thoughts I associate with the time changing...essentially, the coming of the Holidays and all the splendor (yes, I said splendor, I am a Christmas FANATIC) that comes with.

Yawn. I am so freaking tired. Do I get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday?

I can't wait to fall back. I've been tired for almost 7 years and I will do almost anything for an extra hour of sleep. My kids aren't allowed to get up before the clock says 7. It works with my 6.5 year old and doesn't with my 2 year old:( I'm going to be the one to get up with the kids tomorrow and Sunday is MY day to sleep in:) C.

Let me simply say that aside from the usual annoyances people associate with DLST (forgetting to change clocks, etc) I despise it. Having a child with Autism makes me wish we would just dispense with it altogether for the sake of routine and schedules. It's pure and utter hell whenever the clocks change.

EDIT: And in case you've EVER read my responses in the morning versus the afternoons, you can probably tell I'm NOT a morning person.

I was actually just reading something about this the other day. A lot of sleep related health specialists are arguing that it's actually detrimental to our health because it messes with our natural circadian rhythms. Then the energy people were saying that it's dumb because now people get home an hour earlier (during DST) and the energy that was supposed to be being "saved" is being used (and then some) to run the A/C in the afternoons/evenings because it's hot for longer. I wouldn't mind getting rid of it, but at the same time, then I remember when I lived in Arizona and the sun was rising at 5 am, and so my daughter did, too........ hmmm....

J., I think that some kids don't learn how to read a clock until they get a watch! There are so many digital clocks now!

Sometimes I wish there were Daylight Savings in the winter so that it wouldn't be dark at 4:30. What would be wrong with that?

I'm not a morning person, but I wish I were!

Smiles! Dawn

Oh J.! haha..Yes, I like when the clocks fall back...but, only for that one extra hour of sleep. Otherwise I hate having it be dark here at 4pm!

I always forget to change the clock in my car. I just get used to it either way..It drives my husband nuts though!

The only thing I don't like the the getting dark early part. Otherwise I'm a morning person.

I like sleep, and I don't particularly like mornings. I have a love/hate relationship with DST. In the spring, it is such a pain in the butt because my daughter never seems to adjust to the time change. We just change our routine to be later. However, when we fall back, it's so nice for her to suddenly be going to sleep earlier and waking up early. I think it'd all be easier if we just got rid of it. Does that make me one of the undecided voters?

Heh. I opened it because it PROMISED to be political! What is wrong with me? I can't wait to get back to normal next week. I am addicted to political sparring, I guess!!
Anywhoo, I honestly don't mind the time changes. I love that it is still pitch dark at 7:30am and my kids and I are still snoozing away. (Add in some rain and it is a bit of heaven on earth!) I like it when it is dark by dinnertime and we can get into our jammies shortly after and just chill out. I also love it in the Spring time when it stays light out longer, although getting used to losing that hour is kind of a beast for awhile. Still, I like my internal clock getting a jolt every 6 months or so. Keeps me on my toes!
How's that for sitting on the fence?:-)
A.

My mom said when she was a kid there was 1 year that MN didn't go off of daylight savings, and what happened is that there were kids standing outside at the bus stops, or walking to school in total darkness. MN is on the Western edge of the central time zone, so it was REALLY dark without going off DST.

I wish they would just leave all the darn clocks alone! I am not a morning person by choice but because I have 2 small kids and a long commute to work, I am up at the crack of darkness daily. I would much rather have daylight at 5pm than at 6am. And changing times around totally throws my kids schedules off which does not make me happy either!

I love the fall back but not spring forward. When the kids where younger and I had to put them to bed early my little one did not want to go to sleep when it was still light outside. He would tell me it was not bed time.

I don't like it J. I am. I would much rather stay with what I got right now. No, I'm not a morning person. I prefer spring forward as to fall back. My system just doesn't like it!

When we moved to Kentucky we moved about 30 south of the eastern time zone (still in Central) so in the mornings the sun was up really early and so were my daughter's eyeballs! We put aluminum on the windows, didn't help but we really did fit in the neighborhood!!! =)

I would rather just keep the time the same. Its annoying to me :)

I'm ok with the concept of ending it.
But I'd rather we stop before we fall back.
I like being on Daylight Saving time better than standard time.
The funny thing is - some other countries do Daylight Savings switches too but starting and ending can vary by a week or so, so international conference call schedules can get a little unpredictable.
Some of our critical data systems have to be turned off for a few hours this weekend to avoid double clocking when time falls back an hour in the fall but it's not a problem for springing ahead.

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2012.html

I just want the kid and the cats to be on daylight savings time.