Who came up with the brilliant idea...

[lspencer534]

of moving clocks ahead on the weekend...in the middle of the night??? Why not move them ahead today around 4:00 P.M.?

[GentleBen]

By moving the clocks ahead on Sunday morning it ensures that you are up and moving several hours ahead of church services.

You were going to church, right?

[69camfrk]

Spence, moving the clocks backward in the fall is the only one that has any advantage whatsoever. When the clock falls back an hour, I always set it back about 8 p.m. to 7 p.m. What is the advantage you ask?????........Well, it gives you an extra hour of drinking before midnight. There is no one on the planet that can argue with that fact!:seasix::yesnod:

[lspencer534]

Spence, moving the clocks backward in the fall is the only one that has any advantage whatsoever. When the clock falls back an hour, I always set it back about 8 p.m. to 7 p.m. What is the advantage you ask?????........Well, it gives you an extra hour of drinking before midnight. There is no one on the planet that can argue with that fact!:seasix::yesnod:

Good point! Maybe we should move it back every night....

[MrPeabody]

I imagine it was done this way because it would disrupt business and working hours less in the middle of the night on a weekend. Not as true as it used to be, though.

[Hoog]

Moving them ahead gets to the Sunday afternoon beers sooner.

[lspencer534]

Moving them ahead gets to the Sunday afternoon beers sooner.

Why not this?: Move the clock ahead at 2:00 A.M., then move it back at 7:00 P.M.

[ApexOversteer]

Move them ahead an hour before happy hour and then move them back again at the end of happy hour...

[markids77]

Leave them on DST forever and stop fecking with the entire population of the country twice a year. We have headlights and GPS now fer chrissake... grow a pair and end the madness already.

[dvarapala]

Leave them on DST forever and stop fecking with the entire population of the country twice a year. We have headlights and GPS now fer chrissake... grow a pair and end the madness already.

There is a new bil (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-ban-daylight-saving-time_us_56e2fa37e4b0860f99d8d1a4)l in the CA legislature to do precisely that.


But a new bill proposed in California could mean an end to the clock switching on the west coast. If approved, California would join Hawaii and most of Arizona in not sticking to the tradition that's nearly 100 years old.

Assembly Bill 2496 would end the practice in California, undoing a law that voters approved back in 1949.

California Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose is backing the bill. “I heard some complaints last year from some of the senior citizens (in my district) and their care providers who say this one-hour difference really impacted their lives,” Chu told The Sacramento Bee.

[09CTSV]

Try doing time changes while crossing the great big pond on a ship. We would switch clocks ahead on midnight watches and retard clocks on the 4PM-8PM watch. It always seemed I had the 4AM - 8AM watch when we moved clocks ahead and always the 4PM-8PM watch on the shift back. Lose an hour of sleep and gain an hour of watch every time.
Do this 6 times while crossing the Atlantic, talk about messing up your sleep cycles.

[wwomanC6]

Every year when we have to Spring forward the clocks, this argument comes up. "We should do away with Daylight savings time!"

It's funny not many peep bitch in the fall when we Fall back and gain that extra hour of sleep! :rofl:


:squirrel2:

:D

[CertInsaneC5]

I would rather we just keep the extra hour of daylight all year long. I go to work in the dark all year long as it is. Also makes it harder for the neighbors to see in the windows for an extra hour. :leaving:

[lspencer534]

I would rather we just keep the extra hour of daylight all year long. I go to work in the dark all year long as it is. Also makes it harder for me to see in the neighbor's windows for an extra hour. :leaving:

FIFY

[Iron Chef]

of moving clocks ahead on the weekend...in the middle of the night??? Why not move them ahead today around 4:00 P.M.?

If you'd ditch the sundial in your backyard and come into the 21st Century with a clock that changes on it's own, you wouldn't have to worry about it.

:kimblair:

[lspencer534]

If you'd ditch the sundial in your backyard and come into the 21st Century with a clock that changes on it's own, you wouldn't have to worry about it.

:kimblair:

I actually don't need a sundial or a clock for that matter. Having grown up on a farm, I'm very accurate telling time by looking at the sun. DST does require a little subtraction, though.