Daylight saveing time.

[OLDBULL8]

One of the Mods please.

Please change the Posting Time. We are no longer on DST, it's EST now.

 

[flareside_thun]

This country needs to eliminate the DST altogether. We're the only country that uses it and we haven't had a need since WW2 so what's the point?

 

[itsacrazyasian]

This country needs to eliminate the DST altogether. We're the only country that uses it and we haven't had a need since WW2 so what's the point?

so my body thinks it gets an extra hours sleep after getting robbed of the hour earlier in the year.

 

[sootman73]

So instead of going to work in the dark now I come home in the dark.....

 

[Cincinnati Guy]

I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark!

 

[gandalf]

Old Indian...

 

[84TD]

Daylight saveing time.

is gay

 

[CESMITH]

Ive been in the dark all my life . this is a PITA

 

[towcat]

One of the Mods please.

Please change the Posting Time. We are no longer on DST, it's EST now.

this is a free site for members and the mods aren't paid either.
get over the inconvience.

 

[93f250idi]

this is a free site for members and the mods aren't paid either.
get over the inconvience.

ill get over it for being free . i cant stand sites that want me to pay for certain features. screw that!

 

[The Warden]

This country needs to eliminate the DST altogether. We're the only country that uses it and we haven't had a need since WW2 so what's the point?

I know a number of people in Europe who would disagree with that statement.

Most of Europe also observes DST...but, they change their clocks on a different day than the U.S. does. The U.S. falls back a couple of weeks after Europe does, and springs ahead a couple of weeks before Europe does. Makes the trans-Atlantic schedule from SFO annoying because all the EU airlines come in an hour later or earlier, while the U.S. airlines still leave at the same time.

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Nations in blue on that map observe DST; nations in orange have stopped observing DST, and nations in red never observed DST.

With that said, I agree that, in this day and age, it's a waste of time and should be abolished...but good luck convincing the politicians to change it; IIRC Bush's rationale for extending the "daylight time" component in 2005 was that it would save energy.

As to the time on the board, that's not really the moderators' fault...it's supposed to be automatic; I guess it's a glitch in the software. If it's that annoying, you can go to your "User CP" , click on "Edit Options" on the left-hand side, and near the bottom is a section called "Date and Time" options, where you can change it so that the board will read the correct time for you.

Hope this helps

 

[snicklas]

Yep.... I dislike DST... I grew up in Illinois and had to deal with it all my life... when I went to college I moved to Indiana, and we were one of the holdout states that did not observe DST..... we stayed on Eastern Standard Time all year.

I worked for UPS for a time when I first lived over here, and our shifts would move twice a year.... for the *DT we worked 10:30PM-~2AM..... for the *ST we worked from 11:30PM to ~3AM... had to make up for the rest of the country...

The way we were was during the non daylight saving time we were on Eastern Time (the same as New York), during saving time we were the same a Central Time (Spring forward) So in the summer when I went to my parents house, I would leave Indianapolis at 5:00 PM and Arrive in Danville, Ill at 6:30PM, which is a 1.5 hour drive. In the winter, I would leave Indianapolis at 5:00PM and arrive in Danville, Ill at 5:30PM for the same 1.5 hour drive. The bad thing was in the winter it took 2.5 hours to drive back home.....

Now with the extended DST, for just about 3 months... what is the point..... I say leave it alone since it is that short of time now.....

 

[Double-S-Diesel]

I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark!

I leave in the dark, work in the dark, then come home in the dark

 

[argve]

I do my best work in the dark.....

but on a serious note the reason for Daylight Savings is energy consumption. During the summer months when it stays daylight here until 10pm we don't have to use lights in the house when the people that work day shifts get home (which is the bulk of the workforce) so the energy usage across the board is lessoned. It has been a proven fact. I know I seen the show on the history channel about it.... ;p

 

[towcat]

I leave in the dark, work in the dark, then come home in the dark

I'm kept in the dark until something goes very wrong.....