Daylight Savings Time fucks me over again!

OK, so, as I'm sure you're all aware, Congress thought it'd be a great idea to extend Daylight Savings Time this year in the name of energy savings. While that justification alone is already somewhat dubious, this is beside the point. Originally, DST would have ended on the 28th of October.

I have an alarm clock with a built-in calendar. It automatically adjusts itself for DST.

Guess which date it auto-adjusts for! I'll give you a hint - it isn't 4 November! Oh no, it auto-adjusted on the 28th. I set my alarm for seven this morning to go over my notes one last time before a test, wake up, hop in the shower, look at my watch, and realize that my watch says it's 8:07 AM. Fuck. I wash up, jump out, dash through my notes, and go off to do poorly on the test. At the same time, I'm glad I decided to get up an hour early - if I hadn't, I would have missed the test entirely.

So, thanks a fucking lot, Congress. When you change something stupid and arbitrary to make it even more stupid and arbitrary, it fucks shit up.

Fuck Daylight Savings Time - if Arizona wasn't so fucking hot, I'd be there in an instant.

[Zonie] Ha HA! [/Zonie]

Is this the excuse ya gonna tell the teacher as to why you did so poorly on that test?

Yeah, I was confused as to what the actual time was yesterday. Half my clocks changed time (Car GPS, friend's cellphones, bank time, etc). Stupid, utterly pointless time change garbage...

You wear your watch in the shower?

Nope. Didn't study enough in the first place. At the same time, had I studied more, I know I would have elected to sleep in that extra hour, meaning I would have missed the exam.

So, in a way, it's a blessing. But still, it shouldn't have fucking happened in the first place.

This is the Ultimate DST!

Your life is just soooo complicated.

People moaning about getting an extra hour in bed?

This nonsense was tried during the Nixon administration. There was no material change in energy consumption, so it was abandoned.

But, hey, maybe it'll work this time!

I'd gladly do away with that hour if we never had to deal with this nonsense BS again. Plus, I hate having sunlight coming through the window at 6 am when I'm still in bed. And it being completely dark when I'm leaving work at 5.

Why didn't you notice at all on SUNDAY? Did you not look at your clock for 24 hours?

D'UUUUUUURRRR!!!!!!!!

I don't have shit that's pre-programmed. I had no idea when DST would kick in until I heard it on the radio on the way in to work. My company will put out a warning on the Friday prior to, so I just wait for that notice.

But DST is about a bunch of bullshit IMO.

My new phone and the dvd player both changed by thereself which was cool, shame the microwave and the car clock are still old school!

I told you not to vote for Democrats.

Yea! We can all agree all politicians are morons.

Seriously, though, the thinking behind this was pandering to a pagan holiday, Halloween...by extending DST another week, we get more light on Halloween, which in theory makes it safer.

Of course, it probably means certain unnamed board members will have to wait an extra hour before hacking up the local children who come to their doors.

Shame on you, HB, mocking SpaceTurkey and his religion. The pagan observation of Halloween has nothing to do with hacking up children.

Daylight Saving Time is great. It's the changeover that sucks.

Kyle lost his cherry!!!!

Let's just stay ahead one hour and be done with it.

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html
Gives info on why it made, and makes sense.


Daylight Saving Time.

People who get fucked up with time changes make me laugh.

I bet Kyle would get really fucked up if he flew to the UK.

He shows up for breakfast but it's really supper time. D'oh!

Unfortunately no study has ever verified that DST saves energy or increases safety in any way. Yes, electricity usage goes down by an amount so small it's not even statistically significantly (1%) but gas consumption goes up so much it more than offsets that gain. People get in their cars and go places when there is more daylight. They also tend to buy stuff. Does anyone want to hazard a guess at how much money retailers and candy manufactures spent lobbying for this change? I'll give you a hint. It's well into the tens of millions.

Anyone else find it funny that we are only on standard time for 5 months out of the year? So, is it still really standard time????

My cable box and cell phone tell me what time it is.

How are we saving time? Most people still maintain the same awake/asleep ratio, except for the few days after the time shift (which usually causes an increase in traffic accidents mind you). Unless Congress decided to make every day 25 hours, I don't understand how we are exactly saving time. The earth doesn't care what some fuckos in Congress say, it's still gonna make a complete rotation approximately every 24 hours.

I say split the difference. Set it back half an hour and leave it alone.

On Sunday, hours matter not to me. I just roll out of bed when I feel like it, then immediately descend into the world of electronics that do not reset themselves incorrectly.

The idea is not that it saves time. The idea is that it saves daylight. Because people maintain the same awake/sleep ratio, it means that people will generally have more daylight during the time they are awake. In theory, this means less energy is used on lighting, more hours of safe times to be walking about, safer driving conditions during the time people drive, etc.. In practice, however, this is far from true, and few real benefits are derived.

When the South rises again and I ascend to the Presidency of the new Confederacy, I vow to ban DST FOR-EVER!

Will it matter?

As the time will be 20 minutes past Hell freezing over, an' all.