Daylight savings time

Tony S. · Mar 11, 2012

Guy walked into church this morning just as everyone was leaving. Didn't forget to change his clock, just changed it the wrong direction.

rrlund · Mar 11, 2012

The waitress at the Chat&Chew was confused this morning,but her thinking was off. She kept saying it should be an hour later. Was doing her 11 o'clock stuff at 10 when in reality without the change it would have been 9. Couldn't seem to get that through her head. Must have been the fact that the sun was shining that threw her.

Vito · Mar 11, 2012

My oldest son was in a basketball tournament.We were all there except one at 9:30 am. He showed up promptly at 10:30am.He said his mother forgot to change the clocks.

Vito

PopinJohn · Mar 11, 2012

I don't like for the time to change.
I can't see that changing the time benefits anyone.
Just pick one and leave it alone, whether it be standard or fast time.

Lesformore · Mar 11, 2012

Where I live in Saskatchewan we don't change time. It's just about as bad because you have to remember that everyone else did change. The way I remember how everyone changed is in "Spring Ahead" and in "Fall Back"

john in la · Mar 11, 2012

You guys need to fast forward to modern times.

My alarm clock and kitchen wall clock set themselves. No fuss and no worries. Always has the correct time no matter how it changes.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 11, 2012

I think the only people that benefit from time change is the ones that work untill 5. Farmers still get up early wether its daylight or not. We dont quit in the evenings at 5 or 6.keep working untill dark and after!LOL Doug

Russ from MN · Mar 11, 2012

It is proven to save a lot of energy and it is very nice for people that work 9-5 or 7-3 or whatever. For people that work till dark it doesn't matter but they are a small minority now days!

ChrisinMO · Mar 11, 2012

I generally don't appreciate changing the clocks as it screws me up on things like chores, etc for almost a week until I get used to it. However, spring ahead is a wonderful time for us. We earn about 40% of our income from a market garden and so spring is very critical for us. This gives an additional hour of sunlight everyday for the kids to help out after school.

Christopher

wilson ind · Mar 11, 2012

why could you folks just go to work earlier and let the clocks alone!!

Indiana Ken · Mar 11, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:56:43 03/11/12) It is proven to save a lot of energy and it is very nice for people that work 9-5 or 7-3 or whatever. For people that work till dark it doesn't matter but they are a small minority now days!

Indiana switched to DST a few years back - it was supposed to result in $7 million savings in electrical cost per year. The University of California did a 3 year study and found that the electrical cost actually increased by $8.6 million per year. The cost increase was attributed to the additional use of air conditioners since people got home from work during the heat of the afternoon.

The original study showing energy savings was done by the DOT back in 1975 and we are still using that study as the basis for energy savings. A lot of things have changed since 1975.

wolfman · Mar 11, 2012

This farmer really dislikes DST. Makes the evenings waaay too short. Work til sundown, eat supper at 8 or 9; short evening. Can't do field work til the dew drys off 9:30 ish. More auto crashes on the day after time change than any other day. I always said: If we have to change the clocks, we should change them one minute per day for 60 days.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 11, 2012

I think the Roosters should be told.

Duane(Pa) · Mar 11, 2012

I had my mom cut a foot off the bottom of my blanket and sew it onto the top. Now my neck isn't so cold. People(govt.) who insist on jerking the entire country around should be shot, or at least tried for treason.

Unruh · Mar 11, 2012

I like it this way and wish it would just stay this way year around.

Az peapicker · Mar 11, 2012

We live in Arizona , never change our time .. Never been late for appointments just Doctors running behind , Schedule 2&3 people at the same time.

John

Jeff B. · Mar 11, 2012

Only a politician would take a ruler, cut an inch off of one end and glue it onto the other end and then try to convince you that it was longer.

CenTex Farmall · Mar 11, 2012

We should all go to GMT! When it's 1200Z it's 1200Z, regardless of location.

NW Ohio Tim · Mar 11, 2012

We have the lights on a timer in the chicken coop to keep the hens laying through the winter. I have the same talk with the wife every year that you don't have to change anything out there because the sunrise and that clock didn't change today. I still don't think she believes me.

I did knock an hour off the[i:5d01c12895] on [/i:5d01c12895]time to make up for the actual longer days we are having.

donjr · Mar 11, 2012

Only a politician can afford a ruler anymore....

Russ from MN · Mar 12, 2012

BINGO!!!

George Rausch · Mar 12, 2012

Our always-correct newspaper last year trumpeted "Spring Back - Fall Ahead!!!"
Seriously, wasn't this thing thought up by Benjamin Franklin, the guy who stuck his finger onto a wet kite string in a lightning storm? Not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Mark - IN. · Mar 12, 2012

Did the paster credit him?

Mark

JML755 · Mar 13, 2012

I don't mind the time change, doesn't affect me much, but I DO resent the politicians saying we're doing it to save YOU money and point to a "study" to prove their point. People who do studies start out by asking the payer of the study what they want to show and then go dig up and massage the data to suit the outcome.

So, as Indiana Ken points out, don't believe everything the govt tells us because of a "study" they did.

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