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Spudm

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Is next weekend.
I don't think my tractor cares, but I wish we would stay on Standard Time year around. Science has proven that time changes are bad on your health when we do this twice a year. Your body never adjusts to it.
Your thoughts & opinions?
 
It makes no difference to me at all, just wish they would leave it one way or another. You would not think an hour would make that much difference, but when it changes it takes a lot of getting used to for me.
 
We wish they'd "pick a side" and leave it that way all year.

Regarding the changes... falling back is much easier than springing ahead.
 
It's kind of pointless here in Michigan with us being way over on the far edge of eastern time,but in other places I'd rather be on DST if I lived there.
As far as bad for your health,I guess that's only a factor if you pay any attention to it. Since it happens the time of year that it does,and I'm on my own schedule not somebody elses,I can ease in to it in my own time.
I just wish they'd wait one more week to start it is all. I have Board of Review the next week and one of the days,we start at 9am. I'll have to go out in the dark to start chores in order to be there on time.
 
Stalin ordered the USSR to go onto DST one spring and forgot to order it to go back in the fall, so they were on DST continually for many years because no one wanted to bring it up. At least that is what I read, I was not there so I can't say for sure whether it's true.
Zach
 
I've been places though where on standard time sunrise would be 4:30 and sunset 6:30 in early August. So it would start to get light around 4am. And that's August,imagine late June,early July. I don't think I'd care for that.
 
You know why it is and will never change as well as I. It's a marketing ploy. It gives you time after work to stop by the whatever store and pick up supplies to do the outdoor thing in the summer, in the daylight, you wouldn't have daylight to do if you were on Standard Time.

I think it sucks too. But I'm retired, paid my dues and I don't care what they do with it.

Mark
 
I,ve been retired 7 years, doesn't make much difference what time it is. Sometimes I don't even know what day it is. Lol
 
I couldn't care less now what time it is by the clock I'm on my own time,but when I worked a job and farmed I loved DST so I'd have more time after work to work some more on the farm.
 
It saves the economy billions of dollars in energy lighting costs and productivity of people as they would rather work later in the day with daylight rather than early morning
 
It causes absolute chaos in our house, the cats' stomach clocks are out by an hour for weeks. Squeaking for food when its not feeding time :lol:
 
I hate the changes. My mother said that in London during the war, They had double daylight saving time.
2 hours instead of one. No thanks.
Richard in NW SC
 
I think it makes more difference depending on where you are in your time zone. If you are on the extreme western part of a time zone makes more difference. The folks I feel for are the ones that live right on a time zone line. Can see where their would be problems. Me I like the DST.
 
(quoted from post at 13:23:43 03/01/15) I hate the changes. My mother said that in London during the war, They had double daylight saving time.
2 hours instead of one. No thanks.
Richard in NW SC
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It was done here during WW2 to give farmers extra 2 hours of daylight at "night" for harvesting.

I can just remember in early 50's it was still in light and I hated being sent to bed in daylight
 
Along this same line of thought, I've always thought that on leap year we should have it on June 31 instead of February 29. Then I could have an extra day in the summer instead of in the winter.
 
I like those long summer evenings when the sun sets at 10 pm , so change is good for me. On the other hand , my brothern law in Glendale AZ says they never change the clock , it must be from his geological location that makes no difference in daylight or darkness ?

Larry --ont.
 
So in one more week, the dewalt radio in the pole barn will have the correct time again. Good to know.
 
I like it. If I farmed it wouldn't make any difference. But, I work at a job that is 8 til 5, five days a week, sometimes a little later but not often. In the winter, like it is now, I get off at 5:15 or so and by the time I get home, feed animals and such, it's getting dark already. My body clock says it's time to be in my chair by then. With DST in the summer, I have until maybe 8:30 or 9:00 before dark. Seems to me it should be the other way around, with DST in the winter. They did extend it longer in the summer, I like that.

It's just depressing to me to work all day and have to do stuff at home in the dark. I still have weekends though.
 
(quoted from post at 13:38:55 03/01/15) I say leave the clock alone, if you want more time in the evening then get your lazy butt out of bed at 6 rather than 7, that's A.M.
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I agree! That's what you're doing anyway. You're just changing the clock to fool yourself. Are we really that dumb?
 
I work rotating 12 hr shifts. Four weeks of days then 4 weeks of nights. 6 to 6.

The one hour shift twice a year is the least of my problems...
 

Saskatchewan is a rarity in this regard, we stay at the same time year 'round. It's one of the few good things about living here.
 
rrlund, I don't understand how it makes no difference if you are on the east side of a time zone. Wouldn't you have an hour later sunrise then what you have now? No matter which end of the time zone you are in.
 
We're in the far west edge of the eastern zone. It's not the sunrise,it's the sunset. It doesn't get dark until 10 or so in June and July. It wouldn't matter spit in the whole scheme of things if it got dark at 9 instead. Most everybody has called it a day by 9 anyway.
It starts to get light by 5:30 in those months with sunrise around 6. It wouldn't matter to me if it started getting light at 4:30 for a few weeks. I could sleep through it. lol
 
Oh yippee, now the clocks in my truck and shop will be right again - but the basement and Jeep clocks will be off.
 

The one thing I don't like about the time change is figuring out all the clocks. I admittedly am too much of a perfectionist where everything has to be set right to the minute. They all change in a different way. Back when I drove Chrysler products for the family car all we had to do was stick an ink pen in the H hole and the M hole to change the time. On our Sienna van it's the same way only we can push the little buttons with our fingers. The Colorado, however is a different breed of cat. I have to go to the owner's manual every time and then it depends on what 'sound system' I am looking at. The Colorado's 'sound system' is the cheap one that doesn't change automatically. The 79 Dodge, the 4650 and the 1086 all have radios that require a different technique for each one and the instructions are in the cab with me. Then there's the microwave, oven, two shop clocks, kitchen clock and the office clock. The bedroom radio changes automatically and so does the atomic clock in the living room. WHEW! lol
 
I farm so I tend to go by Sun time. When the sun comes up the cattle want fed. I can't sleep after sunrise anyway , doesn't matter if it's 5am or 6am. Longer days mean more gets done, but gets harder to quit at night, to much daylight left. Ha ha
 
In the mid 1970's the citizens of northern British Columbia Canada (Peace River Block)voted that the time shall never change ( shall not Spring ahead in the spring and shall not fall back in the fall). I liked the decision and it still stands today.
 
Darn!!!! It always takes me weeks to reset the darn Sun Dial! Never can get it right! joe
 
Like the old Indian used to say, "white man cuts 1foot off bottom end of blanket and sews to top end of blanket and thinks blanket is 1 foot longer"

Dick ND
 
I hardly ever look at the clock.
I wake up when i wake up and go to bed when i feel like it too.

Having said that,..i think changing the clock back and forth an hour twice a year is plain stupid, i never saw the benefit
 
Depending on where you are and what you do, both have some advantages. Me, I hate changing all those clocks twice a year.

In one of these DST threads, a fellow suggested something that may well be the easy answer.

He said, move it ahead a half hour and leave it there all year, that way everyone sees half the advantage with half the disadvantage, so no one is really hurt..

Sounds good to me.
 
All that means is it is getting closer to the time of the year when I will eat supper at 11pm. There are too many chores/tasks at the end of the clock. Lord help me, tillage and planting season will be here before I know it.
 
I much prefer Daylight Savings Time for March thru November. For me, changing the clocks twice a year is well worth the benefits.
 
When I spent several years in the west I was proud to say I was from Indiana. Indiana was smart enough to vote 30 years ago. Vote was so called fast time year around. Few years our non educated (potty filter mads me change the correct word) governor got the lawmakers to pass DOUBLE FAST TIME Now next week we go to TWO hours faster than in the past. Thats one thing for sure I agree with Oren Samuelson or,the cutting blanket on. The other I whole heartily agree with him on is misuse of slow moving vehicle signs. The signs are not for driveway markers by law. Ok turning computer off for thr day
 
To those who claim that it is bad for your health to absorb that one hour each spring and fall I will refer them to my friend who for the last ten years of his career flew an American Airline 747 from Chicago to Honolulu and back each week. He would go west bound on Tuesday Morning and return Thursday Night getting back to Chicago early Friday morning. Five or six hours twice a week and he is now crowding ninety years old and a picture of health. Besides like the old dairy farmer said "Gives those cows another hour to fill up the pail every day."
 
You should try doing the time change and then work with time zones to go with it. That gets confusing. Like going west then come back east in one week. I can get used to the time going west. It seams I can't get used to it coming back east.
As for IN they have a split for the ones that want to be like Chicago and are on central time in like 3 counties near there. So you never know what time it is in IN. South Bend is on eastern time and by the time you get to Rolling Prairie it is central time. So I guess you could be in 2 places at once.
 
The New Prairie School Corporation sets in both time zones. Their was several other counties down in the state with differant time zones. I don't know if they changed them. I drove for a freight line and we ran in and out of the differant time zones it was a pain in the neck.
 
I understand how time changes do affect the body. I too worked rotating shifts for several years. No doubt it's hard, especially as we get older.
 

Makes no difference to me, I usually go to bed around 8pm in the winter and 9pm in the summer or when ever the work is done. I get up when my joints start aching usually sometime between 2 and 5am.
 
For cripes sake if you can't stand an hour change!! You must not do any traveling, there are 4 time zones across this country, I'm in Pacific now going to be in central Thursday. Daylight savings time saves a lot of money and a few lives, get used to it or move to AZ!
 
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