Don't forgot to set your clocks one hour ahead!

[Micah 16]

I believe that throughout  many parts of North America and a few parts of South America people will set their clocks one hour forward this Saturday night at exactly 2:00am at any time zone!

Try not to forget that!

Do you really think we need 'Daylight Savings Time'? I've studied the history behind it, and it has to do with the Great Depression of America. Our Congress approved it because they noticed that it saved electric bills because people tend to not leave the lights on in the day (which I don't understand because most people at that time didn't have electricity), and more people have sunlight in the afternoon for recreational events. But I'll let you decide what you think of this issue.

[dev 47]

I hate standard time...or at least changing to it...Daylight Savings is cool...And doesn't it happen at 2am, not 12?

[defcon pilot 0]

Meh. It's an old law. It serves no real purpose now, and so I think it ought to be repealed. We're not going through a depression at the moment. (Well, not a big one, anyway.)

[beebs 129]

Changing to daylight savings time is gonna kill me in the morning.

[Mantis747 1]

whats the point in daylight savings?

here in the UK they say it is to do with the kids walking to school, so that when they walk to school in the morning and afternoon it is not as dark.

stupid really.

some people think we should keep the time as it is now so that we have dark mornings but light evenings or have light mornings and dark evenings.

I reckon we should have an "in-between" time that suits everyone.

but then again you'll never please everyone!

[vidioman 21]

If we didn't have daylight savings, come June 1st, it would get bright at 3.30am and be dark by 10pm. Being in a weird time zone (west of chicago but an hour ahead of it) daylight saving time is more than saving energy, it's helping us stay normal.

There are places in China where they follow the Beijing timezone, and they so far west, the sun rises at noon and sets at midnight.

[Constantina 5]

I suppose that is done at the UK as well.

[Zelgadis 638]

Daylight savings time forever!

While it is nice that it helps save energy, I enjoy more that the sun doesn't set until 10pm or so in summer. 

Personally, I would prefer sort of a "year-round daylight savings time."  In other words, let's poke the planet ahead an hour. 

*Poke*  *Poke*

ISF

[nealos101 20]

Daylight saving time has a stupid name, it isnt really saving daylight at all... but the principal behind daylight savings is:

- It saves energy, we we are awake we are more likly to use our appliances compared to when we are asleep.  By changing the time to the hours where we are most likely to be awake to conjure with daylight, we will use less appliances like lighting & heating.

- It saves lives, traffic accidents are most likely to happen in the dark rather than in the daytime.  If rush hour accored in the dark - more accidents are prone to happen.

- It cuts down on crime, by changing the hours we all conjure about our daily lives to daytime hours, we have a less chance of being mugged or anything criminally-related.  Alot of crimes take place in the dark, where barly anyone can see.

- It corrects our sleeping hours, without daylight savings people may find oversleeping in the dark when it is time to wake up.  Thus, if the daylight hours change to what the average population wakes up to, we all don't have a problem.

[Cjah 15]

I say get rid of it......I need to sleep in the dark...

[villarule 2]

is this an april fool?

our clocks went back a couple of weeks back (in the UK)

[Firebird 40]

Originally posted by: villarule is this an april fool?

our clocks went back a couple of weeks back (in the UK)quote>

In the US, it is Sunday at 2 am that we set our clocks back. 

DLST is usefull to have arround.

[hym 358]

In today's 24/7 society, DLST doesn't accomplish much for most people.  It has uses for those that work according to the sunlight hours, but for the rest of us, it's probably more of an annoyance than anything else.

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: villarule is this an april fool?

our clocks went back a couple of weeks back (in the UK)quote>

 

If you noticed, it says North America & parts of South America... No where did I mention the UK.

And yes, it is 2:00 am instead of 12:00am... I accidentally added a 1 in front of the 2.

[jeeper 14]

I love DST. I like having daylight until 9:30pm in the summertime.

[marryescher 0]

Im already getting up at 1am to go to work. That is bad enough, but now its going to feel like im getting up at midnight. Uhg.

[qurlix 20]

Isn't it weird to think that there will be no 2:30 AM tomorrow morning? What if you had an appointment scheduled for then? I couldn't imagine the chaos in a public place when they switch the clocks.

-qurlix

[lakeyboy 12]

Remember that Australians who live in SA, Vic, Tas, ACT & NSW need to turn their clocks back one hour. We usually do this a week earlier but because of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, daylight savings lasted a week longer!

Oh how different it is to live down under!

[justanothersim86 83]

"Mr. justanothersim, please explain to me why you missed your apointment session at 2:30?"
"There was no 2:30! Oh God!" (breaks down and cowers in the corner, rocking back and forth singing nursery ryhmes backwards)

All on the made-for-tv movie. "The Justanothersim Story - The specified time that never was".

[Skink000 0]

lakeyboy,

Let me see if I have this right. If I had a house in Melbourne and a house in lets say in Santa Barbara, California, and I moved between them each fall. I would 

always be setting my clocks back and should be getting younger? 

---

Not only that but every time I move the water in the toilet will swirl in the opposite direction and 


maintain the critical balance of the earth by canceling each other out?


Thats about right isn't it? 

 

[JohnB 66]

I like Daylight Savings Time. Who doesn't like it to be sunny out at 8pm? Personally I can't wait for more daylight. It is a part of spring just like the flowers blooming.  

Yay 900 posts!!! About time. I been at ST for years now. LOL.

[JRmystery 0]

 I don't mind changing my clock ahead 1 hour for daylight savings time because I have been doing it every year and so has everyone else (Well in North America)  the only thing is that you lose an hour of playing Simcity 4 or any other games as well as doing what you usually do.    

[cityhawk 12]

The only thing that I hate about DST is the hour of sleep that I lose on the morning of the change. Otherwise, it's all good; who doesn't like it to be sunny until 8:00P.M. (that's for Central Standard Time)?!

[Superstar 69]

We set our clocks an hour forward already last Thuersday, this year it seems the clocks have been changed earlier than they would usually have been...

[Micah 16]

Wow, it's after DLST and I didn't notice anything! That's really strange. Not even the sunrise seems different. What's happening to me?!?!

[Praetorian Cohort 0]

I don't have to change my clocks.

Nice thing about DST is that all the cable tv shows air an hour earlier.

[Skink000 0]

a couple summers ago a friend and I were headed for california. On leaving texas we had to change time at every state. go from texas into new mexico = 1 change, go from new mexico into arizona = 1 more, they don't observe dlst unless you're in the Navajo Nation cause they do,

go from arizona into california = 1 more.

i got so confused i didn't care what time it was.

[vidioman 21]

Originally posted by: Micah Wow, it's after DLST and I didn't notice anything! That's really strange. Not even the sunrise seems different. What's happening to me?!?!quote>

Body clock, I wake up around 4am on most days, so if you compare that to someone who wakes up at 7am, my lunch is at 9am instead of 12pm and I'll be in bed at 9pm instead of 12am. With DST in effect now, I wake up around 5 and go to bed around 9 (actually, I woke up around 5 and will probably want to go to bed at 6, but I can't.. I have school tomorrow. I'll go to bed around 5pm and wake up around 2am, resetting my schedule)

A town near here doesnt recognise standard time. Going from here to Winnipeg, you go back one hour at the edge of the city limits, go back another hour when you get to Atikokan, then go ahead one hour when you get to Kenora. A little pocket of Mountain time in Northern ontario. It's normal in winter though.

[ChiTown847 0]

it doesnt make a difference, heh

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Well, standard time was originally created so eliminate all the confusion in scheduling trains when everyone operated off Local Mean Noon.  Jacking the time zones ahead one hour permanently wouldn't bother me.  They could call it Permanent Daylight Time (PDT), just so everyne would know.  In a generation or so, everyone would forget what the abbreviation meant because it would have become meaningless.  This would require a vote in the U.N. to make it universal.