Comments on: Spring Forward, Fall Back

By: Nicholas Dollak

Nicholas Dollak — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:47:28 +0000

I’m glad to see I’m not alone in recognizing the uselesness and folly of DST. I have the hardest time explaining to people that the increased hours of daylight happen regardless of whether one fools with the clock — Summer is a comin’ in, people! Meanwhile, traffic accidents due to sun glare and tired drivers increase, auto insurance rates continue to climb… and way too many people buy into the party line that “We just saved some daylight!” because the Earth’s axial tilt is just too difficult a concept for them to grasp.

There are petitions online for abolishing DST. I urge everyone to seek them out and sign them, or start another one.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:45:48 +0000

One’s hoe can never be too ready! I hate daylight savings time. it just screws up my internal clock all the more.

By: Bunk

Bunk — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:55:32 +0000

I left the clocks alone and reset my calendar instead. Tomorrow is Sunday.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:55:11 +0000

Ahhh… antiquated, moronic, wasteful, who cares. It’s a mental boost for me to have some light after dinner. And think of all the tallow I’m saving.

By: student

student — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:12:23 +0000

I have a take home distance-learning exam on Sunday, and they just cut one hour of my allotted time!

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:27:36 +0000

One thing that even the government can’t do is mandate more hours in a day.

Just as David B said, DST uses more energy than it saves.

I love the morons that want to have it year around. They don’t seem to get the fact that it will get dark at 4 pm in December with their adjusted clock. Idiots.

This is an idea who’s time (ha ha) has come and gone.

By: David B

David B — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:56:48 +0000

” Studies show that Daylight Savings Time’s effect on energy consumption is at best negligible and possibly counterproductive.” What a waste. Who lives their modern life by the sun? We are a twenty-four hour a day society and DST doesn’t do anything practical. It’s an antiquated system that needs to be abandoned.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:16:12 +0000

Argh! I woke wondering why the Sun was so bright then realized that I hadn’t fixed my clocks!

By: Tony LaRocca

Tony LaRocca — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:14:21 +0000

If I ruled the world…

When we turned the clocks an hour back, it would be on a Monday morning.

When we turned the clocks forward, it would be noon on Friday, so everyone could get out of work early.

Sounds good, no?

By: sal

sal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:16:30 +0000

This sucks. I can’t fall asleep until about midnight, which will be tomorrow’s 1 am last night, and I gotta get up at 7, which is today’s 6 am tomorrow! Screw you, sun and time!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:16:53 +0000

Time zones are so antiquated anyways. Everyone should just use UTC and adjust their local working/business hours as needed.

Or better yet, we should all use that funky swatch time that was based on a day being divided up into a 1000 parts (too bad that never caught on).

By: oakling

oakling — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:07:40 +0000

I love daylight savings time because it’s lighter later. Or “later.” Or whatever. I think we should just permanently change it. Why even switch it back, if it’s all just made-up hours anyway and it has no real effect on energy use?

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:01:11 +0000

Daylight Saving Time, I believe it’s one of the best examples of human stupidity I’ve ever seen. Whether we actually do save energy or not may not matter, but instead of people saying that “sure, we’ll all agree to get up and start our day an hour early,” everyone says that would be too hard. So, the answer? Reset the clocks so the people “think” they’re getting up at the same time as before.

And there is always that very large portion of us who actually do believe we’re getting an “EXTRA” hour of daylight by doing this.

By: Selvo

Selvo — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:53:17 +0000

Thanks for the reminder! =)

By: rdubs

rdubs — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:33:53 +0000

haha, yeah. MY hoe’s ready

By: bean

bean — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:00:56 +0000

Why thank you for reminding me, but my hoe is always ready. She knows what’s good for her.