Can someone explain to me why we do this? Aren't there some countries that don't have this and there time just stays the same year round?
it was invented to help conserve energy. and yes some countries and even some states don't do it. i wish we would opt out too, or atleast flip it soi am not driving home in the dark in december at 5 p.m. it always seemed backwards to me
yeah, in my original thread I explained why I hated it. Always have. Arizona and Hawai'i don't do DST. It used to be parts of Indiana also, but now the whole state observes it.
I hate DST. I don't like it being dark before I go home from work at 5. They need to get rid of it. Keep it consistent with the summer schedule. You may have a little bit of time where it is semi dark in the morning, but it hardly lasts long at all and I highly doubt that businesses are wasting tons of extra power having to turn lights on a wee bit earlier(most of which keep them on all day anyway). Make it a half hour or get rid of it, IMO.
I thought it had to do with farming back in the day, more light to pick crops in the am, but that could be wrong. Seems like it's outlived it's usefulness. _
I'm over it as well, when I lived in Phoenix we never did it and it was just fine. It is weird as in the winter I could fly from Phoenix to Vegas and depart Phoenix at 4 in the afternoon and arrive in Vegas at 3:45.
Absolutely hate it. Got to work this morning and had to make a pickup of dirty uniforms at a restaurant that are kept outside... Couldn't see a damn thing at 6. Just wish we could leave it be
Most farmers I know work pre-dawn to after dark, doesn't matter to them what the clock says. I thought it was to have more light on each end of the school day.
Some people claimed it's so the children don't go to school in the dark. As the years have passed, new reasons have been invented for a useless and annoying custom.
I could be wrong, but I don't think Canada does it. Agree though, a waste of time. The redeaming value is I change the batteries in our smoke detector twice a year.
I like DST since it otherwise gets too bright too early in the day, when you want to still be sleeping. This time of year you move it back to standard so that it's not too dark by the time kids go to school and such.
Really? There is no more time. The farmer need only adjust his schedule to sunrise rather than the clock; they usually have no time clock to punch. You sound like the dairy farmer who said his cows would be confused and give less milk when all he had to do was keep the cows from seeing the clock.
