It doesn't make any sense any more. It doesn't save energy and causes health problems.
Do you save energy? We know you people cause health problems.
Quote from: The Brain on March 21, 2015, 02:29:42 AM
Do you save energy? We know you people cause health problems.
Touche.
It saves lives.
It makes more sense to have a winter time and call the summer time the new normal as it covers 7 months of the year while the normal time only lasts 5 months. So as of next week, British Winter Time will be ending, and we'll be using CET for the summer.
Quote from: Martinus on March 21, 2015, 02:26:13 AM
It doesn't make any sense any more. It doesn't save energy and causes health problems.
I'd prefer to stay on summer time all year long. But most people would be depressed going to work and school while it's still dark outside, so I'm not holding my breath for this.
The daylight saving time wasn't made for farmers.
It makes absolutely no sense anymore.
But keep a nuisance like that going. More sleep-deprived angry people will surely just be a boon to society.
Quote from: viper37 on March 21, 2015, 08:52:40 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 21, 2015, 02:26:13 AM
It doesn't make any sense any more. It doesn't save energy and causes health problems.
I'd prefer to stay on summer time all year long. But most people would be depressed going to work and school while it's still dark outside, so I'm not holding my breath for this.
Yeah, same. I'd rather have longer daylight evenings than light at 6 a.m.
Me too.
6 AM is for old people (shit, like me!) and the paper delivery.
Well, I do get up at 6 a.m. every day - I just hate it when it gets dark at 3 p.m. in winter.
That happens around December. But it is dreary, I agree.
The sun sets here at around 6 pm now. Which is nice. Then there's room for a walk or a run while there's still daylight after work. Turning the clock one hour forward just gives me more daylight during hours I normally sleep. It. Makes. No. Bloody. Sense.
Daylight saving is the time equivalent of Nazis and the IS. And Byzanteens. And alt-hist fans.
I love having 10 pm sunsets in the summer.
I'd think a tradeoff could be business/government simply changing operating hours around those times, but we know that would never happen.
But then it'd at least be more of a choice than a mandate from on high.
Quote from: celedhring on March 21, 2015, 10:44:10 AM
I love having 10 pm sunsets in the summer.
:wacko: Having those would be really weird.
As I said it saves lives.
Don't Change the clocks and you have people traveling to work, and school, in darkness.
It's a recipe for dead kids.
Quote from: Norgy on March 21, 2015, 09:01:50 AM
The daylight saving time wasn't made for farmers.
Also Scots :)
Quote from: Tyr on March 22, 2015, 07:13:23 AM
As I said it saves lives.
Don't Change the clocks and you have people traveling to work, and school, in darkness.
It's a recipe for dead kids.
Well school kids aren't involved but in winter, you have people traveling home in darkness. :huh:
There really doesn't seem to be a good idea for this anymore. Not even sure what the original idea was for, during wartime or something? I'd be fine and would vote for keeping one time year round, whether that's daylight slaving time or winter time.
Quote from: garbon on March 22, 2015, 09:56:23 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 22, 2015, 07:13:23 AM
As I said it saves lives.
Don't Change the clocks and you have people traveling to work, and school, in darkness.
It's a recipe for dead kids.
Well school kids aren't involved but in winter, you have people traveling home in darkness. :huh:
In the uk it is unavoidable to have one of them in the dark, might as well make the most dangerous one and the one involving kids safer
Split the difference and use winter time +30min.
I don't understand how anyone can be so physically and emotionally frail that moving the clocks one hour throws their entire lives off for more than 20 minutes.
Quote from: sbr on March 22, 2015, 04:14:41 PM
I don't understand how anyone can be so physically and emotionally frail that moving the clocks one hour throws their entire lives off for more than 20 minutes.
^_^
I heard that the morning of the forward change is a really bad day for car accidents.
Quote from: sbr on March 22, 2015, 04:14:41 PM
I don't understand how anyone can be so physically and emotionally frail that moving the clocks one hour throws their entire lives off for more than 20 minutes.
I don't see why it is necessary / I'll admit that most of the time, I don't change my clocks...I just adopt a new rule for telling what time it is. :weep:
It makes for a better movie if people are upset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo)
Quote from: garbon on March 22, 2015, 09:56:23 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 22, 2015, 07:13:23 AM
As I said it saves lives.
Don't Change the clocks and you have people traveling to work, and school, in darkness.
It's a recipe for dead kids.
Well school kids aren't involved but in winter, you have people traveling home in darkness. :huh:
the idea being, that fresh out of their bed, half asleep before the first 3 coffees, a lot of people would fall asleep at the wheel* in the morning, rather than after 7h-8hrs of work and half a dozen coffees.
I suppose it could happen.
*or simply have less attention on the road.
If Daylight Savings time is so great why not just have it year round. We could rename it 'time' instead and save everybody a bunch of trouble.
Or just get up and go to bed earlier. Like old people.
It causes more than just health problems.
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