Comments on: Daylight Savings Time

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:53:16 +0000

I did that with the DVD/VCR in the bedroom. I never use it, the clock never keeps the right time, so I guess I’ll keep it on BSPT (Badtux Snarky Penguin Time).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:36:48 +0000

You are obviously not an obsessive/compulsive personality, ‘Tux.

By: BadTux

BadTux — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:48:33 +0000

Bobby – I leave most of my clocks set to DST year ’round. Why should I bother digging up the manual for my microwave, my stove, my electronic thermostat, stereo, etc., when we spend most of the year on DST anyhow? So I didn’t have to do anything yesterday except set the wall clocks forward, and voila! All my clocks show the same time again!

Am I a genius, or what?

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:01:51 +0000

The whole 9 to 5 is unnatural, 8 to 4 makes more sense to me, and year round on the same time. We already spend more “time” in DST, than ST, which should make DST the standard.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:59:45 +0000

Since I go to work in the dark year-round (I’m at my desk by 6:00 a.m. even though my workday doesn’t officially begin until 7:30 — there’s something to be said for the quiet of an office with free coffee and getting a decent parking space) and I get home by 4:30, I don’t mind the time shift at all. On weekends, the extra darkness in the morning lets me sleep a little longer.

That said, if it was up to me, we’d have DST all the time. This switching back and forth is meshuggeh

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:10:35 +0000

On rare occasions, Jim, you find someone who wants the job to do something other than help his friends and relatives, but it has been a while. I remember when the Republicans who wanted to run the government like a business had actually been successful in business and knew the value of money, but they are all gone, swept away with the “Reagan Revolution”.

Yeah, OWL, it takes a while to get used to the “lost hour.”

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:08:11 +0000

It does make a difference, here. Now. I’ll be able to go to the second job and realize how much daylight is out there until I get off… Actually, it might be a good thing. I will think it’s earlier than it really is, until I get used to it. Since we do it every year, I’ve grown fond of Daylight Savings Time. No complaints, except I had to get up for work, this morning, an hour earlier… If I hadn’t had to work, hey, I would have been really happy:)

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:06:35 +0000

Bryan, I think you might be a little to narrow in your view of congress-critters. They know more than how to pass laws. They know how to feather their own beds, they know how to court donors, and they know how to accept "gratuities". (Heck, Randall Cunningham knew how to print up a bribe menu. OK, so maybe he didn't quite know how to do this. But he know which one of his staffers did know how to print!) On top of all that, many know how to tie their own shoes. And, occassionally one or two of them try to actually, you know, govern. On rarer occassions these efforts have been known to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." One hopes that the latest crew in Congress will do somewhat better at this last stuff than their predecessors -- it would be hard to do much worse :-/

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:56:16 +0000

It’s simple, Jim, they can stay they are doing something about energy and global warming. All they know how to do is pass laws, so they passed a law.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:12:51 +0000

Wow — I thought *I* was grumpy here in Massachusetts, finding it dark once again when the alarm went off this morning. 😉

Seriously, though, it isn’t clear to me what was so broken about the old system that required the fix. But, then, I wasn’t asked, either.