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Lilith

07-22-2005, 05:53 PM

Is this really something we need to fuck with?

GingerV

07-22-2005, 06:02 PM

I keep asking if it's really something we need! It fucks with my head twice a year, and I don't think I'd miss it.

LixyChick

07-22-2005, 06:23 PM

Fangtasia

07-22-2005, 06:45 PM

I prefer daylight savings....but bloody Qlders dont have it!

Cheyanne

07-22-2005, 07:50 PM

A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)

:box:

fzzy

07-22-2005, 08:01 PM

LOL Cheyanne .... As I get older ... this playing with the clock get's harder for my body to adjust to (every year a bit harder) .... I can at least say that I'm grateful they stopped doing the Double Daylight savings time a long time ago - I don't remember it, but I've heard it was practiced .... sometime back in the "dark" ages probably! :)

rockintime

07-22-2005, 09:01 PM

The more daylight I have in my hours in the day...the better I feel about wasted time...but the later I eat and the more I stay outside and the later I go to bed...only to rise more tired than when I went to bed...
Spring swings back in, and more about Daylight Savings Time

Mike Alger
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
4/7/2003 09:36 pm

"Yesterday, I talked a bit about Daylight Saving Time, and some of the reasons for having it. One is that it apparently saves energy. Webexhibits.org quotes a Department of Energy study that shows Daylight Saving trims a small (less than 1%), but significant amount of energy consumed in the U.S.

Apparently, the savings in other countries is even greater. In New Zealand, power consumption drops 3.5%. Since much of the electricity we consume is in the evening, we need less artificial light, and thus less electricity."

So-o-o-o-o-o...
it would appear that Lixy's energy LOSS is the rest of our energy GAIN...since we all know from the First Principle of Thermodynamics...energy is conserved, i.e., energy can neither be created nor destroyed. :grin:

sama1005

07-22-2005, 09:09 PM

Just turn it off. There is no need for it in this day and age.

gekkogecko

07-23-2005, 08:56 AM

Yes, we definitely need to fuck with so-called daylight savings time. By completely eliminating it.

dicksbro

07-23-2005, 09:10 AM

GingerV

07-23-2005, 09:24 AM

Lol...absolutely, we need a Pixies Mean Time ;).

My fiance's developed a brand new conspiracy theory that the government is trying to convert us to day light savings time full time, but for political reasons they have to do it one small step at a time.

Honestly, he's usually balanced and sensible ;)

Scarecrow

07-23-2005, 09:34 AM

I see only one good reason for DST, that is all the children in rural areas waiting for the bus in the dark early mornings. With people getting their days strarted they may not see the children in the dark.

P.S. GingerV your fiance is righ, it is a conspiracy.

maddy

07-23-2005, 11:07 AM

I prefer it honestly... as the year progresses and the light and dark changes my mornings I start to get curious about when we will change the time... of course, if i could make it so that i can always wake to the sun, and come home from work before the sun is setting i'd be happier...

I'm just having issues adjusting to moving to the NE from the south... (nevermind the time zone change) the sun does rise about two hours earlier up here...

wyndhy

07-23-2005, 11:14 AM

makes no dif to me.

Pita

07-23-2005, 11:26 AM

I think they should end it. I lived in Indiana that doesn't have daylight savings and it was much better. My nephew is starting highschool this year and has to be at the bus stop at 7am. It will be pitch dark at that time and my sister is not a happy camper.

Steph

07-23-2005, 04:56 PM

Newfoundland switched to double daylight savings time for a short time when I was a kid. Parents HATED it because it was so hard to get kids to bed. :)

PantyFanatic

07-23-2005, 05:44 PM

Almost as bad as time zones ...
..... Lets to to one 24-hour clock and adjust what we do to whatever time makes the most sense for us. :rolleyes2

;)
I think that’s called ‘Zulu’ time used in global activity coordination.

Going about our activities at the optimum time, regardless of the earths rotation reference makes sense, but good luck with that. We are still largely using a clock system established during agrarian societies.

Repeating a time cycle for a day based on light and dark has more inconveniencies and costs than just hassling with our clocks twice a year. It’s a shrinking world that technology has made even the least developed countries active in daily, and we still do not use the 24 hour (NOT ‘military time’, they only use it because it works better and they don’t have to have you get over yourself to make an improvement) clock.

Let’s not be encumbered with the facts, no matter how much it effects us. We can’t get our eyes open to see something at the end of our nose, like the metric system. How are you going to deal with something as abstract at time (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002063.html).

subnote:
People cook out a lot in the summer time. The largest lobby when DLST was passed in most states was the charcoal industry.
What a coincidence. ;)

Cheyanne

07-23-2005, 09:57 PM

You know, I don't think I would mind it so much if it stayed that way all year round.. lol :D

scotzoidman

07-23-2005, 10:09 PM

<in Tommy Chong voice> ...no thanx, man, I'm not into time...

thereIam

07-23-2005, 11:32 PM

Now just hold on there just a goldurned minute. I've been putting daylight into my Daylight Savings Account for decades, and you just wanna go and get rid of it? Just as I am getting close enough to see the light at the end of the tunnel? Humbug! I wanna refund!

Booger

07-23-2005, 11:48 PM

Almost as bad as time zones ...

Log into pixies in what I think's the morning and Alasse is saying good evening; and someone else is say good afternoon, and someone is claiming it's bedtime. How's a pixie suppose to deal with this. Lets to to one 24-hour clock and adjust what we do to whatever time makes the most sense for us. :rolleyes2

;)

a 24 hour clock wouldn't change the fact that when you log on people would be at diferent points in the day. It would just mean they would be at that point in the day at the same time as you. So in other words it would still be evening for Alasse it would just mean that her evening was at a diferent time for her is all. Insted of her evening being at 8 pm for her it would just be a 5am (this is assuming that they used EST to set the 24-hour clock).

GingerV

07-24-2005, 01:27 AM

a 24 hour clock wouldn't change the fact that when you log on people would be at diferent points in the day. It would just mean they would be at that point in the day at the same time as you. So in other words it would still be evening for Alasse it would just mean that her evening was at a diferent time for her is all. Insted of her evening being at 8 pm for her it would just be a 5am (this is assuming that they used EST to set the 24-hour clock).

Spoilsport ;).

Really I don't care which time they use. I just wish they'd pick one and stick to it.

dicksbro

07-24-2005, 03:46 AM

I think that’s called ‘Zulu’ time used in global activity coordination.

Going about our activities at the optimum time, regardless of the earths rotation reference makes sense, but good luck with that. We are still largely using a clock system established during agrarian societies.

Repeating a time cycle for a day based on light and dark has more inconveniencies and costs than just hassling with our clocks twice a year. It’s a shrinking world that technology has made even the least developed countries active in daily, and we still do not use the 24 hour (NOT ‘military time’, they only use it because it works better and they don’t have to have you get over yourself to make an improvement) clock.

Let’s not be encumbered with the facts, no matter how much it effects us. We can’t get our eyes open to see something at the end of our nose, like the metric system. How are you going to deal with something as abstract at time (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002063.html).

subnote:
People cook out a lot in the summer time. The largest lobby when DLST was passed in most states was the charcoal industry.
What a coincidence. ;)

Could we just wrap all the clocks in panties? :)

LixyChick

07-24-2005, 08:53 AM

<in Tommy Chong voice> ...no thanx, man, I'm not into time...
OMG! My inner voice now sounds like Tommy Chong! LMFAO!

PantyFanatic

07-24-2005, 09:05 AM

Could we just wrap all the clocks in panties? :)
Yours ISN'T? :confused:

:wobble:

BIBI

07-24-2005, 11:04 AM

Yours ISN'T? :confused:

:wobble:

PF...dicksbro said clocks

NOT....cocks :boobs:

scotzoidman

07-26-2005, 09:28 AM

I suddenly remembered a conversation with an old pal, who said his grandfather (a REAL strict conservative Southern Baptist...folks from the South will know the type) denounced DST as "messing with God's time"...I'd always heard the phrase, "boggles the mind", but I never truly experienced it until the moment I heard that...

Lilith

07-26-2005, 10:56 AM