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I have disliked the Daylight Savings Time twice a year shuffle for a long time. Always wondered who the idiots were that started it. Turns out the city I live in is to blame. :gaah: More specifically one part of the town where I live as there were two cities at the time now amalgamated into one. Two cities side by side where one is on DST and the other not in the beginning. Only in Canada Eh.
Bob
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html
I hate it and am 90% certain I will be late for work tomorrow
I have that beat, been retired for 10 years. :D I do know what you mean though.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanQ
Bob
I retire in 10 years
Got to pick up my gf from the airport Sunday at 11:50pm or so then make it to work at 7 in the morning Monday :aargh:
I detest DST. And I hate it even more since having kids - the two worst weeks of the year are the ones just after the time change.
Unfortunately, I doubt there will be enough attention or momentum to get rid of it any time soon
Got you both beat! I've extended my mortgage till I'm 75, I'm 40 so no hope in retiring soon... :gth
If you find it a pain setting all you clocks back or forward, simply wait 6 months :D
Been retired for 7+ years.
I can tell you that I look at clocks and think about what time it is way less now.
The first thing that went was the alarm clock.
I go to bed when I get sleepy and wake up when my eyes open.
DST....Who cares!!
Pete <:-}
And I always thought DST was set up so kids weren't waiting for the school bus, in the dark. :gaah:
Don't get too worried about it, Mark. Most of us won't live that long. :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by markbignosekelly
I used to work a variation of the Southern Swing Shift. One hour change don't mean squat to me.
If the sun shines in the window that is not a sign it is time to get up to me!
The biggest issue I have experienced is twice though we have shown up to church when the other people were leaving.........
The funny thing about this article is that even though it mentions that Saskatchewan was one of the first Canadian provinces to adopt DST, it doesn't mention that they abandoned it in 1959.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
I've read a LOT about DST, but this is the first time I've ever heard that one before!Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
For me, owning a small business, retirement probably means the eternal sense.
There is a bill in the State House in Florida to abolish the time change. I think, but I could be wrong, that it would stay daylight saving time all year. Maybe it's the other way.
There is a movement in the Province of British Columbia to stop the twice a year time change.
Bob
I hate getting up and driving to work in the dark, but I will enjoy the extra hour of light in the evening as I'll be able to take my Blue Heeler for a long walk after work, which is healthy for both of us.
It's looming down here too, takes me over a week to get used to it.
Yes, I'm forever hopeful that this will be the last one I have to deal with. I work in mental health and have small children and that one hour affects both of those in ways one would not otherwise expect. Yukon Territory has recently decided to stop with the DST nonsense and that should put even more pressure on BC to follow likewise.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobH
Good news about Yukon, I hadn’t heard!Quote:
Originally Posted by ppetresen
I thought DST was Benjamin Franklin’s creation.
Now that we have electric lights, it really seems unnecessary.
I love the extra hour of sleep in the Fall, but the loss of an hour in the SPring throws my system off for a few days. Kind of like the jet lag you experience when flying east.
Just don't fly to THE East. You might catch something Ajax won't scrub off.Quote:
Originally Posted by DZEC
I live on the western edge of the mountain time zone. When I was an astronomer I disliked waiting till 11pm for darkness in the summertime, but I did appreciate the extra light on a 4-5 hour run after work. I always treat DST as a mixed blessing. Hasn't much effect in the wintertime, seems to be dark when I go to work and when I come home.
Personally, I like the extra light in the evenings in the warmer months, even though it takes a week or so to adjust to it.
I do, however, think we should get rid of the penny.:p (both topics have in the past been on my students' AP English Language exam essay prompts, along with eminent domain and other topics people debate but never seem to solve).
No pennies being minted up here for a while now and as they come in they are being taken out of circulation. When paying cash they round up or down to the nearest nickel/5 cents. Paying by credit card then it is the exact amount.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad
Bob
You won't have to fly anywhere, it is coming to where you live soon now.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Bob
We don't understand the fuss about DST, never had problems adjusting. We have had it here for yonks. I like the extra hour in the evening during summer time.
Here's an idea. I too have heard the argument about kids waiting for the bus in the dark, yada, yada, yada. Why don't they split the diff, set it at 30 minutes in between and leave it that way?
To me DST is a pain cuz I interact with eastern countries quite a bit, those that don't have DST like China, India etc Even worse is when you are in such a country working back office for a country that does have DST (e.g my colleague who is in India, working backoffice support for Australia). Then there's the thing where different countries do DST at different times of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kees
Well now, if the object of the exercise is to avoid waiting for the school bus
in the dark, and still have the "extra" daylight in the summer, then we
should set the clocks back an hour in the fall, and then in the
summer set the clocks ahead TWO hours.
Genius, no? Damn the confusion! Fool speed ahead!
This is interesting about the kids waiting for the school bus. There seem to be a lot of ways people rationalize DST. I grew up in Saskatchewan (at the time the economy was primarily farming, and we didn't have DST), but I've lived on the west coast of Canada, in Europe and more recently in Quebec, and in each place people had different ideas of what DST was for. In Ontario and Quebec, the reason I hear the most is that it gives the farmers an extra hour of sunlight, which is BS, and doesn't even make sense. Yet people swear it's true. The actual history is all about saving energy (and therefore saving money), which has been proven to be negligible - and when taking the sleep-related accidents into consideration (not to mention the thousands of hours it takes to change all the clocks in all the countries who use DST), there is really no reason to continue with DST except that people are used to it and think there are more important things to think about (which may be true). Some articles talk about the benefits of having an extra hour of sunlight after the 9-5 workday, but even the 9-5 workday is slowly becoming obsolete, because our modern technological world and our global economy. I'm certain nobody cared about kids waiting for buses in the light or dark when they pushed this through the government - I'm not sure how many kids were even bussed to school in 1916, anyways.
As for PaulFLUS' idea to split the difference and leave it there, that would effectively eliminate DST, which I'm completely in favour of.
Agreed Joel. So, we've got it solved then. They should just listen to us and it would be fixed.:tu
This may be the beginning of an international movement against DST!!Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Count me in
One place I worked had the shifts arranged 5 am to 1 pm, 1 pm to 9 pm, and then 9 pm to 5 am.
The reasoning was that if you got off at 5 am you could get home and to bed before it got light out.
I lived far enough away and it takes me a while to unwind after work so it never worked for me...........
Its never made any difference to me. Change the clock is all. With the little sleep i normally get it just blends in. Its always dark when i go to work or go home. Meh :shrug:
But my understanding is it saves money as people dont need to burn the lights as long. I think we can do without it.