It's time to change the frikken clocks.

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Hollydolly and her Brits did this a week ago. It's time to change the frikken clocks. There is no real scientific data that this does anything but irritate people. The best data says MAYBE there's a third of 1 percent savings, but that depends on location. Now, for the next week, I'll feel lousy, miserable, out of sorts. It's like calling Monday, "Sunday", so you'll have three days off, but you still have to go to work on the second "Sunday".
There are bills in the US & UK to abolish DST, with overwhelming approval, but haven't enacted them. Australia has repealed it, and OZ hasn't yet fallen into the sea.
I hate this changing time thing.
 
As an outdoor person, science enthusiast, and landscape photographer, I loathe daylight savings time because it creates unnatural 1 hour out of unbalance days instead of 12'oclock being NOON.

The Pros and Cons of Daylight Saving Time

Daylight savings time is strongly pushed for economic reasons by some powerful industries over politicians and media. What it doesn't state is the same result is possible using standard time, however businesses would need to change their hours instead of citizens their watches. A factor rarely mentioned. Instead their media manipulates the debate by just focusing on what it means for individual's personal lives as in "like it" or "not like it". That is especially the reason those industries recently preemptively pushed some state legislatures for permanent DST as they are increasingly afraid permanent Standard Time will otherwise be enacted.

Proponents of DST argue that longer evenings motivate people to get out of the house. The extra hour of daylight can be used for outdoor recreation like golf, soccer, baseball, running, etc. That way, DST may counteract the sedentary lifestyle of modern living.
The tourism industry profits from brighter evenings. Longer evenings give people more time to go shopping, to restaurants, or to other events, boosting the local economy.
 
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Yeah, why should the world cater to those damned farmers and much-reviled children going to school in the mornings during non-Winter months? Or cut down on power usage for lighting?

Our privileges are at stake here!

Even the Romans were bright enough to do an equivalent thing about the time.

Get that rectal insect infestation cleared up, then buy yourself a watch supporting two time zones or something. Sheesh!
 
First of all, isn't it weird that governments rule over time, but...

I wonder if the reason DST hasn't been abolished yet is because it would be a huge challenge to reprogram computers/devices that display time and are programmed to automatically spring forward and fall back.

I mean, I wonder if that would be a major undertaking.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Hollydolly and her Brits did this a week ago. It's time to change the frikken clocks. There is no real scientific data that this does anything but irritate people. The best data says MAYBE there's a third of 1 percent savings, but that depends on location. Now, for the next week, I'll feel lousy, miserable, out of sorts. It's like calling Monday, "Sunday", so you'll have three days off, but you still have to go to work on the second "Sunday".
There are bills in the US & UK to abolish DST, with overwhelming approval, but haven't enacted them. Australia has repealed it, and OZ hasn't yet fallen into the sea.
I hate this changing time thing.
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fuzzybuddy said:
Hollydolly and her Brits did this a week ago. It's time to change the frikken clocks. There is no real scientific data that this does anything but irritate people. The best data says MAYBE there's a third of 1 percent savings, but that depends on location. Now, for the next week, I'll feel lousy, miserable, out of sorts. It's like calling Monday, "Sunday", so you'll have three days off, but you still have to go to work on the second "Sunday".
There are bills in the US & UK to abolish DST, with overwhelming approval, but haven't enacted them. Australia has repealed it, and OZ hasn't yet fallen into the sea.
I hate this changing time thing.
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Maybe it's because I'm retired that the time change makes no difference to me. I go to bed when sleepy, eat main meal anywhere between 9 a/m & 11:30 a/m no set schedule. Nap when sleepy & just enjoy every day no matter what. I can't control the time so that is something I don't care about.
 
My husband also hates the time change. He will gripe and complain about it for days. I don’t personally care one way or another. Our pets are the ones that are affected the most. They don’t understand why their play time that starts at 7:00 suddenly starts at 6:00. It’s even worse for them in the spring time change. One of our dogs will sit by the closet door for a whole hour thinking we screwed up.
 
I would be happy if it would stay the same one way or the other. Just. Stay. The. Same🤯🤯

That said, except for being annoying and not changing the clock in my old car, it hasn’t mattered to me since I retired.

I know my horses get fed just after first light in the morning, and whenever I see them come up to the barn in the evening. They are 28-ish & 30, so staying out in the main pasture and partying all night is no longer a thing for them —- they want supper😇😂😇😂

Thankfully my cell phone changes itself - I don’t miss appointments in town that way🙄🙄
 
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