Daylight Saving, are you a fan?

mellowyellow

mellowyellow

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It was the first day of daylight saving yesterday in NSW and the day seemed to drag by so slowly and it takes my body ages to get back into the rhythm of normal sleep. I know it's good for golfers, cyclists and others who like to get outdoors after work but I'm not a fan.
 

chic said:
I wish we could just stay on DST year round. Keep it simple.
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I agree. I much prefer the additional daylight at the end of the day rather than the beginning. I hated having it dark or almost dark when driving home from work, and if I had to stop at the store or some such I didn't like dealing with pitch dark parking lots, etc.

Actually, I'd prefer if they left the time at either DST or ST if they'd just leave it alone and not change it twice a year.
 
I loathe DST with a passion.

I'd be thrilled to no end if our time was left on the clock that falls back an hour in the Fall.

I attribute time changes to that of self-serving greed on behalf of our governing parties. It helps promote keeping people out more, and at the end of the day that equates to additional spending, nothing more.

Aside from extra added revenue, time changes serve zero purpose. I personally don't need daylight until 10 pm.
 
Although I enjoy it and think it's good to make travel to school safer for kids during the winter, I'd be happy to keep time as it is now (brighter evenings, darker mornings) if they were also to start school later in the day. That would accomplish both a standard daylight and give kids a later school start time which has been shown in many studies to lead to better success in the classroom.
 
mellowyellow said:
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It was the first day of daylight saving yesterday in NSW and the day seemed to drag by so slowly and it takes my body ages to get back into the rhythm of normal sleep. I know it's good for golfers, cyclists and others who like to get outdoors after work but I'm not a fan.
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Don't you mean the last day? Daylight saving starts in the northern hemisphere in March/April and ends in the southern hemisphere.

Personally I love daylight saving with the very long light evenings. It gets light here at 3.30 am in summer and as we're still asleep putting it forward to 4.30 am means it's light until 11 pm which I prefer.
 
Benjamin Franklin first thought up the idea of daylight saving in 1784. It wasn't instituted until World War I, when it went into effect to save energy used for lights.

In the UK, British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time, was the brainchild of a builder from Kent called William Willett. ... Germany had already introduced a similar scheme when the Summer Time Act was finally passed in the UK on 17th May 1916. The clocks went forward one hour on the following Sunday, 21st May.
 
I always thought it was about the stupidest thing they ever came up with
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There are an awful lot of stupid things, so, ?????
 

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