Time change: hate it or love it

[ronpolk]

Personally I hate it... I don't think it's needed anymore.

 

[msstate7]

Not crazy about having to do all yard work on Saturdays

 

[PBRME]

Hate it. Needs to stick one way or the other.

 

[was21]

To make it sports related, sometimes it time to change coarches..other times it's not

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Hate it. Do DST all year instead of 8-9 months. Start elementary schools later if necessary if that's a big enough concern.

Also condense the USA down to 2 timezones by having Eastern come back to Central and Pacific ahead to Mountain. NYC just 1 hour ahead of LA would be great for business.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Hate it.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Need to stay with daylight savings time all year round. I would rather it be dark later in the day than have extra daylight in the morning.

 

[cowbell88]

Hate Daylight Savings time in general. If you don't have enough daylight to do your stuff or to play a round of golf in the pm, then you need to get your *** up an hour earlier in the am.

 

[Augustus McCrae]

Hate the constant switching back and forth. Just pick one and stick with it.

 

[DerHntr]

Hate it.

Morning hunts and then going to work are basically not possible. Afternoon hunts you have to leave the office at lunch. It sucks.

 

[Fletch F. Fletch.sixpack]

Should just stay standard time. Daylight savings time doesn't save a nickel's

worth of energy and not being dawn till after 7 in the morning this time of year is silly.

 

[CoastDawg18]

Hate it. Dark too early.

 

[ronpolk]

Hate the constant switching back and forth. Just pick one and stick with it.

This is what I think... Just pick one and stick with it.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Yeah but getting dawn light in the middle of the summer before 4 am would be goofy too.

 

[mcdawg22]

Hate it can't fish after work.

 

[ShrubDog]

I dont like going to work in the dark and getting home in the dark.

 

[dogfan96]

Yes it would.. it's light out at 430 am in summer in Seattle as it is. nm

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[Bulldogg31]

We should just figure out whatever distance we are from the sun in, say, May or September and just stay that distance. All this constantly moving closer or farther away is total B.S. Why don't we just pass a law or something?

Thanks, Obama**

 

[hatfieldms]

I like it

Unlike it getting dark early when it starts getting cold outside and I love the sun being up later in the spring/summer

 

[Dawgzilla]

Hate it. We should just move our clocks forward 30 minutes and leave them there.

The worst part of all is having to get up at 2:00 a.m. to change all the clocks. If they're going to keep the change, the should move the time switch back to to 10 p.m or something.

 

[Treemydawg]

I hate it and love it at the same time. I hate it because you don't have time to deer hunt during the week after work, but I love it because its dark by 5:15 - 5:30 and I can coon hunt 5-6 nights a week for 4 to 5 hours a night and still get a decent amount of sleep before getting up and going to work.

 

[ronpolk]

Hate it. We should just move our clocks forward 30 minutes and leave them there.

The worst part of all is having to get up at 2:00 a.m. to change all the clocks. If they're going to keep the change, the should move the time switch back to to 10 p.m or something.

You serious? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say this... Why not just change before you go to bed or after you wake up?

 

[thatsbaseball]

nice

 

[mcdawg22]

You serious? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say this... Why not just change before you go to bed or after you wake up?

Not to mention it's a bad time to worry about clock changing time considering a lot of devices do it automatically and more and more are going wifi compatible every day. Also if it's ten for us that would be 8 Pacific. So do you want your Spago reservation at the first 7:15 or the second one?

 

[Hail State]

I love it

Personally I hate it... I don't think it's needed anymore.

This is is the way it's suppose to be. It's great for hunting too. And if they ever do get rid of time changes, it will stay this way all year. But keep in mind the people saying they don't like waking up in the dark and driving home in the dark, time change doesn't control how many hours of daylight there is in a day....

 

[LandArchDawg]

Love falling back, hate springing forward. It usually takes me 2 weeks to adjust to springing forward.

 

[Dawgzilla]

You know, Lewis Grizzard used to write that Amtrack would actually stop its trains on the tracks for one hour when we went off Daylight savings time. They didn't want to mess up the schedules, so the trains would just stop at 2:00 a.m., and then resume 1 hour later.

I never knew if that was true, but I always wondered what the trains did in the Spring when they had to move forward an hour? Just floor it?

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Fantastic post unless you're serious.

 

[MagicCityDawg]

In my limited experience, AMTRAK wasn't the bastion of schedule adherence...

You know, Lewis Grizzard used to write that Amtrack would actually stop its trains on the tracks for one hour when we went off Daylight savings time. They didn't want to mess up the schedules, so the trains would just stop at 2:00 a.m., and then resume 1 hour later.

I never knew if that was true, but I always wondered what the trains did in the Spring when they had to move forward an hour? Just floor it?

If they stopped for one hour, that was to preclude getting somewhere on time and risk raising expectations. In the Spring, they were probably just 2 hours late as opposed to the usual 1.

 

[kired]

I like it - especially falling back. It happens at a time when it's dark till almost 7am, and then boom - it's light at ~6:15am again for a few more weeks. Once it gets cold and miserable I really don't care to be out after work anyway, so I don't care if it's dark when I get off work.

I wish the spring forward came a little later. It's just the opposite --- finally getting light out again around 6am and we jump forward to dark at 7am. I'd rather move it to around the first week in April.

 

[dorndawg]

I prefer to have a bit more daylight in the morning, but I really look forward to telling young people about the silly days of when we changed what time it is TWICE a 17ing YEAR for no real reason.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Did I forget these (**)?

 

[mstateglfr]

Lighter later is best. If its dark/morning twilight in the winter until 745, fine. People aren't golfing in most of the country during the winter and nobody gives a **** about the areas of the country that could golf that early. Its winter- shelter up and break camp a little later.
Having extra light at the end of the day works best for people who actually work in this world to do outside chores and let kids play after school/work.

 

[johnson86-1]

This is is the way it's suppose to be. It's great for hunting too. And if they ever do get rid of time changes, it will stay this way all year. But keep in mind the people saying they don't like waking up in the dark and driving home in the dark, time change doesn't control how many hours of daylight there is in a day....

But if you're going to work in the dark anyway, why not go early enough so that you get some daylight when you get off.

Of course that ignores what the body naturally wants to do. But at the same time the body wants to get some sunlight, so for people that work inside all day, going against their body's natural inclination may be worth it if it results in them getting at least some sunlight each day.

 

[Will James]

Just change it every day at noon and midnight..

Fall back at midnight so there is a lot of light at 615 AM and spring forward at noon so you can drive home in the daylight and have time to play outside with the kids.

If everyone agrees to eat lunch while working this would be a great option.