Why do we do daylight savings time, anyway??

tangler wrote:

Thanks for the reminder, still haven’t set the old Timex back. No wonder my boss glared at me when I left work yesterday.

Don’t you mean when you got to work late?

A conspiracy started by wives and girlfriends to make it impossible to fish after work in the late fall.

Denny O wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tangler wrote:</div>
Thanks for the reminder, still haven’t set the old Timex back. No wonder my boss glared at me when I left work yesterday.

Don’t you mean when you got to work late?

My boss has literally never beat me in to the office in the morning

The interesting thing to me about daylight savings time (which, BTW, IS one of several correct ways to refer to it) is that there are about 500 different rationales for “why”. There is no “one big reason” and the science behind the alleged benefits is sketchy at best.

It kind of reminds me of the rationales that were used to justify prohibition. Everything from church attendance to the musical aptitude of children to a reduction in dogs being kicked was supposed to result from outlawing alcohol. It all sounded very reasonable, but none of the supposed benefits actually materialized to the extent promised.

Grouse

Indiana has 3 different time zones – one part that has daylight saving, one that doesn’t, and one that has the other time zone. It is super weird. I had a friend that went to school/work where stuff changed by an hour whenever it switched because he lived over the line.

It is dumb and needs to go away.

A wise old Indian once said this about daylight savings time,leave it to the white mans government to tell the people that they can cut off the top two feet of a blanket and sew it to the bottom and tell you that you now have a longer blanket.

I was always under the impression that daylight savings time was about commerce in that folks would stay up later having bbq’s,going to movies,just staying out later for whatever reason and more money would be spent doing those things.
I also was under the impression it helped law enforcement as it took an hour away from those that use the cover of darkness for their evil deeds.
whatever reason its used for it needs to go away,if I need more daylight during any given day I just get up earlier and go to bed later,no difference to me.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

I also was under the impression it helped law enforcement as it took an hour away from those that use the cover of darkness for their evil deeds.

This one actually has merit. There is actually proof that fewer crimes are committed during DST. But you just wonder if that simply because there is more daylight overall.

I love DST. I don’t need the damn sun coming up at 5am in the summer and I like the later sunset.

As for winter and standard time I don’t need the sun coming up at 8am.

mplspug wrote:

As for winter and standard time I don’t need the sun coming up at 8am.

I don’t need the winter, keep it!