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Daylight Savings Time is F**king Stupid

06:46 / 04.04.04

Why do I have to change my clocks twice a freakin' year just because of some farmers? Why couldn't the farmers just set their alarms to wake up an a hour earlier if the sun is rising an hour earlier? I mean, do we really all need to change our clocks because of the needs of a small-and-shrinking sector of society? Even if people were so stupid that they actually needed the clock to read a different time when they wanted to sleep at a different time, couldn't just the farmers do it? How does this benefit the rest of us?

"Oh, well, you gain time! The day is an hour longer in the fall!"

NO IT ISN'T! THE DAY IS THE SAME LENGTH! WE JUST GET UP AND GO TO BED AT DIFFERENT TIMES! THE WHOLE THING IS CULTURALLY-SANCTIONED JETLAG!

Hell, we can't even all agree to do it! Half the friggin' States and Provinces don't observe the change! How tied are our modern schedules to the Sun anyway? I HAVE ELECTRICITY AND I'M NOCTURNAL TO BOOT! WHO CARES WHAT RELATIONSHIP MY CLOCK HAS TO THE DAYBALL?

GRRR.

THAT IS ALL.

01:46 / 05.04.04

But, it's light out later, that's cool. Being on the college schedule, there were a few weekend days back in December when I saw about three hours of sunlight. I need this daylight, it must be saved.

03:33 / 05.04.04

Man, I love daylight savings. Daylight savings time means that I actually have time to go hiking or climbing after work, and that is definitely worth altering my sleep schedule.

05:27 / 05.04.04

Actually, daylight savings time is a great idea. Okay, it makes one weekend 47 hours long, but it saves electricity with more daylight in our workday schedules, which ultimately saves money and the envirorment. So stop your bitching.

12:16 / 05.04.04

It makes one Sunday each year less painfully drawn-out and agonising, without the aid of gin. That's something.

12:21 / 05.04.04

Yeah, I dig having some some sunlight left when I get out of work. Go daylight savings time...

lonely as a cloud...

12:24 / 05.04.04

Sunlight good. It's always nice to leave work and see that distant flicker of light on the horizon...adds a faint veneer of healthiness to my monitor-tan.

12:25 / 05.04.04

I really liked that episode of Eerie, Indiana where Marshall got angry with lack of daylight savings, and adjusted his clock, even though he wasn't supposed to, and he ended up in an alternate lost hour world. So, be careful about daylight savings time.

12:46 / 05.04.04

When you live a part of the US that has 6 month long winters, the extra hour of daylight is welcome. Is it that physically taxing to turn the dial on your clock twice a year? Goodness. I guess you could always move to Arizona or [most of] Indiana.

13:59 / 05.04.04

Half the friggin' States and Provinces don't observe the change!

actually, in the US, only Arizona, Hawaii, and parts of Indiana don't observe the change.

that said, i actually woke up this morning to my boss calling me on the phone wondering where the hell i was because i forgot to change my clock.