Well, I'll be....

[AcidFlashGordon]

damned! Daylight Saving (not savings) Time snuck up on me again. But this year, I don't really give a damn because I'm retired. I'm no longer "on the clock" so to speak. But it's STILL a roaring pain in the ass to have to go through the house changing all the effin' clocks. What the hell use IS DST anyway? Anyone who tells you it was "for the farmers" is so blatantly a dumb asshole that it's not even funny. Farmers don't give a flying rat's ass about what time it is on the clock. They get up at sunrise, do their shit during the day and retire at sundown. Same thing for dairy farmers. The cows don't give two teats what time is on the clock. They have to be milked when needed which does NOT depend on some arbitrarily designated time on a clock.

And it sure as hell doesn't bother Arizona or Hawaii NOT going on DST!

 

[fuelfather]

It was to save on energy if you ask some treehugging rectal monkey.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

steady pappa

 

[LJH]

A Native American chief is known to have summarized his opinion of daylight saving. "Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

 

[London]

Guess you guys aren't big Ben Franklin fans?

 

[TxBigfoot]

I forgot which state, but New Mexico or Arizona doesn't recognize it. I wish we would do the same.

 

[Dawico]

I vote to lose it.

 

[TXARGUY]

I forgot which state, but New Mexico or Arizona doesn't recognize it. I wish we would do the same.

I know for a fact that Arizona does not recognize it because I frequently have to fly to Tempe. It's always a mental trip for me. Sometimes Texas is one hour ahead, sometimes it is two hours ahead.

Kinda like where I work in west Texas. If I drive straight North for 40 minutes I enter NM and Mountain Time or I can drive almost three hours West before I hit mountain time. It makes no sense.

I vote to abolish 'Day Light Savings' as well.

 

[Tough Guy]

Dumbest idea ben ever came up with.

 

[Stumpy]

I wish they would get rid of it. It really jacks with my deer huntin.

 

[orbitup]

I'm all for getting rid of it. Afterwards we can work on tax withholding too.

 

[M. Sage]

Guess you guys aren't big Ben Franklin fans?

I am, but he was dead wrong about this one. The way that every single building in the US is lit and air conditioned every second it's occupied, there isn't any energy savings here.

 

[M. Sage]

I know for a fact that Arizona does not recognize it because I frequently have to fly to Tempe. It's always a mental trip for me. Sometimes Texas is one hour ahead, sometimes it is two hours ahead.

Kinda like where I work in west Texas. If I drive straight North for 40 minutes I enter NM and Mountain Time or I can drive almost three hours West before I hit mountain time. It makes no sense.

I vote to abolish 'Day Light Savings' as well.

Talk to the railroads about time zones. That one wasn't government.

 

[TXARGUY]

Talk to the railroads about time zones. That one wasn't government.

I know why they did it.

Most of the area I work in was once controlled by various railroads.

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

It was to save on energy if you ask some treehugging rectal monkey.

The monkey comment brought this to mind:

Butt monkey

 

[V-Tach]

Be glad your wife doesn't collect clocks like mine......

 

[Flashcb]

Actually, being a wage slave with a commute I prefer DST, that means I get to actually have some daylight when I get to the house.

 

[shortround]

Some dumbschnitt PHD at a California University published a study that says Daylight Savings Time costs more per household because the use of electricity for air conditioning goes up during DST.

What a dumb a$$. He lives in a climate where few people use air conditioning or whole house heating. Here in Texas, we pay plenty, no matter DST or Central Standard Time ... when it gets hot, it is still over 90 degrees after 10:00 pm.

Time for college professors to move to another part of the country every two years!

 

[London]

I am, but he was dead wrong about this one. The way that every single building in the US is lit and air conditioned every second it's occupied, there isn't any energy savings here.

It saved a lot of candles in his day. Whether it works now or not I have no idea.

I do think there are better ways to save money on power now days- no one wants to open the windows in the spring or wear a sweater indoors during the winter, for example.

 

[robertc1024]

Frankly, I like it. I don't care about going to work in the dark, but having the extra light in the evenings is good. Well, until the part where wifey-mate want's more honey-do's done.