[ds968]

I griped about this before, I'm griping about it now, and I'll continue to gripe about it until this idiocy of changing the hour of the day twice every year finally stops. My complaint has nothing to do with the common debates surrounding the practice and its intended effect success or failure, but rather the unbelievable hassle of resetting a multitude of watches and clocks, particularly the ones which are on my cars radios, each requiring that I find the respective manual for instructions ( who the hell can remember all that s**t ?! ) because of how different and how convoluted the navigation steps for setting each one are. Arrrrghhhh. As if it's not enough that I have upwards of 20 watches I have to reset, and another dozen lighting, sprinklers, HVAC, alarm, cooking, etc, etc systems in the house whose function is tied to the time of day and which do not automatically reset as the TVs / DVRs and phones do, but then I have to deal with the damn cars as well !

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[Cloud9...68]

Then you're going to love this - a few years ago, I heard a proposal from a university professor that all clocks and time pieces worldwide run slightly faster, effectively gaining an hour within a week, and then giving everybody the "lost" hour back every weekend! Oh the joy - going through what you've just described every single week! Although, having an extra hour of sleep every weekend would be kind of nice...

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[ds968]

Hmmm, unless the professor alleges that the atomic clocks also run fast, that theory should be fairly easy to validate with a reasonably small sample of watches and clocks ..assuming you have access to an atomic clock for comparison, lol...

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[Rap]

DS perhaps if you didn't have over 20 watches and lived a simpler back to nature kind of life this wouldn't be a problem! Being in the same situation as you I say screw simple! Lol.

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[flash]

don't need a watch. i always know what time it is (within about 15 minutes). besides, the phone, the car, the phones at home, the microwave, the clocks in the garage, the clocks outside, and even the sprinkler controllers, all have clocks. who needs a watch to know what time it is? i'm not gay, so i don't need a bracelet either.



but, to the point of the thread, it is a huge pain in the butt. we no longer need to do this. we are not an agricultural nation anymore. we don't need to adjust the clocks for farmers. it's time to do away with this. it's time to drag the country into the current century. maybe, while we're at it, we can also get rid of the electoral college. that's just one big circle jerk that serves no function anymore, and costs the country millions. in this day and age of instantaneous information transfer, we no longer need weeks to get election results to the capital (that's why it was invented). we can do that job for a fraction of a dime, clear the airwaves of the inane drivel, and perhaps actually inform the public, rather than feed it the same tired party line b.s.

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[Rap]

Please stay on thread! This is not a political discourse thread. I agree with you by the way. Not on watches of course!

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[flash]

lol - and yes, i realize that the comments were not politically correct.



as for staying on topic, it was specifically on topic. daylight savings time is no longer necessary. neither is the electoral college. my entire point was that we need to give up on those things that only cost us money and do us no service. i am so sick and tired of wasting my time on crap that the government fails to realize is ridiculous for absolutely everybody, and causes me to have to deal with and pay for. i get that not everybody will feel the same way about what i think is ridiculous, but with this one, really?



by the way, even my dogs agree on this

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[Scott Collins]

All I know is that tomorrow at 7am I will be in the back parking lot of my school awaiting the arrival of 34 school busses and it will be DARK AGAIN! Oh the horror!



Also, just remember that Chuck Norris does not wear a watch because he decides what time it is.

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[Rap]

Do they agree on obamacare? Surely this falls squarely within this thread!. Who cares about what is or isn't politically correct. Who decides? Do your dogs vote? Lol

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[ds968]

Jeeezus, I grunt and moan about having to reset some watches and you politicos latch on to that topic using it as a soap box to gripe about our government's senseless spending. The cost to the country related to daylight savings time ( notwithstanding the hassle I have to endure every six months ) is probably somewhere at the bottom of a list of thousands of unnecessary, senseless and far more expensive things on which the government wastes our money - do you really want to open the door on this thread for that discussion, LOL ?! RAP, don't mind flash - his watch phobia is traced back to an early childhood trauma when he was thinking about Christmans gifts and said to his parents ; " mom, dad, this year I wanna watch " . So they let him watch . Ba da bum :-) :-)

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[JTP]

Us Hawaiians are advanced, we don't follow DST!

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[az968]

Same for us in Arizona, don't need to change no stinkin' watches.......



Unless you live on one of the reservations, then you change, so AZ has 2 time zones right now. At least Hawaii has it complete right :-)

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[Rap]

DS is still seems you want it both ways. Watch or no watch!

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[ds968]

Eh, I'll just get a sun dial and be done with all of this, lol. But for another day or two I still get to say : well, here we are 5:30 am already, but it's REALLY 4:30 am.. ;-) ;-)

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[Rap]

Try getting up 4:00 am Saturday morning to travel then lose a hour that nite. Sorta tired. Thank god it's sunny and warm! Lol. I only brought one watch!

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[flash]

no, my dogs don't vote - they dictate

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[mbardeen]

Try living in a country where not only do they follow DST schedule, they habitually change the day that it happens with little notice. So instead of having complete confusion only twice a year, you get it four times a year because half of your devices change on the day it was originally supposed to happen, and the other half change on the new date.



And the reason -- "it saves energy". I can only imagine that the economic cost of this change of date every year, in terms of applying patches to information systems and lost productivity due to utter confusion on the part of the populace far outwieghes the cost of any energy that they manage to save in the extra month of DST.

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[flash]

a perfect example of how dumb it is: i have a construction crew here today starting a new project. how many of the crew do you think showed up on time, and how many "forgot to set their clocks" or just couldn't wake up? yeah - it's a slow start. meanwhile i still have to pay for it, whether they showed up on time or not.

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[Cloud9...68]

In the mid '70s, the whole US went on year-round DST to save energy during the "energy crisis", but then we soon went back to the time-switching nonsense. Wonder who has a vested interest in keeping this time change stuff alive (and I totally agree on the electoral college - it's pretty ridiculous that if you don't live in a "swing state", your vote is utterly meaningless).

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[968Syncro]

Time is an illusion, so in the long run it doesn't matter all that much:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/20...thing-time



Actually like many "odd" and uncontrollable decisions, DST is simply an economic issue. Economic forces like retailers, sporting goods companies,BBQ companies, golf industry, and others that benefit from outdoor activities and shopping all lobby to keep DST -- because people will buy more of their products when it stays light later in the evening.

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