I hate Daylight Savings Time

littlefarmer · Mar 17, 2015

What's the point of it, anyway? Seems to be so the city folks can have extra time in the evenings for summer baseball or whatever.

It messes up my "clock". Half asleep in the morning because of having to suddenly get up 1 hour earlier. Then at night I don't care to go to bed at the time the clock says I should.

I've read that there's a peak in heart attacks when DST kicks in.

Brad in VA · Mar 17, 2015

Well believe it or not it was to help farmers with their kids. I hate to say back when but back when kids had to hand milk cows or gather eggs or whatever they were expected to do in the morning the DST helped give them light and time before school and longer evenings after school. Today I personally dont see the advantage, most people work from before sun rise to after sunset reguardless of what the clock says. I do agree the time change is more hurtful than helpful these days. Ive always wanted to just change 30 minutes and leave it forever...

Rich'sToys · Mar 17, 2015

If they passed a law that everyone had to go to work an hour early each day, the country would throw a fit!
So instead we go in an hour early anyway, and just re-set the clock to where it was before! Now suddenly it's OK.
With mentality like that it's no wonder the country is going to h**l in a handbasket!! How dumb are we anyhow?

RayP(MI) · Mar 17, 2015

Yeah, and try living on the far WEST edge of your time zone. We're TWO hours ahead. I'm real tired of doing morning chores in the dark!

rrlund · Mar 17, 2015

I still wait until daylight. I've got nowhere to go.

NCWayne · Mar 17, 2015

As someone who is self employed, and is not a morning person, I love DST. It lets me sleep in a little bit in the morning, basically until all of the morning rush hour's craziness around Charlotte has had a chance to die down. Once that happens I can the go pick up parts, get to a customers machine, or whatever, without wasting time sitting in a traffic jam.

Better still, when I get back home in the evenings I've actually got time to get my own stuff done with daylight to spare. Not to mention that after 5 my phone usually slows down on the call frequency. With the call slowdown, I can often get more done from say 5 until dark as I can in the same amount of time during the day when everybody else is working and having problems they need solutions to.

Then, this time of year, it's often still chilly in the morning, but in the evenings it feels a lot better, and the temperature is more conducive to working comfortably without needing a jacket.

In the end, I guess it all comes down to the perspective you look at it from, but personally I love it.

lpaz · Mar 17, 2015

My brother always said they just need to pick one
of the times that it changes, he didn't care
which, spring or fall, and set the thing a half
hour in the middle and just leave it there from
then on.

JerryS · Mar 17, 2015

I really have no preference one way or the other, especially now that I'm retired. I do like the longer daylight hours of spring and summer, but DST has nothing to do with that.

1948CaseVAI · Mar 17, 2015

I wish it lasted all year long as I love the extended hour of daylight in the evening.

If you are a farmer and not having to work during someone else's schedule you can start work when you wish and quit when you wish. An independent farmer doesn't have to pay attention to the clock if you don't want to.

rusty6 · Mar 17, 2015

What a bunch of foolishness. Changing the clocks twice a year. Eventually the rest of the world will catch up to us in Sask. and keep the same time all year round.
No DST in Sask.

Dick2 · Mar 17, 2015

No DST in Arizona either. Just politicians trying to change mother nature. Just another reason to vote them all out of office and start over with some people that haven't been thoroughly corrupted yet.

Steve@Advance · Mar 17, 2015

Didn't we try full time DST a few years back? Back when we were on the verge of depleting the oil supply, 70's something?

There was an uproar from parents, didn't want to send their kids out in the dark to walk to school or stand in the dark waiting for the bus.

Dave H (MI) · Mar 17, 2015

ROFL!!! I haven't had a good nights sleep since the change BUT, I have to say I like your attitude!

rrlund · Mar 17, 2015

Wasn't this all Ben Franklin's idea?

jeffcat · Mar 17, 2015

Remember during WW II they had British Double Standard time. Figger that one out!

Mark-Mi · Mar 17, 2015

Me too.

TractormanNC · Mar 17, 2015

My sentiments EXACTLY.

Den N Ms · Mar 17, 2015

Littlefarmer,You could always do like my grandpa he would never change his clocks.Like when it was five O:clock,he would say its four O:clock my time.lol

Bob Collins · Mar 17, 2015

The idea was thought up by an old Indian (uh, native American) who cut one end from his blanket and sewed it to the other end to make it longer. Seriously, without it we would have to come up with something else to complain about twice a year.

1206SWMO · Mar 17, 2015

Same here...It sure helped me out when I both farmed and
worked a town job..

tomturkey · Mar 17, 2015

You can choose to not participate, but ofcourse you'll be late for most appointments.lol gobble

Trevor4440 · Mar 17, 2015

Its great, its dark an extra hour in the morning when I'm going to full time work and then light an extra hour when I'm farming after work. Seriously I love it, especially during Spring field work.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 17, 2015

I love it gives all the Chronic Complainers something to complain about,bet my 1st wife is going on and on and ON about it.

Deere Scotty · Mar 17, 2015

I hate it! In Indiana we have a semi annual fight every single time The clocks change. A huge rally at the State House Couple of weeks ago from people wanting to go on Central time, people screaming to stay on Eastern time. I say lets go on SANE time, & just end the whole thing.

A reporter came up with 13 reasons to stay on Eastern, 20 reasons on Central, & 72 reasons to drop it all together. He never read the list; but we wish he had!

BarryRanch · Mar 17, 2015

I hate it myself. Can't go to sleep cause my bodys clock says its too early and getting up early and it stays dark until 7:30 sucks. I am a farmer, and it is nice to have a extra hour of daylight, but with all the fuss makes it a pain. My dad wont stop saying how much he hates it. Just got off the phone with grandpa, he was telling me how much he hates it. Maybe it runs in the family lol

Ultradog MN · Mar 17, 2015

I don't understand all the complaining.
It isn't that big a deal. One nap and you're caught up.

bison · Mar 17, 2015

(reply to post at 14:58:52 03/17/15)

daylight savings must drive one of my neighbors around the bend, for some reason he always waits till it is stone dark before he starts feeding the cows.lol

Russ from MN · Mar 17, 2015

I love it, always have! Shouldn't make any difference now being retired, but I still like it. Anyone that can't deal with it would have a tough time crossing a few time zones.

Spudm · Mar 17, 2015

Time changes make NO sense to me. I would rather be on Standard time all year.

Jeff B. · Mar 17, 2015

Only a politician would cut an inch off the end of a ruler, glue it on the other end and try to convince you it was longer.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:26:52 03/17/15) I don't understand all the complaining.
It isn't that big a deal. One nap and you're caught up.

Right there, nailed it, just exactly right, and it's always on a Sunday morning.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2015

(quoted from post at 01:39:19 03/18/15) Only a politician would cut an inch off the end of a ruler, glue it on the other end and try to convince you it was longer.

Aw, this is funny, talk about lack of comprehension.

Everyone knows that as the earth tilts on it's axis as it orbits the sun that the amount of sunshine increases or decreases accordingly and we adjust the clocks to maximize the sunlit hours.

Or maybe they don't.

Oliver662011 · Mar 18, 2015

It was created in US by Benjamin Franklin. It was to limit use of candles to do work when it was still dark. It was to move most peoples schedules to make full use of daylight. Basically to help save on candles. It also still applies today with conserving light and power.
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