Indiana approves daylight-saving time

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/29/daylight.time.ap/index.html

Now all the fun is gone.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF!!

Seventy-seven counties in the Eastern time zone portion of Indiana remain on standard time year round, while five in southeastern Indiana ignore state and federal law and change their clocks. Five counties each in the northwest and southwest pockets of the state are in the Central zone and observe daylight time.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, it's highly fucked up. This is serious news for hoosiers.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Just in time for the U.S. Congress to change the whole daylight savings calendar, too.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what's next?!??! i bet pretty soon most of western europe will have the same currency!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ARIZONA GET WITH TEH PROGRAM

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Navajo County is down.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

they're the sole county (I think) that actually observes daylight-saving in AZ.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh, I'm don't really want to start on this, but... Fuck you Mitch D@niels and your face-saving antics. Basically he (former budget secretary under Reagan, if that says anything) promised it during his campaign and has turned it into his issue for the past 5 months he's been in office, while majorly slashing school budgets on the side and ignoring our statewide out of hand child abuse/meth abuse rate.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Indiana is finally joining the twentieth century.

Yeah, it is weird, because I think the northwest part of the state usually goes along with Illinois & the Chicago area.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, being a time-zone split state, AND *partially* *not* observing daylight-saving in the greater half is just bad news. At least all of Arizona is in one time zone.

Mitch Daniels may deserve to be fed to a vat of lampreys, but hey, I don't see anything wrong with the bill on its own.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Lafayette, get ready for those 9:30 sunsets!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome! (I should clarify that I'm glad this is finally approved, but My Man Mitch does deserve to be fed to lampreys for making it his main agenda while schools suffer)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Saskatchewan has been on permanent DST for years. What, is the sun gonna go behind a hill? Nu-uh!

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

woah, that's like covert full-on time zone switching shit!

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember being confused when my family lived in Bloomington, IN. We'd only moved there a few months before, and since the news was reminding people to put their clocks an hour forward, we did so. Then the next morning we went to church, only to find that there was no one around. Eventually someone found us, and told us that no, Indiana didn't follow dst.

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Isnt this more like joining the 19th century? Isnt the only reason we have daylight savings time is to benefit farmers and their harvesting schedules? Like more sun in the morning when its cold in the winter and less sun when they dont need it in the spring?

I feel like I could be elected to public office on trying to phase out daylight savings time.. perhaps atm fees as well.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I emailed my (hoosier) mom about this and she said: "Last week the governor was mad because he missed a very important phone call because HE was confused about the time. I don't think I'd be admitting that."

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Farmers don't care what time it is. When the sun shines, they make hay, regardless.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good news for all those who commute to Illinois, bad news for local color.

You have no idea how many times I've been stranded at the South Bend rail station because of this.

It was, like, twice.

Now you know.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

GUYS

THIS IS WRONG

INDIANA SHOULD NOT GO TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

THE REST OF US SHOULD GO THE WAY OF INDIANA (FMR) AND ARIZONA

THIS IS NOT 1793 ANYMORE

I REFUSE TO CHANGE THE TIME ON MY WATCH TO REFLECT THE REAL TIME BECAUSE I AM HOLDING A PROTEST

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Daylight Savings time is certainly one of the dumbest things in the history of man.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a comforting bizarreness, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it is not comforting, not at all. It's horrible, jarring, and very upsetting for me, twice a year.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Im glad I have Ally's vote.. Now I need to move to wherever it is she lives...

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it is not comforting, not at all. It's horrible, jarring, and very upsetting for me, twice a year.

It only gets to me in the spring when my hour is gone. I always look forward to that Saturday night in October when I sleep in and get up an hour earlier.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

People use less energy during Daylight Saving.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Pleasant Plains otm

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What the f*ck is up with it seriously? Is this the middle ages or something? Where know one can read or count to 12? It steals daylight from my schedule. F*ck it and whoever endorses it, f*ckers.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

In a general sense. Nothing personal of course.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with you, Spencer.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Proposed changes to daylight savings are part of Bush's beloved energy bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c109:1:./temp/~c1094OIPqb:e54164:

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

BUSH FOR PRESIDENT 2008

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW DO THOSE CHANGES HELP ANYONE

THAT'S JUST POINTLESS GERRYMANDERING AND AVOIDANCE OF THE REAL PROBLEM.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, what's up with airplane peanuts?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like the cover of A Hard Day's Night only it's not fun.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I really say "know one" up there? I blame daylight savings.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos3.flickr.com/3171252_dc143e6637.jpg

A few years ago, an Arkansas state legislator proposed that the state do away with daylight savings time. This would've placed Arkansas, at least four-hundred miles away from the nearest timezone boundary, as an island of standard time on the map. As much as I would've look forward to such zaniness, even I could realize that the novelty would've probably wore off fast.

The legislator eventually withdrew his bill from committee. The newspaper photograph the next day was priceless, showing other rep's surrounding the guy. One had his hand on the legislator's shoulder, and everyone had facial expressions of "Dude, it's going to be okay..."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, Curtis OTM. Ally, Spencer, WTF?

Straight Dope: What are we trying to accomplish with Daylight Saving Time, anyway?

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

If daylight savings saves energy, why are my Con Ed bills consistently higher during the savings period than during the rest of the year?

OH RIGHT AIR CONDITIONERS

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean that argument makes no sense because while it's theoretically correct I don't see how it possibly applies to real life human behavior in the least.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

People do more stuff after work than before.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

There are better ways to conserve energy than by making everybody change their f*cking clocks! I always assumed it had to do with some agricultural thing which of course would make a ton of sense because everyone in America lives on farms.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

But I can't really think of many things where the extra hour in the evening would help. Indoor facilities use the same lighting day or night, streetlight stay on all night anyway (don't they?). Transportation doesn't change, heating and cooling may even be worse because the day is hotter in the summer so many places would have to increase the A/C for the extra people. I had always thought it was to facilitate outdoor events where providing lights would be prohibitive, like Little League baseball and the like.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that's why I love daylight savings time. It gives the kids more safe time to play outdoors. I have such good memories of playing kick the can until about 9:30 or 10 at night.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean that argument makes no sense because while it's theoretically correct I don't see how it possibly applies to real life human behavior in the least.

Many people get up, go to work, then go back home on a typical day, literally. Daylight-saving is designed to align the daytime hours when people are working, so they don't have to use lights as much.. and I stress "as much". Perhaps this seems like a drop in the bucket in big cities like NYC or L.A., and if you want to argue that this therefore makes it a drop in the bucket over all, then give it your best shot. (nickn did.) I don't think daylight-saving was intended to be the energy saving answer.. just an aid.

There are better ways to conserve energy than by making everybody change their f*cking clocks!

god forbid.. two frickin' hour switches a year.

I always assumed it had to do with some agricultural thing which of course would make a ton of sense because everyone in America lives on farms.

It actually makes the least difference on farms. The cows and chickens will get up whenever they get up.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy Rooney once argued that instead of daylight-savings time, we should do the opposite -- bright-and-early-morning time -- you know, which would make everyone in the U.S. feel like they're in Seattle during the winter months half the year.. great.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, you're right.. in work environments, this doesn't make a difference.

At home however, it does make a big difference... especially in the huge fucking sprawls. Less light usage in the homes of the suburbs probably makes up for the wasteful light usage by businesses during the weekday.. possibly. I never worked at a power company, so I don't know.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I think the time should remain the way it is now. Whatever the f*ck that is, I have no idea. Are we currently "saving" daylight?

And what makes you think that even one clock change a year isn't a major headache, inconvenience, and time waster for people, software etc etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My commute times are always halved immediately after springing forward.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

And I'm not much for conspiracies, but if this daylight "savings" (corny name) is clearly some kind of social control.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Those dead bastards controlling our lives!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If I feel like waking up with the stupid-ass sun in the morning, then I'll set my alarm accordingly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I think the time should remain the way it is now. Whatever the f*ck that is, I have no idea. Are we currently "saving" daylight?

The term is very lame, granted. it should be called "daylight/worktime realignment".

And what makes you think that even one clock change a year isn't a major headache, inconvenience, and time waster for people, software etc etc.

Haha, my computer let me know that we switched to standard/daylight-saving time the last two times it happened! OS's usually come equipped to deal with that stuff now. Besides, it's good to be forced to realign your clock radio or watch anyway, since they are never perfect after five to seven months.

Unless you own a clock shop, that is. *cue the Married With Children episode where Peggy Bundy had to work in a clock shop at a shopping mall*

If I feel like waking up with the stupid-ass sun in the morning, then I'll set my alarm accordingly.

So, you'll be changing all your clocks a minute every day or so, according to your current latitude and longitude? That's freaky awesome!

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This whole time zone thing is just upper crust quantization from the MAN! I'm creating a REAL time/space analyzer clockamajig!

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The best argument for DST was made in the 70s energy crisis when it saved some small amount of power consumption. But this was before most people in the US had air conditioning. When people see more sunlight, they also experience more heat, and they turn up the AC. I think the original benefit was something like 1% less energy used; air conditioning has the potential to eat this up and then more.

Animal farmers (the US still has these, right?) hate DST because man has yet to teach lesser creatures to get with the program and wake up when the alarm clock goes off you lazy asses.

I hate DST because I have a love for conceptual purity. Viva la modern living, abolish DST now!

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

But we're on Daylight Savings now (darker in e the mornings). It sounds like you want permanent Daylight Savings Time, Spencer.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, exactly. But why would now be Daylight Savings time. Wouldn't we want to "save" daylight when there's less of it? That's another annoying fact about this whole farce!!! ARGH!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry everybody, showing off my persecution complex - I'll be out on the veranda.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It saves it in the evenings, where we want it (theoretically), at the expense of the mornings, where we don't care (because we're dragging our sleepy asses to the office anyways).

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

In Chicago, we're right on the edge on the timezone, which means that in the summer the sun rises at about 5am. Without DST, it would rise at 4. Either way, you're going to need some curtains, but still. Thank God for DST.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as we have to go to the office, why should we care whether its light outside or not? Its a pain in the ass either way.

Spencer, I'm afraid what you are suggesting is Daylight Losings Time. This is maybe closer to the truth, but good luck selling this to the states.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

So what? Sun rises at 5 or 4 or 3, deal with it. Don't make me figure out how to change ALL OF MY CLOCKS!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, and Nebraska is at the edge of the Central time zone,so that was an interesting experience, going from one end to the other.

I like it, because it gives you time to ride your bike or do other outdoor activities after work.

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Daylight Savings Time is completely insane.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's great right now. Why again doesn't it just stay this way all year round?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Because of THAT GODDAMN 23 DEGREES

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, why can't I have a pony!?!?

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So in the fall when it starts getting dark in LA at say 6, then we move the clock back and it gets dark when?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So then I have an extra hour of daylight at like 6 in the f*cking morning? Who needs that sh*t, really?? Do I have this all wrong?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

As my dad says, it gets late early in the fall.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin (portrait at right) during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, "An Economical Project." Read more about Franklin's essay.
Some of Franklin's friends, inventors of a new kind of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme that they continued corresponding with Franklin even after he returned to America.
The idea was first advocated seriously by a London builder, William Willett (1857-1915), in the pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" (1907) that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. As he was taking an early morning a ride through Petts Wood, near Croydon, Willett was struck by the fact that the blinds of nearby houses were closed, even though the sun was fully risen. When questioned as to why he didn't simply get up an hour earlier, Willett replied with typical British humor, "What?" In his pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" he wrote:

"Everyone appreciates the long, light evenings. Everyone laments their shortage as Autumn approaches; and everyone has given utterance to regret that the clear, bright light of an early morning during Spring and Summer months is so seldom seen or used".

― same old shit (dymaxia), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thought so.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would I need daylight so early in the morning? I'm not going to be taking any morning rides soon on horseback? I need to sleep in on most mornings because I've been out late enjoying the "nightlife" which we can have now because we have f*cking ELECTRICITY, and don't even have to fly kites in thunderstorms anymore.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why movie theaters don't open until after lunch and stay open until almost midnight.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

U.S. Bill 5150 - Spencer Party Time adjustment for all fifty states.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

At least it's not like in China where everyone's under one time zone, nationwide.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ONE TIME FOR ALL!

(Midnight will always be where Dr. Bronner's ashes face the high sun. Calibrate from there.)

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Maine Possibly to Be Next State to Say "Fuck You" to American Time Zone Compliance

(Yeah, Go Maine, Go Maine ... It's your maritime, It's your maritime...)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 May 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Reviving this, despite that horrible "It's your maritime" line in my last post.

Are you ready Indiana? Ready for your schoolchildren to stand waiting for the bus in darkness? Ready to become aware of just how many clocks you have in your house? Ready for visible daylight to still be in effect well past nine p.m.? Wait until you go to church on Sunday (and I know you will because you are Indiana.) The laffs your pastor will share with you because half of your congregation forgot to set their clocks back will equal hilarity. ARE YOU READY?

And, thought about joining Central Time lately?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Joining central time would be convenient for Chicago-area commuters but just totally stupid w/r/t the Michigan border.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Also everyone would miss their favorite shows on TV.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Ha: for instance I moved from Colorado to Michigan when I was 16, right, and since that was a difference of two time zones I would routinely turn on the television two hours after the show I expected for any show I wanted to see -- it took me a ridiculously long time to wrap my head around the fact that the mountain-time TV was tape-delayed to match up with central-time TV schedules. (Except for premium cable channels, which were possibly not delayed until Pacific; I'm not sure what the details there were, but the wonderful upshot was that in Colorado you could flick on Cinemax practically right after dinner and it would have already gone all soft porn.)

Point being that this stuff is complicated and can make poor confused teenagers miss whole half-episodes of 120 Minutes.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I think that counties can still opt out of this if they want??!?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, the northeast corner has always been DST-observing Central timers anyway. And sharing a border with another state in a different time zone is nothing new.

120 Minutes is still on the air?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I grew up in Indiana, then moved to Arizona (which also doesn't observe daylight savings time, except for the Navajo reservation which follows Gallup, NM time), so I never had to deal with this clock-changing b.s. until I moved to Washington in 1999. I still can't get my brane around it and generally just wait for my computer to tell me what the hell time it is on whatever Sunday it is that things change. I was back in the Inpls area a few weeks ago and was asking family members what time zone they were opting for, which met with lots of sorry head-shaking and eye-rolling from the farm contingent.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 31 March 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Pleasant I moved to Michigan in like 1993! And I think you mean northwest corner, surely. I like when folks from there tell people they're from "Chicago."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

The corner down by Cincinnati has stuck with Ohio time for years and years too.

They also just passed a wine-shipping law that's a bit of a mess.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I did mean northwest corner. Diagonal compass directions have always gotten confused in my head. I still say that if Alabama and Georgia can handle it, so can the Hoosiers and Michiganlanders.

I just remember being in Louisville once, which during DST is usually the westernmost Eastern Time metropolis, and the sun was still up at 8:30. Not behind the horizon or anything, but still in the sky!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

What is the point of this again? Why does it need to be dark now?

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

FARMERS

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Farmers.

XPOST

― ian, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

LIES. Farmers have to get up and milk the cows regardless of what the clock says.

― milo z, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_052.html

― milo z, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Waste-of-Daylight-19-cover.jpg

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck this shit. I'm not putting my clocks back this year. Instead of one poxy extra hour's sleep, now my whole world is better. Classes start at 12, not 11. Work starts at 4, not 3, the sun doesn't set until 5.30 instead of 4.30, and shops stay open later.

I'm going to fuck it up horribly at some point though, and be two hours late for something

― stet, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

We can always push on the earth really really really hard so that its axis is 0 degrees in relation to the sun, so that the sun will rise and fall the same times every day if you want. The lack of seasons might drastically change Earth as to create conditions that will soon kill humanity, but at least you won't have to change your clock twice a year and see dark 5pms three months a year.

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, we are already changing Earth's climate anyway. Eh never mind. Push away.

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone worry about the new sun in Kubrick's 2010?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

kubrick didn't direct 2010

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

good point -- I didn't read the book

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

err
so I meant to distinguish that I was only familiar with the movie and forgot that part

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

Farmers HATE daylight time.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

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