We must stop Daylight Savings Time

I still can't decide if you are for real or not. This post isn't helping.

I think skeptic has been out in that extra hour of sun too much.

I guess we could turn off the sun an hour earlier? Maybe it costs less to burn the moon.

Changing the hands on a clock won't make the sun go down any sooner, will it?

Yes, it works. I set my clock ahead last night and my yard was dark and my neighbor's yard was still light. I've switched all my clocks by 12 hours now and it's still dark here.

[Quote from wikipedia] [During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[14] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day."]

I knew it! It's Deep Fat's fault!

De epFats fault !!!

Easy > Midnight wasting time <Instead of saving daylight!

Ya know what's funny... Sarah Palin would totally fall for this. I wish someone would ask her that question.

First, Sarah is hot. That's enough.

Second, DST is only the first of the many problems we must face. Another is CO2 buildup in the atmosphere which is a direct cause of our current banking crisis.

I propose we only inhale. Never exhale. That will lower CO2 amounts by 1.874 Blingillion tons per hour.

Do your part today.

And, don't forget: Send a Dollar to Deepfat.


DF

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anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.

Ol' Ben was a genius far ahead of his time. I really thought I had a new idea.

Doesn't anyone besides me find it amazing that some of the greatest minds of science have not caught on to the fact that this extra hour of daylight could explain global warming?

That's, like, 5% more daylight per day which directly correlates with the same percentage of increase in global temperatures.

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First, Sarah is hot. That's enough.

Darn tootin.

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Originally posted by skeptic:

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anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.

Ol' Ben was a genius far ahead of his time. I really thought I had a new idea.

Doesn't anyone besides me find it amazing that some of the greatest minds of science have not caught on to the fact that this extra hour of daylight could explain global warming?

That's, like, 5% more daylight per day which directly correlates with the same percentage of increase in global temperatures.

Skeptic,

Please tell me you are joking here, I have giggled my @$$ off throughout this entire thread but, now, I am feeling bad for laughing at someone who may actually believe it....

Michael

No doubt about it. Bio-luminescent Sea Monkeys are the answer to all mankind's energy needs.


DF

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lease tell me you are joking here, I

Sir,

Are you accusing me of stealing this from this site?

Link

Fisticuffs! Put 'em up!

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Originally posted by DeepFat:
First, Sarah is hot. That's enough.

And she winked at me. That put it over the edge.

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Originally posted by DeepFat:
No doubt about it. Bio-luminescent Sea Monkeys are the answer to all mankind's energy needs.


DF

That or lightening bugs. If we squished enough, maybe we could do away with light bulbs. Eventually, they would become extinct from over-harvesting. Since they only come out in the summer, summer wouldn't exist anymore, and there wouldn't be as much heat. Global warming solved!!!!! Squish lightening bugs!

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Originally posted by skeptic:

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lease tell me you are joking here, I

Sir,

Are you accusing me of stealing this from this site?

Link

Fisticuffs! Put 'em up!

Would you like to explain what your arguement has to do with this link? The people against this link are saying they don't want the extra hour of daylight in the evening (the beach flag issue). What they don't mention is they loose an hour of daylight in the morning , which is how Daylight Savings works. You don't get an extra hour of daylight, you get daylight an hour later in the day (and dark an hour later in the morning).

But please, feel free to post your own explanation, I could use the laugh after this week in the market....

Back in the early seventies, when he had our FIRST energy crisis and gasoline got all the way up to 53 cents a gallon, Daylight Saving Time got extended throughout the winter. (Somehow it was supposed to save big bucks in heating and lighting schools.)

Then, some ****-fool US Senator went on a tear, saying we needed to put the clocks "back like God make them".

Like God invented clocks. SHEESH!!!

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Originally posted by mekirk2:
Would you like to explain what your arguement has to do with this link? The people against this link are saying they don't want the extra hour of daylight in the evening (the beach flag issue). What they don't mention is they loose an hour of daylight in the morning , which is how Daylight Savings works. You don't get an extra hour of daylight, you get daylight an hour later in the day (and dark an hour later in the morning).

But please, feel free to post your own explanation, I could use the laugh after this week in the market....

I think you answered your own question there.

If you trade a cool morning hour for a steamy late afternoon hour, of course you're adding unneccessary heat.

It's sad more people don't care about something so important yet easily remedied.

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Originally posted by mekirk2:

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Originally posted by skeptic:

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lease tell me you are joking here, I

Sir,

Are you accusing me of stealing this from this site?

Link

Fisticuffs! Put 'em up!

Would you like to explain what your arguement has to do with this link? The people against this link are saying they don't want the extra hour of daylight in the evening (the beach flag issue). What they don't mention is they loose an hour of daylight in the morning , which is how Daylight Savings works. You don't get an extra hour of daylight, you get daylight an hour later in the day (and dark an hour later in the morning).

But please, feel free to post your own explanation, I could use the laugh after this week in the market....

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Gee...you make it sound so easy a caveman could understand it!

(okay, just to clarify: I'm not agreeing per say... simply commenting on his avatar)
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Originally posted by 33rd:
I think you answered your own question there.

If you trade a cool morning hour for a steamy late afternoon hour, of course you're adding unneccessary heat.

It's sad more people don't care about something so important yet easily remedied.

Huh? The afternoon heat would still be there, it would just be at a different time? What is it that makes anyone believe that changing the time would change the temperature outside???

If anything, it is thought to save energy and reduce emissions due to that saved energy. Instead of the sun coming up at 5 am (when alot of folks are still asleep) and going down at 6pm, it would come up at 6am and go down at 7pm. There are more people awake from 6pm to 7pm than there are from 5am to 6am, so, the thought process is that from 6pm to 7pm less electricity is used for lighting because the sun is still up for that hour.

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Michael

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Originally posted by 33rd:
If you trade a cool morning hour for a steamy late afternoon hour, of course you're adding unneccessary heat.

It's sad more people don't care about something so important yet easily remedied.

I've got a very simple experiment for you. It should only take you a second. Tomorrow, when you get up, set your watch back an hour (to regular, non DST time). At 5 pm (DST time) I want you to go outside and see what the temperature is. Write it down. Immediately look at your watch. It should say 4pm (just as if we were not observing DST as you want). Look and see what the temperature is. Now write it down.

How much cooler was it at 4pm by your watch (not observing DST) than at 5pm my time (observing DST)?

Michael

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Originally posted by mekirk2:
I've got a very simple experiment for you. It should only take you a second. Tomorrow, when you get up, set your watch back an hour (to regular, non DST time). At 5 pm (DST time) I want you to go outside and see what the temperature is. Write it down. Immediately look at your watch. It should say 4pm (just as if we were not observing DST as you want). Look and see what the temperature is. Now write it down.

How much cooler was it at 4pm by your watch (not observing DST) than at 5pm my time (observing DST)?

Michael

I'm willing to try, but I scarcely think one person can make a measurable difference.

That's the point of changing it nationwide. We all do our little part.

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Originally posted by 33rd:

I'm willing to try, but I scarcely think one person can make a measurable difference.

That's the point of changing it nationwide. We all do our little part.

I absolutely promise you that if every single person in America did this at the same time, they will get the same results that you will get tomorrow. I bet my own life on it.

Michael

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Is 33rd serious or am I trying to explain this to a troll?

Michael

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Is 33rd serious or am I trying to explain this to a troll?

Of course he is serious!

You are obviously not very scientific, Mekirk!

Anyone with an quality education from any Alabama school should understand that an extra hour of daylight should increase the global temperature!

You must not be from Alabama?

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Originally posted by skeptic:

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Is 33rd serious or am I trying to explain this to a troll?

Of course he is serious!

You are obviously not very scientific, Mekirk!

Anyone with an quality education from any Alabama school should understand that an extra hour of daylight should increase the global temperature!

You must not be from Alabama?

Since you started this nonsense, I have to assume that you think the same thing. Like I said earlier, you are not getting an extra hour of daylight. That is not what daylight savings time does. It moves the period of time the sun is up to an hour later in the day. The sun is up the same number of hours, so you don't get any extra time. It just comes up an hour later and sets an hour later.

Seriously.....

Michael

Take a break mekirk. Get a little rest. Forget the stock market for a second, and go back and read the first post again.

If you still feel the same way, you suffer from HE Syndrome.

I just can't get the phrase, "It's so easy a caveman could do it," out of my head.

Me neither. Really, to solve global warming, we should just do away with 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. That way we don't have to suffer through the hottest part of the day, but when would we eat lunch?

Why don't we just leave the time the way it is and do away with MONDAYS??!!

what I can't figure out is this. I understand that the working folks want to have enough daylight hours after work in the evenings to work in the yard, garden fish etc.. but why must everybody turn their clocks back??? why don't every body just show up for work earlier. for instance if you usualy go in at seven. your boss can say "alright, everybody start showing up for work at six instesd of seven" Is the same thing except everyone don't have to run around changing clocks. you are still showing up one hour earlier but the clocks reflecks that you are showing at six rather than 7

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The sun is up the same number of hours, so you don't get any extra time.

Not of you add an hour to the day, ya big dummy! Gosh!

My great grandfather refused to adhere to DST. He never changed his watch.

I bet he was always an hour late everywhere he went LOL

I think they have the entire thing wrong, we should have daylight savings time in the winter !
Just think, that extra hour of sunlight just when we need it. Could help with the heating bills too !

If they have to add that extra hour, I wish they would add it at lunch.

I really do hope that nobody in this discussion is joking; the Easter Rabbit invented DST.