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#1 Daylight Savings Time

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For those of us in the US, remember that our Daylight Savings Time BS kicked in today and set your clock ahead 1 hour.

Someone tell me why we still have this stupid shit again?
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#2 Re: Daylight Savings Time

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B4UTRUST wrote:For those of us in the US, remember that our Daylight Savings Time BS kicked in today and set your clock ahead 1 hour.

Someone tell me why we still have this stupid shit again?
Because Ben Franklin is awesome and because candles are expensive. Or something like that. :grin:
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It's retarded and we shouldn't.
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#4 Re: Daylight Savings Time

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B4UTRUST wrote:For those of us in the US, remember that our Daylight Savings Time BS kicked in today and set your clock ahead 1 hour.

Someone tell me why we still have this stupid shit again?
Something about farmers and inertia, I think.
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Yeah, back when America was primarily an agrarian-based economy, it made sense.

We're not anymore, and haven't been for a while. We need to let this whole "fucking with time lol" thing go.

And I'm not saying that just because I got screwed for sleep last night because of it. However, that is most of it.
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I'm very much of the I hate my sleep getting fucked with because of this bullshit mentality
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Farmers is the current excuse, but there are other things claimed like maintaining daylight longer in the active part of the day reduces power usage and thus coal-oil consumption. IIRC DST was even permanently enacted during WWI just for this purpose; to encourage reduction of fuel consumption by extending the daylight hours into the evening.
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And if I recall correctly the idea that doing the whole DST thing saving money was dis-proven.
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