Daylight Savings - why?

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Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't think of ONE reason why we need to mess with the clocks. The reason I hear is to "help the farmers", but there are still the same number of hours in the day! Tractors have lights too! If it wasn't for having kids in school, we'd sleep with the sun. Any thoughts on this???

-- David C (fleece@eritter.net), April 03, 2001

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I don't know either David, but it sure is hard for me to get out of bed in the morning when it's dark and I find myself working until the latter hours of the evening because it isn't dark yet so it must not be quittin' time! UGH!! Personally I like "winter time" better myself!

-- Greenthumbelina (sck8107@aol.com), April 03, 2001.

Put my vote in - eliminate daylight savings time! I keep hearing from people that it makes the day longer - ahem - Last I checked, even with the time change, there are STILL 24 hours in each day...

-- Judi (ddecaro@snet.net), April 03, 2001.

While they blame the farmer, I personally think that it is the city folk that want a longer play time in the evening that is to blame.

Question for you David. Have you ever farmed at night via a tractor's lights? They aren't worth squat in my opinion. Been there, done that.

I have to admit that I too like the long evenings.

-- Notforprint (Not@thekeyboard.com), April 03, 2001.


Only part of Indiana changes. Every year "they" try to get the whole state on the same time, I hope they never do. Seems more natural to me to have the sun up early, a good time to work in the garden before the humidity gets bad and the sun too hot and the mosquitos are still sleeping. The city folk in Cincinnati and Lousville complain about it, but.....

-- Cindy (SE In) (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), April 03, 2001.

I don't use the tractor much after dark, but I am just as happy to use it in the morning as the evening. o.k. - I'll retract the "lights" part of my post!

-- David C (fleece@eritter.net), April 03, 2001.


from what I remember,, it was for kids to have the light for walking to school and such

-- stan (sopal@net-port.com), April 03, 2001.

I thought it was so there would be more daylight in the evening, so the people that work a *regular* job could have more recreation time.

I like it...after the first few weeks, when its daylight earlier than 7:30.

-- Lynette (fear_the_bear@webtv.net), April 03, 2001.


Nope, this was for the advantage of farmers. The children would go to school earlier as the daylight lengthened and get home with an extra hour of light to work in the fields. During the last oil crisis when they instituted 'one time' to save energy, too many parents complained about their kids being killed by insufficient daylight to walk home from school by.

-- julie f. (rumplefrogskin@excite.com), April 03, 2001.

I live in Indiana, land of 3 different time zones. I am one of the lucky ones that does not change with that ancient torture known as Daylight Savings Time. It is not the farmers who are lobbying to have everyone change to DST. It is the business owners, especially those along the border who do business with other states. I think it is an antiquated practice that should be abolished in the entire USA.

-- R. (thor610@yahoo.com), April 03, 2001.

I was always told that we changed time so we could "save energy". Apparently someone decided that it would save electricity if we all got up earlier and went to bed shortly after dark. But that isn't what happens. I get up earlier and have to turn on the lights, and then I stay up later and burn the electricity anyway. Personally, I think it is a Communist plot to make us all tired and grumpy all summer long. Bah-humbug!!!

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), April 03, 2001.


I thought DST had to do with WWII and saving energy. Well WWII has been over for 50+ years so what's the reason now??

My internal clock is mixed up this week and will be for at least another week I'm so tired by 7pm that I just give up and go to bed. sally

-- sally stanton (mallardhen67@hotmail.com), April 03, 2001.


It's so I can look like a bad Mommy every year when my kids are late to school the following week .

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), April 03, 2001.

Here is a site to tell you LOTS about DST. Apparently, it causes us to save energy, so no matter how inconvenient I personally find it, I support it. Go to LINK

-- Joy F (So.Central Wisconsin) (CatFlunky@excite.com), April 03, 2001.

We have DST because you, the voters, choose to have it. We do not have DST here in Arizona as the state legislature op-ed out of the federal program. Some believe it is a state's rights issue.

-- Lynn Goltz (lynngoltz@aol.com), April 03, 2001.

I don't know anythng about the why or the wherefore of DST, but my goats always have it figured out before me and sure let me know!!!!!

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), April 03, 2001.


Benjerman Franklin proposed dst so that the shop keepers would not have to burn lamp oil as much.

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), April 03, 2001.

The IPMF (International Paint Manufacturers Federation)forced DST into law so that houses would fade quicker and they could sell more paint.

-- john hill (john@cnd.co.nz), April 03, 2001.

When I was in Junior High (long, long time ago) Nixon decided to try to do away with daylight savings. It was so dark in the morning when we went to school that it was scary. Felt like it was still in the middle of the night. I think that was why they went back to it.

I like the oil burning idea. Makes sense.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), April 03, 2001.


HISTORY research "GREAT WAR" aka WW I. Manufacturing.

-- greg (gsmith@tricountyi.net), April 04, 2001.

????? It is darker in the morning with DST?? What are you people talking about with all this "safety walking to school" and such? Did you turn your clocks back by mistake? :-))))) Just having a laugh at your expense. ;-)

-- JimR (jroberts1@cas.org), April 04, 2001.

Sally is right. Originally, Daylight Savings Time was brought about during WWII. It was a way of preventing some blackouts - not for energy reasons, but because if you didn't turn on your lights you couldn't be seen. Some of the folks around here might (I don't check ages...) remember the black curtains, air-raid sirens, drills and such. Yes, even here folks -

To give away some of my so-called "green" background, I like it. I don't have to use my lights for more than an hour each day. Later in summer, I won't need them at all. I don't know that I like it so much for the energy conservation (although that IS a priority with me) but for all the money I save. Hate to waste.... especially money....

-- Sue Diederich (willow666@rocketmail.com), April 04, 2001.


When I was in school at UT(Knoxville) it didn,t get dark until 930 PM or so due to being on the western side of the eastern time zone. Some woman wrote the paper and said she liked DST because her flowers got an extra hour of sunlite. Go figure. I'm a farmer and don't like DST don't know one who does either.

-- bill (wah@tnweb.com), April 04, 2001.

I remember blackouts. The Firemen would come around and tell us to pull the shades. They would walk around the house if they saw light you failed. One time we were blacked out so a convoy could come through town without being seen. Jack

-- jack (jsweeney@northnet.org), April 06, 2001.

I always thought it was to fulfil the biblical prophecy "they shall think to change the times and the seasons."

-- dmtaylor (dmtaylor@fanninelectric.com), April 08, 2001.

Personally, I'd like to stay on DST all year and eliminate standard time.

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), April 09, 2001.

When i was in school the history teacher said it was in actuality due to a few congressmen who liked the proposal to do day light savings time from the war and the farmers, but they liked it because they could play golf. I don't know if there is any truth in the story, but might could be..... I do remember back in the 70's, guess i am telling my age here, that there was a early daylight savings time enacted because of the energy crunch. all i can say is this yr it has been the worst for me to adapt to the change, i can't get my sleep adjusted, i go to bed at 9 and get up at 4:30, so when we lost the hr I tossed and turned. Oh well... hurry up summer!

bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), April 09, 2001.


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