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Bracegirdle
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Mar 8 2015, 6:32pm
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Daylight Saving Time....
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Do you love changing all your clocks twice a year.
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BlackFox
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Mar 8 2015, 6:34pm
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But not in the autumn.
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Bracegirdle
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Mar 8 2015, 6:53pm
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If we do away with all the “Fall-backs” (autumn), and keep the “Spring-forwards” we would soon find ourselves at some unknown time in the future. Absolute Genius… You’ve inadvertently invented the TIME MACHINE! *BF heads toward the Patent Office*
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BlackFox
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Mar 8 2015, 7:05pm
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Bow before me, mortals!
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Brethil
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Mar 9 2015, 2:10am
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I didn't love it at 6/5 a.m. this morning. I had quite a few unkind words for it. //
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sevilodorf
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Mar 9 2015, 2:42am
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changing the clocks can be a pain
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especially the one in my mother's car -- but the hour of daylight at the end of the day is good.
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Kim
Valinor
Mar 9 2015, 4:40am
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Interesting you didn't give us a "Yes" option ;-)
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Most of my clocks change automatically, and at least in the spring, I'm excited to do it for the rest. So today was "yay! change the clocks" and "yay! it's still light at 7pm!"
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Starling
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Mar 9 2015, 6:17am
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I preferred ours before it was extended to 27 weeks
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We don't put our clocks back until April, when under the old system we would be doing it about now.
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Ataahua
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Mar 9 2015, 8:15am
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I dislike how dark the mornings are so early in the year.
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Elizabeth
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Mar 9 2015, 8:25am
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Hawaii doesn't do Daylight Savings. But it does change how I relate to my kids in TX (1 hour farther away in summer). I have read several articles to the effect that the main advocates for DST are commercial enterprises because people shop more when it's light in the summer.
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Bracegirdle
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Mar 9 2015, 1:25pm
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But I did take mercy with the “other” option
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We have about a dozen clocks (all different) in our home, plus 2 cars. They all have a ‘secret’ way of changing the hour. Besides our doggies don’t understand why they have to go to bed an hour earlier. er…. is it later? Go figure…..
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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 9 2015, 3:03pm
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I read an article covering myths about Daylight Savings Time a couple of days ago. For example: DSL was not introduced to help farmers; in fact, many (if not the majority of) farmers vociferously opposed the change. Daylight Savings Time should probably be abolished. The only other really interesting option would be to make it the year-'round standard, but I don't see that happening short of a Federal act and international cooperation and coordination. It is already the standard where it is observed in the U.S. in the sense that we are on DST for two-thirds of the year now.
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Annael
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Mar 9 2015, 4:22pm
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in the winter here we only get 8 hours of daylight; in the summer, we get 16. Changing the clocks doesn't alter that. But I've done it all my life so changing them is no big deal. And I do enjoy the extra hour of sleep when we "fall back."
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Mar 9 2015, 7:45pm
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I love DLS in the summer: I can leave town after work and get to the trailhead by 6 PM and still get in a four-hour hike. But DLS in the winter would be a pain: we tried it in 1973, and walking two miles alone to school in the pitch dark was pretty scary.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Mar 9 2015, 7:55pm
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Year-round would be dangerous.
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They tried that in 1973, and school kids were walking in the pitch dark and there were more accidents with them being hit by cars.
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Magpie
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Mar 9 2015, 7:58pm
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I'm with you... I love the extra hour in the evening
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with full knowledge that it isn't the sun's movement that changes, it's the pattern of society. I'm essentially made/allowed to go to work an hour earlier which gives me more sunlight after work and dinner. And especially as it becomes more difficult for me to drive after dark, I appreciate more time to be out and about after dinner.
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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 9 2015, 8:10pm
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in the winter here we only get 8 hours of daylight; in the summer, we get 16. Changing the clocks doesn't alter that. But I've done it all my life so changing them is no big deal. And I do enjoy the extra hour of sleep when we "fall back." There is something to be said for not having the Sun filtering through one's bedroom window at just past 4:30 in the morning. I also don't mind sunset not falling until almost 9 p.m. Aunt Dora Baggins posted: They tried that in 1973, and school kids were walking in the pitch dark and there were more accidents with them being hit by cars. Yes, I remember that. I was in junior high at that time ('though I took the bus). That's a good point, although I might argue that there are studies on children and sleep that suggest that school probably starts too early for many students.
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Bracegirdle
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Mar 9 2015, 9:45pm
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No, I just gave an “other” option for those to give their opinions. Numbers do not matter in my cave. When the Yellow Light that gives warmth peeks above the edge of the world the men of my clan gather their bear-hair wraps and their sharp wooden spears and prepare for the day’s hunt. Today the Yellow Light is roofed with a dappled gray of clouds swiftly moving across the sky. Today it is cold, today the white biting flakes shriek across the sky and the wind blows, biting our frozen faces. It is as if the Spirit that gave us life wishes us to remain warm before our cave fires. Yet, we must hunt, we must hunt to live and to eat and to provide coverings for our naked bodies and for the peoples of my clan. Numbers do not matter in my cave. When the Yellow Light that gives warmth dips below the edge of the world we must retreat to the comfort of the fiery blaze which is in our cave. For a time we tell the stories of our day’s successes and of our day’s failures. We eat what we have killed; we talk; we drink the fermented juices of the berries that grow outside our cave; till one by one the Sleeping-spirit takes us. Tomorrow, perhaps the great Yellow Light will rise higher in the sky and give us the warmth we have missed for the span of many moons. Perhaps tomorrow the white flakes of the cold will not bite as deep. Numbers do not matter in my cave. It is dark or it is light. We do not care. We live for the light; we live for the dark. We live for the hunt; we live for the warmth of our mate’s gentle caress. These things we live for, and it is good.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Mar 9 2015, 10:08pm
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is that it messes up my sundials and astrolabes (I'm a sundial enthusiast.) But it isn't that hard to add an hour in my mind. If they ever do away with DST, I'll probably just start getting up an hour earlier in the summer anyway.
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Ciars
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Mar 10 2015, 6:46pm
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I chose other, I don't mind moving the clocks, spring forward, fall back is kind of a way of life but I wish they did double summer time for once as in go forward two hours for a one off time in the spring, that would then make a real difference in the winter time here and would have a better impact on the hours of darkness in the winter. I hate going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark!
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swordwhale
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Mar 12 2015, 2:24am
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$*%^%$#@%$#@%$&*&)(**(*_)_(+_)+)*&%^%$#^@#^^%&*^*
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let's see if I remember how to change my friggin watch... because I sure don't have the manual anymore... (presses buttons randomly...)
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Magpie
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Mar 12 2015, 3:45am
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;-p
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Meneldor
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Mar 12 2015, 5:42am
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DST: I've just sucked away one hour of your life.
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Tell me, how does that feel?
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Kim
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Mar 12 2015, 6:10am
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"Interesting."
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