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Post by Art Vandelay on Oct 21, 2011 14:40:41 GMT -5
Art, that's kinda only relevant to the percentage of the population that still operates on anything even resembling ordinary daylight hours. It loses its relevance when most of the population nowadays resides in perpetually-lit urban centers where the concept of day and night tends to take a beating regardless of your personal activity hours. I live in one of these so called "perpetually-lit urban areas" and yes, there is still very much a difference between night and day. |
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Post by Old Viking on Oct 21, 2011 14:47:36 GMT -5
And catsup on hot dogs. There's another important issue.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Oct 21, 2011 20:44:51 GMT -5
And catsup on hot dogs. There's another important issue. The fact that people still spell it "catsup" is another issue that must be addressed... [is there a way to make sarcasm tags covert?] |
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Post by Deimos on Oct 21, 2011 20:51:03 GMT -5
I HATE DST. It fucks my sleep schedule for a week  |
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 21, 2011 21:42:57 GMT -5
Wait, I don't get it. Energy conservation is no longer relevent? Not that I understand why setting clocks back has anything to do with energy conservation in the first place.
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Post by Mantorok on Oct 22, 2011 0:28:51 GMT -5
Wait, I don't get it. Energy conservation is no longer relevent? Not that I understand why setting clocks back has anything to do with energy conservation in the first place. It's setting your clocks forward that is meant to save energy. DST makes you go to bed 1 hour earlier if you go to bed at the same time every day. This means you use the lights in your house for one hour less each night, saving energy. |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 22, 2011 0:42:31 GMT -5
I actually like having more light in the evening.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Oct 22, 2011 1:10:37 GMT -5
I'd prefer to have more darkness. In fact, forget daylight savings time. Let's get rid of daylight altogether.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Oct 22, 2011 1:56:51 GMT -5
To be fair he doesn't have a clue about a lot of things.  I'll allow it! |
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Post by ironbite on Oct 22, 2011 1:59:01 GMT -5
Use that and other images like it for all your modly decisions.
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Post by Haseen on Oct 22, 2011 3:50:30 GMT -5
I'd like to see permanent DST. No schedule changes, and an extra hour of daylight when I'll actually have a use for it.
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Post by goonerboy on Oct 22, 2011 3:50:48 GMT -5
Wait, you lot go FORWARD in the winter?
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Post by starseeker on Oct 22, 2011 5:22:11 GMT -5
I'm against keeping the clocks an hour forward in the winter, because that would make dawn be at 8:30 in the winter. And it being light until 5:30 instead of 4:30 doesn't really seem worth it to me.
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Post by cestlefun17 on Oct 22, 2011 5:43:20 GMT -5
The study that was cited about DST causing more workplace injuries is due to less sleep, as the article says. The article says that these increased injuries only happen on the March time shift (when we lose an hour) and are due to the fact that people are getting an hour less sleep. The best option would seem to me to be that, if you know you are working this Sunday or the Monday after, to take some personal responsibility and make sure you get to bed an hour earlier to counteract the hour lost in the middle of the night, rather than have the entire federal government re-arrange our time standards to suit you.
As for the Circadian rhythm, I am aware of it, but I guess it depends on how sensitive yours is. Perhaps I'm the outlier: an hour time difference really does not affect my life. For those two days each year, I'll wake up an hour earlier than normal in the fall and an hour later than normal in the spring, and then from there my day goes on as normal. If I'm hungry and it's not the appropriate time to have a meal, I'll have a small snack.
If we stay on DST year-round, this could also cause safety problems as it will still be pitch black past 8:00 in the morning late in winter, when children are going to school. If we stay on standard time year round, we lose the ability to enjoy that extra sunlight and we waste energy (you'll have to keep your lights on longer in the evening rather than have the sun stay out later). And either way, if the clock change messes up your Circadian rhythm, the natural sunlight coming and going at bizarre times throughout the year certainly will.
The system is designed to be as less intrusive as possible. The change happens on a Sunday when most people don't have to work and it happens at 2:00 in the morning, so most people are asleep, and the change never puts you in a different calendar day. It just bugs me when people gripe about it. Enjoy your evening barbeques in the summer and be thankful you don't have to start your workday in complete darkness in the winter. Really, out of all the things I have to worry about in my life, a one-hour time change twice a year is low on my list.
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Post by lighthorseman on Oct 22, 2011 5:54:44 GMT -5
I personally like DST, when I'm not on shift work and it makes any difference to me.
However, it just occured to me what Harold Campings obvious next excuse is... God was confused because of Daylight Savings, so called the whole Rapture thing off. Obviously, therefore, the DST is BAD(tm)
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