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Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:10:36
by Culichor
I just can get the benefic of time zone change, can so one explain this mystery to me please? I just don't see the point. I don't see the benefic of it? Everything around me rolls the same in regard of timing.
T.I.A
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:24:39
by OakRidgeStars
Without the change to Daylight Saving Time, how would we ever remember to replace the batteries in our smoke detectors?.
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:34:01
by CowboyT
It's because you get to say this when it starts getting dark earlier:
"Darkness falls across the land...
The midnight hour is close at hand.
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood!
"And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down,
Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell
And rot...inside a corpse's shell!
"The foulest stench is in the air--
The funk of forty thousand years--
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your DOOM...
"And though you fight to stay alive,
Your body starts to shiver...
For no mere mortal can resist
The Evil Of...THE THRILLER!"
"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:51:55
by WRW
It was an 18th century bean counter/whale watcher that figured out that DST would save so many gallons of whale oil (and thus so many whales).
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:59:09
by gunderwood
Our government likes exercising power...
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:04:00
by Jim
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:54:50
by PistolPilot
gunderwood wrote:Our government likes exercising power...
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:13:34
by wally626
Essentially someone thought is was easier to change everyones clocks than to just post summer hours, or start work an hour early in the summer.
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:48:10
by jrswanson1
That someone, I believe, would be one Benjamin Franklin. And I'd prefer that we stay on DST instead of going back. I'd rather go to work in the dark than go home in it.
Jim
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:07:08
by wally626
DST in the US is done on a state-by-state or in some cases a county-by-county basis, so you can find places that do not switch clocks twice a year. I wonder if the Tea Party can add banning DST to the platform for 2012.
Re: Time zone changed, so what's the point?
Posted: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:55:28
by zephyp
Hey, it gives us an extra hour to hunt deer in the morning...
Now if they can only figure out how to add an extra hour of daylight in the evening at the same time we'll have it all...