Do you think it’s possible to weasel my way out of complying with this whole daylight savings time thing? I mean, really, is this still even fashionable? This annual practice of robbing me of one hour’s sleep, which, as it seems, I will not be able to make up until they give it back to me in the fall, is really too much stress on a blognut. When I finally managed to unstick myself from my little blognut bunk this morning, I looked over at the clock and immediately began to mourn the hour they took from me.
Who is behind this ridiculous outrage? I once heard that this was all about the farmers needing to work in daylight. I don’t even know if that’s true and I have no intention of taking the time to research this because... hello, lazy, but if it is, I have an issue with these farmers. Wouldn’t it be easier to just ask a few farmers to get up an hour earlier? Why do we ALL have to be inconvenienced?
Maybe it’s the Republicans! I bet that’s it. They probably think if they leave us all wandering around stupid and tired, we won’t notice what they’re doing. I bet there’s a secret Republi-upper Pill they take so they don’t feel it, and the rest of us are left glassy-eyed and stupefied while they concoct their evil plots against us.
And then there’s that whole Indiana thing where there is an entire area that does not comply with daylight savings time. Why do they get away with refusing to comply? Is it because they stick together? Do we all just turn a blind eye to Indiana being Indiana again? And aren’t THEY the damn farmers that started this thing in the first place? What about Arizona? I heard they don't play the daylight savings game either. I’ll bet they’re Republicans. Pffft.
What if I refuse to change my clocks? Will the daylight savings time police show up to haul me away in cuffs? Will I need an attorney? Will there be harsh judgment? Will I be convicted by a jury of my peers?
Answers, people. I need answers and I need them quickly. If I’m going to act on this, I’m pretty sure I have to do it today.
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Rebel! Fightback! Ignore the new times! I love goading other people into a fight!
Just ignore the jump ahead in time. Who's to know!!??!! Look at Arizona..they follow whatever time they want too!! LOL
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SueAnn
My life follows a very simple chain of authority. We blame Republicans (specifically anyone named Bush). If we can't blame them, we blame Canada. And if Canada cannot be blamed, we turn a suspicious eye to the cat.
I'm totally against this whole thing. I think it's ridiculous and the only thing Bush ever did that I agreed with was extending the amount of time between clock changes, making it a little easier on me since I have that whole pesky night-blindness thing.
Although DST was first enacted in the Act of 1918 it was left to the different states and locales to decide whether or not to change their clocks. In 1966 it was legislated to be used nationally unless voted not to be used by the whole state. My parents had a mantle clock that dad refused to change. Every other clock in the house would be sprung forward or fallen backward at the appropriate time but dad would not change the mantle clock. It was the only thing that I can call to mind that my dad ever did to go against the grain, as it were...
Helen
Since I'm a morning person, I felt the same way today. I've been ripped off! But I know in a couple of days I will be happy to have longer sunny days (and cheaper electric bills).
You'll just be late everywhere.
That being said...I HATE getting up in the dark!
Come on now, are you being honest that you would not complain if the concept of dts wasn't there.
I too am a lazy soul, proudly so, and tend to complain about similar stuff all the time.
You can blame good old Ben Franklin who, says Jonathan Belcher from the Trilateral Center, was "Probably the most visible trailblazer of republican ideology..."
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME TIMELINE
1784: Ben Franklin writes a paper extolling the virtues of extending daylight in order to save candles.
1918: The U.S. establishes a daylight saving time to run for seven months to conserve electricity during World War I. Once the war was over, the national law is dropped and daylight saving time became a local option.
1942: During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt orders a year-round daylight saving time, called "War Time," which runs for three years.
1944: For the next two decades, there is no national law. States and jurisdictions can choose whether to observe daylight saving time and when to begin and end it.
1966: Congress passes the Uniform Time Act establishing a beginning and end date for daylight saving time, but leaves it up to local jurisdictions to decide whether to use it.
1973: Congress enacts the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act in response to the Arab oil embargo. Daylight saving time is extended to eight months rather than the normal six. The Department of Transportation says the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil each day was saved.
1986: Daylight saving time is moved from the last Sunday of April to the first Sunday of April. The end date is left the same.
2005: Congress passes the Energy Act of 2005 which starts daylight saving time one month earlier in the spring and extends it one week later in the fall, beginning in 2007.
I don't see any mention of farmers... the farmers of my childhood refused to change their clocks, saying the cows didn't care what the clock said, they just wanted to be milked on time (long about 4 a.m.)
And why do I feel so damned tired when the clocks get changed, no matter which way they go. Are we such pitiful creatures of habit? Are we?? I guess so.
It's funny how it only bothers us when we lose an hour isn't it?!... I used to always look forward to the lighter nights, but here the sun sets everyday at 6ish no matter what :0(
You could be like me. My home is it's own Indiana. Some clocks register the change (the digital ones) and some are an hour off (until the next change). Right now I'm in a happy mood because my bathroom clock is now showing the correct time.
They had a referendum to do away with it in the 60s apparently, but apparently there were still enough farmers too suspicious of that new fangled electricity to let it pass back then. They should all be dead by now, though. I say we vote again.
Write to the President, cos apparently he fixes EVERYTHING.
Oh. Except healthcare....
It throws me off for a week and I travel all the time, change time zones and such, should get used to it, but no.
Thanks for your condolences. I really appreciated that.
You'd just be an hour late for everything! But I do agree - why should we comply?! x
holy shit dude! People actually DID THE RESEARCH FOR YOU! I've never considered this option. Hmmm....I might post something about my job and see if someone will tell me the answer, then I can just copy paste and VIOLA international crisis averted!!!
However, you got a point. Why do we all have to get up? In fact, the USG PAYS some farmers not to farm. Haven't we done enough for them?? I'm calling my parents to tell them to have a strong talking to my Uncle Darrell. I think he might be hte problem here.
So did you change your clocks? Didja? Inquiring frogs want to know!
I vote they stop taking away an hour in the spring but keep giving us and hour in the fall.
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