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Daylight Savings Time - Remember to spring ahead this Sunday, (Original Post) ashling Mar 2015 OP
YAAAAY!!!! elleng Mar 2015 #1
and now for an opposing view rurallib Mar 2015 #4
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA1 elleng Mar 2015 #5
One step closer to spring... bring it! MerryBlooms Mar 2015 #2
Good grief! It's that time already? Arkansas Granny Mar 2015 #3
i thought almost the exact same thing orleans Mar 2015 #7
I absolutely HATE this stupid time change. cwydro Mar 2015 #6
Daylight Savings Time struggle4progress Mar 2015 #8
Moonlight Saving Time struggle4progress Mar 2015 #9
Not a fan myself Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #10
I am so happy to have moved to a country that ignores this stupid ritual. CBGLuthier Mar 2015 #11
That's just effing great. Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #12
You need a hug ashling Mar 2015 #13
Thanks, ashling. Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #14
I wish they would leave the time alone. cwydro Mar 2015 #15
And in the Fall... Ron Obvious Mar 2015 #16
Your signature line is very ... ashling Mar 2015 #18
I'm 59 years old. Where do I cash in my 59 saved hours? I'm ready. DamnYankeeInHouston Mar 2015 #17
nnoooooooooooooooooo!! hopemountain Mar 2015 #19
Just plan on being late ashling Mar 2015 #20

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
4. and now for an opposing view
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 10:25 PM
Mar 2015

I hate daylight time so early.
ETA - here is a fine LTE to explain the problem:
Dear Editor:

I am sure that if you have been out on the trails of our wonderful mountains lately you have noticed the snow is disappearing rapidly, and there are rocks and trees poking through at levels seemingly unprecedented in the memory of those of us that pay attention to such things. It is heartbreaking to see their majestic finery slipping away so early.

Ah, the locals say, global warming is to blame! They have seen the movie by Albert Gore and are convinced, and even our own Aspen Skiing Co. is buying it. But the true culprit is right under their noses, on the faces of their watches, foisted upon us by another sainted Democrat — one Franklin Delano Roosevelt!

Yes, my friends, I am speaking of the insidious evil known as daylight-saving time! When we switched our clocks ahead on March 10, we not only lost an hour of sleep for one night, we added an hour of sunlight to every evening until next November. Any fool can tell you that afternoon sun is the hottest sun, as that is the hottest part of the day! Think of the damage an extra hour of solar radiation does to the snow on our mountains. And this year, with a Democrat congress, daylight-saving time was moved up four weeks, adding all that extra melting time. It will be a wonder if there is even a snow bank left to play in when April rolls around.

Now is the time for all right thinking Americans to call their congressman to tell them that this madness must stop, before Aspen and its economy melts away.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/daylight.asp#DIC5Wp5TB2s6gHX0.99

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
6. I absolutely HATE this stupid time change.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 11:04 PM
Mar 2015

I lived before it ever came into being.

We have THE SAME HOURS in a day. No matter the time change.

Gah!

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
10. Not a fan myself
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 04:44 AM
Mar 2015

as I get older it takes much longer to adjust and it time changes as I am enroute to work.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
11. I am so happy to have moved to a country that ignores this stupid ritual.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 06:47 AM
Mar 2015

Of course now I have to think of my hometown relatives as being nine hours behind instead of ten but otherwise I can ignore the damned thing.

Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
12. That's just effing great.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 04:59 PM
Mar 2015

I have to be at work at 6:15 am on Sunday, which means now it will feel like (really be) 5:15. Might as as well not even go to bed Saturday night. Oh, and it's a ten-hour day on Sunday with a 30-minute lunch. I feel sorry for myself. Sigh.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
15. I wish they would leave the time alone.
Fri Mar 6, 2015, 05:22 PM
Mar 2015

Just regular old time and not all this Daylight Saving crap.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
16. And in the Fall...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 02:36 PM
Mar 2015

...It'll take me that hour to set the clock back on the alarm clock, stereo, oven, cars, thermometer and anything else I might have forgotten. Net savings: zero.

ashling

(25,771 posts)
18. Your signature line is very ...
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 10:44 PM
Mar 2015

... interesting ... I wonder what Spock would say about it?

Riddle me this:

Since time flies like an arrow,
is it further to New York or by bus?

(let's leave sparrows - laden or un - out of this)

and

if a banana flies like a fruit,
are their more fruit flies in coach or business class?

inquiring minds want to mow,

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