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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaylight Savings Time - Remember to spring ahead this Sunday,
because you've had enough sleep!
elleng
(130,865 posts)Yes, had enough sleep, WANT LIGHT!!!
rurallib
(62,406 posts)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
elleng
(130,865 posts)It's FDR's fault that Aspen and it's economy is melting away!!!
MerryBlooms
(11,767 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)orleans
(34,050 posts)specifically, my thought was:
oh god, already???
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I lived before it ever came into being.
We have THE SAME HOURS in a day. No matter the time change.
Gah!
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)as I get older it takes much longer to adjust and it time changes as I am enroute to work.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)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)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.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)I feelz all betta now.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Just regular old time and not all this Daylight Saving crap.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)...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)... 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,
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)you can't make me.
ashling
(25,771 posts)for everything for a week. You're boss will understand.