Happy Semi-Annual Time Warp$#@!

[edjr 6,592]

[jerryskids 6,799]

On my morning commute I mostly listen to the Morning Men on Mad Dog. Mondays they have as a guest Lisa Ann, a pron star who is very sports savvy (she even has a 1 HR fantasy sports show on another channel).

 

Anyway because you idiots all time warped, I got in the car and Shine (sp?) On Sports was on instead. I like his show OK, but I would rather listen to the pron star.

[jerryskids 6,799]

 

States consider dropping daylight saving time

POSTED AT 8:01 AM ON MARCH 23, 2015 BY JAZZ SHAW

It’s been taking place for nearly as long as I’ve been alive and I’m having a hard time recalling a single conversation with anyone who was an enthusiastic fan. The subject is daylight saving time, which crops up twice every year in nearly the entire nation, and is then promptly forgotten again once everyone gets their internal clocks mostly readjusted. But perhaps this is finally coming to an end as ten states debate dropping the practice, picking a time and sticking to it.

The “benefits” of daylight saving time are fairly dubious at best. It’s a trick we play on ourselves so that it will seem like there are more hours of sunshine after you get out of work or school for most of the year. In the winter the clocks are changed so the sun “comes up earlier” as you start your day. Of course, none of this changes the actual number of hours of sunlight or darkness… it just shifts the hours when most people are awake and working or playing.

States across the country are taking a dim view toward daylight saving time. And some say it’s time to turn back the clock — so to speak.

Lawmakers in 10 states have proposed legislation challenging what, for many, is a twice-a-year headache, and one they just endured again earlier this month. The new bills would mostly have states pick a time … and stay on that time…

Elected officials in 10 states have proposed legislation that would opt their states out of daylight saving time including Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington.

The officials all cite different reasons from health to safety concerns. Some just consider the practice pointless and antiquated.

Some of the arguments against doing this seem a bit overblown as well. Perhaps there are some studies which show that accidents increase when people’s sleep patterns are disrupted, but mostly it seems as if people just find it to be a big pain in the backside. I know that it hit me harder than usual this year and seems to be doing so increasingly as I age. (Yes, you may now get off my lawn.)

One of the biggest arguments in favor of sticking with this scheme is that changing back to a single standard would “create confusion” in commerce and transportation.

I agree that complications will increase if only a handful of states drop daylight saving time, but that gives the false impression that we don’t already have some confusion in the system as it is. Arizona never adopted the practice (aside from some of the Native American reservation lands) and yet people seem to travel there and do business. And the fact that we have multiple time zones in the country already provides for more than enough confusion. Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee are all broken up into sections which are in the eastern and central time zones. You can literally travel from one place to another without crossing a state line and have the clock change on you. But, again, we somehow manage to get business done without the world ending. People on the east coast know they have to wait a few hours in the morning before they can call a business in California and find anyone in the office. It’s a big country and we adjust to things like this.

[Michael] Downing, though, says keeping track of a standard clock nationwide could become extremely difficult if each state starts adjusting its own time.

“Once individual states start to change their clocks in innovative ways, it’s no longer predictable to transportation, communication and broadcasters,” Downing said. “There starts to be real costs that start to accrue as a result.”

This doesn’t need to be a federal issue. If the residents of some of the states want to stay with daylight savings, let them. But personally I’d rather just pick a time scheme and stick with it.

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/23/states-consider-dropping-daylight-saving-time/

 

Seems that some of y'all are coming to your senses.

[jerryskids 6,799]

Good morning time travelers! It is 7:09 local time as I type this, just as it was 24 hours ago in AZ. How about you guys? Do you feel older, or is it younger? I always have a hard time figuring out if you are time warping forward or backward.

 

Football games start at 11 instead of 10 for me now; I kinda like 11 a little better, as it gives me another hour to get stuff done before they start, yet they don't end too late.

[cmh6476 1,025]

Um football starts in 13 minutes

[IGotWorms 4,058]

It was actually starting to get light out when I woke up at 5:45 this morning

[mobb_deep 920]

Thanks time warp. You made getting up at 6:30 AM to watch my Lions lose so easy!

[kutulu 1,676]

Only fools are enslaved by time and space

[jerryskids 6,799]

It was actually starting to get light out when I woke up at 5:45 this morning

 

And if you didn't time warp every 6 months, it would have been the same yesterday.

[fandandy 3,313]

What's not to love. Now it will get dark at 5.

[jerryskids 6,799]

Um football starts in 13 minutes

 

That's not football, that's the Chiefs$#@!

 

I forgot about that game. I had to start Tate in one league. Ugg... hoping for a garbage TD from this garbage game.

[cmh6476 1,025]

It's just an ancillary event, the real event starts at 7

[IGotWorms 4,058]

 

And if you didn't time warp every 6 months, it would have been the same yesterday.

[penultimatestraw 473]

 

And if you didn't time warp every 6 months, it would have been the same yesterday.

Island time is always the same. Football at 4:30 am!!

[jerryskids 6,799]

 

I need to fly to NoCal tomorrow for a business trip. It's about a 2 hour flight. Luckily for me, Cali time warped last night so we are on the same time zone for the next, what is it, 7.5 months? It just occurred to me that you time travelers spend more of the year on your time warp than not.

[Bier Meister 1,710]

Where are you going and for how long?

[jerryskids 6,799]

Where are you going and for how long?

 

I will be in Fremont from Monday evening to Thursday afternoon. I'm starting a new job (I've been meaning to start a thread about it, I should do that today...) and Fremont is our bay area HQ. I'm going for some meetings but I don't know exactly what they are; I have no control over my schedule and won't even have a car. So I can't meet you this time around, if that was your tacit question. If it wasn't... fock off seriously.

 

[iam90sbaby 2,611]

I hate daylight savings in Florida, the sun was coming up right before 7 and setting right before 7, it was perfect, I had an hour of sunlight before work and 2 hours after work. Monday I'll go in and it will be dark in the morning and it is just going to make the day feel much longer. Plus I'm a night owl, I hate when it doesn't get dark till like 9:00pm.

[Bier Meister 1,710]

 

I will be in Fremont from Monday evening to Thursday afternoon. I'm starting a new job (I've been meaning to start a thread about it, I should do that today...) and Fremont is our bay area HQ. I'm going for some meetings but I don't know exactly what they are; I have no control over my schedule and won't even have a car. So I can't meet you this time around, if that was your tacit question. If it wasn't... fock off seriously.

 

 

Lmk. I am fairly North of there. Could possible meet in SF or if you extend it, I could host you (and/or family).

 

 

 

 

On our way for 2 more games in heavy rain

[jerryskids 6,799]

Bump.

[shotsup 832]

Bump.

Called it.

[fandandy 3,313]

Just checking in for posterity.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I was explaining daylight savings to my roommate and girlfriend yesterday.

 

They were perplexed.

 

"Why do you do that?"

 

"No good reason. It's stupid and most people hate it."

[Hardcore troubadour 15,436]

I would have voted for any candidate that promised to get rid of it. Any. Might as well get something out of these focks.

[shotsup 832]

Called it.

Good morning Skids.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,442]

I finger myself to time. Springing forward has me happily.

[Cloaca du jour 2,150]

wow. I dont see what the big deal is.

 

I didnt realize this was on the snowflake platform.

[fandandy 3,313]

Thanks for the heads up bump. I saw this thread last night and other than that had no idea. This Spring forward one is better. Stays light an hour later.

[jerryskids 6,799]

Thanks for the heads up bump. I saw this thread last night and other than that had no idea. This Spring forward one is better. Stays light an hour later.

 

No it doesn't.

[fandandy 3,313]

 

No it doesn't.

In Michigan it does. It's like magic.

[Bier Meister 1,710]

I finger myself to time. Springing forward has me happily.

I thought you preferred to fall back.

[MTSkiBum 1,620]

Spring forward is the best.

[Baker Boy 1,699]

I was explaining daylight savings to my roommate and girlfriend yesterday.

They were perplexed.

"Why do you do that?"

"No good reason. It's stupid and most people hate it."

Time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, which is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, despite that China spans five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called Beijing Time domestically and China Standard Time (CST) internationally.

[jerryskids 6,799]

[NorthernVike 2,087]

[dain11279 976]

Dumb

[fandandy 3,313]

I hate this fall back business. I just looked and the sun will set today at 5:23 pm. Ridiculous.

[TommyGavin 790]

[Gepetto 1,368]

I hate this fall back business. I just looked and the sun will set today at 5:23 pm. Ridiculous.

 

Yes, this. Time change is so dumb and annoying.

[wiffleball 4,790]

Not to make this political but, see? This is where I would have voted for somebody like Trump if they had just set their sights a little lower in terms of coming in and shaking things up.

 

Get rid of DST, get rid of the penny, get rid of that stupid law that protects a****** seals and swarms of nuisance sea birds. And the ridiculous government subsidized ethanol crap. All of that. That would be great. That guy would be my hero. But definitely start with this b******* daylight savings time crap.

 

Time shouldnt be based upon a general consensus or a political mandate. This isn't God damn American Idol. Noon should be when the sun is at its highest apogee. And you set time based upon that. God set up a pretty decent process. The Earth rotates around the Sun at a pretty basic and consistent pace. Hence, the concept of standardized time.

 

I mean, if we're going to pull this s***? Then let's all just decide that instead of it being Sunday it's actually next Thursday. And then promise that sometime in June or July we'll switch back.