Happy Semi-Annual Time Warp$#@!

[Cdub100 3,837]

33 minutes ago, Vikings4ever said:

Ditto. 5 PM sunsets suck ass.

4:30ish here when it's the worst 

[Utilit99 4,099]

1 hour ago, Cdub100 said:

1942

 

Fun movie. 

[Cdub100 3,837]

Just now, Utilit99 said:

Fun movie. 

Was surprised with how much action it had considering the only thing of importance going on in the world at that time was Michigan switching to EST

[Utilit99 4,099]

13 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Was surprised with how much action it had considering the only thing of importance going on in the world at that time was Michigan switching to EST

Seriously, I remember commanding people on the front lines in Europe telling them to take a brief  time out so they could deal with their emotions around the Michigan time zone change. That impact of going  to EST almost lost us the war. I received a medal of honor for my insight.

[Utilit99 4,099]

When I was in the civil war commanding the troupes,  I warned of time zone changes. And to be strong.

[Bier Meister 1,657]

Man.... DST has been rough on me this year. Going to sleep later than what I'd like and mornings are brutal.

[jerryskids 6,564]

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Sleep Experts Officially Come Out Against Daylight Saving Time

 

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine officially calls for the elimination of daylight saving time, citing a wealth of data that says it’s literally killing us.

 

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), a professional organization of doctors that controls the accreditation of U.S. sleep clinics, has officially called for the elimination of daylight saving time. 

“An abundance of accumulated evidence indicates that the acute transition from standard time to daylight saving time incurs significant public health and safety risks, including increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events, mood disorders, and motor vehicle crashes,” AASM said in a position paper that will be published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine on October 15.

Daylight saving time sucks. Twice a year most Americans shift the clock. We “spring forward” an hour sometime around March and “fall back” an hour sometime around November. Why? It depends on who you ask and what time in the past you’re talking about. Seriously. It was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 and first implemented—we think—in World War I as a method of saving fuel. Growing up in the South, I always heard the apocryphal tale that America had invented it to help farmers have a few more hours of working light during key times of the year. 

Though the origins of daylight saving time are complicated, its detrimental health effects aren’t. “Getting away from daylight saving time might be in the best interest of everyone involved,” Kannan Ramar, the President of AASM and a pulmonologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, told Motherboard on the phone. “It affects not only the quality of sleep but the quantity of sleep that people end up getting. Traffic accidents increase the first few days after the switch...increases in fatal traffic accidents are up to six percent...you see increased heart attacks and strokes and irregular heartbeats after we shift to daylight saving time.”

Ramar also cited a recent study out of the Mayo Clinic that found adverse medical events due to human error increased by 18 percent the week after daylight saving time. “This could be anything like medication errors like prescribing the wrong medication for a particular patient,” Ramar said.

According to Ramar, America needs to pick a time zone and stick with it. For him, the evidence is clear. Abandon daylight saving time and stick with standard time. “With daylight saving time you get more daylight in the evening and more dark when you wake up in the morning,” he said. “And that’s really not conducive for the body’s circadian cycle. If you get more light in the morning and less light in the evening, that is more conducive for the body to go to bed and wake up at the right time.”

The evidence that daylight saving time is bad, and even deadly, has been mounting for years. Ramar compared the situation to a cup being filled with water. “It’s overflowing,” he said. “You have enough data now to really say that this is not good for our health. There’s no going back now.”

Making the change is easier said than done. It will require people petitioning politicians to force changes to state and local law. Arizona, Hawaii, and several other U.S. territories opted out of daylight saving time long ago. Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and others have attempted to pass legislation in recent years but the bills often die in committee or fail to generate support.

Ramar hopes that AASM’s position paper can help change that. “The first step is to educate or political leaders that now is the time to change,” he said. “If that meets with resistance, it’ll be important to figure out what the barriers might be.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azwzk/sleep-experts-officially-come-out-against-daylight-saving-time

You time warpers don't need to worry about killing each other until November, but it is good to know that the experts agree with me. 

[KSB2424 3,148]

Changing times is antiquated.  I’ll take it a step further.  Time zones are stupid too.  Time is but a number.  

[nospk 230]

Name one person you know that has suffered a heart attack, stroke or car accident because of the time

[jerryskids 6,564]

2 hours ago, nospk said:

Name one person you know that has suffered a heart attack, stroke or car accident because of the time

I probably know a bunch but they all died of Covid instead. 

 

[Baker Boy 1,688]

18 hours ago, nospk said:

Name one person you know that has suffered a heart attack, stroke or car accident because of the time

AZ doesn’t have DST, you would think they would compare heart attack stats from other states? 

[Reality 3,096]

15 hours ago, jerryskids said:

I probably know a bunch but they all died of Covid instead. 

 

100%, the total death Covid number is an absolute joke. Your bet with PFB never had a chance of being legit.

[Mike Isles 583]

If we get rid of DST what happens to this here thread ??

[Baker Boy 1,688]

azcentral.com

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is used to save energy and make better use of daylight. It was first used in 1908 in Thunder Bay, Canada. DST makes for longer evenings.

[Cloaca du jour 2,147]

7 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

AZ doesn’t have DST, you would think they would compare heart attack stats from other states? 

They dont have winter either

[nospk 230]

8 hours ago, Baker Boy said:

AZ doesn’t have DST, you would think they would compare heart attack stats from other states? 

And prove it his nothing to do with the time of day plus or minus 60 minutes 

[nospk 230]

Yeah I couldn’t sleep an hour that day so I plowed into a barn ooops

[Baker Boy 1,688]

1 hour ago, Cloaca du jour said:

They dont have winter either

They have heart attacks, this has nothing to do with winter or did I miss something?

[jerryskids 6,564]

Hope you all enjoyed your time warp.  

[fandandy 3,313]

I look forward to darkness at 5:30 pm.  Yippee.

[Strike 5,186]

 

[Mike Isles 583]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Hope you all enjoyed your time warp.  

I look forward to this thread twice a year and I hope Skids is the one bumping it for years and years to come !!! 
You da man Jerry. 

[Fireballer 2,639]

1 hour ago, jerryskids said:

Hope you all enjoyed your time warp.  

So everything in neighboring states falls back, and AZ just says...fuk it, we ain't doin it?

[jerryskids 6,564]

1 hour ago, Fireballer said:

So everything in neighboring states falls back, and AZ just says...fuk it, we ain't doin it?

Yep.  

It was actually a PITA when I worked for a Cali-based company and a lot of my customers were there as well.  Neither is the case now, but is still shifts a lot of weekly conf calls an hour forward.

[posty 2,612]

@Strike RHPS was running on the Paramount Network a couple of times last night...  They even blurred out the nudity of the statues when they changed from being human, however David was still in the background right after all of that behind Frank-N-Furter and you can see him in all his glory...

[jerryskids 6,564]

1 hour ago, Mike Isles said:

I look forward to this thread twice a year and I hope Skids is the one bumping it for years and years to come !!! 
You da man Jerry. 

Thanks man.  

[Hardcore troubadour 14,932]

3 hours ago, posty said:

@Strike RHPS was running on the Paramount Network a couple of times last night...  They even blurred out the nudity of the statues when they changed from being human, however David was still in the background right after all of that behind Frank-N-Furter and you can see him in all his glory...

Cool story. Can you tell it again? 

[Cdub100 3,837]

Back to crappy standard time.

[posty 2,612]

DST day baby!!!

[Cdub100 3,837]

17 minutes ago, posty said:

DST day baby!!!

 I hate that DST gets a bad rap because you have to spring the clocks forward. 

Here in Michigan, I wish we were back on central time or year-round DST.

[Utilit99 4,099]

I could do without it. hate having to change the clocks and sometimes I completely forget and miss early meetings for work on Monday.

[Mike Isles 583]

56 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

I could do without it. hate having to change the clocks and sometimes I completely forget and miss early meetings for work on Monday.

You must live in an analog world. (Or just a dumb ass). I didn’t have to change one clock today 

 

[Utilit99 4,099]

1 minute ago, Mike Isles said:

You must live in an analog world. (Or just a dumb ass). I didn’t have to change one clock today 

 

I'm a dumbass because I don't have digital connected "smart" clocks on the walls in my home. My car radio doesn't auto update on it. My watch doesn't auto update because it's not plugged into the internet. 

Boy, you really got me there.   

 

[jerryskids 6,564]

1 hour ago, Cdub100 said:

 I hate that DST gets a bad rap because you have to spring the clocks forward. 

Here in Michigan, I wish we were back on central time or year-round DST.

There is a bill before the Senate to make DST permanent:

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Last week, a group of bipartisan senators reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act, legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent across the country. This push to end the practice of clock-changing twice a year has been gaining momentum the past few years. Here’s the latest news on the time change.

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In March 2021, a bipartisan bill called the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021” was submitted for consideration in the U.S. Senate. The bill aims to end the time change and make DST permanent across the United States. Bottom-line, the bill would simply negate the need for Americans to change their clocks twice a year. 

The bill has been co-sponsored by eight senators—both Democrats and Republicans—so chances are good that it will at least be considered. If you support this change, consider contacting your state’s senators to let them know!

https://www.almanac.com/content/stopping-daylight-saving-time

[Cdub100 3,837]

22 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

There is a bill before the Senate to make DST permanent:

https://www.almanac.com/content/stopping-daylight-saving-time

I always figured they'd keep standard time, because that's the worse.

Can the DC do that? Some states don't follow DST so I'm not sure who has the authority. 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,114]

Last year I had zero idea that it was daylight savings. I hadn't heard anything on the radio or seen anything on the internet. I just so happened to be working that Sunday. My foreman was a douche about it, being all passive aggressive.

[Utilit99 4,099]

8 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Last year I had zero idea that it was daylight savings. I hadn't heard anything on the radio or seen anything on the internet. I just so happened to be working that Sunday. My foreman was a douche about it, being all passive aggressive.

I guess you are dumbass too according to this guy:

 

1 hour ago, Mike Isles said:

You must live in an analog world. (Or just a dumb ass). I didn’t have to change one clock today 

 

 

[Mike Isles 583]

12 minutes ago, Utilit99 said:

I guess you are dumbass too according to this guy:

 

 

Ha. He already knows I think he is a dumb ass. Way to pay attention!!

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,237]

27 minutes ago, Mike Isles said:

Ha. He already knows I think he is a dumb ass. Way to pay attention!!

where do I get a stove and microwave that auto changes time

 

[Mike Isles 583]

1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

where do I get a stove and microwave that auto changes time

 

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