Daylight savings
- Thread starter stinkynuts
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cause its nice to have breakfast while then sun is up after walking out of the club
It's great for the kids to have an extra hour of daylight after school so they can play soccer or whatever. Should keep DST all year round. There aren't that many farmers who wake up at 4AM anymore.
If you dislike someone because of their sex, you are a sexist. If you don't like people of another race, you are a racist. What are you if you dislike farmers?
Don't dislike farmers but moving the clock back was instituted 600 years ago so farmers would have light at 4:00AM. We have moved from a rural to an urban society since then and our clocks should reflect that fact. Plus, farming now is a big corporate business and unfortunately the single family farm is almost history.
The younger members of the Rockslinger Crew take SC dancers to after hours booze cans and prefer to crawl home in the dark (the sun hurts their eyes) and skip breakfast altogether. Hee, hee, hee.
Six hundred years ago?! There weren't even time zones until the mid-nineteenth century (1847 in the U.K., 1883 here).
Daylight time was first enacted in Germany in 1915, then quickly adopted by Britain and much of Europe and Canada.
Because the sun shone for a time while most people were asleep, it was reasoned that light could be better used during the day. The solution was to push the clocks ahead one hour in springtime, forcing people to wake an hour earlier. They would therefore expend less energy trying to light their homes, for instance, if time were adjusted to suit their daily patterns.
When the days started getting shorter in the fall and people awoke to increasing darkness, the clocks were turned back an hour to get more light in the morning.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/31/f-timechange.html#ixzz0iGfkNiQR
Because the sun shone for a time while most people were asleep, it was reasoned that light could be better used during the day. The solution was to push the clocks ahead one hour in springtime, forcing people to wake an hour earlier. They would therefore expend less energy trying to light their homes, for instance, if time were adjusted to suit their daily patterns.
When the days started getting shorter in the fall and people awoke to increasing darkness, the clocks were turned back an hour to get more light in the morning.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/31/f-timechange.html#ixzz0iGfkNiQR
Probably another reason the Germans lost the 1st World War......
I really don't mind DST, but it was much more user friendly when they changed the clocks at the end of April.
Then it was the begining, now since the Americans do it , in an effort to save energy, we make the change in the middle of March and don't change it back until the first week of November, which really burns my ass.
Any young kiddies going out for Halloween have to wait an extra hour so that it can get dark....
One reason why this burns folks in Toronto is because it is toward the western edge of the time zone so Toronto already has lighter evenings and darker mornings than folks in Quebéc City or even more so the City of New York.
Actually it was started to conserve energy to help the war effort in WW1. However, given that today, lighting is a small part of total energy use, I tend to agree that it the benefits are much less than they used to be. I would have no objection to following Saskatchewan’s example and not having it.
I agree and actually prefer DST in winter as I detest leaving work in the dark. I heard Farmers were against it because they thought the cows would go crazy and that is why Sask. doesn't have it. I just would not set the cow's watches ahead and they would never know !
