[Colts Fan]

DST lasts so long anymore that it seems silly to keep playing with the clocks twice a year. I say either keep permanent DST, or forget about it altogether. I would think most golfers would favor DST for the additional evening tee times.

[patfla06]

I'm with you on this.
It just screws up my "body clock".

[Chi-Town]

Man, it was so much worse when it was dark and freezing in November at 4:30 p.m. And to top that there were weeks that the sun didn't shine. That was a huge reason to leave the greatly white north for sunny Fla.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by scrapple

But I love the mornings and find it hard to get out of bed when it's still mostly dark, I'd rather have more sun in the mornings.

I guess that's what it comes down to. I'm not a morning person and I also hate turing the clocks back. I wouldn't care if it didn't get light until 8:00. But that would make it dangerous for the kids going to school which is the reason that we adopted daylight savings time.

But some people here, and even up north go to bed at 8:00 or 9:00 so they don't really care. My sister in Massachusetts is up at 4:30 every morning for work and is in bed at 8:00 or 8:30 almost every night. I think she likes standard time better

I could never understand why we just don't turn them back a half hour and leave them.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by ugotme

This Sunday (11/2) we set the clocks back 1 hour.

Personally, I would rather push them ahead 2 to 3 hours.

Hate it getting dark so early. Yeah I know I am retired but. . . SO WHAT? LOL

AM I CRAZY AND ALONE ????

Nope!!!

If I remember correctly, wasn't it Tricky Dick Nixon who started all this madness?

I'd say, leave the clocks alone and adapt accordingly!

[Hancle704]

Originally Posted by Uberschaf

When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…

‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’

I attempted to post a similar version of this in the Spring along with a picture of a native American but because it said only a government could do this it was rejected as being political. So I guess your version is acceptable, although some might argue that it is racist.

[Topspinmo]

IMO it only bother's the ones that had bankers hours. For us that had to get up early it don't matter. It's only going to be light so long and dark so long no matter what the clock says. For Me I am retired I only look at clock when I need to be somewhere at certain time. Plus I still have the 4:00 alarm clock in my head from getting up at 4:00am working for 50 years. IMO just another think to hate. hate is suck ugly words isn't it.

[villagetinker]

Personally I think the original basis for 'daylight savings' has long gone by the way side, and we would actually be better off if we just stopped the whole process. But this is just my humble opinion.

In a former life, I had to reprogram multiple pieces of equipment to handle these changes, and then CONGRESS had to go and change the dates. WHY??? In this day and age I am amazed at the devices that I need to go and change the clocks:
2 cars (BOTH have blue tooth and connections to cell phones) and BOTH are too stupid to correct the clocks.
1 Grandfather clock, expected
The microwave, the thermostat, the oven, and any other digital clock.
My watch, yes, I have an ANALOG watch.
The HOT tub!!
The lawn sprinkler
OH where does the list end!!!!!!

[JB in TV]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

...The lawn sprinkler

I stopped worrying about changing the clock in the sprinkler timer. The grass doesn't care what time it gets water!

[zcaveman]

Originally Posted by patfla06

I'm with you on this.
It just screws up my "body clock".

Amen to that!!!

Z

[Wandatime]

What I love about being retired is that I get up when I wake up and I go to bed when I get tired; I don't care what the clock says.

Having said that, I think Daylight Savings Time is ridiculously silly and a pain in the patootie.

[kellyjam]

Daylight savings is my wife's favorite day because she gets to sleep that extra hour as she still works. Myself I am retired so I pattern myself after a Rooster, I get up when the sun rises and when it sets I go to Happy Hour

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

Personally I think the original basis for 'daylight savings' has long gone by the way side, and we would actually be better off if we just stopped the whole process. But this is just my humble opinion.

In a former life, I had to reprogram multiple pieces of equipment to handle these changes, and then CONGRESS had to go and change the dates. WHY??? In this day and age I am amazed at the devices that I need to go and change the clocks:
2 cars (BOTH have blue tooth and connections to cell phones) and BOTH are too stupid to correct the clocks.
1 Grandfather clock, expected
The microwave, the thermostat, the oven, and any other digital clock.
My watch, yes, I have an ANALOG watch.
The HOT tub!!
The lawn sprinkler
OH where does the list end!!!!!!

I leave the lawn sprinkler the same year round. I don't think the grass will get jet lag.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by Wandatime

What I love about being retired is that I get up when I wake up and I go to bed when I get tired; I don't care what the clock says.

Having said that, I think Daylight Savings Time is ridiculously silly and a pain in the patootie.

I concur.

[Uberschaf]

But the Washington Redskins don't bother you Hancle?