Daylight-saving time is literally killing us — it's time to end this switch Daylight-saving time in the US begins on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2 a.m. Phones and other devices will automatically tick forward one hour, and we'll lose an hour of sleep. Incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car crashes all spike around the start of DST. Stop DST! Moi Stop Creeping ism
Farmers hate DST. We don’t give a F*** what the clock says. We plan and execute our work based on our global position relative to the sun, not the hands on a clock or current to a liquid crystal display. DST is for 9:00-5:00 schmucks in the city that are too stupid to figure out all you have to do if you want another hour of daylight after work is to go to work an hour earlier. Farmers are usually busy every daylight hour and some dark hours to boot. We don’t care what the clock shows for time. Now, if they really could INCREASE daylight hours we might be interested…..
Bed in Summer, by Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child's Garden of Verses. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day? And so it goes . . . Regards, stay safe 'n well.
Everyone hates it and yet here we are….still hating it. Set my alarm for 2:00 a.m. to check heifers last “night”. When I shut the alarm off a few seconds later and looked at the time it was 3:00 a.m. But as you point out, right at daylight, the one cow that always comes in on her own to get milked came ambling up right at daylight completely ignoring the fact she was an hour “late”. I heard rumors earlier this year this was the last time change but haven’t heard anything since. Do you or anyone else know about that? I can only hope…
when i first heard of dst i thought this might be yet another insidious canadian plot after all, their days last half the year anyway and what do polar bears care what time it is.
When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said: 'Only the government 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. '
As a kid growing up in Florida in the 50s we didn't have DST. My mom told it was something they did "up north". Then eventually it came here too. I didn't mind it when it was just 4 months out of 12, even when it went to 6 months out of 12, but now that it's up to 8 months I can't stand it. Just another way for the government to stress out the populace.
DST is beyond silly and think we should get rid of it. That being said I don’t understand why it stresses people. We know it happens every year. Move your clock ahead the one hour and move on with life for phuck sake.
The main objection for me is how it negatively impacts health. This guy does a good job explaining the science behind the negative health impacts.
I'm no fan either. I imagine it made sense before the proliferation of the electric lightbulb, and still serves a purpose in some outdoor industries. And perhaps could be important again if we intend to continue to weaken our power grids to the point that they're dependent on the sun as well. On a related note, since the proliferation of artificial light, we've been missing a productive opportunity to diversify our workday. Its not unknown to science that most people have a unique internal clock in that they are biologically set to be most productive and alert during different hours as opposed to everyone the same. Presumably this hearkens back to our hunter-gatherer days when some members of the tribe would need to keep watch at night or hunt nocturnal animals- evolution would have insisted that some humans were also nocturnal. Many still are, as such a trait isn't shaken from the gene pool in mere hundreds or even thousands of years. Yet We still insist that productivity still occur (almost) exclusively from sun up to sun down. Its always been my suspicion that many of the 'slackers' in society are just yesterdays nocturnal hunters whom the tribe would have then depended on but have since lost a purpose since civilization turned to farming for sustenance. Except productivity is no longer tied to the sun. We eat now while very few of us farm, and almost all of us have access to electric light. So why do we still insist that only daylight hours can be productive and prosperous?
I suggest, as a compromise for everyone, we just advance the clocks one-half hour and after that leave them alone forever.
