Time change

[NCHillbilly]

You know what i mean. How would they get home earlier?

OK, if it gets dark at 6PM, and you get home at 6PM, when you switch to DST, you are now getting home at what was 5PM, and it doesn't get dark until an hour after you're home, at the new 7PM. It's psychologically better for me, anyway. I just get bluh when I never see my house that it isn't dark, and both my commutes are in the dark.

 

[livinoutdoors]

OK, if it gets dark at 6PM, and you get home at 6PM, when you switch to DST, you are now getting home at what was 5PM, and it doesn't get dark until an hour after you're home, at the new 7PM. It's psychologically better for me, anyway. I just get bluh when I never see my house that it isn't dark, and both my commutes are in the dark.

I get ya brother. I hate the winter too. But if a feller has to start the work day later because they rolled the clock round then he will just get done later by the clock. So if ya work til sunset you work later by the clock, cuz now the sun sets later.

 

[livinoutdoors]

Smash the system!!

 

[livinoutdoors]

Or maybe just split the difference. Either way stop the moving round.

 

[Nicodemus]

Mama used to say that a man`s work is from sun to sun, and a woman`s work was never done. Maybe they did after I was grown and left home, but I don`t ever remember them changing the clocks. They kept right on with the old original time.

 

[fflintlock]

It's all psychosomatic...

 

[Gbr5pb]

But would it be getting light at 5:30 am in June if they didn’t change it?

 

[snookdoctor]

People are either for or against the time change. Maybe they should just turn the time back a half hour and leave it that way. Make everyone happy!

 

[northgeorgiasportsman]

I took advantage of more daylight after work this evening. Between 6pm and 8pm, I dug 7 post holes 18" deep and set 8ft 4x4 posts, nailing cattle panels between them for a blackberry trellis.

 

[sinclair1]

I took advantage of more daylight after work this evening. Between 6pm and 8pm, I dug 7 post holes 18" deep and set 8ft 4x4 posts, nailing cattle panels between them for a blackberry trellis.

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Nice, the first day kills me since I didn’t get to sleep in time. I took a nap!

 

[kayaksteve]

I wish they’d just leave it on dst all the time. I get a lot more done in the evenings after work. I about don’t even do any work in the wood shop or yard work anymore until after dst comes in. I can come home spend some family time, eat an early supper and easily have 2 or 3 hours til dark to work. And when it gets hot we usually start work an hour earlier and get home an hour earlier.

 

[NE GA Pappy]

I took advantage of more daylight after work this evening. Between 6pm and 8pm, I dug 7 post holes 18" deep and set 8ft 4x4 posts, nailing cattle panels between them for a blackberry trellis.

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I worked in my shop trimming out 3 garage door openings and anchoring 3 pressure treated 2 x 6s to finish putting in the studs to fur out the inside wall so I can start insulating before I put the sheet metal on them

 

[Hoss]

I noticed this morning that today is national napping day. Wonder if there is a connection to the time change.

 

[elfiii]

Y'all are making this way too complicated. Just leave your clocks set where they are and tell everybody you live in the Central time zone.

 

[SarahFair]

Yesterday was fine, but I'm feeling it this morning

 

[BeerThirty]

Our pastor sure had to work harder for crowd interaction on Sunday morning. But he was having a good time with it, too.

 

[snookdoctor]

I showed up for church and everybody was walking out the front door.

 

[Baroque Brass]

IMO no one, or at least 95%+ of people, likes the concept of changing the time twice a year. Some people may like DST better (@NCHillbilly) or prefer standard time (@Nicodemus) but I think most people would like to go to one time and be done with it.

The disruption it causes in our lives is very real, beyond the obvious changing of about 6-8-10 clocks/watches. (I ate lunch yesterday at 1:30 and had supper at 7:30. Why? Because that's when my body clock told me it was hungry. I also went to bed at 1:00 AM.)

So why don't we put this on the November election ballot:

1. I would prefer that we do away with the spring and fall time changes and use Standard Time the whole year.

2. I would prefer that we do away with the spring and fall time changes and use Daylight Savings Time the whole year.

3. I would prefer that we continue changing the time in the spring and fall.

Let the people vote and be done with it.

Completely agree and I’ve said that for years. Let the people decide. Oh wait, we don’t have a voice anymore.

 

[Shotgun1]

Like so many things the gov't does they got this time thing basackwards. When I was still working I hated getting home at dusk. Haying the cows and looking for newborn calves in the dark cold rain ain't no fun.