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SteveS Offline
#1 Posted:
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Tonight ...

I think we oughta make the switch tonight, but then skip the "Fall Back" in November ...
MACS Offline
#2 Posted:
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SteveS wrote:
Tonight ...

I think we oughta make the switch tonight, but then skip the "Fall Back" in November ...


Agreed. Leave it the hell alone!

Going on an all day fishing charter tomorrow, fishing Catalina Island. Dana Point Wharf is an hour away, and the boat leaves at 5am... So I gotta get up at 2am, which turns to 3am, and get my ass on the road.

We BETTER catch some damn fish... ram27bat
dharbolt Offline
#3 Posted:
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I hate daylight savings. Messes me up for days. It's nice not having sun set at 6pm though
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#4 Posted:
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It is the worst for our kids. Puts them on all sort of a crazy schedule which means less sleep for us.
jespear Offline
#5 Posted:
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When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Indian Chief said . . .

"Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
frankj1 Offline
#6 Posted:
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jespear wrote:
When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Indian Chief said . . .

"Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

love it...may I quote you?
jjanecka Offline
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Clearly none of yall have ever farmed which is why we do the time change in the first place.
tailgater Offline
#8 Posted:
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jjanecka wrote:
Clearly none of yall have ever farmed which is why we do the time change in the first place.


I blame Big Farma!

frankj1 Offline
#9 Posted:
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tailgater wrote:
I blame Big Farma!


you seem reenergized. where did ya go skiing?
8trackdisco Offline
#10 Posted:
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Germany became the first country to introduce DST when clocks were turned ahead 1 hour on April 30, 1916. The rationale was to minimize the use of artificial lighting in order to save fuel for the war effort during World War I.
The idea was quickly followed by the United Kingdom and many other countries, including France. Many countries reverted back to standard time after World War I, and it wasn’t until the next World War that DST made its return in most of Europe.

shaun341 Offline
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I didn't even get the extra hour sleep this year, was in Scottsdale and they don't recognize DST or at least that is what I was told never looked further into it.
SteveS Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
love it...may I quote you?


I first heard that almost 50 years ago and it still sounds good ...
frankj1 Offline
#13 Posted:
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SteveS wrote:
I first heard that almost 50 years ago and it still sounds good ...

I'm 63 and somehow this got by me.
RobertHively Offline
#14 Posted:
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jespear wrote:
When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Indian Chief said . . .

"Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."


Lol! So true
delta1 Offline
#15 Posted:
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In keeping with most of the stuff the US Govt told the Indians...
tailgater Offline
#16 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
I'm 63 and somehow this got by me.


Am I the only one who sees the irony in this logic?

tailgater Offline
#17 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
you seem reenergized. where did ya go skiing?


Pico.

Had a blast.
frankj1 Offline
#18 Posted:
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tailgater wrote:
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this logic?


I'm still 63. My eyesight is worsening.
Whistlebritches Offline
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We have two bills moving through the Texas House to eliminate DST.If it passes Hawaii and Arizona will have a new partner in common sense........at least on this issue.
Whistlebritches Offline
#20 Posted:
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jjanecka wrote:
Clearly none of yall have ever farmed which is why we do the time change in the first place.


Grew up on a farm and still live in the community.The old DST is to help the farmer is nothing but a myth.

Many of us heard, at some point in elementary school, that DST was developed because of farming. The idea that more daylight means more time in the field for farmers continues to get airtime on the occasional local news report and in state legislatures — “Farmers wanted it because it extends hours of working in the field,” Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn offered after filing a bill that would abolish DST. Even Michael Downing, who wrote a book about DST, has said that before researching the subject, “I always thought we did it for the farmers.”

In fact, the inverse is true. “The farmers were the reason we never had a peacetime daylight saving time until 1966,” Downing told National Geographic. “They had a powerful lobby and were against it vociferously.” The lost hour of morning light meant they had to rush to get their crops to market. Dairy farmers were particularly flummoxed: Cows adjust to schedule shifts rather poorly, apparently.
frankj1 Offline
#21 Posted:
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no one worries about the cows. sad.

around here, all I remember from when I was a kid was being told we could go out after suppah cuz of the extended daylight.
coolbreeze68 Offline
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I'm in the same spot as MACS, going hog hunting tomorrow and have to get up, like, an hour ago.
ddragggon Offline
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jjanecka wrote:
Clearly none of yall have ever farmed which is why we do the time change in the first place.

Whistlebritches wrote:
In fact, the inverse is true. “The farmers were the reason we never had a peacetime daylight saving time until 1966,” Downing told National Geographic. “They had a powerful lobby and were against it vociferously.” The lost hour of morning light meant they had to rush to get their crops to market. Dairy farmers were particularly flummoxed: Cows adjust to schedule shifts rather poorly, apparently.

Beaten to the real....

The idea was to conserve on artificial lighting by shifting the times people were awake, not by asking them to get up earlier, but instead by changing the clocks. When it was instituted, most electricity went to powering lights, with very few other devices that required power. As time progressed, and technology evolved, more and more devices started to depend on electricity. In these modern times where lighting is predominantly done with low wattage CFL's and LED bulbs, the energy savings from DST has diminished to less than a percentile. On the other hand, it is estimated by the New York Times that DST actually costs $434 million in lost productivity to the economy each year, from people being late to work, and messing up sleep cycles twice a year.

Arizona doesn't do DST. It is the only thing I miss about that hellish roasting pit of a state.
jespear Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
love it...may I quote you?


Sure you may, Frank . . . but not on THIS.
DrMaddVibe Offline
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ddragggon wrote:
Beaten to the real....


Lost me after that and it's okay. It's prolly filled with more whining.

You ever do anything besides whine?

Crying Crying Crying Crying

Boo-Frickety-Hoo.
DrMaddVibe Offline
#26 Posted:
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Whistlebritches wrote:
We have two bills moving through the Texas House to eliminate DST.If it passes Hawaii and Arizona will have a new partner in common sense........at least on this issue.



It would be awesome to see the House...in DC...do something and get it right. This is one of those items.

The can also sit in their own districts and be approachable...we have this wonderful invention called Cisco TelePresence.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#27 Posted:
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Yawn....
Whistlebritches Offline
#28 Posted:
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
Yawn....


Noobs are not allowed to "yawn".........you are here to learn grasshoppa.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Noobs are not allowed to "yawn".........you are here to learn grasshoppa.


I wasn't yawning because of the conversation but rather I stayed up late smoking cigars and drinking scotch...by the time it was ready to hit the sack, I got to see the clock flip...3am seemed so much later than 2am....I was legit tired.
Mr. Jones Offline
#30 Posted:
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Ugggghhhhhh

Only good thing is light till 9pm in June.
ddragggon Offline
#31 Posted:
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DrMaddVibe wrote:
Lost me after that and it's okay. It's prolly filled with more whining.

You ever do anything besides whine?

Crying Crying Crying Crying

Boo-Frickety-Hoo.

My own Personal troll? who claims I don't read anything, and post duplicate threads all willy nilly without checking for existing threads? yet couldn't be bothered to check if I actually created any threads?

pot.

kettle.

black.

<3

99cobra2881 Offline
#32 Posted:
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I grew up on a cow/calf and cash crop farm in Kansas, darkness didn't much matter. The tractors and combines had good lights on them. Only thing that shut us down was rain or the dew if the wind quit blowing after dark.
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