Obama Is Time Shifter!

[freeradical]

$tevie wrote:
I am so living in the wrong place, it seems. I can't imagine shutting off the A/C because it got dark. Trying to sleep in the summer is the reason we got an air conditioner!

Sacramento typically has at least a 35-40 temperature swing during the summer. When the Delta breeze kicks in during the summer, you might not even need a fan during the day. Then a few days later it's 110 and you're running the AC constantly.

[Lux Interior]

I am always baffled by the DST haters. I never even knew they existed until a few years ago.

One of the arguments I hear is that it's so hard to adjust to the time shift. Can't get to sleep or wake up. It's only an hour! I typically shift my wake/sleep pattern more than that every weekend!

"It's dark when I leave work!" The days get shorter. A lot of people would still be leaving work in the dark w/o DST. Maybe not as many days, but not every one clocks out at precisely 5 PM. Same thing about waking up in the dark. Some people get up at 4 am. Some at 9 am. They will never see a difference!

I guess people have their reasons, but it always seems like much ado about nothing to me. My personal preference is more light in the evening in the summer. Here in Paris, it's still light out after 10:30 in the summer!

[mikeylikesit]

I like the idea of being able to extend daytime activities into the night. I also like the idea of being able to sleep until noon.

[AlphaDog]

Lux Interior wrote:
I am always baffled by the DST haters. I never even knew they existed until a few years ago.

One of the arguments I hear is that it's so hard to adjust to the time shift. Can't get to sleep or wake up. It's only an hour! I typically shift my wake/sleep pattern more than that every weekend!

"It's dark when I leave work!" The days get shorter. A lot of people would still be leaving work in the dark w/o DST. Maybe not as many days, but not every one clocks out at precisely 5 PM. Same thing about waking up in the dark. Some people get up at 4 am. Some at 9 am. They will never see a difference!

I guess people have their reasons, but it always seems like much ado about nothing to me. My personal preference is more light in the evening in the summer. Here in Paris, it's still light out after 10:30 in the summer!

I agree with the "much ado about nothing." I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other, and it has always seemed like such a silly thing to get so worked up about. As BL pointed out, one's location in terms of being at the beginning or end of a time zone has an equal impact, so it's clear the real problem stems from whoever established what time it will be in any given place! I kind of enjoy DST, but it won't destroy my life if it goes away, either. We only get X number of hours of daylight anyway, so shifting one of those hours to a part of the day when it's more useful just seems logical. But who has ever let logic get in their way of an opinion?

[$tevie]

I saw a comedian once who was riffing on the complaints about "losing an hour" due to DST. It was very funny, he was talking about how people complain of exhaustion and disorientation, I wish I could remember it all. I do recall where he was saying, OMG I lost an hour. Is Clinton still President? That's how old this was, which explains how little I can quote of it...

[wondering bear]

If you set your clock an hour faster...you'll have a lot more daylight. Forget what the other clocks say...yours is the one that matters! Shouldn't everyone have their own time standards? Obama should take care of that; he wants everyone to have what they want!