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Good Question – Daylight Savings Time
While some of us see the time change as an opportunity for an extra hour of sleep, many want to know, “Will bars and pubs be allowed to sell drinks for an extra hour this Saturday night?” Good question. Reporter: Jeff HerndonEmail Address: jeff.herndon@kake.com |
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Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, KS
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Sad that that is what people's focus is around here, but it seems to figure.
As a person that worked on a farm when DST was implemented, the farmer that I worked for summed it as a farmer works from sun up until sundown. His feeling is that DST was set up just so that town folks could have more time to goof off and spend extra money. Daylight Savings Time doesn't help me any when I get home during the week and the extension of DST seemed like a dumb idea at the time and still does. The sun still makes it course from South to North and back to the South. The days keep getting shorter and we are still on DST so I still turn the lights on in the morning. If they are going to keep DST then we should go back to the "original" DST or not have DST at all. AS the Governor of Phoenix put it "We have enough sun already. Why do we want to make the days longer?" I know that for a fact when I worked in Phoenix, during summer the sun would be coming up at 5:00 and at 7:00 the temps would be back over 100 degrees. I'm not a fan of DST but not sure what I can do about it. Deal
How about WST...(Work Saving Time) Where each day at 7 am we set the clocks ahead 8 hours. Then at midnight we set them back 8 hours. If we did this life would be much better for everyone...well except 3rd shift workers...
I ran across an old newspaper the other day...OK...I'm a drive in geek and was looking up old ads at the library micro film collection, and came accross some pre-daylight-savings ads for drive in theaters in my area. This was in December and they all had electric in car heaters (YOU'LL BE SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG!). What was cool was in the winter months WITHOUT the time change, they were able to go on screen about 6pm and every drive in showed TRIPPLE FEATURES!
DO we really need day light savings time? they say it saves on energy? well we have sun at 6:30am and then we have night at 4:30pm. We are spending the same on energy why not have the sun out longer in the day so we use less energy at night and go for 1/2 hour to hour with little or no morning lite? This cost companies and goverment millions a year. People that are into global warming should be all over this......
Daylight savings is ridiculous. The sooner this fabrication is ended the better. Standard Time all year round please!
If you want to make a statement, you should refuse to acknowledge DST and show up everywhere at Standard Time and insist their clocks are the ones that are wrong. You might lose a few jobs this way, but in the long run, it makes a point.
Actually, it's Daylight Saving Time. And according to every study ever done, it actually wastes energy. The entire concept is held up by lies, and the whole concept was originally a joke that someone took a little too seriously several years later.
the only reason for daylight savings time now is so polititions have a little more daytime to golf and such. dst started as a way for farmers to have an extra hour to work outside. next week people will be complaining that it gets dark too early.
I cant stand daylight saving time! I have to lose an hour of sleep for nothing. Changing the clock does NOT make more hours of sunlight. LEAVE THE CLOCKS ALONE!
We don't need DST if people could just be bothered to get up one hour earlier to do everything. Work would start at 8am and end at 4pm, school should start at 7:45 and finish at 2 or half past 2 LEAVING THE REST OF THE DAY FOR YOU TO RELAX. Changing the clocks can be interesting once in a while but it is incredibly confusing for most people. Sunrise is a bit late and sunset is too late. Enjoy the dark sacred night in the evening. The sun reaches it's height at 1pm when it should be at 12noon.
Without DST, sunrise in the northern U.S. would come before 4am in late spring/early summer. Most people's jobs don't start that early.
I live in Saskatchewan (a province in western Canada), and we have standard time. No DST for us! And we're getting along perfectly. DST needs to come to an end.
This isn't the 1800s: everyone everywhere has heat and light. DST makes as much sense as cutting six inches from the bottom oft he blanket and sewing to the top of the blanket because your shoulders are cold. DST costs the USA hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and increases traffic accidents by 7%.
if it wasn't for daylight saving I wouldn't have no savings at all