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- mlkmnz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60And coming up tomorrow night: The "metric" system - crazy witchcraft or a sensible standardised way for counting *****?
- pbs1914, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41Use this sentence to explain daylight-saving time to idiots:
Many other countries refer to "daylight-saving time" as "summertime." - thepeacemaker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Many years ago, in my first college semester in the US, my roommates told me to switch my time an hour back. I thought they were pulling my leg. "You mean every person in this country changes the time on their clocks, watches, gadgets, computers every 6 months ...yeah right". It was one of those rare times they werent kidding. I cant believe how the first person managed to get everyone else to agree with this seemingly outrageous idea.
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Remember to rotate your sun-dials one hour (counterclockwise)
- SoCalDissident, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15The metric system is the tool of the devil! My cars gets 50 rods to the hog's head and that's the ways I likes it!
- LowRentDiggs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18"Maybe CNN's audience is becoming dumb because the intelligent watchers have started watching Fox?"
Yeah, because the brightest of the bright watch cable news these days. - interg12, on 10/12/2007, -13/+24This just proves how stupid CNN's audience is becoming. They call that the "Fox Effect." Message to CNN: STOP COPYING FOX NEWS.
- SoCalDissident, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I want to be on wartime! "1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted "war-time," a year-round daylight-saving time to save energy during World War II."
Or we could leave all the times the same and business could all jsut shift the hours they are open/operate/etc by an hour. - humperdeath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10We should have daylight savings time only during the day, and use daylight spending time at night.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I get 8% interest on all the daylight that I've been saving.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14That's what she said.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8thats nice... but what does arizona have to offer? sand? hot? at least nevada has cool casinos and hookers.
- fleischner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8BTW, as the article says, it's "Saving," not "Savings." I think that's one of the most common grammatical errors made these days. Just look how many times the mistake is made in these comments and even in the Google ads at the top of this page.
- ohthedaysofyore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8If I'm reading this right, it saves energy by making people wake up earlier and go to bed sooner?
Does this actually save energy? - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9False. It doesn't save 10% in that sense. It saves 10% in the sense that adjusting to DST means that your energy use does not *increase* by 10% due to the shifting daylight hours (which happens normally due to the way the Earth moves around the Sun).
In other words, you'd see a 10% difference with DST vs. without DST, not from one week to the next. - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The only numbers I can find are from 1970. The rise of Air Conditioning has basically eliminated any benefits you get from DST.
My electric bill nearly doubles in June compared to April due to AC.
This is why Arizona doesn't recognize DST. - FartyMcPooPants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Defining the change in Daylight Savings Time
'A system whereby all of the corporate IT departments in the country are forced to work long hours implementing patches to organiser programs and systems, which turn out to require additional patches to the patches, which don't work, and you end up printing stuff up and not trusting your electronic calendar. In return for this effort very little actual energy will be saved, nothing noticeable will happen, and somebody working in the department of energy will find his/her computer malfunctioning for as long as the departments IT department remembers this time' - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Now that we have such a connected world, maybe everyone should just be using UT. Same time everywhere all the time forever. No more time zones, no more DST, none of that *****. Businesses want to change their operating hours from summer to winter - fine, businesses can change em.
For similar reasons, we should reschedule election day in the US. Used to be farmers didn't have much else to do on the first Tuesday in November. Now, everyone works. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5>>>"Any rational person knows it only helps those who don't want to wake up early enough to see the sun rise."
No rational person would want to wake up early enough to see the sun rise.
Go back to bed, freak. - SuperJimmyJimbo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6wait, didn't scientists just say we can't go back in time....
http://digg.com/general_sciences/You_Can_t_Travel_Back_in_Time_Scientists_Say - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Bah. Most devices take care of it automatically nowadays. Also, the majority of the world practices DST in some fashion. Where'd you come from? Japan?
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11It's a waste of time, and doesn't save money.
If DST really reduced energy usage by 10% you should see a 10% drop next monday compared to last monday. - SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8This is why I like living in Arizona. None of that stupid *****.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes, actually. The idea is to keep the time of day when most people are up and about more in sync with when the sun is actually up.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Clearly it's a plot against the vampires.
- kushed, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Waste of time and effort, It has no effect on society accept for putting burden on them, specialty for programmers.
I say get rid of the whole concept. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, because people can't shift their waking hours that abruptly. So you, in fact, do see a change over the course of the month, but it's not like flipping a switch. Since power usage continually rises over time as DST time approaches, what you see is a sharper, but still gradual, drop back to normal levels. It's a rollercoaster shape, sort of thing. Smooth turns instead of sharp drops.
Power plants *do* see a fairly abrupt change in overall power consumption within the course of the week where the change occurs. This change is of a total per day sort of thing, instead of a simple one-day change. - towca, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7hahaha. Now I know why I have CNN not listed in my channel list. This way I don't even see it when I'm channel surfing :D Oh and go Rogers for for getting us BBC.
- helmsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Honestly, my power usage really does not change. I use lights during the daytime, A/C when I'm cold and Heat when I'm hot. I must be a terrible person
- helmsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I prefer the use of measurements such as the span and the cubit.
- nogwater, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8DST is stupid. Like habitually late people setting their watch early to try to trick themselves into being on time.
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6That would allow me to come home and not have to turn the lights on immediately. That would save me money.
- thepeacemaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2India / UAE ...never heard of daylight savings till arriving in US (freshman year in college).
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2but for half the year you would be in the same time zone in arizona as NV or CA
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Unintentionally funny quote of the day :)
- libertao, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5How can this save much energy? Does anyone work at a place where they only turn the lights on after the sun goes down?
- kaffein, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Good old Bush destroying Halloween hours... yes thats November 4th.
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why not have a moonlight-saving time? It'd be much more interesting and a lot cooler.
- daveseibert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2man, your misspelling confused the hell out of me
- chod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Seriously, I wake up in the dark to go to work. It is just barely getting light now as I leave and it will be dark again next week because of this change. It DOES NOT give me more light, I still keep the lights on the same amount of time each day, it only changes when I have them on (more in the morning, or more in the evening). Any rational person knows it only helps those who don't want to wake up early enough to see the sun rise. It's for the lazy folk. It won't save anyone else a dime.
- bradboob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What does someone do who lives on like the very border of Arizona and always travels into CA or NV, they would always have the hassle of adjusting their time when in those areas. Especially if they worked over there. That would suck, am I right? The same idea for being right on the line for a time zone switch.
- kevptim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Just when it gets close to the time that the sun will wake me up on time they shift things. DST has to go.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Because sunrise and sunset are at different times, depending on the season.
Unless you're living in a southern area that's close to the equator. I grew up in southern Florida, and I used to think that when people referred to "long summer days" that it was just a poetic expression. I didn't realize that it was literal until I moved up north after graduating high school, winter came, and the it started to get dark around 3:00. I couldn't figure out what was going on. - gmallard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TFA said "...most of Arizona do not follow..."
I've lived there three times, total over 7 years.
Where is the part of AZ that does follow DST?
I think it's BS. - ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@prockcore
And we'd save even more by doing both... yay?
Dugg you up anyway. - helmsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So half the year everything makes sense
- hipstershaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sory azlen! Skimmed over your comment left 3hrs earler.
- scbalazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And you'll be taller if you cut off your head and stand on it.
Want to have more sunlight hours--GET UP EARLIER! - esquilax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the reverse vampires? </milhouse>
- skulljar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Daylight Wasting Time.... very funny indeed. I want daylight sausage time. And daylight naked time too.
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