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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/+22Many 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.
- ohthedaysofyore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9If I'm reading this right, it saves energy by making people wake up earlier and go to bed sooner?
Does this actually save energy? - 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.
- 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.
- FartyMcPooPants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Defining 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' - 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.
- 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. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Now 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. - 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. - kushed, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Waste 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. - 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/+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. - 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. - nogwater, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9DST is stupid. Like habitually late people setting their watch early to try to trick themselves into being on time.
- 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.
- bradboob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What 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.
- 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. - chod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Seriously, 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.
- 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.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8This is why I like living in Arizona. None of that stupid *****.
- kevptim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Just when it gets close to the time that the sun will wake me up on time they shift things. DST has to go.
- 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.
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why not have a moonlight-saving time? It'd be much more interesting and a lot cooler.
- libertao, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6How can this save much energy? Does anyone work at a place where they only turn the lights on after the sun goes down?
- 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
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Clearly it's a plot against the vampires.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3but for half the year you would be in the same time zone in arizona as NV or CA
- helmsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I prefer the use of measurements such as the span and the cubit.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+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?
- thepeacemaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3India / UAE ...never heard of daylight savings till arriving in US (freshman year in college).
- Azlen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Considering that well over a majority of the year is Daylight Saving Time (almost 8 months) why don't we just rename it Standard Time and for the part of the year we now call Standard Time, just rename it to Daylight Wasting Time.
- 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. - daveseibert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2man, your misspelling confused the hell out of me
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Unintentionally funny quote of the day :)
- helmsb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's just like living on the edge of a timezone.
- kaffein, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Good old Bush destroying Halloween hours... yes thats November 4th.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Touche, sir. I'll dig you up for that.
edit: But we do have cacti. Also, it's nearly 80 degrees outside. It's so perfect. - br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Prockcore is exactly right. The savings in lighting costs (people just home from work don't turn on the electric lights because there is enough sunlight through the windows) don't even come close to balancing the increase in summertime air conditioning costs (people home from work do turn up the air conditioning during the late-afternoon peak load times, because it's still warm outside). When air conditioning was not widely available, the change did save energy; however, air conditioning is much more widespread now than it was several decades ago.
- CompTechNSX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5If God wanted us to use the metric system, he wouldn't have given us 12 fingers and toes.... wait.
- fober, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It's an hour more/less of sleep.
That's it. - matriculated, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...and the Coyotes. The hockey team that no one watches - except for bitter Winnipegers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Coyotes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg_Jets -
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