Author Topic: Daylight Savings Time- Good or Bad? (Read 7447 times)

RoadKingLarry · « **on:** March 10, 2012, 10:30:44 PM »

OK, who likes DST? Being that I work nights it isn't much of an issue with me but when I was on day shift I liked having the extra daylight at the end of the day

And, just in case you missed it we (most of us anyway) change to DST tonight.

cosine · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:34:10 PM »

Voted 3 times.

I both like and dislike it. I like the extra daylight at the end of the day, but I also like it being light out when I head to school early in the morning, and hate having to wait another two weeks for early morning daylight to reappear.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:37:11 PM »

I'm just ticked off that nobody's seriously studying the the impact of an extra hour of sunlight on the climate, and instead get all wrapped up in CO2 and fossil fuels etc.

Boomhauer · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:38:32 PM »

I do. Nice to have daylight to do stuff outside after work. Hell, it's nice to be able to go grocery shopping after work in the daylight.

I just wish we didn't change between DST and standard...

GigaBuist · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:46:20 PM »

I hate it. As a programmer it plays merry hob with every date/time storage system you use as soon as you try and go time-zone neutral.

I'm going to have to go into the office Sunday to re-work our timeclock app because of this. The original developer that wrote it all in PHP attempted to be timezone neutral but screwed it up. He attempted to store date/time values in GMT but actually applied the TZ offset to the GMT value so if you're at -5 (EST) the value recorded is actually +5 hours. He managed to replicate the bug when retrieving the values so it was never noticed. Consequently my .NET app that writes to the same DB has to replicate that bug, until I fix the whole shebang.

Of course the whole thing always had the problem where if you're in DST (-4 for Eastern) and try and pull a report from a -5 period (standard time) the hours are off because it assumed the TZ offset was the current TZ offset.

Northwoods · « **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:48:51 PM »

I wish they'd just pick one or the other. I hate having change all the clocks.

Ben · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:50:33 PM »

Not a fan.

If I had to settle, then pick a damn time and stick with it. I hate changing clocks and adapting twice a year. I also want to know whatever happened to, "if extending DST doesn't show any monetary savings, we're going to go back to the old DST date." Damn lying government.

Regardless, I like bacon.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:00:19 PM »

I don't like the problems it creates in software. It adds tons of complication and abstraction to something that should be straight forward. The gregorian calendar is bad enough without that complication.

Jim147 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:02:58 PM »

How many pounds of bacon do you have?

jim

grislyatoms · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:11:54 PM »

Blows. I have always hated it.

Nick1911 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:12:23 PM »

Quote from: Jim147 on March 10, 2012, 11:02:58 PM

How many pounds of bacon do you have?

jim

Wait, what? How drunk are you, Jim?

Or is this just thread drift about delicious bacon?

Jim147 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:32:30 PM »

Quote from: Nick1911 on March 10, 2012, 11:12:23 PM

Wait, what? How drunk are you, Jim? Or is this just thread drift about delicious bacon?

How drunk? I'm not sure. I've only been drinking since the camshaft broke.

What was that? Ten hours ago? Yeah I might be well buzzed. Time for some bacon.

jim

TommyGunn · « **Reply #12 on:** March 10, 2012, 11:46:39 PM »

I HATE IT!

Any questions?

freakazoid · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2012, 12:14:06 AM »

Daylight Savings is bad, except when I happen to be on watch when we skip an hour.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2012, 12:19:58 AM »

Quote from: Ben on March 10, 2012, 10:50:33 PM

Not a fan.

If I had to settle, then pick a damn time and stick with it. I hate changing clocks and adapting twice a year. I also want to know whatever happened to, "if extending DST doesn't show any monetary savings, we're going to go back to the old DST date." Damn lying government.

Regardless, I like bacon.

What he said.

gunsmith · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2012, 12:25:03 AM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on March 10, 2012, 10:37:11 PM

I'm just ticked off that nobody's seriously studying the the impact of an extra hour of sunlight on the climate, and instead get all wrapped up in CO2 and fossil fuels etc.

oooooooh! Im stealing that for my facebook!

Regolith · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2012, 12:47:52 AM »

IVFABIC

Devonai · « **Reply #17 on:** March 11, 2012, 01:00:00 AM »

Shouldn't you be coating the surface of a moon somewhere?

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 11, 2012, 01:09:51 AM »

Only effect on me this time around is that instead of 9 hours ahead of home, only will be 8 hours. A lot of the rest of the world doesn't follow it so why in the hell should we.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #19 on:** March 11, 2012, 01:13:02 AM »

I love it in the fall (YAY extra hour of sleep) I hate it in the spring (i have to get up an hour before I hate getting at! Grrrr)

Really hate it this time round.

is what the alarm clock is going to get in a few hours...

Regolith · « **Reply #20 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:05:15 AM »

Quote from: Devonai on March 11, 2012, 01:00:00 AM

Shouldn't you be coating the surface of a moon somewhere?

Most rocky planets, actually.

French G. · « **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2012, 04:59:09 AM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on March 11, 2012, 01:13:02 AM

I love it in the fall (YAY extra hour of sleep) I hate it in the spring (i have to get up an hour before I hate getting at! Grrrr)

Really hate it this time round. is what the alarm clock is going to get in a few hours...

LOL!

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2012, 05:20:58 AM »

I don't want an extra hour of daylight. I don't like daylight.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2012, 07:17:45 AM »

Quote from: French G. on March 11, 2012, 04:59:09 AM

LOL!

If it wern't for the fact that the damn thing also happens to be my phone, my computer and my sole form of communitcation with the outside world, it would have gone blammo at 6:00 this morning.

Also, .45's are too damn loud this early in the morning. Maybe if I had a suppressor...

*yawn*

birdman · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2012, 07:39:12 AM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on March 11, 2012, 07:17:45 AM

If it wern't for the fact that the damn thing also happens to be my phone, my computer and my sole form of communitcation with the outside world, it would have gone blammo at 6:00 this morning.

Also, .45's are too damn loud this early in the morning. Maybe if I had a suppressor...

*yawn*

A suppressed 45 is a dangerous thing to have around...not as bad as a 22 with a can...but close.

Bad thoughts begin, like "I bet I could shoot in here without my upstairs neighbors knowing" (in an apt)

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