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Daylight Savings Time is a load of hooey

Daylight Savings Time Is...

  • A Load of Hooey

    Votes: 3 7.7%

  • A Crock

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • A Dweeb

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • A Bunch of Malarkey

    Votes: 25 64.1%
  • Total voters
    39
The only good thing about Daylight Savings Time is that it’s the longest period before more daylight savings time

Good Riddence to Bad Rubbish!
 
At least we're having a gross winter storm so it's just dark gray and rainy and doesn't affect my light exposure that much today. We'll see about tomorrow.
 
oh that explains why the clock in our room is right for once

and why I'm so tired
 
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The Time Traveller
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178 Points, 8 Lists, #7 Nataeryn ​
Source: The Time Machine
Traveler-Type: Explorer
Method of Transport: The Time Machine

The Time Traveller (sic) is an unnamed individual who created the first working time machine. Wanting to see the distant future, he travels hundred of thousands of years to the year 802,701 and discovers that what at first seems to be a paradise for the carefree but incurious people called the Eloi. However, the Traveller discovers the darker truth that the Eloi are mere pray for another off-shoot of humanity, the cruel, flesh-eating Morlocks. Worse, the Morlocks steal his time machine, leaving him stranded With the Eloi woman Weena, the Traveller must brave the Morlock tunnels and recover his machine and take them both to a better time.


The Time Machine was not the first novel to talk of time travel or time machines but it is probably the most influential. What’s more, it’s the story that birthed the term Time Machine and really began making it one of the most revisited ideas in science fiction. Prior to that, most time travel stories were magical in nature with one or two time machine tales.

As for the character, he’s a brilliant scientist but wanting to see a better world, he is not ready for the possibility that things might go backwards and terribly wrong. Exploring a world where the class divide has reached its natural conclusion, the lower class are now literal food for the ruling class; ignorant and blissful prey. It’s the story of a man who hopes to see a brighter world and does try to make things better but it isn’t easily done.
 
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I’m lucky enough that I don’t have to wake up early in the dark, so tbh on our current schedule we kind of enjoy the later sunset making it easier to get out and get some exercise after work without doing *that* in the dark.
 
I'm taking Monday off specifically to prevent this from being the shortest weekend of the year.
 
Vaeran said:
I'm taking Monday off specifically to prevent this from being the shortest weekend of the year.
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I should look this up every year and start doing this myself. Daylight savings time increasingly makes me more furious as I get older. I don't sleep well to begin with, and my cats being confused they're not being fed at their normal time and waking me up early for a few days does not help!
 
With phones and computers automatically change time, I thankfully don't have to think about it much anymore, so it stopped being a problem for me. I don't really mind it anymore. I still think we should stop this nonsense, though, because I still think it's largely pointless. Or annoying, when I get reminded of animals, who will not just understand that time was changed for no sensible reason.

Also, I didn't realize that you have this nonsense three weeks before we do. Huh.
 
Live as much of your life as possible according to the sun rather than the clock as a means of quiet rebellion against the parts where the clock prevails over the sun.
 
FelixSH said:
With phones and computers automatically change time, I thankfully don't have to think about it much anymore, so it stopped being a problem for me. I don't really mind it anymore. I still think we should stop this nonsense, though, because I still think it's largely pointless. Or annoying, when I get reminded of animals, who will not just understand that time was changed for no sensible reason.

Also, I didn't realize that you have this nonsense three weeks before we do. Huh.
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The problem for most people is tiredness, the confusion of suddenly waking up in the dark again and kids/animals being off sync and keeping you on the old schedule. I wonder if since Europe does it later you don't get the sudden shift in sunrise/sunset as hard as we do in the US. But yeah, it's nice we're not missing appointments or showing up late anymore.

Also there's always a spike in car accidents and heart attacks.
 
It's a lose-lose situation. Switching is annoying, having less time in the morning is annoying, having less time at night is annoying.
 
After all, fiddling with the clock doesn't address the real problem, which is that people are required to spend too much time working, and at times not of their own preference.
 
Bongo said:
After all, fiddling with the clock doesn't address the real problem, which is that people are required to spend too much time working, and at times not of their own preference.
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Lately I've been thinking a lot about how "eight hours for what you will" is basically impossible. I spend ~90 minutes every weekday just commuting, and that certainly isn't "what you will".
 
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