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fabio
Posted on 03-10-07 01:45 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12892


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Last view: 5545 days 		Don't forget to set you clocks one hour ahead on Sunday because Daylights Savings Time starts early this year.

Personally, I only liked Daylight Savings Time when I was little because I got to stay outside and play longer. Nowadays, I don't really care for it anymore.

I'm especially not fond of losing an hour of sleep. Good thing it starts in the beginning of my Spring Break because I can always make up that hour of sleep that I'm going to lose.

Xkeeper
Posted on 03-10-07 01:47 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12897


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Last view: 2800 days 		I never understood Daylight Savings Time. It just never made sense to me

Oh well, for a while I get to be GMT-7, I guess. But an hour will mysteriously vanish again...

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Peardian
Posted on 03-10-07 01:50 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12900


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Last view: 6092 days 		Personally, I think DST wastes more energy than it saves.

...somehow.



I could care less if they just got rid of it.

Kernal
Posted on 03-10-07 01:54 AM (rev. 2 of 03-10-07 01:54 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 12906

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Posted by fabio
Don't forget to set you clocks one hour ahead on Sunday because Daylights Savings Time starts early this year.


Only for US posters though. Other countries have different dates (or don't have DST at all in tropical regions).

I never saw the point of DST. We should all adjust our clocks half an hour and never touch them again. Of course, as a little kid I had fun going around and changing all the clocks. I loved anything that involved pushing buttons for some reason...I would push random buttons on the remote control while my parents were watching TV, for instance. And then get yelled at. I still couldn't resist that remote though...all those buttons! The VCR remote was even better!

Acmlm
Posted on 03-10-07 02:01 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12911


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Canada too, to avoid being a hour off during those 3 weeks ...

I like when we go back a hour, but the other way around isn't as fun ... although in my case, the lost/gained hour goes to my Saturday night instead of sleep

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Kernal
Posted on 03-10-07 02:04 AM (rev. 2 of 03-10-07 02:04 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 12912

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Last view: 6140 days 		Yeah, I always called it an "extra hour of wake". And I also prefer gaining the hour over losing it. Not a big deal this year though as it's just one less hour of spring break, which is already a week.

Sinfjotle
Posted on 03-10-07 02:05 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12913


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Last view: 6145 days 		So I have to work Saturday night. 10:30 to 6:30, does this mean I'm only working 7 hours?

FirePhoenix0
Posted on 03-10-07 02:09 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12916


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Posted by Sinfjotle
So I have to work Saturday night. 10:30 to 6:30, does this mean I'm only working 7 hours?

Sounds like it.

I actually don't see how changing it earlier saves energy. I haven't seen an explanation for it; I only heard that it was happening.

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Kles
Posted on 03-10-07 02:54 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12938


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Last view: 5479 days 		It saves energy by allowing more natural light in to someone's house over the course of the day, making it so that you need to turn the lights on later at night.

...Why they don't have it all year round is beyond me though.

OoBurns
Posted on 03-10-07 03:06 AM Link | Quote | ID: 12952


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It's like y2k all over again with people thinking the world will end because computers don't know daylight savings time is early this year. (Well, I guess people aren't quite as worried as they were 7 years ago, but meh.)

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Nicole
Posted on 03-10-07 03:58 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13043


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A lot of obsession over DST here- honestly, I've probably received over a hundred reminders...

It really is too early, especially for the northern parts of the country.

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Posted on 03-10-07 04:50 AM (rev. 2 of 03-10-07 04:53 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 13114


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Posted by BooUrns
It's like y2k all over again with people thinking the world will end because computers don't know daylight savings time is early this year. (Well, I guess people aren't quite as worried as they were 7 years ago, but meh.)
After a whlie, you start getting desensitized to this crap. Anthrax, Y2K, avian flu, SARS...

It got old.

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Ailure
Posted on 03-10-07 04:52 AM (rev. 2 of 03-10-07 04:56 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 13118

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Just when evenings were getting lighter. >> xD

I have no idea when we have our DST though. I should check, so it won't come as a surprise...

Edit: We have our (Europe) DST in the last sunday of march. Keep this in mind, as the server is currently located in Germany and follows GMT+1 time.

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Kernal
Posted on 03-10-07 04:55 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13124

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Posted by Xkeeper
After a whlie, you start getting desensitized to this crap. Anthrax, Y2K, avian flu, SARS


I've always been pretty desensitized to anything I hear on the news, even 09-11. I mean, I am opposed to terrorism and recognize the day as being one with a major loss of life, but it didn't shake me to the core or make me want to find meaning in life or anything like that.

K Ro
Posted on 03-10-07 04:57 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13127


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Last view: 6237 days 		Really your not saving time during daylight saving time..It's just later later and early earlier..if that makes sense.

Xkeeper
Posted on 03-10-07 04:58 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13130


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Last view: 2800 days 		I think it's mostly because the media needs to overdramatize everything to get people to watch (Everyone loves a good scare!), it gets to the point where nothing really suprises you on the news anymore. Whoopee, someone died, who cares?

Mostly because they're always put in some dramatic light instead of being serious, since, you know. More viewers = more $.

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setz
Posted on 03-10-07 05:00 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13133


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Posted by K Ro
Really your not saving time during daylight saving time..It's just later later and early earlier..if that makes sense.


so you're saving daylight based on a normal person's schedule.

I hate daylight.

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Ailure
Posted on 03-10-07 05:00 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13135

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And that's why I can't stand watching propaganda channel.

Or as it's usually called. CNN. >>

I like watching news, but things aren't as overdone on our TV channels news. Tabloids however...

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Posted by Ailure
And that's why I can't stand watching propaganda channel.

Or as it's usually called. CNN. >>

I like watching news, but things aren't as overdone on our TV channels news. Tabloids however...
Oh, for the love of...

It's the Communist News Network. Get it right!

And I rarely watch the news either. I'm blissfully ignorant of the world around me, but I did like reading the New York Post's "murders" section, mostly because it listed exactly what happened with little emotion or dramatization, so it was interetsing to see what happened and easier to be a little upset (instead of gaping in awe at blue and red flashing lights)...

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Kernal
Posted on 03-10-07 05:08 AM Link | Quote | ID: 13144

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Last view: 6140 days 		I don't watch the news (or any TV). If a news event is important enough, I'll hear about it online, from my parents, from school, etc. If it isn't important (like J-Lo getting her 33rd husband or whatever), I probably don't care.
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