…hey, my wife had to remind me today. So maybe other people have forgotten, too. Or something like that.
We will now start the traditional expression of hatred towards this practice. Which, to be honest, is why I’m mentioning it. Many of my readers seem to enjoy loathing DST in public…
Loathe, perhaps. DST seems to be a solution in search of a problem, an exercise in government saying “bet you can’t get ’em to swallow this!”, a relic not of an age gone by but of a bad misconception of that age.
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It is, however, a way for Congress to throw bones at system admins and concerned parents, so it’s not completely without value…
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Mew
Well to be fair, it really did serve a purpose in the Victorian Era. Back when telegraphs were the only way to communicate between oceans in less than 2 weeks. I’ll even grant it possessed some *small* meaning when you had to make a phone call to do it.
But now, when you can type any time during the day and still beat London’s close? Nope. Pointless.
DST wasn’t implemented anywhere until 1916, well after the Victorian era.
Slicing the end off a loaf of bread and stapling it to the other end does not create more bread.
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Slicing the end off a day and gluing it to the other end does not create more day either…
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If you want to get home from work when it’s still daylight out, consider working a different shift.
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Mew
Daylight Savings Time, or as I like to call it “Oh, just shut up already Arizona. You’re not the last defenders of rationality, you just have your clocks set differently. You’re America’s Newfoundland.” Time.
Maine considered stopping DST.
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Half the year we would have been in the eastern time zone and the other half in the atlantic time zone
Idaho is currently debating it. Not having the Mountain/Pacific Time zone line cutting the state in half would be a good thing, and I’ve never met anybody who likes DST.
That said, we’ve got an awful lot of Mormons who have some sort of emotional attachment to being on the same time as the temple in Salt Lake.
We’ll see if it goes anywhere.
So … Start lobbying Utah to drop out as well, and create “Mormon time”…
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Mew
I’d suggest eliminating timezones along with DST, but since our government just decided to regulate the internet like the telegraph, I guess we’re stuck with both.
The excise tax to pay for the Spanish-American war was repealed … in the 1970s, IIRC.
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Mew
I grew up in Indiana, where we didn’t have to put up with this clock-changing bullshit. Unfortunately they relented and adopted DST after I moved away.