End Daylight Savings Forever -Poll-

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Set clocks forward only one half hour, and forget about it forever.

Who is with me?

No how about we leave it on standard time and leave it alone?

I found it very annoying when we had trial daylight saving here in WA. I'm so glad that we rejected it.

I live in WA and we had to set clocks forward Saturday night. Unless you mean another WA than Washington state.

Maybe eastern Washington State, around Spokane?

All official measures of time should be abolished altogether.

In the late 1960s in the UK, there was an experiment whereby British Summer Time was maintained for the whole year (ie the clocks were not put back in October). I used to love going to school in the dark during the winter months.

Time is mearly a mathmatical formula that exists exclusively in the minds of humans to determine the position of the Earth in relation to our star, and it is necessary for cooperation.

You may as well abolish multiplication while you are at it.

WTF are you talking about??? Time isn't a "mathematical formula."

Well, sure it is. If a 12 hour analog clock had 24 numbers on it, then the hour hand would be moving at the exact* speed of the surface of the planet (1,470.23 kilometres per hour, with roughly 12,742 km diameter, *varies with altitude and unknowns) in 360 degrees (same as a sphere). We set this in relation to our sun, add up our orbit for a farming calendar, and wallah! When you look at any clock, you are reading your solar position (time) based on your global position (hh:mm:ss).

If you are talking about the rate at which our minds record action individually (which would be relative to which side of the bathroom door you are on.), or the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole, I would agree with you, at least as far as to say that we are looking at everything ass-backwards.

I stopped drinking a little over a year ago and since then there seems to have been an increase in my Asperger's symptoms, as if becoming a child again. What I didn't expect was the effect DST would have on me.

I was never concerned with it, but since its onset, I now find I'm disoriented and confused. I know change unnerves us but I didn't think the change in time would affect me one bit. Either that or I'm just getting old.

I wish there were no daylight saving time, and the sun would be up by 6:30am, and would set at 21:30pm.

I wish Poland could have "summer time" all year long.

Right now our sun rises at 6:30AM and sets at 4:00PM (sic!).
If there was no "winter time" it could rise at 7:30AM and set at 5:00PM.

On the shortest day of year the sun rises at 7:44AM and sets at 3:30PM (sic!)
If there was no "winter time" it could rise at 8:44AM and set as 4:30PM.

I don't mind dark mornings but dark afternoons are depressing. People working 7:30AM-3:30PM barely see any sun during winter time and it seems to be the most common working schedule in offices, for some reasons I can't understand.

BTW. Keeping time change but using "summer time" during winter and changing real summer time to 1h ahead wouldn't be a bad idea either:

On the longest day of year sun rises at 4:14AM and sets at 9PM according to real summer time.
If summer time was 1h ahead it could rise at 5:14AM and set at10 PM.

Staying at 0,5h between summer and winter time wouldn't be a bad idea either. Currently, with winter time our noon happens around 11:30 and with summer time it happens around 12:30. With static 0,5 the noon would happen at actual noon!

With 0,5 time currently sun would rise at 6:00AM and sets at 4:30PM.
On the shortest day of year the sun would rise at 8:14AM and set at 4:00PM.
On the longest day of year sun would rise at 3:44AM and set at 8:30PM.

Last edited by Kiriae on 03 Nov 2015, 12:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Being Scandinavian, I'm very happy for the extra hour of sunlight.

Noone gives you any extra hour of sunlight. They just move it either to morning or evening and say they made the day longer.

It made sense during WWII when they needed daylight to keep working but we don't need it now at all. And the frustration - I never realize how many clocks I have! Everywhere I turn, something's flashing TWELVE TWELVE TWELVE.
It takes an hour to fix the clocks.