Another f***ing stupid idea

[ForeverAutumn]

I don't understand the problem? Personally, I love the idea. Not for the energy-saving reasons that are being spewed at us. If you wanna save energy, pass a law that forces office towers to shut lights off during non-business hours...then see how many million (possibly billions) of kw are saved each year. No to mention how many millions of birds' lives will be saved each year (but that's another issue altogether).

I like the idea of it staying light later. I always look forward to changing my clock in the spring. Yeah, it'll be dark when I wake up now. But I don't have to wake up that early, so the morning darkness won't last long. But having that extra hour of sunlight in the evening, well...that's just good for my psyche.

[Feanor]

I don't understand the problem? Personally, I love the idea. Not for the energy-saving reasons that are being spewed at us. If you wanna save energy, pass a law that forces office towers to shut lights off during non-business hours...then see how many million (possibly billions) of kw are saved each year. No to mention how many millions of birds' lives will be saved each year (but that's another issue altogether).

I like the idea of it staying light later. I always look forward to changing my clock in the spring. Yeah, it'll be dark when I wake up now. But I don't have to wake up that early, so the morning darkness won't last long. But having that extra hour of sunlight in the evening, well...that's just good for my psyche.

Yeah, well maybe you don't get up 5:45AM and have to wait 2 hours for a trace of sunlight.

I hate darkness in the morning. What first put me off that was when I commuted to Toronto from Guelph. I had to be at the bus station at about 5:50AM. It was wonderful in late March when, after a long dark winter, the sun came up about the time the bus was leaving the terminal. Then *bang* first week of April it was back to another four weeks of darkness.

Later I moved to Regina, SK: they don't observe DST in Sask. Fine, but they are on Central instead of Mountain time so in effect Regina had year-round DST!! What treat not to see the sun until after 9:00AM -- NOT. On the flip side ot that, when I went to bed at 10:30PM it was useless having twilight 'till 11:30.

I can remember when DST was even shorter, like from the end of April: that work reasonably well. But if some is good, more has to be better, right?