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... but how do you cope with the time change when NO ONE wants to settle down in the evenings (where it is currently 65 and 7:45 at night!) and do read-alouds? The kids are racing around, playing like maniacs, Thomas is playing chess with Dad (as he's got a bum ankle and can't chase with his brothers and sisters) and the big one, Joe, is chomping at the bit to get on the internet-access computer to look at Christian band concerts locally.....
I honestly love Spring, but oh how I hate daylight saving time!
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Oh, Daylight Savings time is driving me bonkers! DD says, "So I can stay up later?" And I say, "But getting up feels like an hour earlier." She says, "Oh, no fair!" I think, "Indeed!"
By the time I am truly adjusted to DST, it is time to "fall back" again.
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Mary G wrote:
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65?? is that above zero?? I haven't felt that warm of temperatures since September of 2006...oh, the good old days....
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Oh I LOVE DST!! The longer days are always a boost to me. It's supposed to be near 70 here tomorrow - dh and I decided we are ditching everything and taking the children hiking!
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Today our temp. reached 40, the sun was still out at 7:00 but that just showed the 2 feet of snow that is still on the ground. We also have a lot of snow expected this weekend. 
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I look at DST as an opportunity to play outside longer! Then my kids are more tired, and fine with going to sleep at their regular bed time. 
However, it is in the 70's and 80's here (Houston) this week, spring has begun without question. I had my a/c on last night.
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Mary G wrote:
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I'm inclined to agree, Mary!
I like DST but I prefer it in April ... when I am *ready* for it to be spring! I don't like to rush seasons! I don't mean to be a curmudgeon, but I like March in all its drab grayness, the blustery days, the subtle signs of spring (crocus shoots, bird activity, melting, sap running ...) It just feels too soon to have it so bright after supper! But that's just me.  My dh is thrilled because he has a touch of SAD (seasonal affective disorder), plus he's in a building all day, so he appreciates the extra hours of natural light. 
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I like DST but I prefer it in April ... when I am *ready* for it to be spring! I don't like to rush seasons! |
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I agree totally! Who are these people who decide these kind of things, I'd like to know! DST is supposed to start AFTER the vernal equinox! I hear DST isn't going to end until November now too.
There must some commercial reason for this somewhere . . .  Maybe people stay at work later because its light, so more $$$ for someone.
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mary theresa wrote:
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Mary Theresa, Dh and I have been trying to figure this out. Cows don't know the time change, so it's not the farmers. School districts have children in the dark waiting for a schoolbus -- a potentially hazardous situation. Who on earth was lobbying for this change?
What year was it that they tried to keep DST all year and it was a failure? I'm hoping this will flop, too. Did anyone ask ME if I wanted this change??????
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JennGM wrote:
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| There must some commercial reason for this somewhere . . . Maybe people stay at work later because its light, so more $$$ for someone. |
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Mary Theresa, Dh and I have been trying to figure this out. Cows don't know the time change, so it's not the farmers. School districts have children in the dark waiting for a schoolbus -- a potentially hazardous situation. Who on earth was lobbying for this change?
What year was it that they tried to keep DST all year and it was a failure? I'm hoping this will flop, too. Did anyone ask ME if I wanted this change?????? |
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From The Daylight Savings Time Web Exhibit:
Halloween Trick-or-Treaters
Through 2006, Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. ended a few days before Halloween (October 31). A new law to extend DST to the first Sunday in November will take effect in 2007, with the purpose of providing trick-or-treaters more light and therefore more safety from traffic accidents. Children's pedestrian deaths are four times higher on Halloween than on any other night of the year. For decades, candy manufacturers lobbied for a Daylight Saving Time extension to Halloween, as many of the young trick-or-treaters gathering candy are not allowed out after dark, and thus an added hour of light means a big holiday treat for the candy industry.
Voter Turnout in Elections
Through 2006, the Daylight Saving Time period has closed on the last Sunday October, about a week before Election Day, which is held the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The extension of Daylight Saving Time into November has been proposed as a way to encourage greater voter participation, the theory being that more people would go to the polls if it was still light when they returned home from work. The U.S. law taking effect in 2007 pushes the end of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in November. In some years, this will fall after Election Day, giving researchers the opportunity to gauge its effect on voter turnout.
Time Change Riots
Patrons of bars that stay open past 2:00 a.m. lose one hour of drinking time on the day when Daylight Saving Time springs forward one hour. This has led to annual problems in numerous locations, and sometimes even to riots. For example, at a "time disturbance" in Athens, Ohio, site of Ohio University, over 1,000 students and other late night partiers chanted "Freedom," as they threw liquor bottles at the police attempting to control the riot.
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Oh and the biggest reason is supposedly the energy savings.
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Dh works for a company that sells time and attendence software, Monday was a nightmare for him.
Me, I miss the sun in the morning. It was just starting to get light at 6:30. Now it's dark again!  .
Last year was our first year to change to Daylight Savings Time. In the past most of Indiana didn't observe DST. We live less than 5 minute from the Michigan border so it was nice to be on the same time as them, but I really don't like the late sunset - now or in the middle of summer. I'm a decided minority in this household though, a morning person amidst a flock of night owls. Everyone else loves it.
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The upside (not to be too negative) is that I get more done in the mornings cuz no one wants to get up (altho dh adjusts his own internal clock by "practicing" for the couple of weeks before -- that is, setting his alarm an hour earlier -- so he and I are adjusted just fine by the official time change  )!
Also, I love it in the Fall when the kids get up earlier cuz it's so light .....
Guess I'm just never satisfied....
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I LOVE it......it is 70 here!!!
My problem is changing the clocks, I really don't like time, I explained to dh the other night. He informed me, "I was going to have to learn to cope, as the rest of the world is OK with it".
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I feel so out of it! Dinner has been really late because I usually start when I can just detect it getting a wee bit darker outside...ack! Its an hour later now!
I just realized it is nearly 6pm! I have to cook dinner!
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molly wrote:
I LOVE it......it is 70 here!!!
My problem is changing the clocks, I really don't like time, I explained to dh the other night. He informed me, "I was going to have to learn to cope, as the rest of the world is OK with it". |
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This is too funny! Some of our clocks give me fits too....and I feel pretty stupid telling my girls to wait and have their dad set their watches (because I can't figure them out!).
74 degrees at 5:30 here in NORTHERN Ohio...I am liking that!
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I love it too! It was so warm and beautiful today. My 4yo has been SO happy to play outside for much of the past few days. (And the olders enjoyed more playtime too.)
Dh gets home from work around 7pm after a long commute. I am so happy when he can get home and we can eat dinner while it's still light out. 
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mary theresa wrote:
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CONGRESS, that's who. It's part of the energy bill passed last year.
So if you don't like it, write your senators and representatives in Congress. (I've already let my congressman have it.)
And for Halloween? Please. All that will do is make trick or treating later, at least here, because it starts when it gets DARK!!!
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And for Halloween? Please. All that will do is make trick or treating later, at least here, because it starts when it gets DARK!!!
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I know! You're not SUPPOSED to trick or treat in the light! How not-cool would that be!
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MicheleQ wrote:
Time Change Riots
Patrons of bars that stay open past 2:00 a.m. lose one hour of drinking time on the day when Daylight Saving Time springs forward one hour. This has led to annual problems in numerous locations, and sometimes even to riots. For example, at a "time disturbance" in Athens, Ohio, site of Ohio University, over 1,000 students and other late night partiers chanted "Freedom," as they threw liquor bottles at the police attempting to control the riot.
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Is it awful that this cracks me up! So, do drinking students care less that they loose an hour in March than in April?
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The upside (not to be too negative) is that I get more done in the mornings cuz no one wants to get up (altho dh adjusts his own internal clock by "practicing" for the couple of weeks before -- that is, setting his alarm an hour earlier -- so he and I are adjusted just fine by the official time change )!
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Mary let me guess he's an engineer?
I got one of those here too.
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