I HATE and LOATHE WITH A PASSION this twice-yearly pissing about with the clocks. Isn't it about time we stopped it and just stuck with the one time-zone?
I grew up in Arizona, and didn't move to a place that observed Daylight Savings until i was nearly 18. Eleven years later and it still totally messes with my body and sleep schedule. Not only that, but a couple of years ago Congress decided to make it last a few more weeks...so now the time is wrong over half the year in the U.S. It was a stupid idea to begin with, even stupider now that we're in a technological age, not an agrarian one. Getting up an hour earlier than usual does not save energy and it doesn't make the day last longer...it's all a big mind frak.
even stupider now that we're in a technological age, not an agrarian one
*nods*
Every year in the autumn when the clocks go back, we get the argument about the increase in the number of road accidents - especially involving kids going to school in the dark - and then some bloody crofter from the Outer Hebrides moaning that it wouldn't get light until 10am if we didn't change them back or something. I'm sorry if that makes me sound intolerant - but I think that fewer dead kids kinda trumps a crofter having to get up in the dark.
(Yes - I freely admit to having no knowledge of farming whatsoever! I'm an ignorant townie.)
There are a lot of kids who get hit in the dark around here...and the school system has already changed to start at 9 instead of 8am.
If you're a farmer, you probably get up with the sun no matter what the clock says...cuz that's what the animals do, and they get noisy waiting to be fed. xD
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Those videos are hilarious. xD
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*nods*
Every year in the autumn when the clocks go back, we get the argument about the increase in the number of road accidents - especially involving kids going to school in the dark - and then some bloody crofter from the Outer Hebrides moaning that it wouldn't get light until 10am if we didn't change them back or something. I'm sorry if that makes me sound intolerant - but I think that fewer dead kids kinda trumps a crofter having to get up in the dark.
(Yes - I freely admit to having no knowledge of farming whatsoever! I'm an ignorant townie.)
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If you're a farmer, you probably get up with the sun no matter what the clock says...cuz that's what the animals do, and they get noisy waiting to be fed. xD