It actually is very smart if you consider how it is designed to conserve energy use. Bush2 moved it ahead several weeks in March and pushed it back in Fall. It’s one of his administrations policy I never faulted.
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Studies show that almost no energy is saved. The risks outweighs the benefits.
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“A 2017 meta-analysis of 44 studies found that DST leads to electricity savings of (only) 0.34% during the days when DST applies.” 0.34% is something over hundreds of 1000’s of households in DST observed countries. I for 1 welcome the coming sunlight after 9pm in my Lat.
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Thank you for demonstrating that I'm right.
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But you are not.
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Yes I am. 0.34% is nothing. How can you force an entire country to make something that only saves 0.34%? That’s literally nothing. Climate change is far greater than that and people are still “discussing it” for being such a low impact. Don’t be absurd.
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0 is nothing. You are wrong.
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I don’t give two flying fucks that you “prefer” to have daylight at 9pm. 0.34% is nothing, like the possibility of you dying by a lighting strike. I don’t think you stay indoors on the rain do you? It’s absurd to do this for only 0.34%. Don’t care what you think about it.
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My day is what I make it... changing the hands on the clock serves no purpose.
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Tell that to my cows
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If you keep cows and need to get up an hour earlier or an hour later to tend to them then just do it and leave the rest of us out of it.
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I would think cattle farmers need to go by the sun and not the clock? That's what my grandpa had to do anyway. His cattle didn't use alarm clocks, they based their activity around the sun rising and setting. But he was a full time farmer, not a hobbyist.
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But the farmhands do use clocks, and they need to be on the farm when the cows are up.
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Then they can come to work an hour earlier in the summer and an hour later in the summer. I do shift work too.
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Yes, but that is far more complex for businesses than just shifting the clocks. Not to mention the fact that, where I am, (Vancouver) the sun would rise at 3:30am in June without DST. Folks would complain even more about that.
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I'm in nova Scotia, so not much more further south than Vancouver. If everyone did away with DST then everyone would still have a consistent time, and Saskatchewan, as someone else pointed out, does just as well without it.
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God, this is dumb. Without dst, sunrise in NYC is 425am, sunset at 730pm. That hour of daylight when everyone is asleep? Saved for when they're awake. Just stop.
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Well said. Baffles me when people don't display any logic or understanding behind it. It's two days where you make a change and benefit from it the other 363 days
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Frankly, getting that hour in the fall is another benefit for me—it’s like a national holiday.
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I'll gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.
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Most people call that arrangement using a credit card

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Perhaps, but the joy of the extra hour far outweighs my sadness of losing one today. I get unreasonably happy about that extra hour. It’s like the super power I always wanted just happens for one day.
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but you aren't getting an extra hour, lmao same amount of time in the day nothing has changed except what the clock says
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Of course—it’s just a mental thing for that day which brings me joy.
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