Why the hell are we doing this "spring ahead" and "fall back" can anyone give me a explanation for this madness

I cant stand it!

Its ridiculous when will are lawmakers repeal this?

 

Hahaha!

I just had this discussion over lunch. For us Californians, it really doesn't make sense right now, considering we're in an energy crisis. It's gonna get darker sooner and the lights are gonna have to come on sooner. I think Arizona is on to something....

 

If you really wanted to know...daylight savings time was instituted early this century (durring WWII I think) to save energy.

I agree that it is outdated and worthless these days.

 

Hey, check this out!!!

In May 2001, the California state legislature sent a Senate Joint Resolution (SJRX2 1) to the White House and Congress asking that California be allowed to extend Daylight Saving Time year round. The resolution can be viewed at: www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sjrx2_1_bill_20010627_chaptered.html . However, as of the end of September 2001, Congress and the White House have not acted on the request, and may not in light of the world-changing events of September 11, 2001.

 

I really hate it. It means that, for about 4 months, I almost never get to see the sun. It's dark when I drive to work, it's getting dark by the time I leave. If we didn't fall back, at least I'd get an hour in the evening where natural light was present.

 

Also means many children die on the roads on their way from school in the U.K. due to the poor lighting.........silly if you ask me

 

We don't need to repeal daylight savings time, we need to repeal standard time.
This is all the fault of the English anyway. The own the prime meridian. If we could just move that thing a little east.

 

Why did daylight saving time (DST) start, and why does it still continue? When asking a random sample of people we heard two answers again and again: "To help the farmers" or "Because of World War I ... or was it World War II?"

In fact, farmers generally oppose daylight saving time. In Indiana, where part of the state observes DST and part does not, farmers have opposed a move to DST. And the chief adversary of daylight saving time in the United States is the Farm Bureau. Farmers, who must wake with the sun no matter what time their clock says, are greatly inconvenienced by having to change their schedule in order to sell their crops to people who observe daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time began in the United States during World War I, primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting. Although some states and communities observed daylight saving time between the wars, it was not observed nationally again until World War II.

Of course, World War II is long over. So why do we still observe daylight saving time?

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided the basic framework for alternating between daylight saving time and standard time, which we now observe in the United States. But Congress can't seem to resist tinkering with it. For example, in 1973 daylight saving time was observed all year, instead of just the spring and summer. The current system of beginning DST at 2 AM on the first Sunday in April and ending it at 2 AM on the last Sunday in October was not standardized until 1986.

The earliest known reference to the idea of daylight saving time comes from a purely whimsical 1784 essay by Benjamin Franklin, called "Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle." It was first seriously advocated by William Willit, a British Builder, in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" in 1907.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by WestSideBilly
[B]I really hate it.

 

I love that kind of stuff. I can work a full day, go home, change my cloths and go for a 2 - 3 hour motorcycle ride and still get home before it gets dark! I say let's keep day light savings time and get rid of normal time!