I think we oughta make the switch tonight, but then skip the "Fall Back" in November ...
Tonight ...
SteveS wrote:
Agreed. Leave it the hell alone!
Going on an all day fishing charter tomorrow, fishing Catalina Island. Dana Point Wharf is an hour away, and the boat leaves at 5am... So I gotta get up at 2am, which turns to 3am, and get my ass on the road.
We BETTER catch some damn fish... [ram27bat]
"Only the government would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Indian Chief said . . .
jespear wrote:
love it...may I quote you?
Clearly none of yall have ever farmed which is why we do the time change in the first place.
jjanecka wrote:
I blame Big Farma!
tailgater wrote:
you seem reenergized. where did ya go skiing?
The idea was quickly followed by the United Kingdom and many other countries, including France. Many countries reverted back to standard time after World War I, and it wasn’t until the next World War that DST made its return in most of Europe.
frankj1 wrote:
I first heard that almost 50 years ago and it still sounds good ...
I'm 63 and somehow this got by me.
Lol! So true
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this logic?
Pico.
Had a blast.
I'm still 63. My eyesight is worsening.
Grew up on a farm and still live in the community.The old DST is to help the farmer is nothing but a myth.
Many of us heard, at some point in elementary school, that DST was developed because of farming. The idea that more daylight means more time in the field for farmers continues to get airtime on the occasional local news report and in state legislatures — “Farmers wanted it because it extends hours of working in the field,” Texas state Rep. Dan Flynn offered after filing a bill that would abolish DST. Even Michael Downing, who wrote a book about DST, has said that before researching the subject, “I always thought we did it for the farmers.”
In fact, the inverse is true. “The farmers were the reason we never had a peacetime daylight saving time until 1966,” Downing told National Geographic. “They had a powerful lobby and were against it vociferously.” The lost hour of morning light meant they had to rush to get their crops to market. Dairy farmers were particularly flummoxed: Cows adjust to schedule shifts rather poorly, apparently.
