|
|
|
Daylight Savings (in the USA) |
Post Reply 
|
| Author | |||
stan1551 
Super Member 
Joined: 01/17/2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 278 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Topic: Daylight Savings (in the USA)Posted: 03/08/2009 at 9:49pm |
||
|
Canada is the exactly the same, we did "spring forward" today...
|
|||
|
proud member of the (not so exclusive) EJ club
|
|||
 |
|||
| Sponsored Links | |||
|
|||
|
danhs
Super Member
Joined: 07/04/2005 Status: Offline Points: 445 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/08/2009 at 10:27pm |
||
|
Daylight Savings is the stupidest idea ever in the history of mankind. At least for me when I have to get up for work at 4:30 am
 .
|
|||
|
|||
|
bowebj
Super Member
Joined: 07/14/2008 Status: Offline Points: 408 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/08/2009 at 10:30pm |
||
|
well your the stupidest person just imagine if they didnt do it. think about it
|
|||
|
|||
|
lildudejds
Gold Member 
Joined: 02/27/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1503 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/08/2009 at 11:52pm |
||
|
It was originally an idea to give the farmers an extra hour of light to work, makes sense.
|
|||
|
Nexy Hannibal
Tenergy 05 Tenergy 05 FX |
|||
|
|||
|
varghesep
Premier Member 
Joined: 09/28/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3111 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/08/2009 at 11:59pm |
||
|
I ve read somewhere that they had plan to introduce more daylight savings break - not just two every year.
|
|||
|
|||
|
acer800
Silver Member 
Joined: 12/12/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 592 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 12:07am |
||
|
I personally hate it too =(
|
|||
|
You want A PERSONAL WEBSITE FOR SUPER CHEAP?
http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=22979&PN=1#269260 |
|||
|
|||
|
esnift
Super Member
Joined: 04/16/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 405 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 2:06am |
||
what? it would get darker and lighter at slightly different times? big deal. there are many places that don t do it and they haven t exploded yet. it seems to be completely outmoded and we just continue doing it from force of habit. |
|||
|
YE
Hurricane III Tenergy 05fx |
|||
|
|||
|
IAmI
Super Member
Joined: 09/29/2008 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 221 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 3:33am |
||
Hmm, I thought it was introduced to save lighting electricity in factories.
One way or the other it does make some sense even though a lot of us may not like it.
|
|||
|
IFZLC
FH T05 2.1mm BH O4a max |
|||
|
|||
|
firetack
Silver Member
Joined: 10/18/2006 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 950 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 3:40am |
||
|
i recall turning up for a football(soccer)match just as the first half was ending as i had forgotten to put the clock forwards,the manager was not impressed and neither was i!
|
|||
|
Black Balsa 3.0 fh/tenergy 05 1.9 388d ox
|
|||
|
|||
|
esnift
Super Member
Joined: 04/16/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 405 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 3:56am |
||
I believe the farmer argument is correct since daylight savings was around before lighting bills. I ve heard the electric cost thing before but I m not aware of any factories that operate with open roofs (iron smelts maybe? but they don t really have any lights at all). Correct me if I m wrong but most offices and factories have their lights on all day. |
|||
|
YE
Hurricane III Tenergy 05fx |
|||
|
|||
|
IAmI
Super Member
Joined: 09/29/2008 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 221 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 4:10am |
||
|
I hate to say it but I was right. I just checked Wiki now. I swear I didn t before. |
|||
|
IFZLC
FH T05 2.1mm BH O4a max |
|||
|
|||
|
tabl10s
Super Member
Joined: 02/02/2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 218 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 12:26pm |
||
|
It doesn t happen in Arizona.
|
|||
|
|||
|
IAmI
Super Member
Joined: 09/29/2008 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 221 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 1:02pm |
||
|
I guess saving light in Arizona would be like saving snow in Alaska or something
I actually didn t know it wasn t uniform across the US. I m sure Ohio where most of my friends come from has it and in fact I am 90% sure they do it in TX so it s probably nothing to do with AZ being in the south. I may be wrong though...
|
|||
|
IFZLC
FH T05 2.1mm BH O4a max |
|||
|
|||
|
esnift
Super Member
Joined: 04/16/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 405 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 4:24pm |
||
Well mostly right: "early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting" Doesn t say anything about factories, but lighting after work hours was a concern. Also interesting that daylight savings is detrimental to farmers and not helpful as most people assume (i remember my grandpa, a wheat farmer, ranting about DST once but was too you to remember if it was good ranting on negative ranting). |
|||
|
YE
Hurricane III Tenergy 05fx |
|||
|
|||
|
tdragon
Platinum Member 
Joined: 01/26/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2060 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 4:46pm |
||
|
Just love and hate. I love it when I could sleep one more hour and hate it when I have to wake up one hour earlier.
 LOL
|
|||
|
|||
|
NoFootwork
Silver Member
Joined: 10/27/2006 Location: Dark side Status: Offline Points: 692 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 5:24pm |
||
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the idea of daylight saving time. However, it wasn t implemented in the US until WWI. People hated it and was rescinded. It became law for US around 1965. Arizona and Hawaii do not follow DST as these 2 states opted out of it. I believe Indiana didn t adopt it until 2005.
There have been several studies that support energy savings due to implementation of DST and its implementation is related more for that reason and not for farmers getting more time to work the land.
|
|||
|
|||
|
jpingchow123
Super Member
Joined: 02/21/2009 Status: Offline Points: 226 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 5:25pm |
||
|
So with daylight savings... I forgot to adjust my alarm clock so by the time I woke up I missed half my first class. I decided to go play ping pong at the sports center instead.
Daylight savings isn t that bad lol. |
|||
|
Amultart CS
Bryce Speed 2.1 Tackifire Special Soft 2.1 YEO Bryce Speed 2.1 Tackifire Special Soft 2.1 |
|||
|
|||
|
wturber
Premier Member
Joined: 10/28/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3899 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 8:52pm |
||
Daylight savings cannot change the amount of daylight in a day. If that was the purpose, then it was a pretty dumb idea. I think the purpose was somewhat different than that. |
|||
|
Jay Turberville
www.jayandwanda.com Hardbat: Nittaku Resist w/ Dr. Evil or Friendship 802-40 OX |
|||
|
|||
|
wturber
Premier Member
Joined: 10/28/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3899 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 9:01pm |
||
Arizona had Daylight savings at one time. I recall as a kid waiting until after 9:30P at night at the drive-in theater for the sun to set. |
|||
|
Jay Turberville
www.jayandwanda.com Hardbat: Nittaku Resist w/ Dr. Evil or Friendship 802-40 OX |
|||
|
|||
|
esnift
Super Member
Joined: 04/16/2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 405 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/09/2009 at 9:04pm |
||
|
yeah if you check wiki they have a map of the world that indicates which countries currently use DST, which ones did but no longer do, and countries that never have used DST.
|
|||
|
YE
Hurricane III Tenergy 05fx |
|||
|
|||
|
IAmI
Super Member
Joined: 09/29/2008 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 221 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: 03/10/2009 at 3:30am |
||
The timing seems to vary a lot. It doesn t happen in Europe until in three weeks time now.
|
|||
|
IFZLC
FH T05 2.1mm BH O4a max |
|||
|
|||
|
Post Reply
|
|
Tweet
|
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
MyTableTennis.NET is the trading name of Alex Table Tennis Ltd. |
Topic Options
bowebj wrote: