Daylight Savings Time. A poll.

Should we eliminate Daylight Savings Time?

  • Yes

    Votes: 48 57.1%

  • No

    Votes: 22 26.2%

  • Could care less either way

    Votes: 10 11.9%

  • Pie!! Gimme more Pie.

    Votes: 4 4.8%
  • Total voters
    84
#78
#78
OrangeTsar said:
If you work in IT it is even worse. All databases and logs get really screwed up. The night of falling back, you have double records of every minute between 2 and 3 am (example 2:30 am occurs TWICE)). In the spring, a whole hour is missing between 2 am and three am. If you are doing calculations and you want to see how long a process was running between 1:58 am and 3:15 am, the answer is 17 Minutes, not 77 minutes. If the boss asks how many people logged in to your website at 2:23 am the answer is undefined because that time will not appear in your records.
Really critical systems use UTC timezone to deal with the problem
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That’s a “them” problem, not a “me” problem.
 
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#80
#80
every year those bastards steal an hour of sleep from me and i gotta wait til fall to get it back. Buncha yahoos wanna let them keep the hour permanently? **** that
 
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#84
#84
I prefer to have daylight up to close to 9:00pm...

Sunset in ATL 7:51 but CHI it's 7:30




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#89
#89
how bout we just identify as a time zone and that identity is fluid depending on immediate need? you can choose your own time zone flags.
 
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#91
#91
ok I got it.

national referendum

use the % values to split between DST or ST.... 50/50 means "Xh:30m", 75/15 means Xh:45m.

Keep it to the nearest 15 min cause I don't want to do anything radical.
 
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#95
#95
InVOLuntary said:
I don't sleep like I used to. If I went to bed at 9:00 I'd be awake at 2:00 or 3:00. If I get 6 hours I'm doing good.
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Same here. I usually do a review of daily reports about 9 then go to bed around 10 - 10:30 and up at 5. Although I wouldn't mind going to bed around 8 and getting up around 3 if I could get anything done to shorten my day at that time.
 
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#96
#96
It all goes back to the days of the introduction of the railroad. Before that, every city observed their own local noon based on sun position (closest to how we currently define standard time). But when railroads began operating on fixed schedules to the minute, a solution was needed in which small differences in time between stations didn’t cause train collisions. As a compromise we got our current worldwide 24 time zones which became necessary for all types of modern technology and commerce.
Daylight saving time was yet a further abstraction away from true astronomical timekeeping and makes it possible for a city on the edge of a time zone to have their clocks differ from solar time by as much as 90 minutes. That just seems to me to totally get way from what civil timekeeping should represent.
Celestial navigation (with a sextant and almanac) which is still taught in the Navy in case GPS ever goes down gives a good understanding as to why we traditionally kept time the way we did before DST. The equation of time was a skill all competent mariners once knew well.
 
#97
#97
InVOLuntary said:
Not all of us go to bed at 9:00. 😅
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Ha! I get not everyone goes to bed around my time. I used to live further north and in the summer it was dark dark around 10. Getting my kids to bed when they were younger was more difficult when it was light out. They wanted to play and I couldn't blame them. I would rather have it lighter earlier than lighter later. I guess that's why people are so split on this - ha. It really wouldn't ruin my life if DST stuck though.
 
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#99
#99
just bob said:
Ha! I get not everyone goes to bed around my time. I used to live further north and in the summer it was dark dark around 10. Getting my kids to bed when they were younger was more difficult when it was light out. They wanted to play and I couldn't blame them. I would rather have it lighter earlier than lighter later. I guess that's why people are so split on this - ha. It really wouldn't ruin my life if DST stuck though.
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when I was in Scotland we were just teeing off around 10 pm in June
 
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