Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for March 12, 2022

Just for the record. I hate daylight savings time.

I’m springing forward!

I’ve always heard that it was for farmers. Getting the kids up in the morning was and is a difficult task to moving that extra hour of daylight to the evening increased productivity working the fields.

Two things I’d like the US to be rid of: Daylight Savings and the Electoral College!!

i’ve always thought it would be more confusing if they did for a half an hour nowadays

I feel we should set the clocks a half an hour ahead in the Spring, and forget about it. No more spring ahead and fall back BS.

I like it! During winter months, I feel like a mushroom in a basement….

Let me explain the logic to you by way of analogy. You go to bed at night but your blanket is too short and you get cold feet. So you cut the top foot off the blanket and sew it on the bottom so your feet don’t get cold. See problem solved with a simple solution. Daylight savings time works exactly the same way.

Only a politician, or an idiot, thinks you can cut a foot off one end of a blanket and sew it on the other end and have a longer blanket

There is a plaque in Grand Central Station commemorating Daylight Savings Time as the creation of the railroad companies trying to rationalize the different local time zones.

England, during WWII was on two hour daylight saving time to allow more daylight after work for people to work in their Victory gardens to help feed the war effort.

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It’s time to cut off the bottom of my blanket and sew it on the other end already??

the rush hour “air” has to move over in sequence with the air move that comes from Sunrise. change everybody’s start time or die of the smog (!)

Pick one, either Summer time or Winter time and stick with it. For as much as 6 weeks after this upcoming change heart attacks, traffic accident and other such things have been shown to have an increase in frequency that does calm down, but it’s hell for a while. Meantime the pack wants to be fed, taken for walks and generally cared for and does not care about the time because they are not shackled by those little bits of technology humans wear on their wrists or have stuffed in a pocket somewhere. That said, I am taking next week off from any face to face work and will just Zoom or Teams it in.

It’s an assault on the working class with twice-a-year disruptions in our sleep patterns.

Or we could all just start our day an hour earlier.

I call it “National-Rob-Everyone-of-an-Hour-of-Sleep-for-no-good-Reason Day.” The real deal is that store owners like it because people stay out later and shop more. In the meantime, accidents and deaths statistically increase, because even that change of an hour disrupts sleeping cycles. So once again in the US: MONEY REIGNS SUPREME! Increased accidents and death? Who cares, there’s profits to be made. Everyone else can just go away, so long as you make sure to shop on your way wherever you’re going.

Golf Course owners can afford affective lobbyists, but would have trouble getting any real percentage of businesses to change working hours. 1%ers must be cultivated, we’re just the weeds.

Notice that Broom Hilda uses the correct term for it: Daylight Saving Time (no “s” on Saving)…

That said, we should just stick with one time and leave it at that. ;-)

I used to enjoy Eastern Standard time. I worked nights for 35 years, most of which were 12 hours worth. It was pretty painful, when we were going in to work for 7 p.m., on a gorgeous Summer evening, and the day shift was getting out, and heading to the beach, etc. At least when it got dark earlier, I didn’t mind, since they were experiencing our light, and dark hours.

DST is useless and frustrating, not to mention a semi-annual bother. DST should be abolished….

Dang! I have gotta “spring forward” before I go to bed.

What I hate the most is having to get up at 2am to change all my clocks :)