All that crap about losing or gaining an hour is pure BS. It is nothing more than a control feature for businesses. I’m retired. I don’t care what the clock says, I’ll sleep when I’m tired and be out and about whenever I feel the urge. And I don’t watch tv, so I don’t care.
Switching from standard time to daylight saving is no worse than the jetlag you might experience when changing time zones after a flight. We all adjust to it.
I still chuckle when I think of my dad’s comment about DST from long ago. Everyone (for the most part) goes along fine with setting the clocks forward, such that we’re effectively doing things an hour earlier. But if the government mandated instead that everyone simply had to start going to work or school an hour earlier every day (your work day now starts at 7 AM instead of 8 AM!), there would be strikes, societal disruptions, possibly riots, etc.
Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year..so staying dst does my heart good!
GROG Premium Member over 3 years ago
I don’t have to lose an hour. I never fell back.
mommavamp over 3 years ago
We don’t really lose anything—-we just move it around. Still the same old 24 per day.
landyk over 3 years ago
All that crap about losing or gaining an hour is pure BS. It is nothing more than a control feature for businesses. I’m retired. I don’t care what the clock says, I’ll sleep when I’m tired and be out and about whenever I feel the urge. And I don’t watch tv, so I don’t care.
david_42 over 3 years ago
If she is awake at 2 am, I don’t think she’d be doing homework.
admiree2 over 3 years ago
We need to put an end to this Alice In Wonderland crap twice a year.
sfreader1 over 3 years ago
Switching from standard time to daylight saving is no worse than the jetlag you might experience when changing time zones after a flight. We all adjust to it.
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
If only it were the national news hour that got lost.
WF11 over 3 years ago
I still chuckle when I think of my dad’s comment about DST from long ago. Everyone (for the most part) goes along fine with setting the clocks forward, such that we’re effectively doing things an hour earlier. But if the government mandated instead that everyone simply had to start going to work or school an hour earlier every day (your work day now starts at 7 AM instead of 8 AM!), there would be strikes, societal disruptions, possibly riots, etc.
cosman over 3 years ago
Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year..so staying dst does my heart good!