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General Discussion => Controversy Corner => Topic started by: Phoenix on 2008-03-04, 18:32



Title: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Phoenix on 2008-03-04, 18:32
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334831,00.html

Literally.  So abolish it already.  It's a stupid idea.


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: fourier on 2008-03-04, 21:39
Foxnews???  I can't click the link!


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Kain-Xavier on 2008-03-04, 22:57
Living in AZ, I've become spoiled by not having to adjust the time on my alarm clock.  Although it's confusing to everybody else who practices DST.  In fall, we're MST.  In spring, we're PST.  To make matters worse, parts of AZ observe Daylight Savings Time.  Indiana is the same way.


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Thomas Mink on 2008-03-04, 23:38
I always thought DST was dumb, seeing no real reason for it. Nice to see others joining the cause! Muahahahahahahaha. :slippy_thumb:


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: scalliano on 2008-03-05, 00:00
In my part of the world, it's called BST (British Summer Time) and the only purpose it serves is to provide broad daylight at 11PM. Pointless.


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Kajet on 2008-03-05, 02:44
About sporking time someone figures it out, now maybe we won't have to dick around with every frigging clock in the house two times a year...

And yes I am just so lazy that I didn't adjust my clock for the last DST switch -P


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: ReBoOt on 2008-03-05, 07:51
Same thing here in sweden, thought tbh i like the summer time cuz it makes it brighter on the evening, well maybe not by much but still! :)


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Phoenix on 2008-03-05, 08:01
four:  It's originally a Wall Street Journal article.  Fox just mirrored the content.  Link to original is here:  http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120406767043794825-UOLcfJA8x9Gw9ozbCz77MiLmtaE_20080327.html

Kain:  Indiana gave in a few years ago.  They're on DST now as well.


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: fourier on 2008-03-05, 21:38
It was just a joke, lol.


Title: Re: Daylight Savings Time Sucks
Post by: Phoenix on 2008-03-05, 22:20
Ahh, well I never know.  Some forum members in the past have stated as much quite seriously.  I'm not partial to any news media myself, but I've come to learn that ones preferred news outlet is determined largely by their political slant.  Liberals or (self-described "progressives" if they do not like the term) favor the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc, while Conservatives (or Neo-Cons as they're often called by their critics) tend to favor Fox, Drudge, and the Washington Times, etc.  I try to keep media bias in mind with anything I read as, to me, there's no such thing as unbiased media.