Daylight Saving Time

[Oranjui]

Is there any point to it, at all? Does anyone here have any reasoning as to why it should still be used? Do you think there would be enough people in favour of getting rid of it to actually

Frankly, it's just stupid. We've joked about this on IRC before, with time gradients, metric time, galactic time, whatever. But I mean it now. Some various things I pulled from around random petition websites:
• It has a negative impact on health.
• It increases CO2 production and its level in atmosphere.
• It is responsible for the increase in energy prices.
• Daylight Saving Time is a left over of the early 20th century. It has no purpose in this age.
• It complicates our lives -- it's an antiquated practice that only aggravates people.
• Only 20% of world population uses DST.
• As it is (in 'murica), Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgina Islands, and America Samoa do not participate in this practice.
• From Wikipootia: (blue is DST used, orange is formerly, red is not used)



Personally it's just a huge pain in the ♥♥♥. I like waking up to darkness not, glaring sunlight. But there are also all of the reasons listed above.

http://wedontneeddst.com/

[Bogdan]

Daylight Saving Time can be useful, the main point of it is to decrease our necessity of artificial light, depending on your location you may or not need it. It purely depends on the background for instance, I heard in Iceland during North Hemisphere winter, the duration of sun light is about 4 hours, so people would naturally try to do as much as possible to catch some light. "It increases CO2 production and its level in atmosphere" I'm a bit skeptical about that, can you provide proof? AFAIK we try to use as much sun light as possible, so I think it may decrease CO2 production, considering we try to lower the usage of light bulbs, candles or what the hell you use for lighting. Same goes to the increasing energy prices, wasn't it supposed to lower them?
Also I heard that during winter, in northern countries there are reported more suicidal attempts, if you can proove me wrong, do it, but the darkness and lack of light does affect people more or less.

Daylight Saving Time is a left over of the early 20th century. It has no purpose in this age.

Yes, in 20th century, probably not a lot of people had access to electricity, light bulbs or any other kind of artificial lightning so they needed the use of natural light the most, yet despite the fact that we have the "technology" to avoid natural lighting, I say we avoid abusing it. You previously mentioned CO2 production and Electricity consumption as negative effects, which are contradicting this one, either "it has no purpose in this age" and we go for energy consumption, either we go for natural light.

On the other hand I agree that DST is painful a little bit, If I get used to wake up at a certain hour it will take time for me to adapt to wake a hour earlier or later. I don't deny any possible effects on health anyway.

[Harmless]

so guys why don't we stop messing around with our time so we don't accidentally leave an hour early to go downtown eyy ; u ;

[Oranjui]

Uh. Yeah. I didn't actually come up with the facts, only copy/pasted them. I don't know exactly what it does as for pollution stuff, lul. I do agree that natural light is probably the better thing to rely on, but I think the reasoning was that tons of people stay up late or get up really early anyway, so what's the point of changing the clocks? It also throws off people's sleep schedules, which I believe has been linked to greatly increased risk of heart problems and throwing off mental clocks (leading to loss of focus, etc). I'll try to do some more research on it, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment.

The main idea is that the world has changed from what it was a century ago to the point where DST is essentially useless. More and more of the world is coming to that realization now, and it's primarily only the Western world that still employs it. I probably shouldn't have mentioned that it's really only a minor inconvenience to me because that's just whining, which you're going to hear from just about anyone *cough harm*.

[Bogdan]

I do agree that natural light is probably the better thing to rely on, but I think the reasoning was that tons of people stay up late or get up really early anyway, so what's the point of changing the clocks? It also throws off people's sleep schedules, which I believe has been linked to greatly increased risk of heart problems and throwing off mental clocks (leading to loss of focus, etc). I'll try to do some more research on it, but I don't have a lot of time at the moment.[/size]

I'm that kind of guy who stays late night if nobody is here to bother me, wake up late and preffer the night, more quiet, preffer the light of the moon over the sun and so on. That's just me, other people drain their "energy" from the sun so it's up to everyone what their lifestyle is.
I agree with you that it simply ♥♥♥♥ up our schedule. As I previously said I wake up one hour earlier when changing the clock to one hour back and wake up harder when we go "back to normal". Personally I'm against it, I get used to hard to the new "hour" and unlike other people claim, never felt that during winter I had "an extra hour of sleep". Yet previously I tried to question the things you ctrl-c/ctrl-v'd from the internet and point out why some countries still use the DST.

[quote"Harmless"]so guys why don't we stop messing around with our time so we don't accidentally leave an hour early to go downtown eyy ; u ;[/quote]
I feel you there bro.