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Shouldn't that be Sunday MORNING at 2AM ?

yep.....its sunday morning and not sunday night like the article says

This is just assinine. This writer or blogger, whichever, said nothing whatsoever that was noteworthy. Apparently, we have way too many "writers" out there nowadays who thing they can write just because they graduated from middle school. Reminds me of the Avon Park Sun in the early 1980's when the NYTANG expected a bunch of ignorant hillbillies to put out a legitimate newspaper. Go figure!

I read a article that stated daylight saving time was good for
business. Is this true?

DAY LIGHT SAVING IS HORRIBLE FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING
FROM DEPRESSION, WE NEED ALL THE DAYLIGHT AND SUNSHINE
WE CAN GET.I WISH THEY WOULD JUST LET THE TIME BE THE TIME.
WINTER IS BAD ENOUGH,BUT LONG WINTER DAYS ARE WORSE.

I have always thought that day light time was great except for the winter time when the children find themselfs going to school in the dark. So it's a good thing to fall back

Um.... Why did the link to this article say "why we 'fall back'"? The writer (or more accurately, blogger) never supplies the actual reason why we have Daylight Saving. He just spits out random comments about what's pinging in the search engines and something about WWII.
I live in Arizona, so it doesn't affect me, but still, this "thing" was a waste of my time. And now I'm ranting. Off to Google to find the actual answer!

I agree with the idea that if it is light out, less electrical llights will be used. I find that to be true inmy own household. However, since it gets dark earlier in the evening, lights are used then, so I'm not so sure any real energy savings actually occur. I further agree that the article did not provide any real information, just came off as someone's random thoughts.

DST supports farming and supposedly the walk to school in the morning. In the old days, farmers did their chores early in the morning. Without a "Daylight Savings Time" which by the way is the SUMMER adjustment, the mornings get awfully dark while the sun stays up way past 9:00pm. 9:00pm light is useless to a farmer who has been awake since 0430 in the morning.

So this time change coming up - Fall back - is an adjustment "back" to Standard (not DST) time.

Our civilization has probably moved away from a farming based society and school kids don't even go to school any more - do they?

The now later adjustment (more DST than Standard time) is by an act of Congress that seems to realize that we have far more folks going to work in buildings from 0900 to 1700 than farmers. It really doesn't matter, someone is still going to have to switch on a light because of darkness at the beginning or the end of the day.

this daylight savings time, debate will go on forever. My question is who is the one bastard that makes the ultimate yes or no decision? Is it the same guy who decides on all of our policies; nuclear energy, wars, GOPvs. Dem., New Worl Order, Martial law, Fema Death Camps,etc.etc...

I have a great compromise. Why not set the clocks behind/ahead a half an hour one last time and be done with it??

I used to hate DLS time but you get used to it after awhile. It doesn't make that big a difference in most peoples lives, the days are still 24 hours long.

IT TAKES ME FOREVER TO GET USE TO THE TIME CHANGE. BUT NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

Sure, changing to/from DST may save on turning on a light? But what about your power bill from all the other electronic gadgets in your house? Like, ahem, your computer! Can't buy that logic .

It doesnt really matter to me. What's the big fussedl!!!

It was never answered why we fall back, but here is why. As we move from summer to winter, the days get shorter on both ends which would be the evening and the morning. During the summer, the sun rises so early that we can "shift" that morning light to the evening where we are more likely to use it. When we get past September, the mornings are becoming noticeably darker which daylight saving aggravates. There simply is not enough daylight at that time of the year to shift from the morning to the evening so in order to have light in the morning, we revert to standard time. Congress tried a year-round experiment in 1974 in the wake of the oil embargo and clocks went forward on January 6, 1974. The result: Extremely late sunrise times which people hated. You can't save daylight that isn't there.

Just another example of how we let the government jerk us around!

you do not lose an hour. most people will set the clock before they go to bed. so i go to bed at 12:00 am i reset the clock to 11:00 pm when i go to bed. i get up at 8:am which is really 9:am so no matter what i still got 9 hours pf sleep according to time. you dont loose an hour unless you are awake at 2am. even still as far as your body is concern 8hr of sleep or whatever amout you get is still 8 hours of sleep or whatever

it doesnt save energy at all...it's just a stupid tradition

i think it just plain sucks when you go to work it is dark and when you get home it is dark hence this gives you no time to do outside activities with you kids overall it is just a giant inconvenience you have to have light to see anything you do exept sleep all summer you are out and about say finishing a golf game you started at 5pm now you cant even see the green at 4:30 again less activity because you cant see and who wants to ride their mountain bike down a long dark trail that now that it is dark is not as safe as it was last week
just give us the most light all year long so we can be up and moving around instead of sinking into our couch at 5 pm instead of 8 or 9

Don't mind me - I used to watch 'Leave It To Beaver' and think it was 'kinda real! All this junk and stuff about Daylight Savings Time really surprises me. R. Nixon did away with 'Standard Time' one year - just kept all the clocks on Daylight Savings. Who knows if the experiment worked. Da Guv'ment said it saved fuel! Ask most 30-something 'dudes' with tattoos who R. Nixon was and they might think 'a black rappa'?' Personally, i like it staying light until 9 pm in the Summer. I think - to save society and the business world from the aimless crackhead's desire to break into buildings at dusk - that Congresso (press 1 to hear it in American) ought to add another hour between say June 21 and August 21. 'Summer Time' would mean keeping the lights off in the TV room until 10 P.M. ! Businesses would not have to worry about their parking lots so much before they come back to start making the donuts!

The whole time falling back bit downright stinks. I absolutely hate it. I totally agree with DougH,

practically it's night as in Saturday night or Sunday night if you use a.m. after it (because it's still dark, a term hotels use in this case and most people should be or are in bed) and technically it's morning for Sunday (because it starts the new day and there are some people who are insomniacs or nocturnal)

it could be Sunday morning at 2 (without the a.m. because it's already said and assumed with the word morning) or sunday night at 2 a.m. (with the a.m. to specify because night can be p.m. as well)

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This article did nothing to explain to me WHY we fall back or spring forward like the title suggested the writer was going to tell us.

Do away with daylight saving time all together! I hate it! I ain't changing my clocks! I'll just go to work at 8 instead of 7!

Eh...makes me no difference one way or the other. Whether I lose or gain an hour of sleep, I'm still getting my sleep. But it is still nice to know how it all came about.

actually it may not be saving much energy because it's usually cooler in the mornings so we shouldn't be using much energy if we use lights. on the hand its darker sooner when the time goes back so we use the lights sooner and it seems we are just changing time from morning til night when we use the lights. the time we don't use in the mornings we make up for it at night.

I just hope someone changes the clocks at this office so I am not late when I get here. I would hate to lose my job over some government mandated bullcrap like that.