Daylight Savings Time

Hello it's me again!
Thought I'd express my feelings about Daylight savings time.
Personally I think it's a waste of time because the hour we gain
I usually spend it on resetting all my clocks!
So I really don't gain anything but aggrevation!
And with the hour we lose well I lose 2 changing the clocks again.
I found some articles of other people who share the same feelings
and thought I would post them too.
I guess it makes me feel better I am not alone on this one!
Have a Good One.
~~Holly~~

    IMMODEST PROPOSAL #1:
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME REFORM

by: Richard S. Holmes

It happens every spring:
crocuses, baseball (with any luck), and the switch to
Daylight Savings Time (DST).

Coming off DST is not hard.
In the Fall, we set our clocks back one hour.
We all get an extra hour to sleep,
and those who forget find themselves at church,
or the airport, or wherever an hour early.
Embarassing, but not catastrophic.

But in the Spring we set the clocks forward,
and the trouble begins.
We losean hour of sleep.
Forgetful people miss Mass, planes, breakfast,
and the big game on TV.
Some are thrown into disarray for up to a full week.
Annual losses due to DST
confusion have been estimated
(by me)
at over a million dollars.
I myself have missed a flight to Washington and a showing of
The Seven Samurai because of DST.

There is no need for such tragic waste.
We can -- we should and must -- urge
our lawmakers to reform
Daylight Savings Time
as follows:

Setting clocks back is easy;
setting them forward is difficult.
Therefore, let us keep the fall ritual as it is.
However, one Sunday each Spring,
let us set our clocks not one hour forward,
but TWENTY-THREE HOURS BACKWARD.

Think of all the advantages.
We will not lose an hour of sleep;
we will gain (almost) a day of rest.
It will be Saturday all over again.
You will never
again miss Confession, or an airplane,
or the Redskins game.

Naturally,
if this were the whole plan,
our calendars would fall behind one day in each year.
However,
the second part of the Revised DST Plan
deals with this.

Every four years,
instead of adding a day, let us SUBTRACT THREE DAYS.
Furthermore,
let these be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
which according to
recent polls are the least popular days.

If done in February,
which seems reasonable
considering what a miserable month it is,
this would have the beneficial side effect
of shortening the excruciating presidential primary season
by an effective four days.

The advantages of this plan are clear.
Let us waste no time.
With a determined effort we can have
Reformed Daylight Savings Time
by Spring of next year.

Write your congressperson today!

How do you know when it's Daylight Saving Time by Sheila Moss The daylight wakes you up and you jump out of bed thinking you have overslept! You stagger to the bathroom and fall over the dog that is still sound asleep. The timer on the coffee pot isn't set right, and there is no coffee. You try to fix the clock on the microwave and set the timer instead – you wonder why a microwave needs a clock anyhow? You decide this is really all a secret plot by "morning people" to get "night people" out of bed earlier. The clock in your car has the right time for the first time since last October. You arrive for church an hour late - just as everyone else is leaving. You feel exhausted (and will for weeks) even though you missed only one hour’s sleep. Your computer clock sets itself ahead, but you forget and set it ahead again. At the office on Monday all the clocks say 7 a.m., so you put your head on your desk and wake up later to find that the clocks were all wrong. Half the office arrives an hour late, saying they forgot to change the clock. You secretly wonder why they did not arrive an hour early in October. You take a two hour lunch break and say you forgot to change your wristwatch. ("getting even time.") You have an extra hour of light in the evening – just enough time to mow the lawn. The timer is wrong on the VCR so you miss the last hour of the movie you were recording – but you don’t notice it until after you’ve watched the first half. You decide to reset the time on "singing bird clock" It starts singing and won’t shut up until you remove the batteries. It’s dinner time according to the clock, but you are not hungry – yet. You go to bed at your regular time, but you’re not sleepy yet, so you stay up an extra hour. You wonder where all the energy is that we are conserving because you sure could use some of it. You consider moving to Arizona or Hawaii where they don’t participate in this nonsense.