Our Country is officially RETARTED!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I want to know how changing what time it is makes there be more hours of daylight.

 

not more hours, but WHEN the hours occur w/r/t to a person's day (work, sleep, etc)

[marylou]

I know, I was just being snarky. Moving the time around does not change the amount of hours of daylight in the day, just "when" they occur.

[Squid]

Idgit guvmint. Perspective from the man hisself.

 

"At any rate, spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it." - George Orwell (1946)

 

[Dru]

if,instead of just going to daylight savings, they switched AM and PM, think what a shock the raccoons and other nocturnal animals would get.

[jon]

I'm still a proponent of moving the equator up. More daylight and warmer climate for us.

[tomtom]

The Soviets switched to daylight savings time all year round.

 

fucking commies!

 

Jimmy Carter switched the US to year round DST back in the late 70's.

 

[catbirdseat]

I'm still a proponent of moving the equator up. More daylight and warmer climate for us.

Wrong thread, Jon. Move to the Misconceptions thread.

[Redoubt]

Jimmy Carter switched the US to year round DST back in the late 70's.

Actually, LBJ signed the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which mandated DST for the entire nation, but allowed states to opt out by passing their own legislation. At that time, the mother of an old girlfriend was in the Colorado legislature when they debated opting out of DST. She said that some state legislators actually argued against DST by claiming that crops would die if they got an extra hour of sunlight, and that cows would be thrown off of their milking patterns and would quit producing milk. She said the only really good arguments against DST came from operators of drive-in theatres. Since it was darkness that basically dictated how early they could start the movie, DST forced them to start an hour later, which fairly quickly put many of them out of business.

 

The history of DST is really very interesting. In the U.S. it goes all the way back to Ben Franklin!

[willstrickland]

We should just outlaw night time.

 

We got that taken care of in summer