It's Time to Kill Daylight Savings

[Paul2]

...a study of homes in Indiana—a state that adopted Daylight Savings Time only in 2006—showed that the savings from electricity use were negated, and then some, by additional use of air conditioning and heat.
Daylight Savings Time isn't just unnecessary. It's also wasteful, cruel, and dangerous.

The simple act of adjusting to the time change, however subtle, also has measurable consequences. Many people feel the effects of the "spring forward" for longer than a day; a study showed that Americans lose around 40 minutes of sleep on the Sunday night after the shift. This means more than just additional yawns on Monday: the resulting loss in productivity costs the economy an estimated $434 million a year.

Daylight Savings Time may also hurt people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, depriving them of light in the mornings. "Our circadian rhythms were set eons ago to a rhythm that didn’t include daylight savings time, so the shift tends to throw people off a bit,” Dr. Nicholas Rummo, director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, New York, told HealthDay News. The switchover to Daylight Savings Time is also linked to an increase in heart attacks as well as traffic accidents.

Those of us who have lived with Daylight Savings Time our whole lives might feel disoriented without it. But the millions of Americans in Arizona, Hawaii, and territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have survived just fine without it. Not to mention the billions of people throughout Asia, Africa, and South America.

It's said that Benjamin Franklin first proposed a version of Daylight Savings back in 1784 as a way to save candles. This, no disrespect to old Ben, should tell us how silly and obsolete the tradition has become. President Obama—and leaders elsewhere in the world—should do the sensible thing and scrap it.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/its-time-to-kill-daylight-savings/ar-AA9wsNZ?ocid=mailsignout

so whatcha think?

[videoholic]

People who have an issue with it can suck ass.  It's so much nicer having light at the end of the day rather than in the morning. 

[Titan]

Another year, another group of people bitching about it. Seriously? Are these people vampires? I like getting out of work and enjoying a couple hours of daylight. It's nice going out for a walk at 7 o clock with my girlfriend or working on my car or doing something productive. I hate standard time. It sucks going to work at sunrise and getting out in the dark. If they're going to get rid of anything, get rid of Standard Time and keep the clocks forward an hour.

[Living-In-Clip]

I, for one, hate the time change. I much prefer it getting darker earlier. Absolutely hate this time.

[Paul2]

i agree with lic on this one too.  i prefer set back one hour during the autumn season and leave it like that all year long and stay like that and no more setting time anymore the year after.  less car accidents, less people getting sick and going to the hospital because they have to reprogram their body to wake up an hour early to go to work in March of every year.

[GmanJoe]

I hate daylight Savings.

It's stupid. People are like "Oooooh! It's sunset and it's 9pm! That's AWESOME!"

No. That's stupid. It should be 8pm and another 4 hours before the day ends. Not three.

When they get rid of DST, people of that time will think "Man...our ancestors were a bunch of stupid apes."

[Titan]

Damn you guys are such a bunch of miserable bastards. Get out and enjoy the sun once in a while.

[GmanJoe]

Who says I don't? I walk my dogs 2 to 3 miles each day. That's at least an hour outside. Being self employed is awesome.

[Titan]

Who says I don't? I walk my dogs 2 to 3 miles each day. That's at least an hour outside. Being self employed is awesome.

What do you do nowadays?