Comments on: Daylight Savings Time is Stupid

By: feathers

feathers — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:20:21 +0000

how about we just get to work an hour earlier and home an hour earlier and leave the clocks alone. How stupid some people are to think we actually get an hour more daylight !!! haha there is still the same amount of day and night in 24 hours, der

By: foxroswell

foxroswell — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:49:20 +0000

Daylight savings sucks if you're a shy person who likes peace and quiet, because the extra hour of daylight means more noise from kids and car traffic.

By: Dana Izard

Dana Izard — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:54:59 +0000

If each of you will write your congressperson, maybe we can get something DONE about this stupid DST system!

By: Steve Wells

Steve Wells — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:13:17 +0000

I agree. DLST is about the stupidest thing going. I remember being a kid in the 60’s when they started it. It was suppose to be for the farmers, to give them more daylight. Well, back then our population base was largely rural. But hey oh great brain trust of today…wake up! Its not rural anymore. So our dumbass congress were too lazy to introduce legislation to end it, so they bundle it with the ol energy bit! How convient. Anytime they need a vehicle to explain away their stupidity, they just pull the ol energy or education card! (They love that one too)!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:06:54 +0000

restart your cisco phone with *-6-settings, and if the server has the correct time, it’ll fix it.

By: Carter Adler

Carter Adler — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:47:00 +0000

Actually, it's Daylight Saving Time.

By: Marc Averitt

Marc Averitt — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:13:42 +0000

yeah, making the switch that much earlier has questionable benefits net/net. what i find more interesting is the fact that we still practice it all given its origins in colonial america (to help the farmers squeeze in another hour of work)…yet arizona continues to ignore it altogether???

i’m sure glad i’m not doing any transcontinental or transatlantic flying this week…

By: cthrall

cthrall — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:01:06 +0000

Don't get me wrong, it was great to walk the dog down to the beach in daylight. Raymond Chen at MSFT has some good reasons why DST is a pain for all of us.

By: Bob Gilson

Bob Gilson — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:31:04 +0000

Repeat after me: “Timezones suck. They’re left over from the sun dial ages. No advanced si-fi culture uses them.”.

The quote is meant to provoke a smile but after you’ve built enterprise class scheduling apps you realize timezones should done away with. Simple questions like “What day is it?” become hard to answer. To answer you need to know what timezone you’re in to take the international date line into account. To know timezone you’re in, you need the date to take daylight savings into account. To know if daylight savings is in effect, you need to know the date and timezone. Round and round we go… Oh yeah, your code must run correctly even if the functions are called when one of their assumptions changes between calls, like the day at midnight or the hour when daylight savings flips. And oh yeah, if your app runs at scale it has to do this while running in several timezones simultaneously.

Any techy sorting this out has my sympathy. Its like going through 4 mini-Y2K scenarios in one year. Next one hits in 3 weeks. While you’re waiting for things to be sorted out, try singing “Does anyone really know what time it is?” and praying for better governance.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:53:28 +0000

You guys are obviously not cyclists! Cyclists across america, even the ones in warm climates, got a beautiful gift from congress this year. No more post-work indoor workouts!!

According to a US Chamber of Commerce guy on CNBC, the earlier time change will add millions to the bank accounts of store and restaurant owners. When it’s light out, people shop and dine out more.

By: Dee Rambeau

Dee Rambeau — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:39:26 +0000

I respectfully disagree with all of you grumps! Forget the energy savings…how about the sheer joy of evenings full of sunlight. The day we Spring forward is, and always has been, one of my favorites days of the year and I usually throw a party. I’ll remember not to put any of you on the list. Please enjoy your darkness and your confusion with a silly hour’s difference in the day!

By: tom

tom — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:41:44 +0000

I have a sign company and the daylight savings time bandit has hit us too! It seems that all the time and temp signs we sold this past year will require a new chip to correct for the earlier daylight savings time. So if you see a sign by the road displaying the wrong time, don’t blame the establishment or the sign company. Blame the President and the U.S. Congress for enacting this mess.

By: cthrall

cthrall — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:15:31 +0000

I had to work yesterday to make sure everything was ok after the change.

I liked Microsoft’s messaging regarding Outlook appointments: “Consider any appointments and meetings in the extended DST period to be suspect. When in doubt, verify the correct time with the organizer.”

For some reason, this makes me chuckle. You’re using the latest and greatest groupware technology, but you really should call the organizer of all your meetings because we can’t really predict what is going to happen.

Of course, the one hiccup at work was with something that uses Outlook integration for scheduling meetings…

By: Andrew Fife

Andrew Fife — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:31:55 +0000

There maybe some initial GDP loses due to the switch, but I suspect there are also gains due to people being more active with their extra hour of light. I can say that University Avenue in Palo Alto definitely seemed busier last night than any previous Sunday I can remember since last summer.

By: BWJones

BWJones — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:12:57 +0000

Yeah, we had a couple of folks today that had problems with their schedules. Gee, perhaps the folks that decided (“Hey! I know what lets do…”) to enact this change will see clear to giving a tax write off for those folks who had to endure some costs because of this little exercise in waste.