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Date Posted: 10:02:56 08/19/05 Fri
Author: bert
Subject: Re: Daylight savings time extension
In reply to: Adriana 's message, "Daylight savings time extension" on 05:14:38 08/18/05 Thu

>So, what's everyone think of the expansion of daylight
>savings time from the middle of March until the middle
>of November? Personally i think that it's just plain
>bullshit, we already have the dst change to screw with
>our biological clocks, but to extend it from late
>winter until late fall?! They might as well start
>calling dst standard time and what's now known as
>standard time can be called "winter time" or whatever.
>Plus the setup makes no sense at all. Why start dst in
>mid-March, which is still winter? Personally, not only
>do i like the idea of abolishing dst altogether, but
>i'd like to take it a step further (although I realize
>it wouldn't work in the real world). I'd like to
>aboilish standard time too, and every community could
>go by sun time, the most natural time to go by. But i
>could live with standard time year round. 7 months of
>dst are bad enough (it seems so fake and unnatural),
>why increase it?
yea, bad idea unless you live in a great sunshine state like california or florida which i do. i guess it only adds to the dreary feeling most midwest and north attitude which is apparent there when the don't get enough sunshine. sunlamps are available in store kinda of inexpensive so people don't go off the deep end. also a two or three week vacation in hawaii might get you through the winter.

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Replies:

Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Matthew Villani, 05:07:24 08/20/05 Sat
- Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Adriana, 20:11:08 08/23/05 Tue
  - Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Matthew Villani, 11:43:28 08/24/05 Wed
    - Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Adriana, 08:50:39 08/25/05 Thu
      - Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Matthew Villani, 13:53:40 08/28/05 Sun
        Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Adriana, 19:30:48 08/29/05 Mon
        Okay, WHAT happened to my original reply? -- Adriana, 13:36:48 08/31/05 Wed
        Re: Okay, WHAT happened to my original reply? -- Matthew Villani, 21:14:31 09/08/05 Thu
        Re: Okay, WHAT happened to my original reply? -- Adriana, 14:04:44 09/15/05 Thu
        Re: Okay, WHAT happened to my original reply? -- Matthew Villani, 15:13:47 09/18/05 Sun
        Re: Okay, WHAT happened to my original reply? -- Adriana, 20:23:57 09/18/05 Sun
Re: Daylight savings time extension -- Adriana, 20:05:58 08/23/05 Tue