Who invented Daylight Saving Time? Satan?

[UncleVinnys]

Not sure if I believe in He!l or Satan, but if there IS a He!l it's waking up Sunday
morning and you've lost an hour of sleep, and if there IS a Satan, it's
the smart-@ss marketing gurus in some East Coast business syndicate
that perpetuates this fraud on the American people!!

They claim it saves school children from having to walk to school in the dark.
Well, I say let them change the time they are due at school, and
STOP MONKEYING with my clock!!!

Who dreamed this crap up anyway?
And why are we putting up with it like herds of spineless sheep?
Who ARE these people that foist this disaster onto us?
Gee, maybe there IS a use for waterboarding after all!

 

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[Siegfried Schlagrule]

When I moved to indiana in 1995 they didn't participate in that garbage. Recently - on the grounds that all the neighbouring states did it - they changed. It was suppossed to improve our economy and i pointed out that all the surrounding states had higher unemployment than we did. Sure enough they have improved us and we now have an equal unemployment to all the surrounding stattes.
We are always told about how good it is for students to come home from school in the daylight. It's much more dangerous for them to be headed to school in the dark while the perverts and drunks are headed home. To my mind the only "benefit" to DST is that the pukes in suits can knock off early and get in 18 holes of golf in the afternoon. Now that's sure something to sacrifice for.
By the way I think this may be the only time that UV and i will agree on anything so you folks should enjoy it. siegfried schlagrule

 

[BIG61AL]

Stupidest thing ever invented.....I can't wait until I retire and I'll never mess with my clocks again!

 

[BuckleBoy]

I don't give a Damn about getting up an hour earlier if it means I have another hour of daylight to hunt in the evenings.

 

[warsawdaddy]

I don't give a Damn about getting up an hour earlier if it means I have another hour of daylight to hunt in the evenings.

 

[Lowbatts]

I don't give a Damn about getting up an hour earlier if it means I have another hour of daylight to hunt in the evenings.

Get night job, you'll have all day to hunt.

 

[sqwaby]

I'd rather have the daylight after work to; go MDing, fishing, surf, work on all my broken stuff, etc.

 

[45-70Ranger]

In one forum I frequent,has a sig line: "Only a white man can cut off a foot of a blanket,and sew it to the bottom
of the blanket, and call it longer".
Or something to this effect.
If this was told by an Indian,he was wise.

 

[Minstrel]

Not sure if I believe in He!l or Satan, but if there IS a He!l it's waking up Sunday
morning and you've lost an hour of sleep, and if there IS a Satan, it's
the smart-@ss marketing gurus in some East Coast business syndicate
that perpetuates this fraud on the American people!!

They claim it saves school children from having to walk to school in the dark.
Well, I say let them change the time they are due at school, and
STOP MONKEYING with my clock!!!

Who dreamed this crap up anyway?
And why are we putting up with it like herds of spineless sheep?
Who ARE these people that foist this disaster onto us?
Gee, maybe there IS a use for waterboarding after all!

The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. He lobbied unsuccessfully for the proposal until his death in 1915; see Politics for more details.

Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett's invention, starting April 30, 1916. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year; and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals
During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day

 

[GPURS]

Not sure if I believe in He!l or Satan, but if there IS a He!l it's waking up Sunday
morning and you've lost an hour of sleep, and if there IS a Satan, it's
the smart-@ss marketing gurus in some East Coast business syndicate
that perpetuates this fraud on the American people!!

They claim it saves school children from having to walk to school in the dark.
Well, I say let them change the time they are due at school, and
STOP MONKEYING with my clock!!!

Who dreamed this crap up anyway?
And why are we putting up with it like herds of spineless sheep?
Who ARE these people that foist this disaster onto us?
Gee, maybe there IS a use for waterboarding after all!

Pretty cool rant man !!! Good luck, Gpurs...

 

[Zephyr]

And to make things worse, gov't had to muck it up by changing the dates of DST, yet our computers still go by the "traditional" time changes. I'm all for abolishing DST altogether. There should be a revolution...!

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

It sure is a pain in the buttocks.

That's one thing I miss in Arizona - no daylight savings time - no changing clocks - ever.

B

 

[UncleVinnys]

It sure is a pain in the buttocks.

That's one thing I miss in Arizona - no daylight savings time - no changing clocks - ever.

B

Yeah, that's another aspect of this disjointed system. Some states
don't comply. Some cities in certain states are in one time zone, and
other cities in another time zone.

I heard the candy manufacturers set the new dates so there would
be more daylight time at Halloween, just so they could
sell more candy. Yeah, we need that!!

 

[My Precious]

I believe the answer to your question is Al Gore, along with the internet and global warming.