WorldBench Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 wow i forgot it was daylight saving time, i probably will still forget to turn my clock back fall back, spring forward so i lose an hour on this guard duty shift? sweet :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alure Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 lately, i wake to sleep... soo i actually thought i woke up kind of early today! guess not..haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHATEU Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 its cool that arizona said fuck the DST...they also said fuck a few other things too... by the time i get to arizona! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishCarBombs Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 ughhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck this shit, i'm mad tired Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 ughhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck this shit, i'm mad tired same here. this shit is for the birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 We don't have any of this silliness in Puerto Rico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalist Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 yeah this shit fucked me up for a good hour or two this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skilla54 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 so the government thinks an extra hour of day light will keep outside longer, which means they will be in stores spending money. fucking gay governemnt always about money. in addition i got a parking ticket last night becasue the no parking time was at 3 am. my watch said 2 15 am. gay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Shackleford Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 this sucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest R@ndomH3ro Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Will the Daylight Savings Shift Do Us Any Good? Congress Moved It Up to Save Energy, but New Study Says It May Not Help By NED POTTER March 9, 2007 — - Next week, by congressional mandate, you will probably stumble out of bed an hour early -- possibly, depending on your schedule, before dawn. It's all in the name of saving energy. At least, that's what we were told. Congress made daylight-saving time three weeks earlier this year. Proponents argued that the shift would reduce America's energy consumption during that period about 1 percent. Will it work? Not very likely, say two young economists at the University of California at Berkeley. More Evening Sun -- but Less in the Morning Congress's logic was simple. If there's an extra hour of sunlight in the evening, people will turn on fewer lights. The Transportation Department once did a study saying daylight savings reduced America's use of oil by 100,000 barrels a day. But Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff, who are working on their doctorates in economics, say the reduced need for light in the evening will likely be negated by the increased need in the early morning. The folks in Washington apparently hadn't considered this. The daylight savings shift was a three-paragraph item in a 550-page energy bill in 2005. And that study from the Transportation Department? It's more than 30 years old. Kellogg and Wolff came to their conclusion by studying Australia, where several states extended daylight-saving time (DST for short) by two months in 2000 to accommodate the Olympic Games in Sydney that year. They compared electric demand in the state of Victoria, which extended DST, with its next-door neighbor, South Australia, which did not. "Our results show that the extension failed to conserve electricity," they wrote. "If it's dark enough in the morning that pretty much everyone has to turn on the lights," said co-author Kellogg, "what that means is that that increase in morning electricity consumption is going to be so big that it offsets any benefits we get from the extra light in the evening." In fact, the two said, shifting Australians' clocks led to a tiny increase in power use. "The response I've been getting when talking to people is, 'Well, why are we doing this if this doesn't save any energy?'" said Kellogg. What Does It Mean for You? Australia, of course, is not America, but the two researchers say their study is not a good sign. "While we cannot directly apply our results to other countries without adjustment for behavioral and climatic differences, this study raises concern that the U.S. is unlikely to see the anticipated energy conservation benefits from extending DST." The Department of Energy is mindful of this. It has told the two Berkeley researchers it will respond to their study in coming weeks. In the 2005 energy bill, Congress calls on the department to report whether energy consumption drops, as hoped, after the early start of DST. If not, the bill has a provision for the country to return to the old daylight savings calendar. Under the previous law, standardized in 1986, DST began on the first Sunday in April. In the meantime, consumers and information-technology specialists are girding for the myriad hiccups that could happen because many computers, digital networks, hand-helds and other devices with clocks built in need to be updated. While no major disruptions are expected, one analyst estimated to ABC News that American companies were spending $2 billion checking and updating all those devices. Will it pay off? Analysts say we won't know for sure until after the experiment is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issac Brock Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 SPRING FORWARD FALL BACK! Time to spring forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest R@ndomH3ro Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 SPRING FORWARD FALL BACK! Time to spring forward. Springing foward is always the worse...I woke up today tired as hell, it was dark as fuck outside...and the intersection signal lights where off causing major traffic.... sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EGG Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 now i understand why Africa is the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transparent Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 this caused me to be late for work today..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchThe$nitch Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 theres nothing better than leaving work with the sun still up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 my clock automatically sets itself for dst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Daylight savings is just a conspiracy to confuse idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Like myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 actually today was nice, the sun wasn't in the right position when i left work so it felt like i was getting out early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4M* Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Daylight Savings? More like Daylight Losses. Good thing My phone knows about this shit, other wise i wouldnt of woken up at the right time if i had a normal alarm clock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.coma Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 fucking gay governemnt always about money. this was funny for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meateater Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Time just got wound back and i got a extra hour at the pub!!! BOO YEAH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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