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I like leap years. Leap years have more days in them.

Daylight Saving Time can go die in a fire, preferably the fires of the sun.

I second this notion.

I agree! I don't like things that confuse me!

Then it's decided. We block out the sun to prevent daylight savings day to ever happen again.

I don't think that's where this chat was going...

DST doesn't save any daylight at all, and it causes traffic accidents.

Rename it to daylight shifting time, since that's all it does. Arizona's got it right by refusing to do it.

Not to mention my paranoia of being off the correct time so much that I have to resort to several analog clocks to see if my electronics have updated themselves or not.

I have the problem of forgetting to change the clock in my car. It took me 3 weeks to get around to doing that.

I thought it was a power consumption thing - to encourage folk to use less electricity and all...

i like it >x> it makes me feel like the day matches the hour more in the spring and summer

That was part of the intent, but it doesn't actually work for most of the country -- there's a pretty narrow range of latitudes that see enough relevant shifts in sunlight hours that also see enough daily temperature swing to make the change in waking hours relevant for power usage, and in today's era of thermostats even THAT'S pointless because your house keeps itself within the target temperature range whether you're awake or not. (You'd need a programmable thermostat to make an exception.)

Which is why a lot of people are arguing that we simply set the clocks to the advanced time year-round instead of going to winter clock time. The current scheme is (theoretically) intended for farmers who wake up with the sun... of course, THAT fails because farmers wake up with the sun instead of a clock, because the cows aren't going to wait.

if that was the issue then for nearly half the year everything would be all wrong x______x

It wouldn't be any more wrong than it already is. I mean, the "fall back" means that the sun is rising LATER in the day, which means that people are going to be driving to work in the dark just so they can supposedly have an extra hour of sunlight in the evening -- wouldn't it be safer to have the sun shining on drowsy commuters?

it would except our brains thrive on sun, since a /lot/ more people are active in the evening hours it would benefit the most people to have an extended evening(also there is the whole thing about getting sleepy by six pm because it already feels like ten)

Yeah, I know. But darned-if-you-do-darned-if-you-don't; ONE trip or the other is going to be in the dark. And the shifts themselves introduce terrible spikes in automobile accident rates, so... get rid of the shifts.