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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Did everyone "Spring Forward" this morning?
Why so early in the year??? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | NO. Luckily I never have to deal with this odd ritual. Dave |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | OK. I forgot about you lucky ones (unless you happen to be in the AZ Navajo Nation) including Hawaii and various Pacific and Carribean island territories!
I answered my own question...
Starting this year the "Energy Policy Act of 2005" set new change dates to the 2nd Sunday in March and the 1st Sunday in November. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This whole "energy savings" is BS. People shop more and later into evening and drive their cars to get there... where's energy saving? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I like it.
That extra hour of light in the evening allow for that much more play time. And chore time to.
Tho,that extra hour sure burns the hell out the the grass. :rolleyes: :D |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | It sucks that we have to get up an hour earlier for work on Monday. I've never heard a "Valid" argument for the actual savings... |
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Location: closely held secret | I like it too, Brad. I get up in the dark anyway, and this gives me another hour of light for riding in the evening. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Trix are for kids, DST is for bureaucrats. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thought it would let me get in a late round of golf today, but everyone else had the same idea before me and I couldn't get a tee time. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Thought it would let me get in a late round of golf today, but everyone else had the same idea before me and I couldn't get a tee time. Mark, please stop that right now. I'm still under four feet of snow here and my first tee time is at least a month and a half away.
Maybe we should entertain an OFC Tourney somewhere...? |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | DST is just about to end for a lot of us down here. Last Sunday in March I think. I notice this morning that my posts are an hour ahead of me. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Only one member of my church band missed the change...she ended up running in right as we were starting.
Other than that, no problems. If it was up to me, I'd keep DST year round. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Weaser, just to make you feel better, when I told my wife I couldn't get a tee time, she decided it was time for me to clean the garage. What a way to spend a beautiful 70 degree day. This would have been one of those days that I could have gone skiing and golfing on the same day. Instead, I cleaned the garage. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I was able to barbeque without the porch light on. We had our Sunday dinner in daylight. We are enjoying a fantastic after dinner sunset.
I rest my case. |
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Location: NJ | ". . DST is for bureaucrats . ."
Blame Ben Franklin.
DST was HIS "idea" . . . |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Damn Commie. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Yes, let's pass a law about insignificant DST, and ignore the nation's real problems. Yessiree, your nation's government at work. Give them bread and circuses and they'll do anything you want. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Amen Rick... Now I will be going to work in the dark again. How does that save energy? The kids will be waiting for the bus in the dark also. I agree that the Capitalists probably think more people will be out shopping an hour later. But with current technology, and a 24/7 workweek, this will make no difference.
GW Bush, The Distractor!
Hey, but my computer adjusted itself! Ain't technology grand? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Franklin....amazing all of the inventions and ideas he came up with and yet you never hear his name associated with "genius" like with Einstein who had one good idea! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | It all depends on who you're talking too. Some folks think Ingwe Malmsteen is a genius.
Which Einstein idea was the good one again? |
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Location: NJ | Photovoltaics. |
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