*boggles*

[conuly]

"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.

YOU DON'T GET MORE DAYLIGHT! You just shift the clock so that you're more likely to be out during the daylight. Do you want to save oil? Make laws so that friggin' streetlights aren't on at 10am! All the time! Make laws so that government offices use the most energy efficient bulbs, and don't turn on the lights when they're unnecessary.

And stop with the stupid daylight savings scam. Evil thing.

Edit: You know, what they ought to do is have the streetlights on those non-timers they have, so they turn on when there's a certain amount of darkness, not at a specific time. Ooh, and they could even set it up so that they light up a different amount depending on how dark it is. That'd be cool. And then you wouldn't walk down a street at noon and see streetlights on unless it was very cloudy out. I hate that.

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[eofs.livejournal.com]

How does it do that? It's just like getting one hour of jet lag which is so little as to not be noticable. I jump across a timezone and back without noticing and have never had a problem with summertime except for looking out of the window and saying "is it really 7 o'clock? It's so light." Heck, this year I flew east 12 hours after clocks went forward so I did two hours in one day and didn't notice.

[conuly]

Many people get screwed up much more easily than you do. That's why both times changes, in fall and spring, are linked to an increase in car accidents.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh I can understand that I adjust to the change easily and not all, but I still can't see how it would be such a huge problem that affects you for weeks. The normal recovery time for jetlag is one hour a day and I don't get why this should be any different from one hour jetlag (and as I say, no one I know even considers hopping across one timezone as a jetlagable experience.)

[feasel.livejournal.com]

It screws me up because I stay up until three or four in the morning most mornings. I'm up by noon on workdays. I'm not too good at keeping track of when we're setting the clocks by, so I'm all set to go to bed at four, and oops, it's FIVE, and I do NOT do well on eight hours of sleep. I just don't. Period.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Set an alarm for when you need to go to bed at the latest? (Perverse, but it should work.) Of course except until you hit summer, there's no difference daylightwise between 4 and 5 here.

[feasel.livejournal.com]

...I wasn't talking about the difference daylight-wise. There isn't any difference here. I was talking about how it screws up my schedule for one day, and possibly the rest of the workweek after that depending on whether I'm smart enough to catch up on my sleep or not. I don't know why you feel the need to pick at me for one little comment on one little post about how I don't like Daylight Savings Time! I did not intend it to be made into a debate. Please stop now; I am having the most horrid week, and you are making my head hurt.