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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 1, 2014 10:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by Sasquatch on Nov 1, 2014 11:08:30 GMT -5
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt the dumbest concept ever.
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Post by tenring on Nov 1, 2014 17:37:48 GMT -5
Wasn't changing the time supposed to help the economy and create jobs?
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Post by esshup on Nov 1, 2014 18:16:33 GMT -5
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt the dumbest concept ever. I agree 110%. |
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Post by johnc911 on Nov 2, 2014 1:06:29 GMT -5
Especially those of us that work third shift, it just became 1 am again  |
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Post by squirrelhunter on Nov 2, 2014 9:09:04 GMT -5
Stupid Governor Daniels.
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Post by featherduster on Nov 2, 2014 9:30:43 GMT -5
Absolutely, positively, without a doubt the dumbest concept ever. I agree 110%. It's even harder to deal with when you live in one time zone and your friends or activities take place in another time zone and we are only a few miles apart but still in the same state.  |
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Post by kevin1 on Nov 2, 2014 9:51:18 GMT -5
The actual credit for DST belongs to Benjamin Franklin, he created the concept of DST as an energy saving measure while living in Paris. The concept was largely rejected at the time. It was later resurrected during the World Wars, again on the premise of saving energy, although its efficacy in this regard has been subjective at best. Any supposed savings are more than offset by the health effect of interrupting the body's Circadian Rhythm. I've never cared for DST personally as it cuts my hunting time during the week, relegating me to almost exclusively hunting on weekends other than the week I take off for firearms. I consider it a stupid waste of time at best. |
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Post by parson on Nov 2, 2014 10:24:45 GMT -5
Let's apply for a grant to study the damage done to thumbs and fingers as a result of resetting all of the clocks in our homes and autos twice a year. Lemonade from lemons kind of thing!
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Post by Russ Koon on Nov 2, 2014 11:08:57 GMT -5
Completely agree with the prevailing sentiment.
Especially this year. My 25-year clock sat unwound and unset for about twenty years after I received it. We had wound it and listened to it for about a month, and tired of it. Then last year I thought I would clean it up and polish it and see if I could sell it on e-bay. Of course after I had done that and set it and was ready to advertise it, wifey decided she kinda liked the tones after all and would like to keep it.
OK, I sort of liked hearing it, too, and didn't mind winding it once a week.
Then came time to change the clock by an hour. There seems to be no way to reset the chimes to a different hour while the thing is running. Setting the hour hand back has no effect on the number of chimes. So while we wait for the thing to run down and quit, so we can restart it an hour later in order to "fall back" with that clock, I've got my watch on my wrist to keep me me entertained. The one I had for several years before this one was similar, but with a couple more buttons sticking out. One of those was a button that when pushed, changed to a "set" mode, then when held in, changed the flashing ones to be the minutes or hours, which could then be changed by pushing in a different button. This one changes to a "set" mode, then no combination I have yet found of holding the button in or pushing it again changes the numbers displayed. May have to take the battery out for an hour.
Wonder if it would harm the works on the wind-up mantle clock if I stuck something in the back of it that stopped the works for about an hour?
Maybe some of those jobs created were clock-adjusting jobs. Think I'll Google that up and see where the nearest one is, and whether I can get an estimate.
I liked Mitch and most of his ideas, with the exceptions of Darn Silly Time and the Road to Nowhere that they still don't know how where to put or how to pay for. Had no problem with them selling the toll road but I thought that fixing our existing roads and bridges would have been a more prudent use of the proceeds.
I still think we should be on the time that puts the sun closest directly overhead at noon, and then leave it alone. Haven't noticed anything else that has been improved by the government tinkering with it, either.
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Post by esshup on Nov 2, 2014 11:28:52 GMT -5
It's even harder to deal with when you live in one time zone and your friends or activities take place in another time zone and we are only a few miles apart but still in the same state. No kidding! I live a mile and a half into Central Time. Sister lives 7 miles NORTH, in Eastern Time. Parents live 7 miles East, in Eastern Time. When doing business, I either have to ask "is that fast or slow time", or I have to know where the people live, so I can figure out what time zone they are talking about. I've got friends that live in Illinois that still can't believe that the state has different time zones, and that the time zone doesn't follow the state boundary. |
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Post by featherduster on Nov 2, 2014 12:56:00 GMT -5
Russ was this a typographically error? Maybe some of those jobs created were cock-adjusting jobs.  |
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Post by Russ Koon on Nov 3, 2014 9:59:25 GMT -5
Oops....! Yes that was an unintentional funny.....fixed now. May have been more accurate left alone, though.
I finally saw something that appeared to be just the right length and shape to act as a temporary brake on the mantle clock, and that technique worked for adjusting it. Just opened the back and propped the object up to lean very lightly on the little wheel that's spinning when the clock is running, then let it resume running an hour later.
The wrist watch was more of a puzzle. Finally I was sure that I had tried all the possible combinations of pushing and holding buttons, and looked up the directions on Google. I had overlooked the "Light" button on the watch face, which they had included in this model as a part of the team of buttons that make other things happen.
Wifey remembered to reset the kitchen clock and the one in her minivan and her clock radio, so all that's left is the one in my Jeep, and we're good to go until whenever the authorities decide it's time to play like it's some other time of day again.
Ever get the idea that the legislators do some of these things just for entertainment?
We grew up watching the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers and Ma and Pa Kettle. We developed a healthy appreciation for the ridiculous. I expect things get pretty boring while they wait for the exciting part of each session, the last few days when they REALLY argue their opinions and try to get done whatever their benefactors tell them to do. It'd be kinda like watching a two year long Nascar race, waiting for the last twenty laps. We may serve the purpose of being the monkeys in the cage they can poke with a stick from time to time. The more I think about DST, the more likely that seems.
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Post by 36fan on Nov 3, 2014 12:53:41 GMT -5
Can someone tell me how do you adjust DST on a sun dial?
or why Alaska observes DST?
Mitch Daniels - "everyone else does it, we should, too". I wonder if his Mom ever asked him about jumping off of a bridge.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Nov 3, 2014 18:54:53 GMT -5
The actual credit for DST belongs to Benjamin Franklin, he created the concept of DST as an energy saving measure while living in Paris. The concept was largely rejected at the time. It was later resurrected during the World Wars, again on the premise of saving energy, although its efficacy in this regard has been subjective at best. Any supposed savings are more than offset by the health effect of interrupting the body's Circadian Rhythm. I've never cared for DST personally as it cuts my hunting time during the week, relegating me to almost exclusively hunting on weekends other than the week I take off for firearms. I consider it a stupid waste of time at best. Yes I know,I was just meaning even though other States changed their clocks,we didn't have to until Daniels came along. Got by just fine for 50+ years but no,he had to screw it up. Just my opinion.  |
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Post by throbak on Nov 3, 2014 21:37:57 GMT -5
My self I am Fine with it every thing down here was planed around Louisville or Cincinnati so to Me Its nice not having to decipher thing you do all my Local TV is Louisvillealso so I like it
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Post by 36fan on Nov 5, 2014 18:17:12 GMT -5
There was study done in Indiana the year after we switched to Mitch time. It actually costs the average person more in energy consumption. The extra time people are home in the evening results in more time the A/C runs with people home, so it the A/C uses more energy.
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