Saving Time
Daylight savings, a manipulation of time to provide maximum discomfort to the morning impaired. Beginning next week, those who suffer from this affliction will attempt to treat their affliction with copious amounts of caffeine, double, even triple alarms and they will toss and turn at every attempt to retire early each night.
If you are a chipper morning person, I hate you. One of your kind most likely invented this form of torture.
What is the purpose of daylight savings? Ah, well, I'll tell you. It's to save energy. Really, that's the spin these days. Apparently daylight savings is to allow for maximum use of daylight in order to reduce carbon emisions.
So who, among us, actually sets their schedule on the rising and setting of the sun? Anyone who has a job knows their schedule is set by their manager/boss. They will be in the office from a set time in the morning until a set time in the evening. There are times they will stay later, there are times they will arrive earlier, but it won't have anything to do with the sun. There are those who work nights and certainly daylight savings isn't going to affect them. Take a look around you right now. Are you working on a computer? Are any lights on? Would there be any difference in lighting/computer usage if the sun rose an hour earlier or later? Really?
Oh, the farmers. Right. They're the ones dependant on daylight savings, because, as we all know, the animals adhere to a strict schedule set by the hands of a clock. A farmer/rancher is going to get up when the animals need tending, which is naturally set by the sun. They aren't going to care less about a clock, regardless of whether it's set earlier or later.
Oh. And it's beginning a month earlier this year. Because the cows and chickens are plotting a takeover.
If you are a chipper morning person, I hate you. One of your kind most likely invented this form of torture.
What is the purpose of daylight savings? Ah, well, I'll tell you. It's to save energy. Really, that's the spin these days. Apparently daylight savings is to allow for maximum use of daylight in order to reduce carbon emisions.
So who, among us, actually sets their schedule on the rising and setting of the sun? Anyone who has a job knows their schedule is set by their manager/boss. They will be in the office from a set time in the morning until a set time in the evening. There are times they will stay later, there are times they will arrive earlier, but it won't have anything to do with the sun. There are those who work nights and certainly daylight savings isn't going to affect them. Take a look around you right now. Are you working on a computer? Are any lights on? Would there be any difference in lighting/computer usage if the sun rose an hour earlier or later? Really?
Oh, the farmers. Right. They're the ones dependant on daylight savings, because, as we all know, the animals adhere to a strict schedule set by the hands of a clock. A farmer/rancher is going to get up when the animals need tending, which is naturally set by the sun. They aren't going to care less about a clock, regardless of whether it's set earlier or later.
Oh. And it's beginning a month earlier this year. Because the cows and chickens are plotting a takeover.
posted by ldbug at Wednesday, March 07, 2007
9 Comments:
I thought it was earlier this year! Maybe that for all us SAD people (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I just love waking up in the dark in the winter and going home in the dark. (Sarcasm)
Like you I've heard so many reasons for this idiotic clock twisting and mind bending if you try to calculate what time it is here if it is 10:00 a.m. in India - oh yeh, don't forget the DST calculation.
If you find out let us know!~
Cows and chickens! Run for the dipping sauce!
gardenia - clock twisting, I like that one!
rock - yum...
Tut, tut. Eating meat is inefficient. Less energy transfered through trophic levels etc.
I don't eat that much meat - vegetables covered with cheese makes a great starter.
As for the daylight saving... Video Plus seems to handle it better than I do.
With or without DST weekday mornings and alarm clocks are pure evil and should be treated with contempt.
Daylight saving saving the environment, haven't heard that one before. I must say, I'm equally unconvinced. Mind you, I prefer having it dark until I have to get up, then having it light. Doesn't happen often though...
torq - I may eat more meat just to prevent this 'take over' ;-P
tod - it is the evil of the worst kind...
boy - it's a BBC story, they are plotting with the chickens
oh, hell. daylight savings is next week? first it's the internet, now it's daylight savings. my average number of hours slept is plummeting and soon i will find myself in a fight club-esque nightmare....
ken - just sleep, just goooooo toooooo slllleeeeepppppp (did that help?)
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