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What a silly thing we Americans do every spring and fall.

Is it really necessary?

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Originally posted by mlprior
What a silly thing we Americans do every spring and fall.

Is it really necessary?
Last September decided to save the hour gained. Think I'll use it tonight. 😀

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If it were not for RHP, I'd be up WAY past PJ time.

PJ-

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It's not only in the US, we've been doing that for years too. [in the UK]

BST = British Summer Time
DST = Daylight Saving Time.

blah blah blah!

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What is the point though?

It seems like such a hassle!

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Originally posted by mlprior
What is the point though?

It seems like such a hassle!
We don't do it here 😀 Nothing lost, nothing gained...

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It IS a hassle - every time it happens, everyone in this RHP global village has to alter their playing times to catch the same opponents!

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Originally posted by mlprior
What is the point though?

It seems like such a hassle!
It's to give us more daylight in the evening, after supper, and not "waste it" in the early morning, when we don't really need it. Supposedly it saves energy, but I'm inclined to doubt that. Retailers love it and farmers hate it. You and I don't like it either. 😠

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changing the clocks is the only way to keep up with the trickery that the sun plays on us. why does it insist on always sliding here, then there, then showing up late, or hardly at all, then other times, seemingly hanging around way too long. it's all so rude.

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Originally posted by mlprior
What a silly thing we Americans do every spring and fall.

Is it really necessary?
No. I wish they would leave it the hell alone.

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Originally posted by mlprior
What a silly thing we Americans do every spring and fall.

Is it really necessary?
They voted against it in Queensland because the extra hour of sunlight would fade the curtains.

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Originally posted by mlprior
What a silly thing we Americans do every spring and fall.

Is it really necessary?
Americans put their clocks forwards and backwards?
Are you mad or something?

We don't do anything like that here in Europe.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Americans put their clocks forwards and backwards?
Are you mad or something?

We don't do anything like that here in Europe.
As far as I remember the UK is in Europe and as previously mentioned, the UK changes their clocks in Spring and Autumn too 😠

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
They voted against it in Queensland because the extra hour of sunlight would fade the curtains.

D
I was living in Queensland when the vote was held, back in the early 1970s.

We actually voted against it because Queensland had different business hours from the southern states (we started an hour earlier because of the heat in almost all kinds of employment) and we already had daylight until 10pm in the summer, so it wasn't any benefit to us. The newspapers and talkback radio came up with that curtain-fading thing. Living now in a dairying area, I can see it's a real headache for dairyfarmers - the processing plants (and pickup tankers) go on daylight saving overnight but it takes 6-8 weeks to get the cows to produce their milk at a different time of day (and I'm serious!).

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
It's not only in the US, we've been doing that for years too. [in the UK]

BST = British Summer Time
DST = Daylight Saving Time.

blah blah blah!
Yes, and CEST = Central European Summer Time. I hate it. 😠 But at least we still have three normal weeks...

And now I am going to watch Dr. Strangelove. 😀