11-25-2008, 03:40 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
I am always baffled by the DST haters. I never even knew they existed until a few years ago.
One of the arguments I hear is that it's so hard to adjust to the time shift. Can't get to sleep or wake up. It's only an hour! I typically shift my wake/sleep pattern more than that every weekend!
"It's dark when I leave work!" The days get shorter. A lot of people would still be leaving work in the dark w/o DST. Maybe not as many days, but not every one clocks out at precisely 5 PM. Same thing about waking up in the dark. Some people get up at 4 am. Some at 9 am. They will never see a difference!
I guess people have their reasons, but it always seems like much ado about nothing to me. My personal preference is more light in the evening in the summer. Here in Paris, it's still light out after 10:30 in the summer!
I agree with the "much ado about nothing." I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other, and it has always seemed like such a silly thing to get so worked up about. As BL pointed out, one's location in terms of being at the beginning or end of a time zone has an equal impact, so it's clear the real problem stems from whoever established what time it will be in any given place! I kind of enjoy DST, but it won't destroy my life if it goes away, either. We only get X number of hours of daylight anyway, so shifting one of those hours to a part of the day when it's more useful just seems logical. But who has ever let logic get in their way of an opinion?
