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Set Your Clocks Back!!!

yea sucks! im working midnights this week and get to work an extra hour for freeeee, and i believe sunset is at like 453pm tomorrow

i believe you get paid for the extra hour....no?

I'm so messed up....been up since 5AM...f'in bored lol

so friggin dumb changing the clocks!!! why do we continue to do this! it's just stupid. i know why we did it in the first place but there is no need to do it anymore!!

dark @ 5 blows

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Originally Posted by baddest434 (Post 649846)

dark @ 5 blows

QFT. I was just saying that to Tim on AIM a little while ago, it's freaking depressing. I HATE HATE HATE the dark(no I'm not scared..OK, I am :rofl: ), I wish it was summer all the time and stayed light out until 8:30 every night.

every year, it takes me like 45 min to figure out how to change the clock in my car. Screw it .. it will be correct in a few months.

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Originally Posted by deadtrend1 (Post 649851)

every year, it takes me like 45 min to figure out how to change the clock in my car. Screw it .. it will be correct in a few months.

well tim you'll always be on time that way :lol:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Featur...ightSavingTime

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Ben Franklin's Joke
Writer, inventor and American founding father Ben Franklin is often credited (or blamed) for starting daylight saving time. He apparently joked that the people of Paris should be home and in bed as soon as the sun set because horse-drawn coaches -- taxis -- should be banned from the streets at night. He took his facetiousness further by saying the citizens of the City of Lights should be awakened every morning by a blast of cannon fire, and that anyone shuttering their windows from sunrise would be taxed.

Franklin was writing with his well-known dry wit. He loved Paris and traveled there frequently. But somehow, his suggestions about going to bed early and rising early planted the notion that he was behind this whole business of changing our clocks to match the sunrise and sunset.

In reality, Englishman William Willett, an avid outdoorsman, gets the credit for all this clock adjusting. The Victorian-era builder and pamphleteer felt that people were missing the best part of every summer day and argued strongly for daylight saving. One of the primary points of his argument was that adjusting our clocks would save money and resources since people would be using artificial lights less if they were up and working when the Sun was up.

There are several states that do NOT use it. Imagine what happens if you have a job in the next state where it does change. Going back and forth must make you nuts.:willy: ALSO ANYONE WHO TRAVELS RT.287 KNOWS THAT TRAFFIC WILL NOW BACK UP FOR MILES (@ 5:00 pm) BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE WITH THEIR LIGHTS ON!

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Originally Posted by edpontiac91 (Post 649884)

Just wait until the first serious snowfall :rofl:

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Originally Posted by edpontiac91 (Post 649884)

not all states use daylight savings? are you sure about that?

Correct, Arizona doesnt follow daylight savings and I think one more...

Yeah, going back and forth to Arizona would make someone nuts OMFG I FOUND CAPS LOCK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Until April 2005, when Indiana passed a law agreeing to observe daylight saving time, the Hoosier state had its own unique and complex time system. Not only is the state split between two time zones, but until recently, only some parts of the state observed daylight saving time while the majority did not.

We had a vendor in Indiana and they never changed their computer system clocks so it was odd.

Yep thats not how daylight savings time started. It started during WWII or One dont remember which.

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Originally Posted by r0nin89 (Post 649919)

Yep thats not how daylight savings time started. It started during WWII or One dont remember which.

pretty sure it started so that farmers had more light to harvest crops/work later in the farming months

It was originally designed for energy conservation during WW1 I think.

Doesn't matter how it came about. It's still dumb.

Lol, people act like this is the first D.S.T. ever.... It happens twice every year, why the moaping/shock?

because people need something to b!tch about

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Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon (Post 649841)

i believe you get paid for the extra hour....no?

we dont... but we get paid for 8 hours when we work 7 in the spring, so if you work both your even

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Originally Posted by cbrrmike (Post 650268)

we dont... but we get paid for 8 hours when we work 7 in the spring, so if you work both your even

Yea, it's the same here.

- Justin