I say pick one and stick with it, there are too many clocks around here to
change and it's a bunch of aggravation needlessly. If people want the extra
hour one way or another, go to bed later and get up later and what not. One
of these days I"m just not going to change my clocks though I tried that a
few years ago and ended up missing a lot because of forgetting I did that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: daylight saving hoax
> Lou,
>
> I don't have a problem with DST. I just don't like to have it sold as
> something it isn't, namely energy conservation. Changing the time this
> early in the year doesn't make sense for kids who have to catch school
> buses
> in the morning when it's still dark. I think it's perfectly fine to
> change
> to DST when the day gets longer.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Kolb" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 17:20
> Subject: Re: daylight saving hoax
>
>
>>I actually think there are benefits to each end of this. If you left it
>>one
>> way or the other, there'd be problems for some one in either Winter or
>> Summer so it's not a bad idea to balance it out. I suspect the problem
>> most
>> people have is making the adjustment. A week or 2 after either change,
>> you
>> don't hear a thing about it until it's time to change again. Just my 2
>> cents worth. No flames, please. lou WA3MIX
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: daylight saving hoax
>>
>>
>>> Harvey,
>>>
>>> Don't blame extended DST on environmentalists. Anyone who knows or
>>> cares
>>> about the environment realizes that shifting the clocks around doesn't
>>> save
>>> energy. This is just more feel-good politics devised to pretend that
>>> we're
>>> doing things to conserve energy when in fact we're doing absolutely
>>> nothing.
>>> If we really wanted to conserve energy, we'd stop driving around in
>>> vehicles
>>> big enough to have their own zip codes.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 02:11
>>> Subject: daylight saving hoax
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just wanted to remind everyone that Daylight Saving hoax begins this
>>>> morning. It's time to Spring forward as they say. And actually, I am
>>>> not
>>>> totally opposed to it, but as an energy saver it is a total fraud. If
>>>> they
>>>> wanted to have it for just the Summer months when there is legitimately
>>>> daylight to save so we have one more hour of it to save that's all
>>>> right,
>>>> but not 9 months out of the year just because of a lot of these
>>>> environmentalist sickoes. But like it or not, it's that time again.
>>>> Harvey
>>>>
>>
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