saterday is daylight savings time I do believe don’t forget to set the clocks ahead
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Astronomical Applications Dept:
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More info can be found here:
[url=http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html:142c5]http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html[/url:142c5]
(set your clocks forward early early Sunday morning)
WAHOO! ONE EXTRA HOUR OF FISHING EVERY NIGHT AFTER WORK!!!
And more to come in the next few weeks!
Maybe I’m a stick-in-the-mud, but I have never seen the use of changing the time around.
Yes, I have heard all the arguments for and against, and can still see no real purpose for it. Sorry.
Wyo-blizzard aka Bloody Tom Bonney
ok, Byron, call me crazy but the post right on top of yours is good enough reason for me!
I for one can not wait till we move the clocks ahead. ONE MORE HOUR OF FISHING! YESSSS!
I’m with you, Byron.
This is the 21st Century. We are no longer involved with WWI. More and more states and countries are making their own time rules.
I hate changing my clock and changing my sleeping habits.
I need to write to our congressmen and state: “Change the time 1/2 hour and LEAVE it that way. It’s time we get over this silly, insane habit. We’re a grown nation, let’s start acting like one and get rid of useless procedures.”
Clearly you don’t have a child that goes to kindergarten 1/2 day. Right now the BWO hatch has moved forward to the point that it’s basically over when I get to the river. Once we set the clocks forward though, I’ll be right back in it. 
Jeremy
Seven more days till I finish my job with
the County’s Paddle Trails. Then my watch
is just to keep me from missing “Happy
Hour”.G Warm regards, Jim
[This message has been edited by Jim Hatch (edited 01 April 2006).]
Jeremy,
I have two elementary kids. I live 43 36 00 N. I know some of you live farther north. Matter of fact, I once did, too. I stationed in Anchorage for nearly 2 years. Winter solstice and summer solstice was something very unique.
It still does not change the fact that the idea behind “daylight savings” is nearly 100 years old. We’re dealing with a century worth of growth, progress, and change.
I think we can safely put out-of-date and bygone practices behind us, look at the calendar, and realize that it’s 2006.
I love daylight savings. I get to think I stay out later. And if its at saturday midnight, then it wont affect the time i get to sleep
If we are going to change the time, why not leave it at Daylightsavings, all year long?
My kids are grown now but they even complained about having to change when they were in school.
I work Seven to Seven, leave the house at 5:30 am or pm, get home at 8:00 am or pm.
If I am going fishing, I TRY to get up at dawn and usually get home at dark, the time is really not important to me.
I think some of it may be an attitude that developed when my father-in-law used to say “The cows get up with the sun and go to bed with it. Why should we be different?”
Ofcourse I wrench the works with niteshift, but I have never been accused of being normal!
Wyo-blizzard aka Bloody Tom Bonney
[This message has been edited by Byron Zuehlsdorff (edited 01 April 2006).]
Excellent idea, Byron. It really doesn’t matter WHAT the hour is as long as it STAYS. Businesses, services, and other “timely” items can look at the average sunrise and sunset and see what works best. (Our schools stagger starting times, which is very odd. I’ve never seen it done this way anywhere else.)
Ranchers and farmers do not look at a clock. My brother, on ranches, worked when work needed to be done: it didn’t matter if it was light or dark, 8am or 7am. Cows tended to wait until bad weather to calf anyway, so he blamed the storms, not some archaic practice.
Diane, I think you might have missed my joke about the kids and the hatch time.
Actually though, there are sound reasons for daylight savings time. There is a very measurable drop in energy consumption on both ends. Consumption drops when it begins since people don’t need to have the lights on anymore while they cook dinner, etc. in their first couple of hours home from work. When we roll the clocks back consumption drops again since people no longer need their lights on to get ready for work in the mornings. There are sound reasons for leaving it alone. Now, making the period of time that it’s in effect longer, that’s another matter.
Jeremy
PS I had no idea that there were actually people out there that hated DST. There’s always Indiana and Arizona, neither of which participate.
Living here on the ‘left’ coast, I have enough problems just trying to keep track of ‘business hours’ across the country when I need to call someone. 
LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL
This weekend is as exciting for me as Christmas! I will now be able to get some fishing in after work!
I have to tell you all this true story on the time change: Several years ago, while visiting relatives in Mississippi, I over heard a group of women talking about the time change and most were ok with it except for one women who stated, " I don’t mind the time change, but, this extra hour of sunshine shore burns up my garden!" She was serious and no one said anything more.
Warren
hahah thats hilarious!
My dad seems to be convinced that we are losing an hour of sleep, although we arent even waking up at any particualr time. My body doesnt know what time it is! If i sleep 8 hours, than I sleep 8 hours, it doesnt matter what the clock says
Jim Hatch…I don’t have numbers on my watch…it just say’s “Happy Hour”
“It still does not change the fact that the idea behind “daylight savings” is nearly 100 years old. We’re dealing with a century worth of growth, progress, and change.”
Actually, Benjamin Franklin originated the idea in 1784, however it was never put into practice until World War I.
You don’t like time changes? Move to my state…Arizona does NOT change it’s time!
Your watch will be accurate AZ time all year long.
GM