Clocks fall back, but daylight-saving time getting longer

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I'm happy about the changes in 2007. plus it helps with energy consumption.

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Nuts. Now I get to go to work in the dark AND come home in the dark.

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Yeah, that's one of the biggest disadvantages of living in the North. In december-january, you can go through an entire work-week without ever seeing the sun (especially if you're a cube-farmer.)

It's nice to have 4am-11pm sunlight in June, though. Not sure it entirely makes up for January, but it's still nice to have long sunny evenings.

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My kids have to go to and from school in the dark (and I to work).

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Bah, daylight saving...

Glad we don't have it here

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Some of us get an extra hour of work (9 hours tonight instead 8) when Standard time rolls around, up the upside is in April when I get 8 hours of pay for 7 hours of work.

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I hate the temporal anomalies: The sun in the wrong location in the sky per the clock, the TV "skip" at the time of the temporal shift and even, on BAUT, certain posts appearing in the future (I saw a few tonight!).

We were not meant to tamper with time! Leave it alone, I say!

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the truth is time doesn't change, only us.

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[dalek]Emergency temporal shift![/dalek]

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The funny thing about DST is that it has never been proven to save anything at all. However, it does cause a small but statistically significant increase in traffic accidents twice a year. Probably because for commuters light conditions changed substantially 'overnight'. So DST has more negative than positive effects, I think.

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Actually, it has been proven to save a lot of electricity devoted to lighting in the mornings.

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Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

yep, people use more electricity when they are at home. if it's light they don't need as much - dark and they use more.

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You would expect it to save electricity, but if you research it, it doesn't show up. You save in lighting, but airco's run longer and because it stays light longer people will use their car more. If you look at the big picture, it doesn't save energy. The negative effects, on the other hand, are without dispute. Especially here in Holland, where we get 2 hours behind on solar time in the summer. Animals, like cows, never adapt to DST and children can take more than a week to adapt. Two hours is simply too much. It could be different for other countries of course.

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aircos? are you serious? the day isn't longer, just when we use it. most countries are 1 hour.

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Is Canada conforming to the US changes, or will we be out of sync?

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I SO hope we'll be out of sync. It never mattered to me before, but I can't get used to waking up in the middle of the night at 7am here in Edmonton. If I had to do that for two months next year, I'd go nuts.

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You can't take the sky from me.

Just to clarify, Queensland doesn't have daylight saving. We schmucks in Sydney have just had to put the clocks forward though...

I'm not a fan. I don't like sunlight at the best of times.

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