[Lylac]

And I'm positive that I'll hate it more at 5 a.m

[lucyjoy]

I love when the clocks move forward. I hate it when they move the clocks back.

[irelady10]

Amen to that- I HATE this time change! Why even bother with the whole time change thing- its all based on farming and most of the country is not an agricultural society anymore!!

Getting up at 5, which feels like 4, when a baby's been up most of the night with a cough, just SUCKS!!!!

[momraine]

Well I live in a rural area, ranches not farms really, though every good rancher sets aside part of his land to grow hay to feed the cattle through the winter. I have to say that most ranchers are not thrilled about the time change either. They like it being dark when they get up and feed, cause it means it's cool. It gets darn hot in the summer. The cows don't seem to care when they get fed, but goats, get picky and no one every explained the time change to them so my neighbor is now having to get up an hour earlier cause the goats want to eat at the same time. She is gradually moving it a few minutes each day though, but by the time she gets them changed the time will change again! LOL

[TxMom65]

I despise it. I felt like I was walking around all day after drinking a bunch of cough syrup.

[mrsred]

My husband was telling me this morning that Daylight Savings time was started by Ben Franklin - to SAVE CANDLES!!!!
Whether or not that is true, I', not sure... but regardless -
Isn't it time to let this archaic practice go?

[chickymum]

I LOVE daylight savings BUT... this is too early. My kids right now are going to school in the dark and going to bed while it is still light outside. When the change was later in the year it did not make much difference but March is WAAAAAy too early. So the poor kids have to suffer so as to save some electricity. Whatever, now I have to turn the lights on in the morning rater than at night. HELLOOOOO????

[momraine]

Well, old Ben did have the idea but it didn't really catch on. It is to save energy. You can read more about it here. snopes.com: Daylight Saving Time Origins

[chickymum]

Was just looking at the site and you were online. It's mind-boggling what you all are having to deal with.

I'm so proud of you.

Motherhen

[kburch]

Well, ya'll can always move to Arizona. We don't *do* Daylight Savings.

Personally, I think it's stupid not to when the rest of the country does. Instead of having to adjust to a one-hour time change twice a year (and then forgetting about it), I have to always try to remember whether I'm one, two, or three hours different from my friends and family in the midwest, whether chat starts at 6 or 7 my time, etc. It's ANNOYING!

But no, we have to be the stubborn state...

[lucyjoy]

Okay, I'll move to AZ right now as I'm sick of being cold! (Now where did I put that winning lotto ticket?)

[devildogwife]

Originally Posted by kburch

Well, ya'll can always move to Arizona. We don't *do* Daylight Savings.

Personally, I think it's stupid not to when the rest of the country does. Instead of having to adjust to a one-hour time change twice a year (and then forgetting about it), I have to always try to remember whether I'm one, two, or three hours different from my friends and family in the midwest, whether chat starts at 6 or 7 my time, etc. It's ANNOYING!

But no, we have to be the stubborn state...

Your state is doing it right! Daylight savings time has been rought on my son's schedule this year.

[garry970]

I don't like that they changed it to March either, I was just starting to get the kids adjusted to getting up in daylight, now they don't want to get up because it is now dark when they wake up. I didn't have this problem when I was in school, because then, they changed it in April and it was still daylight in the morning by then. My 13 yo adopted son has to be at his bus stop at 6:30 am, now it doesn't get daylight until after 7am. Before this stupid time change move, it was daylight by 6am. I'm in Michigan.

garry9700

[Barksum]

I think we should just leave the stupid clock alone. What did it ever do to us?! If you want to get up during daylight/dark, then do it. Don't be bound by what time it is. I suggested to the Dh that I would just declare our property as our own little Time Zone and we'd be whatever time we wanted. He said that might prove difficult with his work schedule, etc., to which I just say, "Pfffffft!"

Seriously, though, there is some data to suggest that Daylight Savings is hazardous to one's health. There are more heart attacks during the first couple of weeks after we spring forward. So in the interests of better national health we should just LEAVE TIME ALONE.

[lucyjoy]

Daylights savings time was invented for night people like me who perfer to sleep late in the am and stay up all night. This insures we get enough sunlight to function.

I would rathe they leave the clock foward cause the fall back to early afternoon darkness is a killer for people like me. (and of course, it's all about me, isn't it always?)