Yes, that's it.

Th switching is what makes is dreadful. Let alone the excuse of why it is being done.

You deserve it.

Enjoy!

There was so many times I wanted to quit and most cowrkers did.
What kept me going is the life long pension I now enjoy,

I survive the winter LONGING for the start of Daylight Savings!

Actually, energy consumption went up due to daylight savings in States like CA because air conditioning has to be operated to later hours.

So the argument of "saving" energy is moot.

That must have been quite a career, Dino.

I commend you for being able to carry on for so long.

I bet you are enjoying peace and quiet now.

Then Arizona might be for you. They do not do the time change because in summer they like having more hours in the morning when it's cooler. I have no particular argument for or against it, other than I'd rather keep the time the same all year for simplicity.

My dog simply can't wrap her brain around daylight savings time. She give me the look - WTF am I doing getting up at 6:00 am when I should be getting up at 7:00 am?

The real question is whether you prefer to get up in the dark all winter and well into fall and spring, or observe an early "curfew" in the summertime.

The argument for "summer time" (as they call it in the UK and throughout Europe) was to conserve fuel for lighting and such by extending the daylight hours into the evenings. Here's the question of the day: with the new LED lamps, is fuel conservation by extension of daylight into the evening that important as an issue? It was one thing back in the days of lighting with gas, and even with the incandescent lamps Thomas Edison invented. But modern lamps are available that take only one-sixth the "juice" even of Edison's old lamps.

So why else do we need to observe a time that extends daylight into the evening, by robbing the morning? That's the debate we really ought to have.

I applaud the President for wanting to eliminate the semiannual time change. But maybe the solution is to abandon "summer time" completely and go on "winter time" year-round.

Also, supposedly car wrecks are at a much higher level on the Monday after the DST switch.

It's just asinine all around. I don't care, really which one we pick, but I'd prefer that we don't switch back and forth. Virtually all the comments I see suggest the same thing.

Why are we still doing this?

I second the motion.

Yes. Pick one and let's move on. I don't even really care which.

I know I'm sure sick of trying to program around it...

I think it was a good idea at the time but its usefulness has long since passed.

All sorts of stuff. Gang activity, fights, inmate drug traffic, threats made against officers, rumors of a riot, sometimes confiscated shanks (prison made knives) are on display with information about precisely where they were found and who had them, the latest rule changes (there was away some freaking rule change) and about once every year or two we were told why and how an officer got himself fired and sometimes, even worse, being taken by summoned deputies to the county jail for trying to smuggle in dope.
That covers some of it.
Sometime at the briefing we were told that the prison would not be renamed twice if one of us got killed. The prison I worked at was first called West Jefferson (on that side of Jefferson County) before it became named after William Donaldson.
A convicted cop killer in a one-man cell threw coffee on a nurse as a trick to lure an infuriated Officer Donaldson into signaling for the cell door to be opened so he could storm in with a baton. The cop killer was waiting with a shank and stabbed Donaldson in the heart,
http://www.doc.state.al.us/facility?l...
Gee, I don't recall those little tree-looking bushes there. Nice touch. I left May, 2003, after working there for 21 years.

What was in the briefing?

Getting used to it was no fun when I worked the day shift at the prison so I could pick up the kids at school during the late Nineties
Had to be there by 5:45 AM so I could hear the briefing before starting the 6 o'clock shift.
Take it from the dino, you really DO want to hear the briefing before you walk down the hall.
Glad to be retired now.

I would love to see it on all year. As a night owl, I don't do mornings, so I usually sleep until at least 8:00. By that time the sun is up anyway. I love more daylight in the evenings...great for walking, not having to drive when it's dark, and working outside in the yard..

It takes a week to get used to it. Those of use getting up early (4 AM) already, are penalized even more.

According to data, there is a 25% increase in heart attacks the Monday following daylight savings.

I can get used to it, but then don't run the time back again in the Fall.

The justification of helping agr workers with early morning hours has long become obsolete.

So why on Earth are we doing it?

Me dino also prefers it all year long.
I read that Trump is considering making that all year thing a law.
Guess the left will be against it only because the Tangerine Tornado thought of it.

Raising my hand...YES!

I prefer Daylight Savings Time all year long. Getting up in the dark and returning home in the dark during the winter gets very depressing.

I don’t really care for it.
It does add some complexity to life. Because of changes in time politics, my sprinkler system timer has to be reset four times every year now.