april 2 is daylight saving time...love or hate

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i heard the farmers hate it. i think nurses too especially those with cvvhd. they say it can save energy and money i think they save more if they stop dropping bombs other countries.

Specializes in ER/Trauma.

I like your username though :chuckle

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I will hate it for the first couple of weeks. But will eventually like the longer days(I'm a night owl)

I live in VA and farmers don't do daylight savings times. Hawaii and other parts of the country doesn't do it either. This makes me wonder how do they stay on time with us? Especially if only part of a state does it. I guess it has something to do with the time zones.

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i love dst... every year i am sad when it goes away and count the days in the spring til it arrives again. i have always loved the summer and i guess psychologically this has always been the time when i felt like the long cold winter was really over...:smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa :smiley_aa:smiley_aa:smiley_aa

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Hate it because i loose sleep.

love it because it means it is spring

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Specializes in LTC/Sub Acute Rehab.

LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell! DST means SUMMER IS COMING! WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!:lol2: Hot Days and even hotter nights!

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I say leave the cotton pickin' time alone. It was designed for farmers who now have headlights on whatever machine the would be using after dark. I HATE both. Just let noon be noon 24/7/365

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It doesn't make a whole hill of beans difference to me either way - even if I was working. I just adjust, I'm a nurse, that's something I do well. I'm pretty much a country bunkin, and I don't know of any farmers that around these parts that have a big problem with it. I have alot of Amish neighbors, and they never change their time....they just adjust everything else.:idea:

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I thought the origins of DST were FOR the farmers, way back when? I don't mind it as long as I'm off on the weekend of the time changes...Working an extra hour in the fall really sucks, as does losing that hour of sleep.

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Specializes in rehab; med/surg; l&d; peds/home care.
Hate it hate it HATE IT! The older I get the longer it takes me to catch up on that lost hour of rest.I detest bright,sunny,HOT summer days.I get depressed in the summer-and hole up in my cool, dark ,cave.......I love gloomy ,gray crisp and cool weather. I've been known to skip family functions due to summer.......

i think you are my twin...lol. i also hate hot, summer/spring, sunny weather. triggers my migraines and makes me miserable. i have lupus anyway so sun=bad news for me. unless i want to blow up like a balloon and turn as red as a tomato! :) i love, love rainy, gloomy gray days. that's why i live in michigan.

i also hate the switch of hours because my kids will NOT go to sleep during daylight, and since in will now stay light out till 9 orlater, my kids are up late instead of in bed at 8:30 max. ugh. forget studying, or rest for me. and daylight before 6 am just stinks IMHO.

then again, i feel for those who have SAD and need the light.

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Specializes in rehab; med/surg; l&d; peds/home care.
I think that it is ridiculous and I hate it. And I am one who loves the outdoors!

It totally screws me up for a week or two.

I think that for people with kids it is not good either. Much harder to get everyone settled down, fed and ready for bed when it is beautiful outside and still light.

since i have two preschoolers, i am curious. for the next month, i will struggle to get my kids in bed. and when summer rolls around and its light till 10pm, it's he** getting my kids even IN the house let alone in bed.

so, anyone have tips/tricks/wisdom/suggestions for getting kids to sleep despite the sun shining outside? i wish they would just leave the time alone already.

(can anyone tell i'm crabby from a horrible day at work and now i have a whole less hour of sleep tonight before i go back:lol2: )

ok moms and dads, let me know your tricks for getting the kids to bed during DST!

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Well, when my kids were young and school let out, I used to just switch us from being an early-rising family to a late-rising family (which was MY preference anyway since I'm sooooooo not a morning person). I let everyone stay up an hour later at the minimum, and on special occasions such as Independence Day I'd let them stay up until the fireworks got over with. I'd barbecue some burgers and make dinner at 7 or 8 PM when it started to cool off a little, and put the kids to bed around 9 or 10 PM.

The reason I did this was quite simple: As a child myself, I was sent to bed at 7 PM year-round until I was in 3rd grade!!:madface: It was awful---there were HOURS of daylight left in the summer evenings, and I had to lie quietly in my bed, bored out of my skull, as I listened to the other kids playing outside. In fact, as late as my senior year in high school, I still had to be in bed at 9:30 PM, lights out, no reading or studying, whether I was tired or not........my parents were just ridiculous about that.

So when my kids came along, I was much more liberal about bedtimes, with the result being that by the time they were about halfway through middle school, they didn't even NEED an official bedtime anymore---all four would just go to bed when they were tired, and that was usually before they were supposed to be in bed. Go figure.:uhoh3:

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I thought the origins of DST were FOR the farmers, way back when? I don't mind it as long as I'm off on the weekend of the time changes...Working an extra hour in the fall really sucks, as does losing that hour of sleep.

I thought that DST was brought about in the 70's during the gas shortage to help w/ energy consumption. My personal thought though that it is really for the golf players of the world...............LOL It doesn't bother me either way except when it comes to my kids. Especially my 4 y/o who has the hardest time understanding why he has to go to bed when the sun is still out!! I do however wish they would choose one time or another and if they did I would prefer the DST for the sunshine!!

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