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Daylight Saving Time Change On Sunday For N. America
An anonymous reader writes Just a reminder that DST starts this weekend for most of North America. The majority of people feel that DST is a bad idea and want it to stop. If that was done, the main question would then probably be whether to go to Standard time year-round, or "summer" time year-round (more). For the latter, there is some evidence that it helps reduce crime (at least initially); for the former, more northern locations would have sunrise occur 08:30 or later, which would make the morning commute difficult. Some even argue that the U.S. should go to only two timezones. The DST change occurs at the end of March in the EU, so there will be a second round of confusion for trans-Atlantic conference calls then.
Yes, the source is unsourced articles that come out twice a year shortly before daylight savings changes, each with the same trivial commentary. I'm in the other majority, the one that prefers daylight savings time.
Few of them actually have any jobs and they spend all their time drinking, so DST does not really affect them.
Harden the fuck up, slashdotters. Twice a year you guys bitch and moan about what a horrible burden it is on you to have to change your clocks. In the time it took you to type your whinge, you could have already updated the few remaining analog clocks in your abode.
And if you were real nerds, all your clocks would update automatically.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.