I just wish we got an extra hour of sleep every year without having to give it back in the spring. Sure, days would be screwed up after a few years, but it would correct itself eventually. And just imagine how great it would be to take in a gorgeous sunset during lunch.
Why do we still have to switch all our clocks twice a year? Why did we ever have to do it? This is insane. If a business wants to open earlier or stay open later, it should just change its own hours of operation, not expect the entire population to undergo this ridiculous inconvenience.
Help me out, readers from all over. I need to know if something is a universal thing, just a regional thing or my own personal thing. I trust and try to follow AP style (writers and journalists know what I’m talking about; it’s the Associated Press guidebook for the right and wrong way to use the English language. Or, if not the right and wrong way, the best of the many acceptable ways, or if not that, a consistent way so readers don’t get whiplash going from paper to paper). And AP style — and grammarly logic — says that it is daylight-saving time, with a hyphen and no S. But every time I hear it spoken aloud, including through my own larynx, it comes out Daylight Savings Time, like it’s some kind of a sale going on at Sol’s Discount Illumination Warehouse. It actually causes me a little angst. It’s one thing to make a character say things people don’t expect them to say — that’s writing. But to make a character speak like they wouldn’t normally speak feels kind of amateur, even if the characters are speaking “right.”
But AP style is AP style. So angst, yes, but I won’t let myself lose any sleep over it. And if I do, I can make it ALL UP when we set our clocks back. Another thing that, like pronouncing it Daylight Savings Time, is clearly wrong but I’m pretty sure adopted by everybody.
Those who consider themselves really, really, really in need of “extra” sunlight during any part of the day shouldn’t worry about resetting clocks; they should move between Northern and Southern Hemispheres twice a year.
Chrisdiaz801 over 4 years ago
Cool advice from Miss Plainwell.
batmanwithprep over 4 years ago
I just wish we got an extra hour of sleep every year without having to give it back in the spring. Sure, days would be screwed up after a few years, but it would correct itself eventually. And just imagine how great it would be to take in a gorgeous sunset during lunch.
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Even we in central VA have problems with the time changes. Seems just another unnecessary intrusion into what is a natural process.
jpayne4040 over 4 years ago
You could always go to bed an hour earlier.
jeffcadmanphoto over 4 years ago
Let’s leave the “s” on, it’s easier to roll off your tongue.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago
Why do we still have to switch all our clocks twice a year? Why did we ever have to do it? This is insane. If a business wants to open earlier or stay open later, it should just change its own hours of operation, not expect the entire population to undergo this ridiculous inconvenience.
scaeva Premium Member over 4 years ago
Poor kid, already has a working adult perspective.
Nick Danger over 4 years ago
https://imgur.com/gallery/CDqD1KV
JimWhoCares over 4 years ago
Better yet, every four years, February 29th is only 20 hours long!
Stephen Gilberg over 4 years ago
Why alternate between “Sixty” and “60” at the start of a sentence (fragment)?
Scott S over 4 years ago
It’s a real downer leaving work at about 5 pm & you can’t see your hand in front of your face for the darkness.
Gawd I HATE November!!!!!!!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 4 years ago
See? Another reason why we don’t need DST year round. You’ll end up not having that extra hour of sleep.
meowlin over 4 years ago
Cats dislike this shift. They don’t mind the other one so much…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
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Help me out, readers from all over. I need to know if something is a universal thing, just a regional thing or my own personal thing. I trust and try to follow AP style (writers and journalists know what I’m talking about; it’s the Associated Press guidebook for the right and wrong way to use the English language. Or, if not the right and wrong way, the best of the many acceptable ways, or if not that, a consistent way so readers don’t get whiplash going from paper to paper). And AP style — and grammarly logic — says that it is daylight-saving time, with a hyphen and no S. But every time I hear it spoken aloud, including through my own larynx, it comes out Daylight Savings Time, like it’s some kind of a sale going on at Sol’s Discount Illumination Warehouse. It actually causes me a little angst. It’s one thing to make a character say things people don’t expect them to say — that’s writing. But to make a character speak like they wouldn’t normally speak feels kind of amateur, even if the characters are speaking “right.”
But AP style is AP style. So angst, yes, but I won’t let myself lose any sleep over it. And if I do, I can make it ALL UP when we set our clocks back. Another thing that, like pronouncing it Daylight Savings Time, is clearly wrong but I’m pretty sure adopted by everybody.
gammaguy over 4 years ago
Those who consider themselves really, really, really in need of “extra” sunlight during any part of the day shouldn’t worry about resetting clocks; they should move between Northern and Southern Hemispheres twice a year.