Daylight Saving Time

[visapetition 2]

Hello RUB,

As some of you might (or might not) know, RUB countries will no longer switch clock two times every year and will reside in constant time-zones: UTC+3 for Ukraine, Belarus and Kaliningrad Oblast, UTC+4 for Moscow and onwards for Russia.

The pros of such a move include less stress for the "biological" clock (circadian rhythms), easier time-reckoning if you're in the U.S. and don't have to wonder if the country is UTC+2 or UTC+3 this time of the year.

The cons - darker mornings and less energy savings.

Ultimately, do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing?

[ONA 133]

I thing it's neither good nor bad... Well, at least for me. There is a joke that proves that it's a good thing for Medvedev

[slim 1,530]

Good. Less government meddling in our lives.

[eekee 182]

It's a holdover from a different time.

[james&olya 1,121]

The idea always seemed a bit ridiculous to me. You cannot get the sun to come up or go down any earlier or later than dictated by the laws of physics. When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska the sun would not go down until 1AM in June! How can it be 'mid'night when it is still day? DST is nothing more than a mind game. If you want to enjoy more daylight in the summer than just get up earlier!!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The idea always seemed a bit ridiculous to me. You cannot get the sun to come up or go down any earlier or later than dictated by the laws of physics. When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska the sun would not go down until 1AM in June! How can it be 'mid'night when it is still day? DST is nothing more than a mind game. If you want to enjoy more daylight in the summer than just get up earlier!!

#### You!

I HATE getting up early!

(just kidding James)

You are right. The hours of daylight do not change, it is what it is based on your latitude at any given time and that is it.

I vacationed once in Cancun which is considerably closer to the equator and farther east than Florida but is still in the (our) central time zone and they do not have DST so I awoke to bright daylight and thought it must be 6 or 7 am. No. 3am! #######!? Then it got dark at about 6pm. I asked the cab driver..."Jeezum, what time does it get dark in winter?" About 6pm.

Edited October 12, 2011 by Gary and Alla

[Leatherneck 693]

To me, it just means deer season is getting closer.

[shikarnov 7]

Apropos of nothing:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-daylight-saving-times-save-energy

[Pinenut 1]

Out here in Siberia, it is dark when I get to work and dark when I leave. In summer, it is light before I wake up and light after I am home for the night. DST can't change that It is just more confusing to figure out the time difference from USA.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It was probably a Communist that started Daylight Savings Time to begin with.

Edited October 25, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[james&olya 1,121]

It was probably a Communist that started Daylight Savings Time to begin with.

Are you accusing the guy with his portrait on our c-notes of being a pinko?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Are you accusing the guy with his portrait on our c-notes of being a pinko?

Pure myth.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Hello RUB,

As some of you might (or might not) know, RUB countries will no longer switch clock two times every year and will reside in constant time-zones: UTC+3 for Ukraine, Belarus and Kaliningrad Oblast, UTC+4 for Moscow and onwards for Russia.

The pros of such a move include less stress for the "biological" clock (circadian rhythms), easier time-reckoning if you're in the U.S. and don't have to wonder if the country is UTC+2 or UTC+3 this time of the year.

The cons - darker mornings and less energy savings.

Ultimately, do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing?

Last I heard Russia was going to put Kallingrad in the same time zone as Moscow. I wonder how that's working out for the Kremlin?

[visapetition 2]

And now they've cancelled the cancelation (in Ukraine): http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/115182/ ... Such stalwart permanence in the region these days...

Edited October 27, 2011 by visapetition

[Brad and Vika 129]

Don't care either way.