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So yeah, there's a million reasons, but I'll tell you one for now.

They don't do "Daylight Savings Time". Talk about a genius breakthrough.

Daylight savings actually -is- the genius breakthrough (thanks Ben Franklin), keep the farmers happy or we are gonna have to learn to grow our own food and short of magic mushrooms i dont have a green thumb. Also if you want to escape it you could just move to hawaii. They dont have a daylight savings time and its arguably, for the sake of your thread, the second coolest place after japan!

I have no problems with DST, keeps the sun where I want it.

Keeps the farmers happy, this is true.
The only people who actually benefited from this were the farmers of ancient times in middle America who picked some time at which they started working and decided that the time of day should be synchronized with respect to that.

Why the farmers couldn't just wake up when the sun tells them to is beyond me.

Either way, the number of farmers in the world is down, waaaaaay down. So we should care less.

I don't see how modern humans still find this inconvenience is necessary. "Uuunnnnngh, it gives us extra hours of light!". Yeah, extra hours of light AT THE END OF THE DAY. WTF. At the end of the day I don't need light. I need dark. Dark for sleep, dark for fires, dark for freaking darkness sakes.

Know when I need light? Exactly where is was taken from, the beginning of the day. You know, the time of day when people stop sleeping, and suddenly are required to see things.

It's freaking retarded that DST happened so soon, and doesn't go away till November. Oh wow, now it's light outside till 7pm instead of 6pm, sooooo awesome! I'm so glad that the sun doesn't rise till 8am, that's freaking stellar. We live in freaking Canada, not Florida, at least Saskatchewan was smart enough to opt out of this crap (yeah, Saskatchewan, the province that ONLY FARMS, ALL THE TIME).

Even Oslo does DST for some twisted reason. They only get 3 hours of daylight during the winter, but whatever, might as well have that happen at the end of the day, right? Wrrrrrrrretarded.

Anyway, another reason Japan is cool is because everything they cook is FREAKING INSANELY DIFFICULT. Therefore, Japanese housewives are omegaskilled and awesome where it counts.

...housewife skill happens to be something I look for in a good country.

You know DST started in England, nulifying half of what Rojerton just said?

(29-03-2010 05:42 PM)zewer_rat Wrote: [ -> ]You know DST started in England, nulifying half of what Rojerton just said?

Modern DST in *New Zealand* by GV Hudson was proposed around 18something, where Benjamin Franklin put something similar in practice in 17something (for farmers).

For the record, GV Hudson, being an avid bug collector, proposed it so he could have more time to collect insects after working hours.

I'm never wrong, bitch.

Plus, living in North America, I don't care what England is doing right now. All I know is that the States is being a major bitch and expanded DST to be gayer than usual, predominantly catering to farmers in central USA, in the 1800s.

Besides, England's DST started, what... yesterday? and goes away in October? We have more days of idiocy, which caters to a more southern set of farmers.

Not sure why the States recently decided it wanted to expand this archaic practice designed for morons who couldn't just live with the fact that days are longer in the summer, and had to ruin everything for the rest of the world. If Canada wasn't being such a bitch we wouldn't have adopted this retarded thing.

So, if you want to be a bitch about who actually created "DST", then I suppose I should revise "central USA farmers in ancient times" to "bug collectors in New Zealand". Yeah, that makes it way better.

I think you're in the minority. Daylight is much more useful at the end of the day then at the beginning.

What are you doing in the morning anyways? Most people wake up (in the house), some with blinds shut, get in a shower, get ready, eat and leave for work. By the time they're driving it's sunny or at least by the time they're in the house.

Now say you get back from work, most people eat, do dishes and then go off to do family activities. Oh look, the sun's still out, now we have three times more option to decide what to do.

I think the problem here is, you being a whiny bitch about waking up in darkness.

oooooh I said it.

Of course I'm in the minority. The majority of people are idiots. It's a well known fact.

(29-03-2010 06:10 PM)MSJ Wrote: [ -> ]Oh look, the sun's still out, now we have three times more option to decide what to do.

Oh awesome! Three times the option! Just what we need!

What do you need that one extra hour of brightness for anyway? Your kids going to sleep at 7pm anyway, a full 2.5 hours before sunset at the height of summer. "No junior, it's night time, I know the sun is still out full force, but it's night time". Eskimo's probably think we're insane, it actually gets dark here during the summer, but we don't use it properly.

Everything I want to do at 9pm in the summer is better if it is darker.

Whereas, everything I do when I wake up in the morning, is better if it is brighter. Who shuts all their blinds all the time? Why even have windows?

If the sun is out it makes for a more energetic morning. If it's not out, we're all just fooling ourselves into thinking it's morning, when we're actually just waking up in the middle of the night and going to work then.

Son goes to bed at 8 actually. So when we're done eating it's about 6 and that gives us time to go outside with him. Then we can give him a bath, and spend some time relaxing and since it's still sunny outside I can bring the dog out for a run around 7:30. Then the darkness comes and I transform into MSJ and start drawing....

Ah, now it makes sense.

DST is useful for dog owners.