I'd like to do away with it, but just keep the days longer. No need to ever "fall back" in my book.

Dude's got a creepy smile

Did I miss it, or did they not say the reason why we really have it?

We have it because otherwise it's friggen light at 5am in the morning, if we didn't have daylight saving time it'd be light stupidly early during summer... and then if we left it like that through winter it'd be stupidly dark when you got up.

It's purely just managing the light hours at the start of the day better for sleeping.

It's not hard to comprehend.

I think I counted 3x that Maddow says she likes DST because she gets to sleep later. Apparently she didn't put much thought into this report -- you get up an hour earlier during DST.

Have to Agree with Spoco2 here....
I never thought it had anything to do with any of these myths... Always thought it was so in Summer we had more light at night and less in the morning.

Better sleep sounds like a good reason to have it.

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All good Queenslanders know that daylight savings makes your curtains fade faster. (insider qld joke)

I'm not going to rewatch, but I believe she said she likes it because she sleeps late, not because it allows her to sleep later. I share her sentiment. I start work later than most, so I love DST because it adds an hour of sunlight to my day.>> ^xxovercastxx:
I think I counted 3x that Maddow says she likes DST because she gets to sleep later. Apparently she didn't put much thought into this report -- you get up an hour earlier during DST.

We should just switch to the 28hr day already...

Extending Daylight Savings Time may prove to be George W. Bush's greatest success.

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Extending Daylight Savings Time may prove to be George W. Bush's greatest success.


I'm sure the oil companies think so...

"Simpsons did it" - I like how Homer summarized the whole thing by saying, "stupid farmers."

Also an interesting summary of everything above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Personally I think it's all daft. We have circadian rhythms that have been honed by nature over millions of years, and habits that most comfortably match it. We don't need Mr. Franklin coming along and telling us we're all idiots for not getting to sleep at 9PM and waking up at 5AM. Then creating a law to force us to sleep the way he does. If he were on a more sensibly denominated bill I would tear one up in rage.

And I suspect Ms. Maddow is truly confused. DST means you are forced to go to sleep earlier, and get up earlier. If you like staying up late, you're being screwed. I think what she likes is really just the longer days that come with summer. And somehow thinks that messing with the clocks is what causes that.

watching this only made me realize one thing.

i really, really, REALLY wanna see Rachel Maddow's hair all messed up.

people seem to be forgetting.. Daylight Savings Time goes two ways. In the fall, you roll your clocks backward at 3 A.M. (meaning, you technically go from 2 A.M. to.. 2 A.M.) Gaining an hour of sleep.

In the Spring, we skip 3 A.M. entirely, and go from 2:59 to 4:00 A.M. thereby losing an hour of sleep.

I didn't even bother to watch the video, the comments have it right.. but backwards, we roll back in fall so that during winter we have extended daylight hours, and in the spring we put the clocks forward for the same effect, thereby giving people (on the normal sleeping schedule, I.e. getting up before noon) the longest amount of daylight to do their work