PMS of the Month: Daylight Savings Time
Yes friends, it’s that time of the month where a DAPS staffer gets to cleanse their proverbial uterus with a deluge of clotty/irony (not ironic) goodness.
Daylight Savings Time is a crock of shit.
On November 1st, at 2am (that’s saturday night) Most of the US and some other stupid parts of the world (including Europe and Russia) will lose an hour arbitrarily.
But isn’t there some scientific reason? No. It’s all because of some fucking tool who liked bugs.
Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.[2] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[18] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.[19] Many publications incorrectly credit DST’s invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[20] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[21] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[22]His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
It’s fucking LOSAS like this that fuck everything up for us. SURE this year we get an extra hour to sleep off our Halloween hangovers, but once the spring comes back around (and it always fucking does) we’ll LOSE and hour, just when that shit was getting good.
I’ll get your motha ready.
IT’S MADE UP. THERE IS NO REASON FOR IT ANYMORE. I can see what I’m doing just fine from the glow of mycomputer monitor. Luckily there are SOME intelligent countries out there like most of Africa and South East Asia (or SE Asia for you Global Studies kids).
Just that that bug herb up above did, Im gonna WRITE A PROPOSAL to have daylight savings time adjust with the natural flow of life. Let me explain…
Let’s say it’s November 1st at roughly “12 noon”. well if you had a Doctor’s appointment at noon, YOU’D BE AN HOUR LATE. y proposal is that ALL SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES MUST SPRING AHEAD/FALL BACK AN HOUR WITH THE DST SHIFT THEREFORE NULLIFYING IT AND MAKING THE WORLD FINALLY SEE HOW STUPID THEY ARE.
FUCK DST.
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JaneBlow on Thu, Oct 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
on year, the hr got taken away on my birthday… that was NOT COOL.
Carlo on Thu, Oct 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
NOT COOL AT ALL.