Daylight savings March 11st

[Werewolf Hunter]

Heep this mind as it starts 2 A.M. on Sunday!

[Pumpkin_Man]

Hi Wearwolf Hunter. Welcome to Halloween.com. Anyway thanks for the post. I love Daylight Savings time. I would prefer that Daylight Savings time ended BEFORE Halloween, but the beginning of Daylight Savings Time is the first indicator that the decent weather is comming back and it's time to get the motorcycle ready.

Mike

[The Duchess]

Thanks for the reminder!

I just love daylight savings time!


By null at 2012-02-09

[Morticia]

I hate daylight savings time.

[Pumpkin56]

I hate daylight savings time.

Me too Morticia. Me too. And it irritates me that it doesn't end before Halloween. I need all the darkness I can get that time of year and I don't really like losing that hour of sleep when it starts up again.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I'm not too crazy about losing the hour of sleep either, but I do love it, as it gets closer to Summer time, crusiing around on my bike at 7:30 to 8:00 in the evening and it's still daylight. I quite agree about Halloween, though. I really hated the way the extended it to include Halloween. Halloween is supposed to be a dark night for all the ghosties and goolies, and other things that go "bump" in the night. But at least I can still go for my Midnight Halloween Motorcycle Ride with plenty of darkness. Last Halloween it was as cold as a witch, too.

Mike

[Pumpkin56]

For me, daylight savings signals that summer is coming to town and while I prefer warm weather to cold weather, summers in Dallas are brutal. Daylight savings means that the clock is counting down to my spontaneous combustion

[Murfreesboro]

LOL, Pumpkin!

I love Daylight Savings during the summer months, but, like everyone else here, I very much dislike that it has been extended into November. Fortunately for me, we live near the eastern edge of the Central Time Zone, so we are getting pretty dark by 6 pm on Halloween, even with Daylight Savings in place. I know it messes things up for those farther west in our time zone, though. TOT by daylight just isn't right.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's exactly it. With that extra hour of daylight coupled with rediculous regulations limiting ToT to certain hours, it's almost impossible for today's kids to really know and enjoy a dark Halloween night. HALLOWEEN NIGHT! That's what it's all about. AT least we do get a few moments of darkness before ToT is over, but it's nothing like it use to be.

I sure wish that legislators would get out of the thought process that more and more laws will help everything. If some pervert is going to hand out apples with razor blades in them, he can just as easily do it dorung the "leagal" ToT hours and in broad daylight as he could if it were 10:00 at night.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Oh, I expect that those who want a daylight TOT are doing that because they fear traffic accidents more than razor blades. It is true that parents and their children need to be extra-vigilant about cars on Halloween night.

But I also agree with you that this tendency to legislate everything, supposedly for our safety, is eating away at our liberty. What did Ben Franklin say? "Those who would trade their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security"? Something like that. Those 18th century guys, our founders, were amazingly prescient. They absolutely understood the trade-off between security and liberty.

[Li H'Sen Chang]

Yes it is here in just a few short week.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I thought it was "If you give up freedom for safety, you will neither be free or safe." But both cases are correct as far as the practical aspect goes. We are less safe then we ever were, and we are less free then we ever were before. There was a special on Fox News last night titled "Illegal Everything." Now some points on that show, I didn't agree with, but there are others that not only did I agree with, but I couldn't believe the mountains and mountains of new laws that were made just this year. You could break the law every day of the week, and never even knowit.

Mike