Daylight Savings Time

[justcarol67]

Sandy jumping in:
> 
> I have to side with Carol on this one. I despise DST. I believe,
Carol, that you have never known life without it. I, however, have.
DST did not come into existence until I was in my mid-20's. I didn't
understand it then, and I don't understand it now, but we got along
perfectly fine without it for the first two and a half decades of my
life. I am really unhappy about them extending it four weeks this
year, and I presume every year hereafter. Yuk!

Carol responds:
Actually, I grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, where we never had it and
didn't need it. I'm not sure that I even knew that it existed until I
briefly moved to North Carolina when I was twenty and had to turn my
watch forward and then backward for the first time (if it weren't for
the mnemonic "Spring forward, fall back" I wouldn't have known which
direction to turn it!). Heck, I get confused changing time zones when
I'm flying. I never know what time it is anywhere else in the states
and DST makes it more confusing. At least I know that in summertime,
Arizona is on the same time as California (PDT = MST) and the rest of
the time, California is an hour earlier. Idaho, OTOH, is on the same
time as Arizona for most of the year, but an hour later in summer,
which my mother inconveniently forgets when she makes an early morning
phone call.

Extending DST four weeks! May I suggest moving to Arizona? If you
don't like the desert heat, try the cool pines of Flagstaff!

BTW, I wonder how parents who live in more northern latitudes where
the sun doesn't go down till, say, 9 p.m. during DST manage to get
their young children to go to bed, much less to sleep, in summertime!

Carol, who only has to deal with DST when she's traveling or
telephoning or being telephoned, thank goodness