Comments on: Friday Gathering: Daylight Savings Edition

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:13:53 +0000

Whoo hoo! Can’t believe I won something. Thanks for the gift.

As today is Veterans Day, I just wanted to let everybody know that there are 131,000 homeless Veterans in America today. This is unacceptable to me, and I hope people spread the word to raise awareness!

By: Dramon

Dramon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:03:32 +0000

Move to Arizona! Most of Arizona does not do the DST. As stated, there is no ’savings’ of daylight, it just moves it evening to morning.

It was originally touted as energy savings and I would be interested to see if anyone proved that it did or did not save energy.

By: The Digerati Life

The Digerati Life — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:51:42 +0000

I so agree on DST! What is the point? Oh well. Thanks for the awesome roundup!

By: Susie G

Susie G — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:07:30 +0000

I agree – daylight savings is dumb to me, too!

By: micki

micki — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:11:42 +0000

Seth is right…. what would be happening is that you would be driving home in the dark a lot longer than you do now…personally i wish we could just stay on DST all year. that way we could drive home in the light longer, plus our internal clocks would not have to go thru that infernal shift 2x a year! ugh. the older i get the more i dislike it.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:40:40 +0000

I’m afraid you’d still have to drive home in the dark at 5:00 pm if there were no daylight savings time (if I understood you correctly). The savings is during the summer to get less sunlight in the mornings an more in the evenings… that said, I too think it is dumb and unnecessary (my internal schedule has really been messed up this week).

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Thanks for hosting this giveaway, I’m so excited for the book, and will definitely put some of those frugal comments to use. Its always good to read about others who try to be concious of their spending as well…although I think I’ll continue to use my turn signal in the car!