Do people in Alaska really need daylight savings?

Does anybody really need daylight savings? :eyebrow:

Nope.

Here in Florida we do... gives us a chance to get those yards mowed in the afternoon after a day at work... this allows us to free up our weekends... :p

ya know, i heard tell that the Mayans got some kinda calendar,....

And i think we're suppose to be all dead this year, or some kind of bad things gonna happen.

Yeah, I really want to set my clock ahead to lose an hours' worth of life.

Of course the truth is you don't gain or lose anything, really. It's all just juggling the books.

i like late days. i can get a lot more done outside.

time is relative and a human invention

Weeks are the only truly arbitrary time designation. In a way.

I'd go the other way. Only days and years are not arbitrary. You can make a case for months, but we don't really follow lunar months, so that's arbitrary too.

24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. All seem pretty arbitrary to me.

1 day makes sense, 1 year makes sense. the rest can be accounted for by degrees on a sphere. the sun moves 15° accross the sky every hour. or 0.25° every minute

how can weeks be accounted for? couldn't there be two weeks every month, if they were 14 days long each?

dividing the lunar cycle by 4. which it has 4 main phases anyway

Hmmmm... sounds logical.

Standardized time began with the railroads. :)