Daylight saving time is one of the dumbest things we do. Who cares what time it gets dark

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111. You need to move to Queensland. They don't do Daylight Savings..

That extra hour of daylight makes the curtains fade quicker than they should!! And it causes skin cancer!!

When a faded curtain is not a joke. The unacknowledged link between daylight saving and skin cancer

In a climate that fluctuates between hot and bloody hot in summer, the old joke about daylight saving 'fading the curtains' seems to be a particularly Australian phenomenon - and one that shows no sign of abating. Among Australia's daylight saving advocates, the joke is told so often that many have started to believe that it's true. It's become almost impossible either to read a daylight saving article or to have a daylight saving discussion without being told - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary - that a superstitious 'fear of fading the curtains' is the 'main reason' people oppose it.

Needless to say, faded-curtain ridicule has become so entrenched in Australia's daylight saving discourse, that any attempt to link daylight saving to skin cancer rates is met with abject hilarity. Some Queensland doctors have tried over the years to open a debate on daylight saving’s potential to impact on skin cancer rates but, as a rule, their arguments have been misconstrued as an ignorant belief that daylight saving creates an 'extra hour' of daylight in the day, which will then increase sunburn.

This may provide vindictive fun for those dishing out the humour. However, given Queensland’s horrendous skin cancer statistics, this attitude is unacceptable and dangerous - especially when a permanent forward clock change during the hottest months of the year would automatically shift schoolchildren's daily outdoor activities from the relative safety of the early afternoon into the peak ultra-violet radiation (UVR) period in the middle of the day.


http://www.nodaylightsavingqld.com/Faded.htm

The Stupid contained in that website needs some sort of warning label, so here it is. Be careful of the stupid...