Time to save daylight again.
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Poor babies!
How do Alaskans save daylight?
In a barrel of kerosene?
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I regularly attend meetings that start at 5:00, 6:00 and 7:00. The one at 7:00 moves to 8:00 during DST. Of course, these are all P.M. I wouldn't attend any of them if it was A.M.
Leave it on standard time. "Daylight savings" in the winter suks.
It's daylight saving, one "s".
How does that old Native American story go on this subject?
Something about how only white eyes stupid enough to cut off one end of blanket to sew onto the other end to make the blanket longer.
I say just follow the sun. Easy whatever time to sun rises get up eat breakfast drive to work. Work however many hours required head home enjoy the family. My grandpa always told me not much good to be out after dark you will just get into trouble. Come home eat go to sleep. Awake early and work. I am one that just doesn’t like all the flip flopping. If you don’t want kids walking to school in dark school at a certain point can start later the community and businesses will adapt as well . I can’t figure out all the new fangle devices to keep changing the clocks anymore.
No daylight is saved by moving a clock. I can't believe people put up with this for so long. It's all some marketing malarkey, imagining people would buy more things. It has nothing to do with farmers. Children do not have to wait for the school bus in the dark. Just start school later.
"They" talk about daylight. I talk about noon. Do we want the day to be half over when the sun is highest (roughly) in the sky or an hour before that?
When we say "half a day," we'll have to say whether it's the big half or the little half.
Here in Alaska we need to save all the daylight we can in the summer so we can use it in the winter.
Why not just move it by an half-hour and call it standard time and leave it at that for the whole year? Split the difference in half and leave it. When living in the northern half of US, I did enjoy the shift to the evening hours, helped get the last hole in the golf course in...
Here in Alaska we need to save all the daylight we can in the summer so we can use it in the winter.
Maybe you need to shift the calendar instead of the clock?
...Someone announced that it was noon.
"Right," declared Shukhov, "The sun's at its peak."
"If it's at it's peak," retorted the captain, "then that means it's not noon but one o'clock."
"Why is that?" Shukhov was surprised. "Every grandfather knows the sun is highest of all at noon."
"THAT for the grandfathers!" the captain shot back. "Since their time a new decree has been passed. The sun is highest at one o'clock."
"Whose decree?"
"Soviet authority."
The captain went out with the barrows. But Shukhov wouldn't have argued with him anyway. Was it possible that the sun was subject to government decrees too?
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
I've been running on "solar" time for years...dogs too. When there's a hope of light in the east we're all up and hungry. When there's no more light we crash. I haven't punched a clock for years and don't plan on it anytime soon.
I couldn't really care less about standard or daylight saving time..except that it's good to know when I want to watch something in the evening on the telly.
Can you imagine having to rotate all those monoliths at Stonehenge 30° twice a year!
I'm glad it's here. Now all the clocks, etc that I couldn't figger out how to change six months ago show the "correct" time.
My coworker corrected the clock in a work truck about two weeks ago as it had been wrong since the last time the battery cable was disconnected. Guess he will need to correct it again.
@flga-2-2
The clock in the 91 Suburban is now correct again, give or take a few minutes...
@flga-2-2 In college I was on a rowing team. One day I went to a workout and my watch wasn't working, so a teammate let me borrow her Goofy watch. The hands moved counterclockwise. I ended up judging time by the position of the Sun.
