Posted on 03/11/2024 8:45:15 AM PDT by ducttape45
Spring ahead day is my favorite day of the year. Said no one, ever.
People speak of “zero-sum” changes in many aspects.
Daylight Savings Time is less than zero. Who is going to change all the clocks until after a missed appointment?
I was woken this morning by the dog wanting his morning walk. He was an hour late today.
I think we should lock the clock at standard time. Oklahoma has been trying to lock the clock at DST for a couple of years. Why they don’t want to keep Standard time instead, I don’t know.
At least this is a fun and harmless subject.
To this point, I notice that no one mentions the hundreds of years that great minds meticulously worked on the accuracy of clocks, trying to make clocks that would never have to be adjusted. Different escapements and complications that told a bewildering variation in time-related data to the interested owner.
When in doubt, a ship at sea could use a telescope to look at the moons of Jupiter and set its clock accordingly.
Now, generations of morons change batteries more frequently than Pythagoras did his underwear. Every stupid electronic device you get has a clock and none of them agree. My family has a couple of “atomic” clocks that can be made to self adjust to the time change, if you are willing to pull out your hair to set them up. Even after all this, these clocks never agree and the batteries still die so that you can do this all over again.
I am currently adding solar power to the house and, of course, the Sun doesn’t care about the time change. The dogs don’t care. It will be weeks for me noticing that clocks are now “wrong” so I can fiddle with them.
Some day, I expect I’ll just ignore the change. It’s better to be retired.
I think I sound like Joe Biden. ;-)
When I lived in Northern Illinois, it got so dark early in the winter, and I hated it. Now that I live in Northeast Oklahoma, It gets dark quite a bit later. I don’t mind dark between 5 and 6 p.m., but dark at 4:30 p.m. was just too much. And it takes me a couple of weeks to adjust to dst, and I’m retired.
It is most certainly not pointless. In the peak of summer where I am, it starts getting light a before 5 am with DST, and sunset just before 9pm. Without DST you’d have morning starting before 4 am and sunset almost 8. Who needs it getting light at 3:30 am? Heck I’d almost double it for where I live, I’d take a 6 am sunrise and a 10 pm sunset if I had the option.
But you can’t really leave it in place all year because then in mid winter, the sunset of just before 8 am would become just before 9 am. People would be at work or school before dawn.
I agree!
And I’m really sick of those who want to make DST permanent!
Bring back permanent Standard Time!!
So go to work earlier.
Are you that beholden to a clock that you think forcing everyone to reset their clocks twice a year so you think the sun arises when you want it to makes sense?!
Where do we keep the daylight we’ve saved?
Just your friendly twice yearly reminder that the government controls time itself.
Ask my livestock, chickens, and dogs if they give a damn what time it is.
Silly question. Obviously, in your Daylight Savings Account, where it can earn interest.
Not me
You must live in Indiana?
Then, it must be also partly INSANE... “doing the same thing over and over, and ...”
That slight quake in the sky you felt Sunday was the sun adjusting itself to my watch.
An Indian saying (apocryphal) has it that only a paleface would believe that cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and adding it to the bottom makes the blanket longer.
Frankly, I don’t care which: pick one and stick with it. It’s switching back and forth that is an irritating pain in the posterior.
Yes I do, when my son was in the Navy, he was stationed in upstate NY near Saratoga Springs for a couple years. He would come back here and laugh because he thought it was so strange that it was still daylight at almost 10:30 PM.
I like it because I like the extra evening light. For those who work for a living, it’s nice to do outdoor activities an extra hour.
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