Posted on 03/07/2020 9:00:07 AM PST by SamAdams76
Starting tomorrow, Sunday, March 8, the days will get one hour longer. No more driving home from work in the dark until October. One extra hour of daylight!
This is one of my favorite times of the year and the first true sign that spring is upon us. Now I will have time to sit outside on my patio after work and watch for signs of the coming summer with a beer in my hand and a steak on the grill.
I just want to give thanks to an otherwise horrible president, Lyndon Johnson, who did do one good thing for the U.S. by signing into law the Daylight Savings Act on April 12, 1966 that gave us an extra hour of daylight from last Sunday of April to the last Sunday of October. Now we did have DST well before 1966 - actually Benjamin Franklin first thought of it - but it was mostly during the summer months and different areas of the country had different rules about it.
Since then, future politicians would dick around with the timing, causing the extra hour of daylight to occur nearly two months sooner and extended the end of DST through first Sunday of November.
The latter, I do not like, because it means that on Halloween night, we are still having the longer days. Now growing up during the 1970s, dark would always come earlier on Halloween, effectively extending the trick-or-treating time for the kids. These days, nobody is really able to get out there trick-or-treating until around 7PM which is disturbingly close to bedtime for the little tots out there. I say move the end of DST back to the last Sunday of October so the kids get to stay out in the dark a little longer. Otherwise, I'm fine with having the longer days begin the first week of March.
It also makes sense to have more darkness in the winter months because it's not like anybody is going to be outside working in their tomato garden or sitting on their decks grilling hamburgers in 20 degree weather. Also, I like the extra darkness in winter because the Christmas lights, which pretty much go from mid November to mid January, look much nicer in the dark.
So anyway, this is a very exciting day for most of us. We get to see the sun set for the last time around 5PM. Starting tomorrow, it won't set until around 6PM and by mid-June, we'll be watching the sunset well past 8:30PM as we bat away mosquitoes and pull another cold one from the cooler.
As you can tell, I'm a big, big advocate of Daylight Savings Time and this is like a holiday for me.
The other half of my clocks will be right again!
I refer to the one in my kitchen as “stove top time” in the winter because I’ve been too lazy to bother changing it.
I like the lack of DST in AZ. Early morning work start with early morning light is great in the hot desert.
Yeah, thankya Uncle Sam...but it’s no longer just our clox....it’s EVERYTHING!
GunnyG@PlanetWTF?/WNW!
SemperTRUMP.45!
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My morning commute is in the dark most of the year as I need to get to Manhattan which is 70 miles away. I’m okay with GOING to work in the dark - I’ve seen some spectacular sunrises along the way. But I do treasure the few months of the year I come home in the daylight as I can then sit on my patio and grill some food.
As one wag on reddit asked...
“Into what bank are they putting all this saved daylight?”
“Are Daylight Savings Bonds covered by the FDIC?” Is the interest free of Federal taxes?”
“How much of my portfolio should be invested in Daylight Savings?”
“What type of investment planners can help me plan for enough Daylight Savings for my sunset years?”
We could all move to Alaska for the summer months and accomplish your goal.
All I know is that no matter what the Government would want a cut of the income made during the extra hour.
So we'll get 25 hours in a day instead of 24 then?
Early rainy day withdrawal penalties apply...plan accordingly.
“I’m happy as many of my vehicles will then be on time.”
When my wife complains about our vehicle clocks not being on time. Then, I hand her a two inch manual and tell her, I don’t do things requiring 2 inch manuals. She just glares at me and puts the manual back in the trunk. They are too big to fit into the glove compartment.
My dear wife resets all of the clocks in our home. We have 4 appliance clocks in the kitchen and a wall clock.
We have one in our master br and one in a spare bedroom.
All clocks in the family room are wifi/internet controlled.
The two hardest to reset are my pathfinder, solar power watch with about 150 ways based on our location, that never work. Now, I just wait until one of my tech sons or grandkids visit. They love to laugh at PaPa.
The worst is our tankless hot water heater. The clock re set takes one-two minutes. The setting of when to heat and when to turn the heat off might be as hard as setting the nuclear clocks on a polaris submarine. That is what happens when one marries Japanese tech with Canadian tech and sell the product in America.
Calculate it however you like, I’m not a math major, but the net result is ONE EXTRA HOUR OF DAYLIGHT and that is good by me!
MSNBC needs your math skills. Just sayin'...
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back during the “energy crisis”, they switched to DST most of the year, and folks worried that kids weren’t safe going to skool in the dark.
Use it or lose it!
I plan on spending this extra daylight wisely.
I'll be playing a lot of country music on my patio this year. i've been complaining about the state of modern country for years but some pretty good stuff out there these days, Luke Combs, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett, Ingrid Andress, Chris Stapleton, to name just a few. Good music!
Speaking of music, remember when Supertramp had that blockbuster album from 1979 called "Breakfast In America"? Well, I had the occasion to re-listen to their 1982 followup album called "Famous Last Words" this morning. It was still pretty much horrible. Not a good foll0w-up at all.
Reality check, there are still 24 hours in a day!
You are clearly not up to speed on the new math.
I am totally sick about it.
I DESPISE DST.
I’m too old for new math!
You copied this from The Onion, right?
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