I guarantee that will cheer you up!
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.
We get an extra hour of daylight, who doesn't love that?!
What kinda Bernie-Bro-Communist-Gun-Grabbing-Money-Stealing-Ugly-Stupid-Castro-Ass-Kissing degenerate doesn't love extra daylight every day???
But are you too old for an extra hour of daylight every day? Hmmmm???
I guarantee that will cheer you up!
Spring backwards fall forward
the old Indian said,
“Only the Government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and get a longer blanket.”
To that pearl of wisdom, I say I would rather have warm feet than to have my head covered.
What? Tankless units heat on demand.
My internal clock not too fond of the change. Alsp, messes with the pets’ schedules alot.
"It is better to have a cool head and warm feet than to have cold feet and a hot head."
I used to make a big deal out of these time changes. Then I realized Epstein did not kill himself.
One of the best holidays of the year!
Totally agree. I still rank Christmas and Independence Day at the top but DST Day ranks right up there with St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween.
No, they should be reserved for microwave ovens and DVD players.
Amazing how quickly our bodies adjust to 25-hour days.
Correct. Never underestimate the ability of the human body to quickly adapt to new situations.
I’m with you all the way - my body and brain need all the sunlight I can get, and I’m not up at 6am doing things if we didn’t have DST - and I love being outdoors on our 15 acres in the evenings until dark - so I love 8:45 pm sunsets!
I am an extremely active outdoors guy at 75, and love when the time changes!
I know the majority is against us, but I’m so grateful for every hour of sunlight after 6pm, and am outdoors almost every evening past 6 for all of DST......
So do I........where do we vote?
I set our tankless water heater to come on 6 am to 9 am for morning showers, hand washing and dishes.
12 pm -1 pm Noon hand washing/prep/cleanup
5pm to 7 pm dinner prep/cleanup
It comes on due to demand like washing the clothes, running the dishwasher, whatever.
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