Posted on 03/12/2022 4:04:19 PM PST by Libloather
In that case, it’s a good thing that I’m not going on tour or trying to polish up a skit for YouTube. I merely made my standard argument against going to year-round DST, and added some info from Traverse City, MI’s sunrises and sunsets.
Cheers!
Hate it all you want, but Xiden will sign a House/Senate GOP-passed "Sunshine Protection Act" as a comity in a pre-election year.
There are 18 states ready to go and at least another 10 with bills in the hopper.
The extra hour of daylight due to DST is responsible for global warming.
Science!
And it's f'ing glorious!
I know. I was trying to rib you in a way that wouldnt come across as some sort of assault. Im at a similar latitude to Travers City and I know that for those kids riding the bus twiddling with the clock doesnt make a difference. Its dark in the morning and if you live along the lakes the cloud cover persistent during most of the winter means its going to be dark when youre getting home. clock twiddling doesnt create more hours of the day either. Time to just stop all this foolishness. Its not the hour reduced or added that is really the issue whether some mind it or not, the issues we should be considering are economy and health and it fails in both.
Curiously, if it was abolished, the “crack of dawn” here in Nashville during June would be at or around 3:50am. The last bit of sunlight goes around 8:45pm (CDT). I’m thinking of splitting the difference and bumping it a half-hour. Still, I think we should probably “adjust” the whole country to make it optimum for everyone along longitudinal lines as opposed to state/county.
As someone who one ran frantically to the departure gate at the Memphis airport only to find out when I got to the gate that my flight left not in ten minutes but in 70 minutes because, unbeknownst to me, Memphis (unlike East Tennessee) is in Central Time, I can’t say that I’m a fan of states (much less counties) being divided between time zones. And if the crack of dawn in Nashville is around 4:50 a.m. in June *even with Daylight Saving Time*, then clearly all of Tennessee should be on Eastern Time (along with all of MI, IN, KY and FL and the state of AL); New England probably should be on Atlantic Time.
YES!!!
It’s funny that you have to drive for 2 days straight to the west (to the New Mexico border) to get to Mountain Time. Tennessee, of course, is a long state (about 8-9 driving hours from Memphis to Mountain City excluding the hour time change). The eastern part clearly should be, as it is, in Eastern Time. How far west that should extend is a debatable issue.
You probably know that Newfoundland has its own time zone, a half hour ahead of Atlantic Time, which has to be confusing as hell to adjust for.
Yeah, the Newfies have their own time zone—although maybe they share it with Venezuela now. I can’t imagine scheduling a conference call among people from Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
OK, I looked it up, and Newfoundland is in UTC -3:30 while Venezuela was (from 2009-2017) in UTC -4:30, so Newfoundland always had its time zone to itself. The changes in time zone in Venezuela are a microcosm of how Communism works:
“In December 2007, Hugo Chávez changed, via decree, the official meridian to meridian 67° 30’ W, the same used between 1912 and 1965. As result, the standard time was UTC−04:30, half an hour behind the previous time which eventually led to an increase in energy consumption.
On 15 April 2016, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela would reverse Chávez’s time change due to the shortage of electricity (the country’s hydroelectric power has been hit by low water levels[1]) in Venezuela, with a return to UTC−04:00 which began on 1 May 2016 at 03:00:00.”
As a kid I loved it if it was dark in the mornings! 🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛🧛
As a kid, some of the first-graders had to carry switchblades. To fight off coyotes.
Some of them were werewolves
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