Posted on 11/05/2023 8:54:40 AM PST by DallasBiff
CHICAGO (AP) — Brunch dates and flag football games might be a little easier to get to this Sunday, when phones grace early-risers with an extra hour of rest before alarm clocks go off.
The downside: Next week across most of the U.S., the sun will set well before many folks step foot out of the office, leaving them to run errands or take walks in utter darkness. Come Nov. 5, daylight saving time is out and standard time is in, and will last until March 10
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Hooray for Standard Time! Now I can get up with the sun.
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I fail to see how DST forced you to stay in bed and not get up.
But if you say this actually happened to you.....
Why do you always end your posts with “Mods pull”?
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DB used to post vanities a whole lot worse than this. Totally useless stupid stuff that the mods would routinely pull.
He started giving them permission to pull - as if they needed permission .
But somehow his vanities became more popular. Yet his routine still stands. “Mods pull.”
Standard Time has been proven to be dangerous for school children.
The very idea that millions of kids have to deal with getting to school an hour before the sun comes up is ridiculous.
Those who argue for Standard time all year don’t realize the negative consequences for children.
As seen from this contour plot of the hours of daylight as a function of latitude and day of the year, at the equator (0° latitude), the time between sunrise and sunset is always close 12 hours (the few minutes difference at certain times of the year is due to minor effects).
As the latitude increases, the hours of daylight between sunrise and sunset change with the season. At 40° latitude (approximately the middle latitude of the continental U.S. daylight varies from approximately 9 ½ hours of daylight at the winter solstice to a maximum of approximately 15 hours of daylight at the summer solstice.
Daylight Saving Time deals with the effect of different latitudes (such as 40°) on the time at which there is daylight. It does this in the spring by moving the clock time ahead one hour, which puts the time of sunset one hour later in the evening. In the fall, when there are increasingly fewer daylight hours as one gets closed to the winter solstice, Daylight Saving Time is ended and the clock time reverts back to where those fewer daylight hours are divided evenly between the morning and afternoon.
You didn't understand my comment. Under DST I had to get up and go to work in pitch darkness. Now, with sunrise an hour earlier, I can get up as the sun is rising and go to work in daylight.
Yes. And you go home in the dark.
Cutting off one end of the rope and tying it to the other end does not make the rope any longer.
In the 1960s, DST started on the last Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday in October.
Nowadays DST starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
So DST starts a month and a half earlier than it did in the 1960s. For some latitudes, that could mean, for several weeks, getting up and going to work before the clock time of the sunrise.
I’d rather go home in the dark, when I am fully awake, than go to work in the dark, when I haven’t fully recovered from the night’s sleep.
I’m retired now, but there were more than a few days where I did both. Drive to work in the dark. Drive home in the dark.
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