Posted on 03/04/2023 3:12:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hardly remember it. Didn’t give it much thought at all.
Pick one and leave it alone.
Shift 1/2 hour and don’t make anybody happy.
There has always been morning rush hour traffic. It doesn’t matter what kind of time we use. It still remains.
We always caught the bus in darkness in the winter. No avoiding it. That’s what happens when you live 20 miles out.
There’s the answer, right there.
It does seem contradictory, doesn’t it? Changing from standard to daylight savings time would have a business running A/C for the same length of time in a day, but shifted one hour closer to sunrise, i.e. one hour more in the morning and one hour less in the afternoon when it’s hotter.
Several sources state that more electricity was used during the DST trial in 1967, and that’s why the state of Arizona decided to stick with standard time. Perhaps I was wrong, and it was residential A/C use that accounted for the increased energy consumption (though at least one source specifically mentions businesses).
I would think that daylight savings time would be irrelevant if you were far enough north that it’s daylight all the time, at least during those days.
I did know a guy once in Oregon who had extremely seasonal sleep patterns. I worked with him in the summers, when he’d sleep just two or three hours a night, but his girlfriend was a classmate of mine and she mentioned that he’d sleep 18 or 20 hours out of 24 during the winter. As far as I know, he didn’t use drugs to maintain the pattern.
Yep, should be obvious.
Present company excepted, of course.
In my admittedly peripatetic surveys of history, I find Babylonian mathematics fascinating.
Reminds me that in Montana many years ago, it was frequently said Max Baucus’s greatest career achievement during his lifetime feeding at the public trough, was when he served in that states legislature and succeeded in passing legislation legalizing turning right at a red stop light.
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