Daylight Savings Time

[Highbeam]

"I want more light after work. Kill the DST!!
You must have misunderstood something,- or have I? "

Bah, you know what I mean. Turn the clock here, back there, confuse my alarm clock, it's all bologney. Whatever we have now, leave it alone. That is, after we spring forward throw out the clock adjusters.

Maybe I'm too young to see any value in this spring ahead and fall back business. On winter mornings it is always going to be wet and dark here in the NW.

 

[Mike_Lipke]

I don't like Daylight Savings Time because the extra hour of Daylight dries out the ground more and can parch the crops.

 

[Steve_Miller]

Nova Scotia, Atlantic Standard Time: Starts at 2:00AM Sunday on the last full weekend in October . Daylight Saving Time: Starts at 2:00AM Sunday on the first full weekend in April. AST, shortest daylight is on the first day of winter, light at about 7:30 - 8:00AM, dark by 5:00PM. DST, longest daylight is on the first day of summer, light at about 5:00AM, dark by 10:00PM
Today it was light at about 6:00AM and dark by about 8:00PM

Steve

 

[dieselsmoke1]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifI'm gonna remember that one.

 

[IslandTractor]

That's the kind of logic I can respect. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Mike_Lipke]

You bet.
And you know, that extra hour of daylight is probably what's causing all this Global Warming we keep hearing about. Dumb!

 

[Jstpssng]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( And you know, that extra hour of daylight is probably what's causing all this Global Warming we keep hearing about. Dumb! )</font>

HMMM, good point; I never thought about it. And think of all the overtime we're shelling out; time and a half to the sun for that extra hour of work each day. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Back in the "energy crisis" of the '70's we stayed on DST all winter one year; but too many parents; including mine;complained because their kids were waiting for the schoolbus in the dark. (I also walked 1/4 mile to the bus stop... something you won't see now.)

 

[BB_TX]

Living on the edge of a time zone as you do makes a lot of difference. I would much rather live on the western edge of a time zone that on the eastern edge of one. If you live on the western edge of a time zone and the sun sets at 6 pm, your neighbor a mile away on the eastern edge of the next time zone would have the sun setting at 5 pm. Fortunately I live about the middle of ours.

 

[mikim]

<font color="blue">I also walked 1/4 mile to the bus stop... something you won't see now </font> ... dunno about that - I just saw the neighbors kids walking home from the bus stop on Mon -- over a mile away---

 

[Newblue]

As an Indiana resident, DST has been nice for these past few days. Last night it was still daylight at 8 PM and 60 deg. out. Next fall it will be a hard change to go back to winter hours and lose that extra hour of light.

Mike