New "Daylight Savings Time"

slowrev · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

In the spring an hour is borrowed from our lives, It is paid back in the fall. However I think we should get a couple of minutes of interest /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ben

hobbyfarm · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

( Or do I just let them blink 12:00 as they do now? )

You know, after I bought a Hitachi, I quit having that problem. Really easy to setup.

But, still not as easy as the TIVO!

hobbyfarm · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

( For those of you old enough to remember WW II, I have a couple of questions. I have heard it said that during the war they had double daylight saving time. Many people not in the military took jobs in munitions factories, yet still lived on family farms. They got up in what must have seemed the middle of the night, went to build weapons, then made it back home with enough daylight left to get farm chores done. Is this correct? Did they stay on this system the whole 4 years or did they jump forward and back twice a year? When I grew up school libraries were full of books about World War II, of which I read every one I could find. I am still in awe of what that generation endured and gave for this nation and for liberty throughout the world. I am disappointed not to see all those books still in the library. )

Tom_H,
You know, political correctness is like a rash that keeps spreading. Some day, we'll completely deny ever having been in that (or maybe any) war. I think they've been rewriting the history book slowly, but surely to mask a bunch of stuff we used to do routinely because "it's just not proper" anymore.

Highbeam · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

You're not "losing" anything. The clock just reads a different time. Still have 24 hours in the day and it is still light for the same amount of time each day. If your work is based on daylight, go about your business of rising with the rooster and shutting down when the work is done. If you live by a clock, then you may have to use your lights more in the evening.

It is not a loss or savings except for those two days when they take the hour and give it back.

I say leave the clock alone wherever you like and let us wake up earlier in the summer to correspond to the sun. Why make things complicated?

Vote no on DST!

slowrev · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

You're not "losing" anything.
//
No I have one 23 hour day, and lose an hours sleep. Takes my biological clock a couple of weeks to adjust in the spring.
Now for those who are retired, no big deal.

Ben

Junkman · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

( During the winter months, there is only about 9.5-10.5 hours total of daylight each day.
)

People in Texas have more daylight than the people in Maine, and the people in Maine have more daylight than the people in Alaska. The total hours of daylight in any one day depend on the closeness to the equator and the earths rotation in relationship to the sun.

Gatorboy · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

( No I have one 23 hour day, and lose an hours sleep. ) 

Go to bed an hour earlier that night -- or sleep in an extra hour. You know what day it will happen, so plan ahead. That way you only lose 1 hour of "awake time" instead of sleep.

slowrev · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

Go to bed an hour earlier that night -- or sleep in an extra hour. You know what day it will happen, so plan ahead. That way you only lose 1 hour of "awake time" instead of sleep.
//

Yes, but I still lose an hours time I do not get back till fall.
And my bio clock is messed up for a couple of weeks.
I vote no on DST, but if we did not have it we would probably go into another recession.
Ben

Gatorboy · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

Yes, of course there are differences based on how far from the equator you are -- I just put some average number down.

You know what's interesting .... over the course of one year, the average amount of daylight you get (regardless of where you are located) a day is 12 hours.

slowrev · Aug 9, 2005

Re: New \"Daylight Savings Time\"

People in Texas have more daylight than the people in Maine, and the people in Maine have more daylight than the people in Alaska. The total hours of daylight in any one day depend on the closeness to the equator and the earths rotation in relationship to the sun.
//

Correct Junk, also the sun is more "intense" the closer are to the equator. When I lived in FL I noticed that plastics exposed to the sun only lasted half as long as the same plastics in KY. Shorter shadows too /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ben