Freaking Daylight Savings Time!

[BeenDown139]

time change went into effect this morning in the states.  my body clock's ancient creaky mechanism can't be adjusted anymore so i woke up at 0230.  rarin' to go.  might as well get something done.  hope i last until sunset.  crikey!

[edwardofhuncote]

The only thing I dislike about it is that it's dark when I leave for work, and often dark by the time I get home.

Wasn't there some proposal floated a while back to suspend the DST change? Or did I just imagine it?

*She-who-doth-in-fact-know-it-all, says I have things bass/ackwards as usual... the initiative is to stay on Daylight Savings Time permanently.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1050492391/daylight-saving-time-history-what-you-need-to-know

[BeenDown139]

i'm never sure if it's DST or MST here.  tv listing times are always east coast, centeral or pacific.  MST?  isn't that the land that time forgot between the mississippi and the ski areas?  all my better(?) halves are long ago and i really don't have a schedule anymore so i think this means the sun comes up an hour earlier which means i can get out in the yard and run a hammer drill and/or tile saw an hour earlier for the benefit of my nieghbors.
i think my inner curmudgeon has finally reached full bloom.  where's the tylenol?  and somebody answer the freaking phone!  arrgh...

[lbpesq]

Love it in the Fall when I get to sleep in.  Hate in in the Spring!

Bill, tgo

[hankster]

Some agree.

[edwardofhuncote]

Some agree.

Lol! Thats about the size of it!


The real question is; what will the clock be reading when my rotten, degenerated spine says to me; Okay bub, that's it for today!

[cozmik_cowboy]

I forget who said it, but the best explanation I have yet heard is that it is akin to cutting a foot off one end of your blanket & sewing it on the other end; then in 6 months you cut it off there & sew it back on the original end.   Pure foolishness.

Though, of course, as Messrs. Weir & Barlow told us:

You've got to throw away your wrist watch
You've got to understand
The time it seems to measure
Is just the movement of its hand

Peter (who is in favor of transitioning to UTC)

[lbpesq]

Or as the late great John Prine put it in “Tree of Forgiveness”:

Yeah when I get to heaven
I'm gonna take that wristwatch off my arm
What are you gonna do with time
After you've bought the farm?

Bill, tgo

[hammer]

Or Robert Lamm of Chicago who long ago wrote…


Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so, I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to cry

[paulman]

The proposal is to move the clocks ahead this Spring and then never fall back again.  Permanent DST.

Frankly I liked the extra hour thing in the fall.  In some IL cities and municipalities they have rules to prevent selling alcohol after the clocks are set back.  Something about it being illegal to sell booze after 1am twice in the same day.

[keith_h]

I'd rather see it stay on standard time. I like to have the light in the early morning hours of summer when temperatures are cooler and having the sun go down early enough to get back outside in the evening. I also have some family where DST would result in sunrise at 9 AM in the winter months. 

[edwardofhuncote]

"I don't really care, it's 5 o'clock somewhere."


~Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett.

[David Houck]

As long as we're keeping score ...

My preference has always been to stay on standard time for the simple reason that 12:00 noon should be when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, i.e. mid-day, and on the night of a full moon, midnight will be when the moon is at its highest point.

It would then follow that if there isn't enough light in the morning or evening for certain activities such as school schedules, shop openings, etc., then change those schedules.  (Yes, I know it's a much more complex problem than that.)

However, lots of people live in places where the time at "mid-day" is actually closer to 11:30 or 12:30; so for them, noon never has been mid-day.

For those of us who like to go hiking, it used to be helpful to know that the sun at noon was due south.  Of course now we just look at an app on our phones.

For me, there is something of value in maintaining a connection with the sun and moon is one's daily life.  However, for many people, perhaps most, that just doesn't happen.

So, while my preference is permanent standard time, I would be happy with permanent DST.

However, I really like those clocks where the hands always point to "NOW".

[StephenR]

"I don't really care, it's 5 o'clock somewhere."


~Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett.

"I don't really care, it's 4:20 somewhere."

[cozmik_cowboy]

As long as we're keeping score ...

My preference has always been to stay on standard time for the simple reason that 12:00 noon should be when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, i.e. mid-day, and on the night of a full moon, midnight will be when the moon is at its highest point.

It would then follow that if there isn't enough light in the morning or evening for certain activities such as school schedules, shop openings, etc., then change those schedules.  (Yes, I know it's a much more complex problem than that.)

However, lots of people live in places where the time at "mid-day" is actually closer to 11:30 or 12:30; so for them, noon never has been mid-day.

For those of us who like to go hiking, it used to be helpful to know that the sun at noon was due south.  Of course now we just look at an app on our phones.

For me, there is something of value in maintaining a connection with the sun and moon is one's daily life.  However, for many people, perhaps most, that just doesn't happen.

So, while my preference is permanent standard time, I would be happy with permanent DST.

However, I really like those clocks where the hands always point to "NOW".

I am in full agreement,, Dave.

"However, I really like those clocks where the hands always point to 'NOW'".
Right beside a sign - with no map or arrow - saying "You are here".

Peter