It is now 5:00AM and it is dark outside. My body thanks and feel it is 6:00AM .
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Plus, my Sunday’s newspaper is not in my newspaper box.
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Plus, my Sunday’s newspaper is not in my newspaper box.
Is this one of TUG's contentious issues? It can't be solved here, so. . .
Enjoy the extra hour of sleep you got last night.
Jim
I am also fortunate. No DST in Saskatchewan all summer (heck, it is still light at 11:00pm even without it) and no DST when we move south to AZ for the winter!No DST is one of my favorite things about AZ. Our body clock only has to adjust when we travel.
I don't know, Jim. We've solve many problems around here on a daily basis.....
I wish DST would end. Permanently.
Just for the fun of it, can anyone point to a positive reason to continue DST?
Agree whole heartedly with this well considered post. Perhaps a better configuration would be to have a line of demarcation of states along the southern tier that would settle on either DST or Standard time, because of the lesser seasonal variation in daylight hours, and frankly, in summer, they don't need more daylight. In more northern regions, there is benefit to not having the sun rise at 3:00 a.m. In Summer.I guess it depends at what latitude you live. The farther you are from the equator, the more variance in daylight hours there are between spring/summer and autumn/winter.
I, for one, like what is currently done (spring ahead, fall back) because it makes best use of the limited daylight hours in the autumn and winter and longer daylight hours in the spring and summer? I know this is also a somewhat controversial issue here in British Columbia as there is serious talk about permanently moving to daylight time. That means we would set our clocks ahead one hour next March and then leave them there.
As for those who wish DST would end, I keep asking but no one can give me a straight answer to this question. Is your problem with DST:
1) The hassle to change your clocks?
2) The confusions that it creates (eg., you agreed to meet someone at 9:00 but that person showed up at 10:00 because he forgot to set his clocks ahead)?
3) The sun rises/sets one hour too early or too late for your liking?
4) It screws up your body clock and sleep patter? or
5) Apparently there are some statistics from insurance companies that say car accidents tend to spike the day after we set our clocks ahead/back?
I guess it depends at what latitude you live. The farther you are from the equator, the more variance in daylight hours there are between spring/summer and autumn/winter.
I, for one, like what is currently done (spring ahead, fall back) because it makes best use of the limited daylight hours in the autumn and winter and longer daylight hours in the spring and summer? I know this is also a somewhat controversial issue here in British Columbia as there is serious talk about permanently moving to daylight time. That means we would set our clocks ahead one hour next March and then leave them there.
And I would prefer Daylight Savings all of the time.I wish DST would end. Permanently.
There is really no compelling reason to have it anymore. One of my main gripes about DST is it makes early morning travel more dangerous during the school year since more of the school year morning commute is in darkness.
Just for the fun of it, can anyone point to a positive reason to continue DST?
I wish the earth wasn’t tilted and not round so none of this was so complicated.
Is that too much to ask?
You'd have to love living in China. ONE time zone for the whole country. If you travel from China to the West into say, Afghanistan, there's a 7 1/2 hour clock adjustment to be made.Changing clocks for Daylight Savings is just dumb and I wish this twice a year of clock change will be eliminated. It is not as though you get longer daylight just by changing time on the clock.