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Will give me an extra hour to shovel snow in the afternoon. For February BOZEMAN had 5.5 times the normal snowfall. it has snowed every day in March. One night last week the temp was -23. The shoveled snow on the side of my driveway is 5 feet tall, in March. Global warming has failed me.
The rain we got here in Jan and Feb if converted to snow equaled 12.5 feet. No one here has the equipment to handle that much snow so I am dang glad it was just warm enough to not snow
lol, yeah the state would look like the zombie apocalypse with that much snow in 2 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_bgblue
Goodbye hour. See you in the fall.
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SAVINGQuote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
Trump gets it:
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump
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Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!
10:17 AM - 11 Mar 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...10383227035654
Thought I was okay since I didn’t have to get up early yesterday but couldn’t get to sleep last night until late according to the clock but still had to get up at 5 am :/ Kind of in a fog today.
BEvans I think Trump is trying to woo you. He knows your weakness. :)
Give me the daylight when I get home!
@thehill: JUST IN: Washington state Senate passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent http://hill.cm/MYrZlsz https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1...395202/photo/1
Your annual reminder that we're getting ready to do something nonsensical, unsafe and unhealthy.
C'mon, President Trump, make permanent DST happen! He hasn't done it yet! Sad! :D
Have a nice weekend (until you lose your hour of sleep, then maybe get a nap).
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This is the change I want to have happen. Stays lighter later that way.
The problem is the other half of people who want to end the switch want to stay on the time I don't prefer. I think those people may be Communist infiltrators. Or UL fans.
EU to abolish practice next year?
The practice, which is currently regulated across the European Union, has grown increasingly unpopular over the years. Critics say switching clocks disrupts biorhythms in humans and livestock alike, leading to health problems.
In 2018, an EU poll indicated overwhelming support for ending daylight saving time altogether. A year later, the European Parliament voted to abolish it by 2021.
The decision left it up to EU member states to decide whether to stick to the twice-yearly change, but there is no uniform position on whether the bloc should adopt summer or winter time. With 2021 just around the corner, no concrete plans on how to implement the EU's decision have been made since last year's vote.
Will Sunday be the last time Europeans turn back the clocks? Only time will tell.
https://www.dw.com/en/europeans-turn...ime/a-55389492
If the EU supports this idea, it can not be a good one
I get that people don't like changing it, though I find it a completely minor event myself.
But I do think the reason for DST hasn't changed, which is that the planet shifts and if we stay with one time we will either be very dark early part of the year or dark pretty early at night the other part. So if we dont' change then people waking up early are in total in winter, or our summers get dark earlier.
The idea that it's "unhealthy" to conform more to the natural rotation of the planet around the sun is to me silly. The idea it impacts livestock is really silly. Artificial time is a construct. NOrmally in non-industrial society people would naturally shift to the pattern. Now maybe doing it all at once in one night has some short term impact in some way, but it seems to mostly be people don't like it.
I am curious if the vast majority just want it light longer in winter or they want it light longer in the morning. The political arguments over when to make the change are based in exactly that, with farmers wanting more light in the morning thus wanting to shift out of DST sooner, and actually candy companies being the major lobby wanting it to wait until after Halloween to provide more time for trick or treat.
This guy has been leading the "charge" (more like shuffle) against DST for years:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/...john-j-miller/
Shifting back and forth doesn't save energy, it doesn't help agriculture, and there are more traffic accidents and fatal industrial accidents on the Monday after DST. We've gone long periods of time before (WWII and the 70s) in permanent DST. Somehow the Republic survived.
I like permanent DST--it gives us the longer summer evenings. Yes, it means it's dark longer in the mornings in winter. It's dark in the morning in winter, anyway, and it's winter, so I'm prepared to be miserable.
But even if we went with permanent Standard Time: fine. Just pick one, already.
Before kids, we would take a long weekend trip to the beach that weekend. Worked out well, we never knew it happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenBBN
You already root for snow in the winter, now you want Alaska darkness too? You must have one heck of a Vitamin D lamp. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by KSRBEvans
If we went with just one I'd want longer days and darker mornings myself.
My complaint is winter, regardless of how we score it on a clock. Days are just too short, but nothing we can do about it.
For 3 years I lived in Puerto Rico, which was on year-round Atlantic Time. So for half the year we were 1 hour ahead of ET and half the year were the same time. It was weird, but we didn't have the body clock issues.
I’m all for year round daylight savings time. I hate it getting dark so early in the evenings.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenBBN
We're getting ready to repeat a mistake we make this time every year.
I was wondering when this thread would rear its ugly head lol
Don’t we like it in the fall because we get an extra hour of sleep?
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I hate losing the hour of light at night, but I'm not in love with waking up in the dark either.
Can we just work with NASA to stop the wobble and leave the Northern Hemisphere in permanent tilt to the sun? That would seem to satisfy everyone.
There's a solution to waking up in the dark. Roll over. I highly recommend it.
It is more exaggerated in the north. I’d guess here above 45th parallel it’s likely 45 minutes different from Kentucky. But I like DST. If we were to lose it, I’d prefer to stay an hour ahead.
It works great on weekends when I don't have an auction. Not as good for getting step daughter to school however.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickintheHam
Sunset tonight will be 5:37 est
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Sunrise today was 7:13. Sunset will be 5:02. Here somewhat above the 45th parallel.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
I would prefer the fall back occurred on Sunday nights instead of Saturdays so I would get that extra hour on Monday morning. I don’t really need it on Sunday morning. They can keep the spring forward on Saturdays.
How does one get this extra hour of sleep? I wake up and the clock says it is an hour earlier now.
Same. Somebody forgets to tell my body.Quote:
Originally Posted by KeithKSR
To give you an idea of what year-round time would look like, I'm taking Danville, KY (geographic center of KY):
Year-round Standard Time:
Longest day (June 21): Sunrise 5:16, Sunset 8:05
Shortest day (December 21): Sunrise 7:48, Sunset 5:25
Year round DST:
Longest day (June 21): Sunrise 6:16, Sunset 9:05
Shortest day (December 21): Sunrise 8:48, Sunset 6:25
5:34am to 9:17pm june 20, 2022
8:01am to 4:42pm Dec. 20,2022
BozemanMT
So sunrise at 9:01am here wth full time dst.
No
Switching time make the most sense. The planet wobbles. Humans trying to force a linear model on a planet that is not linear doesn't make much sense to me.
Until we started trying to keep track of "time" humans automatically adjusted their internal clocks to that wobble. Why would we ignore it now? it doesn't suit us as well biologically IMO.
In the Smokey’s today 7:59am - 6:36pm
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