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Random Thought of the Day
| March 9th, 2018 at 6:31:25 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11792 |
I agree Its stupid that the feds have to approve Here is the diff between AZ/HI and FL AZ/HI don't observe daylight savings time. Standard time all year. A state is allowed to opt out of DST On the other hand FL does not want standard time all year, FL wants DST all year. That requires congressional approval Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| March 9th, 2018 at 11:00:32 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/prepared-for-anything_bunkers-for-all/995134 You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| March 10th, 2018 at 12:47:07 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Time was originally imposed by the railroads not the government. Now its the government and they can't even say Universal Coordinated Time it has to be Universal Time, Coordinated which is government nonsense at its height. I've never really thought it made much difference. Wisconsin agricultural interests used to be highly vocal about the time change even though I never thought their cows much cared about it. Contented cows, cheese and school children all pretty much rate the same in our society: utter non issues. So I don't see the sense of worrying about time declarations. China's one time zone seems nonsensical. The Vietcong's Tet Offensive got off to a staggered start because some units were on North Vietnamese time which seemed stupid to me. I often adjust the clock in the wrong direction anyway. |
| March 10th, 2018 at 3:22:55 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | Is there something wrong with me or would it not be counter productive to make DST year round? The 'old' six in the morning would just become the 'new' 7 in the morning and people would forget whatever used to be, no? I guess you could try to tell businesses etc they have to maintain a different schedule. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| March 10th, 2018 at 7:53:03 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 | They need to do more to fix rush hour traffic. Too many businesses close at the same time. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| March 10th, 2018 at 8:16:32 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Back in the days when malls not only existed but had clout, hours would be enforced for minor tenants and the major anchor tenants would often have these Early Bird Specials wherein teensy cups of tea, coffee, apple juice, orange juice as well as some donut holes would be served at some unbelievable hour such as 7:00am or something like that. It stretched the traffic hours but I still liked one city's advertisement "our traffic newscaster knocks off at 5:30pm". Its often the leisure businesses that now have extended business hours: coffee houses, mail boxes, etc., dry cleaners, wine stores. These places moderate the great traffic jam mess. |
| March 10th, 2018 at 8:17:13 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
Well, for me the point is to have daylight when people are awake. June 21 or so is a long day in michigan - 15 hours of sunlight. If "noon" was middle of the light, when the sun was at its highest point, the sun would rise at 4:30am and set at 7:30pm. If you look here https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/detroit?month=6 you will see that with DST, and Michigan's position in the time zone, local "noon" (the time when the sun as at its highest) is about 1:30pm. That makes sunrise at about 6am, and sunset at about 9pm. When you have exactly 12 hours of daylight, if you set local noon to 2pm, dawn would be at 8am and sunset at 8pm. with local noon at solar noon, sunrise would be 6am and sunset at 6pm. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| March 10th, 2018 at 8:32:30 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | WHY? The northern latitudes get along just fine with extremes of night and day and don't worry about their clocks having to match the sun. A few years ago I posted something about that town in Northernmost somewhere with its official Sunset published and its next official Sunrise being six days later. I mean so what? Maybe instead of just retirement watches we should have great big retirement clocks for the home as well. You know, you look at the time piece and there is absolutely no way to discern the time from it. It just depicts a golfer, so the message is clear: its time to go play golf. Or a man on a surf board or the outline of a martini glass or a fish on a hook. You get the idea. You only have to know ONE time. When the deadline for dropping your wife and your credit card off at the day spa is. As long as you meet that deadline, you go can go off and fish, golf, or drink in peace. What more do you need? Or you can move to New Mexico where there is only 'morning', 'afternoon', 'nighttime' and 'manana' which means not today, perhaps never. Nothing gets more granular than that. |
| March 10th, 2018 at 8:46:52 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | I'm not sure what you think I said, but I am not saying change time all the time. I'm saying set it to one spot and leave it all year. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| March 10th, 2018 at 10:51:18 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
85% of Americans want to get rid of DST altogether, they think it's a pain in the ass. They like more sun in the morning and less in the evening. So Face's dream of DST year round doesn't look likely. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |