"The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever. "
There are those crazy time zones that have the 30 minute difference like in New Delhi.
― earlnash, Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:35 (five months ago) link
An overlooked factor in all this chatter is that no matter which setting we are using, sunrise and sunset times are nearly an hour different from one side of a time zone to the other just because it takes the sun roughly an hour to traverse a zone.
It also often takes way more than an hour to drive (or even fly) from one time zone to another. We're being cheated.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:23 (five months ago) link
And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's lightTrying to catch an hour on the sun
― brimstead, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:53 (five months ago) link
yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:33 (one month ago) link
Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:43 (one month ago) link
nice work
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:45 (one month ago) link
no point in changing the clock for just four months
back in my day we had *real* standard time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link
ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:18 (one month ago) link
Yeah, I know it's time-trickery but I feel a big relief when Daylight Savings comes around... finishing work and still having some light to go for a walk
Husker Du: "Somewhere in April time they add another Owwerrr!" Did it used to be in April or is that just a songwriting/syllable convenience?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:51 (one month ago) link
wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
Thanks Dubya.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:55 (one month ago) link
wow you must be young
thank you *blushes*
I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:04 (one month ago) link
i love the sun
― ivy., Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:07 (one month ago) link
Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:10 (one month ago) link
when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:28 (one month ago) link
I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:13 (one month ago) link
xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:01 (one month ago) link
It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:15 (one month ago) link