Don't for get to set your clock ahead one hr. tonight or first thing in the A.M.   
March 8th it starts.

Again?  It takes over a week to recover from it.  We still have 6,8,10 inches of snow on the ground.  And it's piled everywhere.

Quote from: kit saginaw on March 07, 2015, 08:38:43 PM
Again?  It takes over a week to recover from it.  We still have 6,8,10 inches of snow on the ground.  And it's piled everywhere.

Today it was 75º and in the sun it said 94º.  I am going to put down 300lbs. of lawn fertilizer this coming week. 

Quote from: kit saginaw on March 07, 2015, 08:38:43 PM
Again?  It takes over a week to recover from it.  We still have 6,8,10 inches of snow on the ground.  And it's piled everywhere.

Every year it's the same thing, pols talk about removing daylights saving time as if it were crucial, the day after, all is forgotten.
I still don't understand the lobby behind keeping it, who benefits?

Oh, and we've been in solid spring since January, pushing the upper 70s again today. And no, it's not a good thing.

Quote from: Solar on March 08, 2015, 05:45:10 AM
Every year it's the same thing, pols talk about removing daylights saving time as if it were crucial, the day after, all is forgotten.
I still don't understand the lobby behind keeping it, who benefits?

Oh, and we've been in solid spring since January, pushing the upper 70s again today. And no, it's not a good thing.

Makers of sporting equipment. Owners of outdoor entertainment and recreation venues. Supposedly an extra hour of evening leisure time during the work week makes a difference. Sounds like bullshit to me. Theater owners hate it. The railroads too.

I know this much -- from now until November, the clock in my Explorer will be right. 

Quote from: TboneAgain on March 08, 2015, 11:09:49 AM
Makers of sporting equipment. Owners of outdoor entertainment and recreation venues. Supposedly an extra hour of evening leisure time during the work week makes a difference. Sounds like bullshit to me. Theater owners hate it. The railroads too.

I know this much -- from now until November, the clock in my Explorer will be right. 

How do we know what is the true time.    My internal clock tell me when to get up, go to bed and when to eat.   

Quote from: TboneAgain on March 08, 2015, 11:09:49 AM
Makers of sporting equipment. Owners of outdoor entertainment and recreation venues. Supposedly an extra hour of evening leisure time during the work week makes a difference. Sounds like bullshit to me. Theater owners hate it. The railroads too.

I know this much -- from now until November, the clock in my Explorer will be right. 

Every year, without fail, I forget how to change the time in my truck.
If not for Toy, it would only be right half the time.

Quote from: walkstall on March 08, 2015, 11:20:24 AM
How do we know what is the true time.    My internal clock tell me when to get up, go to bed and when to eat.   

Mine also. I seem to function best in the dead of night.

I love it.    I'm very affected by sun light.

Nothing depresses me more than in the fall when the sun starts setting at 4:30 pm.

Back in the mid-1980s, I was working for an engineering firm and I was assigned to work on a project on the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana. Our activities were spread over a large area in both states, and included several excursions to the Louisville KY airport.

In those days, as now, Indiana and Kentucky are both split between the Eastern and Central time zones, and our project area straddled that line. Even worse, back then Indiana did DST on a county-by-county basis -- some counties changed their clocks, some didn't. In other words, in that part of the world, depending on which county you were standing in at a given moment, it could be 2:00 or 3:00 or 4:00. 

Trying to figure out what the hell time it was -- not only here and now but where you were headed -- presented challenges, to say the least.

I prefer DST, as it leaves more daylight at the end of the day. Makes a bigger difference in the northern states than south.

In December I drive to work in the dark, and drive home in the dark. Depressing.

Quote from: zewazir on March 12, 2015, 10:04:10 PM
I prefer DST, as it leaves more daylight at the end of the day. Makes a bigger difference in the northern states than south.

In December I drive to work in the dark, and drive home in the dark. Depressing.

Since DST doesn't alter the workings of the planet or the solar system, I think that the minutes you seem to gain at the end of the day are stolen from the start of the day. DST is just us playing with our clocks.

Quote from: TboneAgain on March 12, 2015, 11:47:02 PM
Since DST doesn't alter the workings of the planet or the solar system, I think that the minutes you seem to gain at the end of the day are stolen from the start of the day. DST is just us playing with our clocks.

I am fully aware of that. The days immediately prior to the start of DST, I leave the house for work a little after sunrise, and drive home about 1/2 hour before sunset. After DST starts, I leave the house prior to sunrise, but drive home a good 90 minutes prior to sunset. That gives me an extra hour of daylight in the evenings by moving my workday toward the morning. It doesn't give me more total daylight, but moves the daylight to a time I can better use it. I don't mind driving to work in the dark. I fix computers. It does not matter what is happening outside when I'm working. When I get home, I like that extra hour of daylight to do things around the home.

Of course in full summer, sunrise starts well before I leave for work, and sunset doesn't occur until 10PM. But in the late winter/early spring, DST makes a positive difference to my home life.

Quik Quiz^TM: Who came up with our time zones in the first place? (Hint: It was not the federal government.)

Quote from: TboneAgain on March 13, 2015, 09:28:03 PM
Quik Quiz^TM: Who came up with our time zones in the first place? (Hint: It was not the federal government.)

Canadian railway engineer Sir Sandford Fleming.