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Did you "spring forward"?
#41
RE: Did you "spring forward"?
Quote:What about non-fucking Arizona?

You mean the retirement communities like Sun City?  So much alzheimer's there that if they do get up they can't remember why!
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#42
RE: Did you "spring forward"?
(November 5, 2018 at 12:11 am)Tres Leches Wrote:
(November 4, 2018 at 11:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Most people in most modern societies regulate their daily cycles by the clock, not the rising and setting of the sun.   Daylight saving time does not lengthen daylight, but it shifts the clock during the summer to make the typical times when people are awake and using electricity better coincide the hours of daylight.   Hence the “saving” portion of daylight saving time.

Arguably with the reduction in importance of the 9-5 industrial workers schedule, and advent of flex schedule the value of daylight saving time is diminished.

Most people, save infants and shift workers perhaps, sleep after the sun goes down and perform their daily activities when the sun is up. Our bodies are physically wired to power down at nighttime. The amount of daylight people get also depends on the latitude they live on. Clocks are a human construct, there's no two ways about it.

-Teresa

My body wakes me up at the same 'time' every day. If you move that time from darkness into light, my day will be spent more in daylight. My night is a lot more flexible. Once the days activities are done, the daylight isn't as meaningful.
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#43
RE: Did you "spring forward"?
For Indiana the DST works, the sun sets at almost 9 PM in high summer.

Those of you who hate DST would have been doubly pissed with "Double War Time" during WWII.
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#44
RE: Did you "spring forward"?
Once I was retired, Daylight Savings Time became irrelevant. Deadpan
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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#45
RE: Did you "spring forward"?
(November 5, 2018 at 10:17 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Once I was retired, Daylight Savings Time became irrelevant. Deadpan

I've been irreverent longer than that. Great
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