Daylight Savings Time

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Vasallus said:
DST has nothing to do with intelligence. It has everything to do with me being able to play golf after work until 9:30. My wife does the same thing. She’s pretty smart.
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The same thing could be accomplished by waking up one hour earlier. The amount of sunlight does not actual change just because we pretend one o’clock is noon.
 
pnewton said:
The same thing could be accomplished by waking up one hour earlier. The amount of sunlight does not actual change just because we pretend one o’clock is noon.
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You’re right but our way of measuring time is all arbitrary anyway. We can’t even decide if 4pm is evening or not. So why not make it another political tool? 🙂
 
pnewton said:
The same thing could be accomplished by waking up one hour earlier. The amount of sunlight does not actual change just because we pretend one o’clock is noon.
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You’d have to convince my job to start earlier too.
 
Vasallus said:
You’d have to convince my job to start earlier too.
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It’s true; the same result could be accomplished by simply requiring all businesses to reschedule their business hours to open one hour earlier beginning on a particular day in March. So, you don’t have to change your clocks, you just have to get up an hour earlier! But while people might object to the government requiring them to arise an hour earlier, they don’t object so much to just setting the clock an hour forward, which has the same effect.
 
I don’t mind DST but I think having it start in early March is ridiculous. The school bus on our road comes by at 10 to 7. It was still dark.

We have two cats. We have an automatic food dispenser for them; it was set to go off at 4:30 am, 11:45 am and 5:30 pm. I decided to just leave it as-is so now it goes off at 5:30, 12:45 and 6:30 and it doesn’t seem to have bothered them yet though I’m sure they’re wondering what I’m doing up so early 😛

I froze my butt off though when I got up Sunday morning; thermostat is set on a timer to turn the heat up at 5 am, but I forgot to reset the clock on it so it thought it was still 4 am with everyone asleep.
 
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