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Thanx for the 'heads-up!
"Daylight savings time—why are [we] saving it, and where do [we] keep it"? Anonymous
Thanx for the 'heads-up!
Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday Morning
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My dad used to say adjusting the clocks to Summer Time was named after the 1st Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany.....
Adenauer.
HelloCheeky:My dad used to say adjusting the clocks to Summer Time was named after the 1st Chancellor of the Federal Republic of West Germany.....
Adenauer.
Now that's funny...thanx for sharing!l
The only downside to DST is the change makes us an hour closer to Monday morning.
Coach:
Thanks for the smoke alarm reminder. I've been moving to the 10 year ones.
Very interesting and I agree.
About eight years ago I replicated a sleep experiment I read about where you give up artificial light before the sun goes down.
The results were fascinating to me. It took a few days to acclimate but when I reached that point I was comatose when the sun went down. I slept like a baby until the morning and the sun shown through slightly. In the mornings I was more energetic as well as throughout the day. I quickly got to a point where I'd wake up in the middle of the night for an hour or two then quickly doze off again for the rest of the night. It was a very relaxing experience.
It kind of confirmed for me that there are natural rhythms for wake and sleep.
I've had a desire to replicate this again and may one day soon.
Chris
Oh, after a certain age the natural rhythms seem to involve getting out of bed once or twice in the middle of the night...to check on the shave den.
Opps...forgot to 'spring forward' my manual clocks, but 'I'm squared away' and 'on-time'.
"With all the daylight savings I'm made...I should be knee-deep in cash". CBJ
I will happily vote for the Party of record that gets RID of this useless anachronism.
I was in a crowd of about 40 this evening, and everyone was commenting on how awesome DST because of the evening light. A few even talked about staying with DST year round and ditching standard. I'd vote for that.
Living this far East, I would love this. I hate it being dark at 4:00 PM during the winter.
When we tried the DST the whole year stupidity in the 1970s, trying to tend to farm chores in the dark totally sucked.
Yeah, for me today, official sunset was after 7:30, and last daylight was almost 8:00. It'll be nice until November and the change back.
simon1
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Like always...I refuse to participate.
garyg
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As a retiree some might say I don't have a dog in the hunt, since I can do my thing whenever. But, I still dislike the changes. I'd like to see it standardized, just pick one and stick with it, like Arizona. The changes causes too much trouble for no discernable benefit.
There's plenty of downside to DST - I recall not being able to start up assembly lines every spring because people wouldn't get the word .. and the school kids are wandering about in the pre-dawn darkness tomorrow while sleep deprived adults race around in said dark trying to make up for a late start. And come late June, with DST it won't get dark until way past time that the noisy little buggars should be a-bed ..
Better to leave it one way or the other and allow people to adapt gradually to the changes in daylight hours that the earth's tilt provides us ..
There's plenty of downside to DST - I recall not being able to start up assembly lines every spring because people wouldn't get the word .. and the school kids are wandering about in the pre-dawn darkness tomorrow while sleep deprived adults race around in said dark trying to make up for a late start. And come late June, with DST it won't get dark until way past time that the noisy little buggars should be a-bed ..
Better to leave it one way or the other and allow people to adapt gradually to the changes in daylight hours that the earth's tilt provides us ..
I think you get an extra hour of sleep. Crazy? Here me out. I work second shift, and rarely get to bed before 2 AM. So, I woke up this morning, 8 hours later, at what I thought was 10 AM. I then reset the clocks. I will still go to bed around 2, but because of the shift in time, I will go to bed after being up for 15 hours instead of the normal 16 hours. That’s an extra hour of sleep.
simon1
Self Ignored by Vista
Yup. I was self employed for the last 13 years and got to set my own hours. I just now started to draw my retirement, so they can take DST and shove it up....
The sun is my clock.
I like the suggestion in the article to expose yourself to sunlight as soon as you wake up. It's still friggin dark when most people have to get up.
5 ways daylight saving time messes with your health -- and what to do about it
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When I was in the Navy, the only time you ever wanted to stand a mid watch (11:45 p.m.-3:45 a.m.) was during the spring time change because you actually only had to stand three hours of watch.
No matter whether is January or July, it's dark when I get up and dark when I go to work. If for some reason I am going in a hour or so later and the sun is up, it seems to strange to me.
Having more usable daylight is awesome. There is nothing worse than the time of year when it's dark when you go to work and already getting dim when you head home.
Having more usable daylight is awesome. There is nothing worse than the time of year when it's dark when you go to work and already getting dim when you head home.
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