DST again?

MichaelB

MichaelB

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If it feels like we just got through this, we did, just a little over 4 months ago! And now, once again, it’s time to change the clocks. Tonight we lose an hour of precious time, Our day is shortened. Our scope curtailed. Our extent reduced. Our spheres shrunk. Our latitudes abridged. Our horizons shortened.. Our realms condensed. Our purviews trimmed. Our gamuts truncated. Our expanses pruned. The tragedy!

Fellow members, do not let this catastrophic loss affect our well-being. We will survive! Life will continue!
 
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Don’t fret - Congress is on the job!

The latest is the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025. Any decade now they should be able to wrap up this complicated legislation.
 
I live close to the timeline to my East side, when on standard time, I have 43 days when sunset is at 4:45pm or before. I'm all for keeping DST all year.
 
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I live close to the timeline to my East side, when on standard time, I have 43 days when sunset is at 4:45pm or before. I'm all for keeping DST all year.
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That's the problem. Your nearly-neighbors on the west side of your time zone have about 43 days when sunrise isn't until 9am while on DST.

China uses one time zone for the whole country, which is 5 zones wide. That way, everyone is more or less equally inconvenienced (except those in Beijing, whose actual time zone is being used).
 
MichaelB said:
If it feels like we just got through this, we did, just a little over 4 months ago! And now, once again, it’s time to change the clocks. Tonight we lose an hour of precious time, Our day is shortened. Our scope curtailed. Our extent reduced. Oir spheres shrunk. Our latitudes abridged. Our horizons dismissed. Our realms condensed. Our purviews trimmed. Our gamuts truncated. Our expanses pruned. The tragedy!
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You spent WAY too long contemplating this, and probably lost an hour or so doing it. :) I was on a cruise last month and they changed the time 2 times!
 
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It has no power over me anymore.
 
What is a clock? (with apologies to the Downton Abbey Dowager Countess). But seriously, unless I'm trying to make a doctor appointment I don't need to worry much about it. Since TV is all on demand I don't have to warm up the set to watch my show at the appointed time. Then again, it's nice to know if the bar is open yet.
 
DST used to be a thing that needed our attention. Not any more
 
British Columbia (Canada) has adopted permanent daylight savings time. They will spring ahead this weekend, but come next November, they won't fallback. For those of us in the PNW that travel to Canada often, we'll have to keep track of the time difference.

The province’s Interpretation Amendment Act became law in 2019 and gave British Columbia the ability to adopt the time change. But the government chose not to enact it because they wanted to coordinate timing with neighboring U.S. states in the same time zone, the provincial government said in a news release.

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State lawmakers made an effort to adopt permanent daylight saving time in 2019, the same year as British Columbia, but it is stuck in a yearslong wait in Congress even after then-Gov. Jay Inslee signed it.

The lawmakers’ bill can’t go into effect unless Congress passes legislation allowing states like Washington to adopt permanent daylight saving time.
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Up until recently we had a lot of mechanical timers on lights around the house. I replaced all of them with Kasa devices which will (should) adapt automatically. That leaves just a handful of mechanical clocks to adjust in the morning. All of the exterior lights have dusk-dawn sensors.
 
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The sun has been rising earlier and I haven’t quite adjusted myself. I have been trying to.

Today here sunrise was at 6:50 am, sunset will be at 6:38 pm
Tomorrow sunrise at 7:49 am, sunset at 7:38 pm.

I just try to keep up with the sun (not the clock)

Great chart braumeister. Yes, our day length doesn’t vary hugely over a year down here. I think we go from ~10.5 to 14 hours. Right now approaching the spring equinox we are entering the max slope section of the sine wave so daylight minutes gain quickly.
 
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The media keeps talking about losing an hour of sleep. I've never lost out on sleep because of DST.

I wish we were always on DST year round. Some of our idiot leaders want to go in the other direction. :facepalm:
 
I already set my clocks forward. I like doing so early for less shock in the morning when I wake up.
 
Being retired, I don't worry about it much. I get up when I want to, go to bed when I want to. What the rest of the country does is not of much concern.
 
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Up until recently we had a lot of mechanical timers on lights around the house. I replaced all of them with Kasa devices which will (should) adapt automatically. That leaves just a handful of mechanical clocks to adjust in the morning. All of the exterior lights have dusk-dawn sensors.
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I have Kasa devices that I really like and I never thought about it. Is there an option if you live somewhere that does not participate? With smartphone being the main timepiece things are so much different. You could be oblivious to the change and still be on time.
 
If they're going to continue with the time changes, make it on the 4th Sunday in March and October. At least it would be ~five months before going back to DST. Otherwise, pick an option and stick with it.

Edit: Just finished with our nine manual clock adjustments.
 
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