Time Change

Not to pile on, but what happens from Dec. 14 to Dec. 21?

 

Nothing particularly, but the combination of the elliptical orbit of the earth, the irregular shape of the planet, the angle of the North Pole, etc etc.
means the actual time of sunset remains the same for those 10 days then begins creeping later every day.

 

Ah touche

ADD: My mistake was thinking shortest day meant earliest sunset. Forgot about the other side of it where the sun rises later.

 

Memorial Day weekend. Saturday.
It's 9 p.m.
I have usable daylight outside.
Who could argue with that?

 

Daylight Saving Time is the bomb. Kill EST forever

 

When I lived in North Nowhere, in CDT about 30 miles from the MDT border, it would be twilight until 10:30 p.m. and get daylight by 5:30 a.m. or so in June and July. Absolute heaven. Now, sunrise at 9 a.m. and sunset at 3:30 p,m,. in the winter sucks.

 

Happy DST! Or as it may soon be known as just Time. Can't wait for people to decry the loss of "standard time" as another crazy left-wing conspiracy to undo the legacy of our forefathers.

 

DST is the bomb.

Fuck EST. End EST.

 

Kiddos would be waiting for the bus in the dark.

 

That happened in the ‘70s, when Congress kept daylight savings time for the winter during the “energy crisis” — it was supposed to reduce energy usage somehow. The result was it was pitch dark out when we walked to school.

One of the photos in my high school yearbook was a close up of a sheet of paper (allegedly someone’s homework) that read: “I was supposed to write an essay about daylight savings time, but it was too dark to see the paper.”

 

You are all wrong. DST.

 

Or, in those days, we were walking in the dark.