Ending Daylight Savings Time

I grew up in the U.P. and I think it's stupid for us to be in the same time zone as New York as well. My wife grew up on Central time and we are both Yoopers.

One funny thing...if the U.P. went to all Central, the local TV station would have to cut a news show. They do a 6 p.m. news for Marquette/Escanaba/Newbery and then a 7 p.m. edition, which was always known as the "6 p.m. news for Iron Mountain and Ironwood"

 

Yeah, Phenix City, Ala., which for years was infamous as the red light district for soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga., observes Eastern time since many of the people who live there work in Columbus.

 

Yup, I remember driving through Phenix City once and noticing that every other store seemed to be a pawn shop or tattoo parlor.

 

I've lived in each at one point or another in my life and I like the Mountain and Central the best. Events don't start too early (hated getting up at 5 am PDT to watch Wimbledon or 9am for college football) or end too late to make deadline.

Probably just a habit thing, but I like the late sunsets in the summer time up north and the early nightfall in the winter. Something about it just seems right.

 

It wouldn't be all that hard to adjust the school hours.

 

The last words that will ever be spoken on the CBC: "The world is ending at 10PM. 10:30 in Newfoundland".

 

I once remarked that I lived in my own time zone... it was 15 minutes later than everyone else. Want me to be somewhere at 1 p.m.? Better tell me 12:45

 

Phenix City was "Sin City" (almost) before Las Vegas was ... They even made a movie about it.

 

I can't wait until Sunday. I hate going to work in the dark. Mostly because it's fucking freezing.

 

The attorney general of Alabama (Albert Patterson) was shot to death outside his Phenix City law office in 1954 after promising to clean up the corruption there.

His son, John Patterson, took over as AG and was governor of Alabama immediately preceding George Wallace. It was John Patterson's defeat of the then-moderate Wallace with the KKK's backing in 1958 that encouraged Wallace to embrace segregation when he ran for governor again in 1962.

And that's your unsolicited Alabama history threadjack for today.

 

I hate winter hours because I end up waking before the sun is up and still being at work long after it has set. If I had to choose which I hate more, though, it is definitely waking in the dark. It's almost like my circadian rhythm is saying, "WTF? Even the sun isn't working yet. Go back to sleep."