The suddenly much earlier arrival of darkness in the evenings after the Daylight Savings Time change in fall is always slightly disturbing.
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I don’t know about the early arrival of darkness, but Daylight Savings Time certainly disturbs my sleep. My kids are now waking up before 6 am. I am not sure I will survive.
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You have my deepest sympathy. The thing about young children is that you can’t just tell them to be quiet for the next hour or so, and you can’t let them have the run of the place on their own. I remember those days very well.
Personally I think DST is long past any usefulness it ever had. A lot of people seem to feel that way but whoever is in charge seems to have no sympathy. -
The suddenly much earlier arrival of darkness in the evenings after the Daylight Savings Time change in fall is always slightly disturbing.
I agree. Although I always like the “extra” hour. -
I still can’t figure out why anybody thought it was a good idea. Must have been one of those brave thinkers.
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Yep, one of those who’s so sure that everything would work much better if people would just do what he tells them.
There is somebody at National Review, I can’t remember who, who has something of a bee in his bonnet about this, and has amassed a bunch of data calculating the productivity lost due to people being thrown off kilter for a few days twice a year, appointments missed, etc. He’s basically got a point–it is disruptive and unnatural. One day the sun goes down at 6, the next day it goes down at 5. And the other way around in spring. -
They used to change the hours of business by an hour in the summer (start at 8 rather than 9, or 9 rather than 10), but leave the clock where it was. I suppose once you start printing timetables for things like railways, it’s easier to change the clocks than to change the times.
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That would make more sense. Or at least not be as annoying.
There was a caller to the local paper a few years ago complaining that all the extra sunlight in Daylight Savings Time was causing his (her?) lawn to dry up. No way of knowing whether it was a joke or not. -
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It is Remembrance Day here in Oz and I was just reading about WWI. The book I’m reading says that after the war, the deposed Emperor Charles of Austria was exiled to Madeira. The author said that due to the unhealthy climate (and the conditions he had to live in) he died young, aged 35.
Now I’m sure he lived in terrible conditions. But I just looked it up and the climate sounds great! 19C-25C year-round!!!
Guess where I’m emigrating to 🙂
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