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Daylight Savings Time Explained
Youtube ^ | 10/24/2011 | CGPGrey

Posted on 03/09/2013 2:03:16 PM PST by Borges

Some great points here.


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To: discostu
The smart move is just to leave it alone. Don’t split anything, shoot DST in the head and leave the clock alone.

Then there's that. Best idea, as splitting the hour would cause problems with international time, since the "civilized" world agrees on GMT (UTC).

21 posted on 03/09/2013 3:08:34 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: JoeProBono

So THAT’S how the darned thing happened!
:-)


22 posted on 03/09/2013 3:09:28 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Borges

Nicely done. Thanks for posting it.


23 posted on 03/09/2013 3:13:30 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Borges

I hate daylight savings time. I get up early, and this morning I got up with the sun for the last time until May, or thereabouts. Now, when I get up, it will feel like the middle of the night.

It’s a safe bet that the number of automobile accidents early in the morning increases after the time change.

We need year-round standard time.


24 posted on 03/09/2013 3:14:11 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Borges.


25 posted on 03/09/2013 3:14:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
There is no “s”. It’s Daylight Saving Time.

OMG! How could we have ever survived had you not brought that to the poster and our attention?

Thank God for ClearCase_Guy!!!!!

Are you getting paid overtime for being this weekend's resident spell checker?

Or are you doing this on your own, without any support from the site Mods? If so, God bless your brother, God bless you!!!!!!

26 posted on 03/09/2013 3:19:44 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: Borges

DST is Nothing but a conspiracy between the people who make watches and the knobs on the watches to change the time.


27 posted on 03/09/2013 3:29:13 PM PST by OKRA2012
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To: BeAllYouCanBe

Maybe we’ll get a benevolent leader like Hugo Chavez (RIP*) who will just arbitrarily change the clock....


28 posted on 03/09/2013 3:31:45 PM PST by mikrofon (* Rotting In Putrefaction)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks


29 posted on 03/09/2013 3:37:21 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Borges

I’ve never understood why the entire country volutarily goes through jet lag twice a year. I echo many here on the thread who say, “pick one out and then leave it alone!!”


30 posted on 03/09/2013 3:58:34 PM PST by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Borges

31 posted on 03/09/2013 3:58:37 PM PST by HiJinx (The New Year is here; to all Men Good Cheer. (Last one out, turn out the lights.))
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To: BeAllYouCanBe

Indiana has DST now.


32 posted on 03/09/2013 4:38:51 PM PST by ducttape45
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To: WXRGina
Still, I wish we could just split the difference by half an hour and leave it alone. Time changing’s a hassle.

Half an hour? Here's a radical proposal: do away with the stupid thing altogether. We don't save any energy. In the Summer, everyone's AC roars for an extra hour till the Sun goes down.

DST is the stupidest thing Congress has thought up since Prohibition. Be done with it, I say.

33 posted on 03/09/2013 4:45:53 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -Ludwig von Mises)
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To: BfloGuy
Half an hour? Here's a radical proposal: do away with the stupid thing altogether. We don't save any energy. In the Summer, everyone's AC roars for an extra hour till the Sun goes down.

DST is the stupidest thing Congress has thought up since Prohibition. Be done with it, I say.

Yes, of course I agree, as I said in comment #21. It's stupid. My "half hour" quip is just that--a quip to protest the darned thing as it is.

34 posted on 03/09/2013 5:15:14 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: BeAllYouCanBe
One more thing; I can't go to sleep at one hour earlier during the “Spring” change for at least 3 weeks so I tend to be grouchy most of the time. The “Fall” change makes me lethargic for 3-4 weeks.

Three to four weeks? Over a one hour change?

Boy, I hope you don't travel much. Jet lag must throw you off for a year.

35 posted on 03/09/2013 6:09:23 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: logitech

Daylight Saving Time PING!


36 posted on 03/09/2013 6:34:39 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Borges

I’m in favor of setting the clocks ahead one month in the spring, back one month in the autumn.


37 posted on 03/09/2013 6:38:01 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: goldstategop
The further north you move, the longer daylight lasts. North of the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets in the summer and you have the sun shining even at midnight.

You get to a point where you get one sunrise and one sunset per year. The six months of daylight is none too bright as the sun is just barely above the horizon. It tracks all the way round the horizon back to where it started every 24 hours. Once it drops below the horizon it gets dark and stays that way for 6 months. When it's dark at the north pole, the south pole has 24 hours of daylight and vice versa.

Regards,
GtG

38 posted on 03/09/2013 7:03:26 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Borges

DST makes no sense whatsoever....saving $4.00/year on energy costs...pffttt! Thanks for posting that vid BTW. Good info.


39 posted on 03/09/2013 7:14:45 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Borges

“I also remember when I was a kid in the 1970’s, CBS always ran “In The News” on Saturdays”

Me too

Listen and weep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIfalIvl4hE


40 posted on 03/09/2013 8:50:52 PM PST by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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