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Daylight Savings Time Explained
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Posted on 03/09/2013 2:03:16 PM PST by Borges

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To: Cyber Liberty

AZ doesn’t have it because no one wants an extra hour of heat in a desert state. The Navajo Nation there is on DST, so keep it in mind when you enter the Indian reservation. :)

American Samoa, HI, the American VI and Puerto Rico do not observe DST again because of the extra heat in a subtropical climate.


41 posted on 03/10/2013 1:23:46 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Amazing! Extra hour of heat? Maybe we could change to a 22 hour long day and cure Global Warming.


42 posted on 03/10/2013 5:58:03 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: goldstategop

When I first moved here, the way someone explained it to me was this: “We tried it and didn’t like the 10PM sunsets.”


43 posted on 03/10/2013 8:30:22 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Nowhere Man

Nixon’s fault. The moonbats derided the hell out of him for that. I think 50,000 or so kids were run over that winter by a school bus.


44 posted on 03/10/2013 8:34:52 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Good luck in Tuscon with that.


45 posted on 03/10/2013 8:37:54 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: eyedigress

Tucson is another world. They have Dupnik for a Sheriff, should tell you all you need to know about how weird they are. I don’t think they have DST either.


46 posted on 03/10/2013 8:57:10 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

They did when I was in the state.


47 posted on 03/10/2013 9:07:32 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: Borges

get rid of DST altogether

instead:
change the clocks to 10 hour days, 100 minutes, 100 seconds. we need more logic in our world

also, why not simply put the whole planet on the same time zone.
why do we synchronize sunrise time, when we can synchronize the whole planet!


48 posted on 03/10/2013 9:09:18 AM PDT by fnord (My life is like the movie Willard, except with hummingbirds)
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To: fnord

Railroads would never be on time.


49 posted on 03/10/2013 9:10:38 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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To: eyedigress
Not anymore.

Where you here when DST was forced down everybody's throat back in the '70's?

50 posted on 03/10/2013 9:26:14 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Borges

Interesting article on Benjamin Franklin’s earlier suggestion, initially somewhat in jest though providing calculations on savings from candles burned while sleeping when the sun was up earlier in the morning.
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html

Having lived in Switzerland in a home with operable outside shutters to darken the rooms, I found his suggestion of fines for using such a bit interesting.


51 posted on 03/10/2013 9:29:20 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes, I have often traveled from the Eastern Time Zone to California and after 3 days I get used to the change. My body sees that the Sun, in the sky changed, and my body should change too. But, when we change the clock without changing the time that is when I get screwed up. There are some people like me who set their body clocks on the sun and some that don’t.


52 posted on 03/10/2013 2:23:52 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: WXRGina
My "half hour" quip is just that--a quip to protest the darned thing as it is.

Heh. DST is such a pet peeve of mine that I missed the quip.

53 posted on 03/10/2013 4:47:44 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -Ludwig von Mises)
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