Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for November 07, 2010

Makes sense to me

Oh! For Joy! It’s Walt! But - still - no walk in the woods to look at the colorful leaves! Sigh!

That’s because all the trees have been cut down and malls and housing estates built in their place.

I prefer DST to regular time. I like light in the evening…

Makes up for the hour they short you in the spring?

And I don’t care how they ‘splain it, there is the same amount of daylight. It’s in a different time slot, but the “day” is no longer.

The government tried year-round DST once. They found that in the deep of winter, little kids were walking to school in the dark, and the parents and child-advocacy groups screamed. So, now we’re back to “spring forward and fall back”.

time consuming, lol

Kansas has DST. I think Arizona is the only state that doesn’t. I don’t know if any state stays on DST year round.

Tennessee does observe DST. Indiana does not.

From timetemperature.com:

“Some areas of Canada not using Daylight Saving Time include, Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Creston in the East Kootenays, and most of Saskatchewan (except Denare Beach and Creighton).”

(I won’t ask when the East Kootenays seceded from British Columbia!)

Illinois does DST, but Indiana not that long ago did not. Too bad I would go for NO DST.

actually, only arizona and hawaii does not have daylight savings time.

Virginia does have DST. I will miss having light when I get home from work.

Resetting the clocks doesn’t bother me. The hard part is getting the dog to reset her tummy clock. I got stared at for a full hour tonight as she thought dinner was VERY late. It’s very hard to type with 60 lb of golden retreiver mix trying to climb in your lap.

The notion of clocks has always tickled me. If you get up when it’s light, turn in when you’re sleepy, and call ahead when you’re going to meet someone in four-space, you could otherwise do without.

Being five minutes late (self-winding watch that didn’t) for a big inspection that started ten minutes early sure changed my military career. Out of engineering school, back to FMF.

Let’s fool ourselves, twice a year, about ‘what time it is’. HA!

Thanks, Jim!

“I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.” –Robertson Davies

Skeezix and Gus ‘Li’l Skeezix’ Wallet (b. Dec. 25, 1992) – Chipper’s son – could go on a walk through the fall woods.

Chipper:

http://www.pahx.org/WalletBio.html

Check your archives. When I was a kid – being much younger than Skeezix – I remember an Indian friend of his (we didn’t say Native American yet) who told the same story as Gertie’s. Nothing new under the sun.

You know, it is possible for people to reorganize their schedules for the different seasons without changing what they call the hours. I’m surprised no one except farmers seem to try such a common-sense solution. Noon is when the sun is high in the sky, whether you call it 12:00 or 1:00. I know this is an oversimplification, because where you are in a time zone will affect how many minutes’ difference there is between standard time and your local sun time, but at least standard time should on average be closer to actual solar time than daylight stupidity time is!

Oh!– And ‘passing the time of day’? OUCH!