Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 01, 2019

When are we just going to bite the bullet and go to year-round Daylight Savings Time?

In the last panel, Mrs Olsen realizes that Caulfield must have dreamt up a whole slew of zingers during the summer.

If I recall correctly, the first Sunday in November was to allow kids an extra hour on Halloween, which benefitted the candy industry.

End DST altogether.

Caulfield’s motives are always subtle.

“Regular” time is so short now I don’t bother changing any clocks any more unless a battery change is needed!

I still wonder why the term “saving” is in this. We’re not changing (‘saving’) any amount of daylight - that is determined by the motion of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun along with the 23.5° tilt of Earth’s axis, as well as one’s distance from the equator. The numbers we put on clocks are arbitrary (whether they be AM/PM or 24-hour based). I say keep those arbitrary numbers standard throughout the year.

I don’t adjust the clocks at all. That requires climbing on step stools, taking done heavy clocks off the wall, pulling out the grandfather clock,etc. It’s much easier to just spend half the year looking at the clock and adding an hour mentally.

The semiannual change is pointless, expensive, and aggravating. While switching to either year-round DST or year-round “standard” time would definitely be a step in the right direction, each of those would still preserve the 24 time zones. The ultimate answer is to have the entire planet switch over to Universal Time (formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time), so it would be the same time everywhere, and businesses could say “we open at 02:00” or “we open at 17:00” if that’s when the sun happened to be poking above the horizon at their particular longitude. And when they dropped the ball on Times Square every year, nobody would have to wait for it on tape delay.

The Golf-course/club and Drive-in Theater lobbies don’t chime in any more, so no cau$e to champion in legislatures.

I’m afraid they aren’t … bugged by calendars.

is he saying something about not grilling (BBQ) outside of Mem day to Labor day? I am unfamiliar with the concept of putting the grill away for 3/4 of the year – I would (and have) grilled during a blizzard.

I’m in favor of continuing the trend: Keep moving the end of “summer” time later and the beginning of it earlier until they meet in mid January or so, and then we can finally be free of the stupid and costly time changes.

Yes, Virginia, they do cost extra. Despite that Ben Franklin thought they’d save candle wax and lamp oil, nowadays what with air conditioning which costs much more than LEDs to run, it really doesn’t matter what time we go to school/work or come home. And aside from the annoyance, there’s a statistical uptick in both traffic accidents and on the job accidents in the first few days after a change in either direction; and a measurable decrease in productivity too.

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http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2019/09/01In the opera Porgy and Bess, they sang about summertime and how the living was easy. And it may indeed be easy. But it can also be ever so complicated.

UTC Everywhere!

And now DST is 7 months and Standard time is 5. How is the standard less than the exception?

It’s interesting how so many people are strongly opinionated about this topic whenever it appears.

It’s a little more complicaterd than just “numbers as labels.” There are shorter and longer days whatever labels you apply.