Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 08, 2020

I hope Wiley is thriving….still no movement on getting his strip back into my local paper

Works TWO hours a year for full pay. Must be a union job

Speak for yourself northern hemisphere people.

We need to move forward and do away with daylight savings time! Stop messing with circadian rhythms!

I’m never thrilled about gaining an hour.

Danae has a point for once.

You can always come to South Africa. We don’t have daylight saving here. Apparently during the war we did, probably because our allies did. :)

And has anyone even bothered to ask the circadia how it feels?

And tell me, who winds the winder’s watch?

Scrolling down for the first couple panels, I got to the “Arctic” door & thought~Oh goody! I wonder what the bears are up to?

Consider: Suppose the government came out with the following edict, “In the interest of energy conservation all schedules and appointments are adjusted as to start one hour earlier than previously scheduled. Examples – if employees are currently scheduled to work from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, they are now required to work from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm; if a sporting event is scheduled to start at 6:00 pm it will now start at 5:00 pm; and so on.”

We’d probably have a mass revolution if this was attempted. However, simply tell everyone to advance their clocks by one hour, which accomplishes what was proposed above, and watch how society meekly complies.

Imagine an 18th-century Danae missing a birthday in the Gregorian calendar fast forward (Wednesday 2 September 1752 followed by Thursday 14 September 1752).

The machinery reminds me of a scene in the “Lost” TV show.

I like every year when we change the time the media discusses for 2 days why we should leave the time alone.

Stores want you to have plenty of day left after work to blow your money.

Tried to change the time on the oven (new house) and the Time Set/Cancel only cancels the display. I’ll have to look on the Intertubes for the proper incantation to get it back.

This looks like the steampunk version of the inner workings of Forbidden Planet.

Who says you have to lose an hour of sleep?

I’m surprised that Danae believes the earth is round!

I’ve always wondered how that worked. Thank you, Wiley. Now I can wonder about something else.

Interesting how today is International Women’s Day, according to Google, and an hour has been taken away from it. Hmmm…

Today is the “Return to Darkness”. Last week sun glare had become less of a problem during my morning commute. Now I’m going to have to go through it again. :-(((

So what’s behind the Arctic door?

We just bought clocks that automatically jump to the correct time

Oh REALLY? That’s how they do it?! I always thought it was done with rockets in the pacific. That’s what the volcanoes are, really. I hate daylight savings time soooo much! What a really great example of Government doing stupid things for narrow reasons and the rest of us suffering for it. Yeah, I thinking of the 55 MPH speed limit too.

In the early days of daylight savings, the farmers complained about losing an hour of sun. They thought the government could slow down or speed up the sun like Biblical Joshua.

It’s March, and here we go again with this senseless changing of the clocks. DST needs to be abolished. It accomplishes nothing but the disruption of human biological cycles. It doesn’t save energy, or benefit the farmers, or any of the other myths that continue to circulate. And it doesn’t make the days longer.

A day is always 24 hours in length. Yes, there is more sunlight during the spring and summer months only because the Earth is tilted on its axis with the Northern Hemisphere facing the Sun. The converse occurs during the fall and winter. It’s called the change of seasons, and it all balances out in the long run. Resetting the clock has no effect whatsoever on the position of the Sun. You have merely been fooled by the government into getting up one hour earlier, which creates the illusion of a “longer day.”

Standard Time is the true time, with noon recorded when the Sun appears highest in the sky, hence the term “high noon.” DST is fake time, and this World War II era practice should have been scrapped decades ago.

Standard Time should be the permanent time. Those who still wish to pursue that mythical “longer day” are free to get up one hour earlier during the spring and summer. Employers could be encouraged to offer earlier starting/quitting times during these months.

Congress is responsible for this DST nonsense. Contact your representatives and tell them to put a stop to this foolishness once and for all.

Or as we say in Texas this morning , “welcome back to the dark ages”

Jeeze, what’s the big deal? Are you lazy or just incompetent? You can’t figure out how to change your clocks? Everything computerized automatically does it. What simps. BTW – it’s a Sunday; you can sleep an extra hour.

I want his job

Wouldn’t the Prime Meridian be a more accurate invisible, mysterious line for the machinations! Typed with a wry grin…

I’m not sure I understand the door labels. (And I’m an astronomy teacher!).

We went to 24 time zones for a very good reason, when it made sense to coordinate train schedules. Now that we have global-wide communication, the thing that makes the most sense is to go to one world-wide timekeeping system, Universal Time (UT). That way, if a coffee shop in the Midwest that normally opens its doors at 7:00 AM CST (1300 UT) would prefer doing it an hour earlier (which is what 7:00 AM CDT would be), they simply say they’ll be open at 1200 UT starting on April 1. And the hardware store next door can stick to 1300 UT. No reason why everybody has to fiddle with their clocks and watches at all.

This explanation for DST makes just exactly as much as any other. My favorite is the one about how cows wouldn’t be able to be milked on time, like cows can read clocks and farmers don’t know when to milk cows already without a clock.

DST needs to die. If someone wants an extra hour of sunlight in the evening then they can get up an hour earlier every morning and let the rest of us sleep in.

Do most people set their alarm to wake them up Sunday morning? They would not lose any sleep unless they have to get up to go somewhere. I woke up naturally this morning and I feel fine. I will stay up later tonight to adjust to the time change.

Severely messing with the human biological clock twice a year: what does this cost our nation in stress-related work and medical issues?

Folks who want more daylight at the end of their day need to get up an hour earlier and leave the rest of us in peace.

I just want my hour of sleep back nest Fall, and then we can end DST.

We’re not cicadas ;)

True that Danae.

Found this comment on Slashdot and it certainly describes the problem:

“I want to go to work one hour earlier (relative to sunlight), so I can have more sunlight after work. But my employer won’t let me change my working hours, so I want the government to change the definition of hours for everyone.”

Of course, the solution is simple enough… find another employer instead of advocating to change time for everyone else to suit yourself. It’s called Standard Time because it’s the standard to follow. Daylight Saving Time is the aberration, it doesn’t save anything, let alone daylight.

Wow, all the whinging about Day Light Savings Time. I hope none of these people ever travel out of their time zone, just think of such an inconvenience to them they’d have to suffer.

No, do away with Standard Time, Keep Daylight Savings year round

I like it.

I do not like Daylight Saving Time. Wish my state would get rid of it. By the way it is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight Savings time.

You need to learn to do what I do Danae. Early Saturday, get yourself into the mindset that it’s already an hour later. If there’s a clock you reset manually, or you have a watch you manually set, then set it an hour ahead and go by that time. Then you’ll be going to bed early enough to get enough sleep.

Yet another Nixon Legacy.

On January 4, 1974, President Nixon signed into law the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.

Daylight Savings is a real pain if you have a clock shop…

It’s worth it to me.

No reason to lose any sleep. Wake up when you wake up Sunday morning. You do lose an hour of your day, but, it’s Sunday, no big deal.

Switching back and forth always confused the cat for a few days.

Just move it forward once and leave it there.

I know that the hour “lost” is returned in the fall – but where is it stored in the interim? Do we really trust the security of the warehouses, or is there “shrinkage”? what happens if there’s a fire? Or is that just like filling out forms, and waiting in line at the DMV, and all the other government activities where our time goes up in smoke?