Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 19, 2023

Good one, JJ. Good one!

And it just took two weeks!!

A NEW WORLD RECORD!!

Ahha! A week or so ago I was arguing in favor of everybody using Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time. I feel vindicated!

It doesn’t matter up there – they sleep in shifts.

Wow!

I remember standing in the back garden in Adelaide watching Sputnik.

too much light pollution here. can’t even see the stars.

NASA has an app that will alert you when the space station is due over your house and at what angle as well as other astronomical occurrences such as meteor showers and such. We’ve been in this house since 2014 in an area with much less light pollution than our previous home and we’ve seen very few things due to the ever present overcast sky :/ But the app is spot on when we are able to view the space station and it’s pretty nifty to watch!

Until next year Janis.

Being on UTC means not having to change your clocks twice a year. I, for one, will continue to complain.

You can sign up for alerts to let you know when the ISS will fly over your location and is visible to see. Usually in the early evening. It’s pretty incredible to see in a clear sky

“I complained about having no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.”

I use to get notifications for when the ISS would be flying over. About ten years ago, just for laughs, I recorded each sighting. I missed many because I didn’t want to get up in the middle of the night, but I did record 42 sightings that year.

Universal Time? Sure. This will happen a century after the U.S. converts to the metric system.

I find the Fall change much more difficult to deal with, waking up at 3:30 am instead of 4:30 am. Dogs also adapt to the mealtime shift slowly.

I’m not!!!!! Congress, take care of the simply outdated by almost a 100-year time change aspect. Arizona has it right. Minnesota you still suck at it.

I believe the reason Janis is finally done griping about the time change is because she’s found something new to gripe about….

I never tire of seeing the ISS. It really zooms by.

As a senior, the time changes shouldn’t bother me, but they do. I prefer year-round standard time.

Time change here in the USA was two weeks ago.

Here’s the link for the space station (you will need to delete the spaces; I had to put them in to foil GoComics): https:// spotthestation. nasa. Gov/ home. cfm

“My time of day is the dark time, a couple of deals before dawn…”

Just a personal preference but I’d like to see DST become the standard. We live far enough north that regardless of which time we’re on, in the winter we get up in the dark and go to bed in the dark. However, with DST, in the summertime we have a good long period in the evening of light outside to enjoy. Like I said, just a preference. YMMV.

I will look it up, but I bet someone here knows, does the IST ever experience an eclipse, where the Earth is directly between them and the Sun? The IST is small enough, and close enough to the Earth that it should experience long eclipses.

During a recent spacewalk, a team of 2 astronauts lost their grip on a very expensive tool which is now orbiting the Earth a short distance from the space station. The tool was, and perhaps still is, visible to the naked eye.

Time to stay with EST forever.

Wonder how long jet lag lasts.

Well, I’m not either. Even my dog is regulated to the time before the change. Leave it one way or the other but leave it.

More people should be like Janis.

Okay, I can’t be the only person out there who waves to the ISS as it goes by. I mean, I know they can’t see me, but it seems rude not to wave.

I hate the time change.

Maybe I haven’t been paying attention but would love to see some comics about Starlink. Not a week goes by when someone on Nextdoor.com posts a picture asking “does anyone know what this is?!” Ha

What do the handful of people on the ISS have to do with the time changes for nearly the entire US?

When we are doing reenacting (18th century) and I am talking to people often the subject of clocks will come up. Clocks in our period have only relatively recently started having 2 hands (before that there was one hand). I talk about them being expensive, needing to be wound, etc.

Someone will ask about Daylight savings time. If I am me – Meryl, I can talk about it, if I am the 18th century me – Anne, I know nothing of such a thing – who would want to change their clock twice a year – it is enough work making sure it wound and has correct the time.

I will then bring the idea of clock time being something which has been to an extent made up. Yes, in nature a trip around the sun takes about a year; a trip around the moon takes a month; and the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening to make a day.

So the year’s length is set by the earth’s trip around the sun . The month’s length is set by the the moon’s trip around the earth. And the day’s length is set up to the sun’s daily trip around the world. But what makes a week? Why not a 10 day week with 3 weeks per month? A 15 day week with 2 weeks per month? This gets a lot of people really thinking from the conversations I have with them. (Very few of them bring up the bible – which was even more important to people then, where it says that a week is 7 days in Genesis.)