Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 22, 2024

If only you could save the summer sunlight for the winter would the name make sense. I like an early sundown in the summer, myself.

Daylight saving time has run it course and needs to be abolished. Only reason it is still in effect is because someone is making a profit from it…………

She’s not a “guy”, dude.

I love her answer. And I know why: Inertia starting with when people used whale oil to light their lamps at night. Now, studies show that changing the time COSTS directly in money spent on running the AC (more expensive to run than LED lights), indirectly in lost productivity twice per year, doubly indirect in accidents caused by folks working or driving tired. AND there is hardly anyone who actually likes or wants it. But we can’t seem to get rid of it. As a species, I sometime wonder how we’ve survived this long.

Mrs. Olsen and I are a pair in this. Caulfield’s suggestion is in another world entirely.

The change that was supposed to be beneficial for certain areas simply exchanged some of the benefits with others. But, as central VA is a kind of pivot point for ‘sun time vs dark’ the proof of that escapes me.

However, just to be accommodating, I still crank my wrist sundial a point or two just to try to keep up. : )

It says something about humans that it’s easier to change the way we tell time than to persuade businesses to have seasonal hours.

I prefer DST for the ritual and the conceit of so much daylight later in the day!!

Leave it at Eastern Standard Time, as far as I’m concerned.

I despise the time change. Don’t care where we leave it, but the change itself is remarkably disruptive and takes some people (not to mention pets on a feeding/walking schedule) more than a week to adjust to.

Leave Daylight Saving Time in the dustbin of history!

I think the main reason for the time change is, it gives us something to talk (or gripe) about twice a year. Wouldn’t we miss that? (sarc)

Put noon back at the middle of the day, where it belongs.