Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 08, 2020

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    saobadao  over 4 years ago

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

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    eastern.woods.metal  over 4 years ago

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

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    einarbt  over 4 years ago

    Speak for yourself northern hemisphere people.

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    Dtroutma  over 4 years ago

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

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    GROG Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I’m never thrilled about gaining an hour.

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    jmworacle  over 4 years ago

    Danae has a point for once.

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    JoanHelen  over 4 years ago

    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. :)

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    LilyGilder  over 4 years ago

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

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    erik.vanthienen  over 4 years ago

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

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    posse1 Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    Alabama Al  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    dot-the-I  over 4 years ago

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

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    Pocosdad  over 4 years ago

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

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    saltylife16  over 4 years ago

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

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    witten.homer175  over 4 years ago

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

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    david_42  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    rickseg  over 4 years ago

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

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 4 years ago

    Who says you have to lose an hour of sleep?

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    Nachikethass  over 4 years ago

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

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    sandpiper  over 4 years ago

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

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    Say What? Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    nosirrom  over 4 years ago

    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. :-(((

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    jutrased  over 4 years ago

    So what’s behind the Arctic door?

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    submachine  over 4 years ago

    We just bought clocks that automatically jump to the correct time

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    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.

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    marilynnbyerly  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    Whatever happened to common sense?  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    thelordthygod666  over 4 years ago

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

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    WGillete  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    Eric Thom Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I want his job

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    shstuart Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    khjalmarj  over 4 years ago

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

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago

    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.

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    Display  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    sml7291 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    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.

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    locake  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    Snoots  over 4 years ago

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

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    magdala666  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    TimBasham  over 4 years ago

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

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    billdaviswords  over 4 years ago

    We’re not cicadas ;)

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 4 years ago

    True that Danae.

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    sml7291 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    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.

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    GiantShetlandPony  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    stsmy  over 4 years ago

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

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    jal333  over 4 years ago

    I like it.

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    Iwa Iniki  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    bookworm0812  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    bakana  over 4 years ago

    Yet another Nixon Legacy.

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

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    Gaius Julius C.   over 4 years ago

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

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 4 years ago

    It’s worth it to me.

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    gramps_w  over 4 years ago

    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.

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    claudia.sawyer  over 4 years ago

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

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    Shelly Osech  over 4 years ago

    Just move it forward once and leave it there.

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    jim.vanzandt  over 4 years ago

    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?

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