The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 07, 2015

Greg Cravens.Oh wait, did you mean DST?

There will always be dark mornings part of the year and dark evenings at other times. It’s part of the change of seasons. The sun will rise and set at whatever appropriate time for that particular day of the year.Messing with the time accomplishes nothing, yet every spring we cheat ourselves out of an hour of sleep and screw up our internal biological clock. Then we have to correct this foolishness in the fall time. A dog chasing its tail comes to mind.Congress is responsible for this mess. Contact them and tell them to abolish this DST nonsense for good. Here is one site that will help you identify and contact your representative:www.house.gov

Be happy you don’t live in Alaska, the Northwest Territories or even Northern B.C.

Here in northern Maine we’ve lost over six hours of daylight already…..Good news is, only six more weeks until the days start getting longer followed by four months of winter weather, Now i’m asking self, “Why is that good news?” Ugh!

I shall start a new religion, and the first commandment shall say “Thou shalt not practice daylight saving time”. If my boss complains that I’m late for work six months of the year, I shall have him on charges for infringement of my religious freedom.

It’s certainly not a democracy. If it were I would get up a petition against it. The vast majority of people live in the northern hemisphere, and those Australians hog half the summer.

For that I have no idea Eddie.

Passing through Indiana years ago I asked someone what time zone we were in. They had no idea. Turns out the eastern third of the state goes with the east, the western third with Chicago, and the middle refuses to do DST at all so it’s alternating which side it’s in tandem with. I can only imagine what it must be like scheduling meetings with someone a few towns away. Crazy.

If you whine about DST, then you should also be whining about the artificial constraints of clocks in general. Natural biorhythms are based on sunlight, so if that is your concern you shouldn’t be basing your daily cycle on time at all, just the sunrise. You should also be protesting time zones.

No one is willing to accept blame, ….er… credit!

No. The winter solstice begins about Dec. 23, at which point the days will begin to get longer.

I realize the pressure of writing a daily comic strip (having done it myself), but can this strip PLEASE talk about something else?

Looks like my suggestion for Sarah has been taken. Now I wonder if Eddie is old enough for her to explain that if he wants the same amount of daylight year round, the Buckets would have to live on or very near the Equator.

We get 33 weeks of the year on DST, only 19 weeks on Standard Time. New Zealanders get 26 weeks on DST, 26 weeks for Standard Time.Suppose the Buckets had vacationed somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere instead of in Alaska. Would it have been too much for Eddie to take, being somewhere where it’s spring instead of fall? Yet they use the SAME calendar as we do. Is Eddie old enough to learn about the solstices and equinoxes? The information might madden him regarding the winter solstices, but that’s what the Winter Begins entry on our calendars indicate.