Plan B Forum

Not until next week, but I will be gone on my annual cruise ( ) so I've had to post this a bit early:

I'm sure that Dale and some other folks around here can identify with that...

Now I'm going to have to make some time to watch some more videos from those guys...

Re this:

I will be gone on my annual cruise

Good video, especially the part about the people not knowing how to set their clock (I know people like that--how they can muster up the sense to drive is beyond me ).

Arizona? What about China, where they only have one time zone, does China have DST? Or Indiana where they used to have 3 time zones?

And why is it called 'standard time' when the standard time period is less than the DST? Thank you all. This is so much more worth pondering than the current election in the USofA.

Hawai'i also doesn't do DST. (Better year-round weather than Arizona, too.)

From Wiki:

The history of standard time in the United States began November 18, 1883, when United States and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones. Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a jeweler's window). The new standard time system was not immediately embraced by all.

Use of standard time gradually increased because of its obvious practical advantages for communication and travel. Standard time in time zones was not established in U.S. law until the Standard Time Act of 1918 of March 19, 1918, also known as the Calder Act (15 USC 260).[1][2] The act also established daylight saving time, itself a contentious idea.

It was a much simpler time back then.

The sequel:

So good!

No problem resetting my clocks. I have a bunch that over the years have just sort of accumulated into a collection. I have two identical solar battery but not 'radio' watches from Sieko. Perpetual calendar. But a real pain in the butt to reset for DST. I noticed after a while it was off less than ten seconds when setting it for the change, compared to the 'atomic clock' radio signal. I like the way it looks and is comfortable to wear so I bought a second one back in the previous century and keep one running an hour off from the other one. Have not needed to reset either one for DST or leap year for many years. I have big case pendulum clock with a pretty standard works, no antique but about 60 years old from the family. Instructions with it said to never move the hands forward, only backwards. Easy to get the chimes out of synch with the time on the face. So for spring forward, I stop the thing at a convenient time, and start it again 11 hours later. The car is the worst, but not hard if I just follow the instructions in the manual.

Actually this is all pretty archaic. The cell phone and computer gadgets do this without any participation on my part. Do new cars fix this as well?

snailgate

Well, John Oliver's opinions not withstanding...

I remain a great fan of DST; I find it to be an invigorating and positive thing...

I'd be happy to have it all-year-round...

Even more so living out here, walking distance from the Pacific coastline...(where in the darkest days of late December, the sun starts to set at 4:30 in the afternoon...by 5 PM it looks like 3 AM... )

Lord Jim wrote:I remain a great fan of DST; I find it to be an invigorating and positive thing...

I'd be happy to have it all-year-round...

Which could also be achieved by redefining "noon" as being the time at which the sun is 15 degrees short of being directly overhead.

-"BB"-

Same thing here Jim, by 5PM it's full dark in Dec/Jan.

Problem with pushing the clock ahead an hour would be that the sun wouldn't rise until 9AM.