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Long Run
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Nuff said ,wish they would do away with that craziness . :arg

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Or perhaps consider the alternative I believe is used in China. Forget time zones and the entire country is all on the same clock time. Thereby everyone is aware that the clock time is a artificial human convention.

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That is a good point .

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Burning Petard wrote:Or perhaps consider the alternative I believe is used in China. Forget time zones and the entire country is all on the same clock time.
But many people go to work shortly after the sun comes up at 1:00 AM (or whatever) per their clocks. The time may be the same across the country, but the first shift people work normal daylight hours.
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If you want to do that why have any standardized time at all? Get up when it's sunny, go to bed when it's not. I'm sure that's what our ancestors did before fire was discovered.

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Going to bed with the birds ,it was called .

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I don't like getting up and having it dark outside. But in a few weeks that will change. i think DST happens too early in the year, but I will deal with it. What choice is there? :shrug :mrgreen:

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Walking to the gym, and then back home after a workout, when the sun has not yet risen, makes us feel very virtuous.
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Going to bed with the birds
I believe that would have a very different meaning in the UK... 8-)
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Interesting quote about the perception of time in the modern world:
  • To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something -- something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance -- did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
    -- Aldous Huxley
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