[ale] Stupid people and DST

[Pete Hardie]

You clearly have never been on-call across a DST boundary..... ;)

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 19:21 Niel Bornstein via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I've often thought that the length of an hour should expand and contract
> such that there were always 6 hours between sunrise and solar noon, and
> between noon and sunset.
>
> Practical? No. But logical, yes.
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 6:53 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> It always struck me that the fixed point in time was noon - when the sun
>> is the highest in the sky. From that perspective, the time width of
>> available daylight expands and contracts about that center point.
>>
>> Maybe if the centerline of each timezone coincided with actual noon it
>> would make sense.
>>
>> There's a state that doesn't observe DST. Indiana?
>>
>> Wasn't Indiana trying to legislate pi to be exactly 3? Or was it the
>> state that almost banned dihydrous monoxide due to the deaths it caused.
>>
>> Maybe we should limit work to 6 hours a day.
>>
>> Daylight or starlight has little to impact on my ability to ingest beer
>> and lawn mowers are noisy and pointless. If I don't like plants taller than
>> 4 inches, why cover the yard with ones that naturally grow 2-3 feet tall.
>>
>> Humans are strange. Glad I'm only loosely affiliated.
>>
>> On March 14, 2022 6:39:09 PM EDT, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> EF-Georgia weighs in:
>>>
>>> https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a18011/in-defense-of-daylight-saving-time/
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 6:33 PM Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a positive note… Governor Kemp signed a bill making daylight saving
>>>> time permanent in Georgia.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/permanent-daylight-saving-time-bill-signed-into-law-georgia/J7TKTZJY4ZGCBIEHH3KFPFXGXA/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately… from the same article… “Current federal law prohibits
>>>> states from observing daylight saving time year-round.”  Sooo… This has to
>>>> go to D.C. to get voted on there also.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /Raj
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 3:16 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As most functioning adults know, the annual stupidity action happened
>>>>> at 2am Sunday: yes, we changed the numbers on the clocks "so we could get
>>>>> more sunshine".
>>>>>
>>>>> Begin Rant
>>>>>
>>>>> Did anyone with access to writing in a national news medium ever
>>>>> actually take basic science? Did anyone with policy making responsibility
>>>>> actually pass a science class in their life?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think so.
>>>>>
>>>>> The time shift never made any sense. Now that there's a fair amount of
>>>>> evidence that is has a detrimental impact on human health maybe we should
>>>>> get rid of it. Yay! Great idea!
>>>>>
>>>>> But to shift permanently to DST "to get more sunshine" is just dumb.
>>>>>
>>>>> The east coast of USA (Unbelievably Stupid Authorities) is 5 time
>>>>> zones away from the UTC zone. Not 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we can get policy punks to take an astronomy class and learn
>>>>> about things like axial tilt being the reason the planet has seasons and
>>>>> that determines the length of time the sun is visible above the horizon.
>>>>>
>>>>> And if they still want more sunshine, and moving them to the equator
>>>>> is not an option (current occupants will ship them back), maybe we can ship
>>>>> them to Mercury.
>>>>>
>>>>> End Rant
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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