DON'T FORGET TO TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK AN HOUR

[WF7A]

Yup, it's that time of year again when you have to rotate your sundial 15° clockwise...though doing so at 2:00 a.m. is kinda silly.

[NZ2N]

I hate this daylight savings crap, it is just stupid to have to do this twice a year.

[G4ALA]

You are late!

To add confusion to the international timing situation, in the UK we moved east by 15 degrees a week before you.

For just a while there was a 6 hour difference betwees UK time and Eastern US time.

We now have sunset at 4.45pm rather than 5.45pm. Sunrise is at 07.00. Local time is now GMT (Z). The days will get much shorter befor the end of December. I live in the deep south of the UK. Our latitude is 50 degrees N. New York is 44 degrees N.

Why bother.

There is a mindset that it is necessary to keep the same clock time starting for work, school etc all over the country. That saves children from going to school in the dark. Instead, they come home in the dark. Good thinking!

Given that Edinburgh, Latitude 55 degrees N, which is halfway N-S in the UK, is at the same latitude as Nome, Alaska, you can see that the clock shift idea is nonsense. When it is the season of the year that gets dark, it is dark.

Heaven help those who live in Finland, Russia and Norway. There are days in winter in some places when it the sun never rises.

73
John
G4ALA

[K8MHZ]

Given that Edinburgh, Latitude 55 degrees N, which is halfway N-S in the UK, is at the same latitude as Nome, Alaska, you can see that the clock shift idea is nonsense. When it is the season of the year that gets dark, it is dark.

Nome is at 64 degrees N. Edinburgh is hundreds of miles further south than Nome.

I do agree that DST is asinine. I know very few that like it, yet it endures.

[N3UCN]

Too bad my kids didn't know they could sleep in an extra hour.

[K8ERV]

My dog has an accurate clock. She KNOWS when it is 5 and her canned dinner is due. It will be interesting to see how she handles the new time. I may have to crank her tail around one turn to the left.

TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[AG3Y]

I go by GMT or as it is now know "Coordinated Universal Time" !

Now the rest of the earth goes by "Sidereal Time"

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/sidereal.html

Just thought I would throw that one in !

[W4XKE]

As a former Hoosier resident, I have followed Indiana’s struggle with time changes and have tried to understand the reasoning behind the conflict. It seems that much of the debate centers around the school bus pick-up time of children, saying without DST the kids would be going to school in the dark during the winter.

It still escapes me why the school corporations don’t just make a change in their operating hours instead of imposing a time change across the land.

Merchants complain if their locality is on a different time zone than a nearby large city and file suits to be exempted from the rest of the state. (They claim they’re losing money.) Why can’t they just change their business hours?

Incredibly, broadcasters in New York City file lawsuits to force states as far away as Indiana to comply with time laws. Why would radio broadcasters in NYC care what time people are on in Indiana?

“The US Uniform Time Act of 1966 places Indiana in the Eastern time zone. In 1968, Network TV broadcasters in New York City brought suit against US Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd for failing to enforce the 1966 legislation. DOT allegedly told Indiana legislators they could work out different time zone boundaries. The media won their case, enjoining DOT from "not enforcing" the DST provisions of the act.”

Here’s a link that discusses a lot of the history of Daylight Saving Time:

What Time is it in Indiana?

[K7SGJ]

It's all crappola. That's why I'm glad I live where DST is not observed. As for the kids, it doesn't matter what time zone they're in. These days, it seems as though most are always in the dark.

[W7KKK]

A) I threw mine alarm clock, as such, in the trash when we retired.
B) We live in AZ where we don't care or participate in DST.