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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Actually I just googled and now google says it's because it wouldn't be cool enough to have an extended evening. I thought it was because in the 1960s farmers said the cows would get up no matter what clock time it was.
The funny thing google gave me was the subhed for an NPR story that roughly went, "how does Arizona DEAL?!" Well, how does the rest of the country deal with resetting their clocks twice a year? It's not a huge deal to be in a different time zone from other states half the year.
Right. Because of the cows.
And their watches?
Indiana bitched about DST because of the cows. Arizona, however, has a legitimate complaint, IMO. The idea is to increase the amount of daylight that people use. Only, when you increase daylight when you're in the desert, you just get more heat.
I have to confess to finding the whole DST thing a little odd anyway.
I have to confess to finding the whole DST thing a little odd anyway.
I always get a little weirded out by the fact that time is such an artificial construct that we can play with it the way we do with DST. If everyone on the planet agrees (or at least most of them) we just impose a new time on people. It's very strange.
Thanks, Ginger! Damn, those fore-edge paintings are amazing, particularly the videos!
Only, when you increase daylight when you're in the desert, you just get more heat.
Well, you just move around the times you deal with the heat, really.
I always get a little weirded out by the fact that time is such an artificial construct that we can play with it the way we do with DST. If everyone on the planet agrees (or at least most of them) we just impose a new time on people. It's very strange.
Seriously. I mean, the real reason it stays light later in the summer is because of the movement of the earth. That seems fine by me. But then we change it up, and make that happen artificially earlier because of the decision of the government. Weird.
you just move around the times you deal with the heat, really.
DST is bad enough--then some institutions shifting their hours by an hour because they need to compensate for the dealine with the heat hours? Crazy.
Of course, if everyone shifts, you might as well not have had DST in the first place.
I thought it was light, not heat?
Personally, I prefer that we have light in the morning earlier -- because I wake up better that way.
Damn, those fore-edge paintings are amazing, particularly the videos!
Aren't they amazing? For years, I've harbored a fantasy that I pick up an old book in a flea market where they had never fanned the pages to see what they had and gotten a fore-edge painting for a song.