Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 05, 2022

is that this weekend?

The extra hour won’t help the face in the mirror.

Getting an extra hour in 2022 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.

Yeah! Sign me up! 8^ )

I never get that extra hour of sleep, I just wake up way too early. I hate DST. It was still dark at 8am today!

None of that garbage here in Arizona. Although getting an extra hour of sleep tomorrow sounds nice, I don’t have to worry about losing it again in the spring.

So that means I’ll be wide awake at 3AM instead of 4AM.

Amen to that . . . any additional amount of sleep is great!

Anyone else in favor of eliminating DST altogether and staying on “real” time year round?

Extra hour? I’ve been awake since 2 am.

Slept in the last two days to get practice for Sunday morning.

DST Delenda est.

The United States tried Daylight time all year for two years in the early ‘70s. Apparently, being on Daylight time in the winter wasn’t as great as people thought it would be. Where I live, the sun doesn’t rise until 9:00 am in the winter on Daylight time. People didn’t like going to work or school in the dark! I wish we would just leave it on Standard! I have never liked Daylight time.

I’ve never been especially affected by the time changes. I don’t gain or lose an hour sleep. I sleep for about 8 hours no matter what clock changes are happening. I think only people who have to be somewhere early Sunday morning are gaining or losing sleep.

Just sleep longer anyway.

How do you sleep an extra hour? Most people don’t set the alarm on Sunday so you wake up when you are done sleeping? I cannot force myself to go back to sleep when I am done sleeping.

Arlo is retired. He never has to get up early. He can sleep anytime he wants.

We have a cat and a dog. Only one of us gets an extra hour of sleep .

I work a graveyard shift, and go to sleep as soon as I get home. I don’t get an extra hour of sleep. I have to stay up an extra hour. I’m hoping to stay on Daylight Time for my whole three-day weekend, because the weather will finally be good on Tuesday.

My cats are on sun time, they will want breakfast when daylight comes in the window, they don’t care what time the clock thinks it is. I will be woken up an hour earlier than I need to be until our short winter days get so short that the sun isn’t up until midmorning.

What I dread with the end of DST is how early the sun sets in the winter, it’s too dark to go or a walk after supper.

The concept of DST should have died a century ago, and is just plain ridiculous now. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time “The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by US polymath Benjamin Franklin. In a satirical letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris, Franklin suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize on candle usage; and calculated considerable savings.”

Today it would make far more sense to do everything by Coordinated Universal Time. It would be okay with me if local sunrise and local sunset evenly shifted around the planet; the sun will rise at 1353Z here in Flagstaff. In a thoroughly connected world where mechanical clocks are disappearing, what argument is there for keeping local time? Beyond that, why offset the sun by an hour permanently?

Amen to That!!!

The dogs and cats are still wanting their food on last week’s time. Every time the time changes, I have to train them little by little until the feeding time is when it’s light out.

Husband and I are 18th reenactors. Sometimes the subject of telling time comes up. While time is basically set by nature it is not completely so.

In “our” period minute hands on clocks are relatively new – before there were just hour hands. Have not seen any clocks from period with seconds hand. Drives people crazy.

Part of my discussion is that days are set by the earth turning around so one or the other side faces the sun – they are set by nature. Months are similarly set by the revolution of the moon around the earth – they are set by nature.

But there is no week in nature. Instead of more or less 4 week months we could 3 week or 5 week months. Other than week being mentioned in the Judeo-Christian bible there could be no weeks at all – just the days. There could be 75 or 100 minutes in an hour with the number of hours adjusted for same. These are not set by nature.