Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Bruce]

Time to start carrying @Latestarter, don't need that coyote helping itself to your goats. And don't need Mel taking it and its pals on by himself.

 

[Baymule]

Where there's one, there's more! I like to hear coyotes howling, but not close by. We have a stray dog problem going on now. Trip is "marking" the front gate with poop piles. Plainly he is telling the strays to stay out. LOL

 

[Latestarter]

Woke to gray overcast and sprinkles to do morning goat chores in. Mostly clear blue right now. Had hoped for nice off and on rain all day to help soften the ground a bit. Really need the moisture but hope it doesn't all come in one fell swoop. Really liking the temperatures though.

 

[babsbag]

No idea what time that's gonna become when we do the govt mandated time change (which IMHO outlived its usefulness sometime in the last century).

So you're one of those people. CA tried again to do away with DST and thankfully it failed. I like my long summer evenings and I like my winter mornings to be light before 8. I am really ok with changing the clocks.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Having animals and being retired it really doen't matter what the clock says....each day it is sun Up to sun Down and utilize the amount of daylight to get stuff done as the weather and body allows. I only pay attention to the clock when I have to be on another's schedule...like the Doc or business hours.
We are suppose to have a high of 60 this next week and rain all day on Sunday into Monday morning....

 

[greybeard]

The sun don't give a crap what time a clock or watch says and neither does work.

 

[Bruce]

The sun don't give a crap what time a clock or watch says and neither does work.

Um, DW's work does! She has to be at the PO at 7:45, window opens at 8. Not like back when she was an engineer at a large 3 letter company. Start/stop time unimportant unless someone scheduled an early or late meeting.

So you're one of those people. CA tried again to do away with DST and thankfully it failed. I like my long summer evenings and I like my winter mornings to be light before 8. I am really ok with changing the clocks.

If there were no DST, it would always be light before 8 anyway Right now it starts to get light just before 7 here and dark not much past 6 PM. Then when the "shift" happens it screws everyone up.

The best plan would be one time zone the world over set at the current 0 meridian - UTC, just set your "business hours" accordingly. London can start their work day at 0800, New York at 1300, Redding CA at 1600 And if you want to have longer "evenings", just shift your business hours rather than changing the clock. Everyone/business world wide could choose to do so, or not.

 

[Latestarter]

So you're one of those people. CA tried again to do away with DST and thankfully it failed. I like my long summer evenings and I like my winter mornings to be light before 8. I am really ok with changing the clocks.

Yup... I'm "one of those people"... As others have said; what the clock says has virtually no effect on you whatsoever... Unless you have an appointmetnof some sort, you don't punch a time clock so you can enjoy your evening (or morning or both) all year long, regardless of what time it is. For those who have to punch a time clock, aside from Alaska, every state in the US has at least ~9.5 hours of sunlight on the shortest day. Further south, even more. So businesses could adjust their hours for employees to have some light at night when they get home or during the morning before work on the shortest day of the year. If you live close to work, you could see the sun before and after work.

I don't agree with one time zone though, that would be a real nightmare. If you're in Vermont and want to do business in Hong Kong, you'd STILL need to be adding/subtracting hours (how? they no longer exist?) and days (International date line) to determine when you could contact them and not be waking them in the middle of the night. The time zones would still exist, just in a different (more confusing) fashion. The idea of time in and of itself only works with the idea that there are differences... if there are no differences in time, then there is no time.

 

[babsbag]

My big thing is the light at the end of the day. When I used to work a job there was no way I was going to garden, mow the lawn, go bike riding, baseball practice, Boy Scout meetings with outside activities, go swimming, do dog agility classes, etc. before work. It just wasn't going to happen and it won't happen for kids that have to go to school either. As far as businesses adjusting their schedules, that may work for some but not all. If retail were to change hours based on the sun I am not so sure it would work. And I remember one winter in the 70's when we stayed on DST all winter, it was horrible; I was going to school in the dark every morning so that isn't a viable option either; IMO. I am really ok with what we have now, but to each their own. Arizona has no DST, makes me crazy when I need to do business there and they are different than the rest of the country.

 

[farmerjan]

I would like it to be REAL TIME, all the time, not switching. Places could start earlier in the morning during summer months so employees could get home earlier, or do staggered shifts so there is someone always there during "normal work hours" and some could get real early afternoons some days and others get out early on other days. I spend all my DST hours trying to adjust. I feel like I am always running late and I am trying to utilize the "longer daylight" so then I am getting into the house and bed very late. After 60 + years, I still do not adjust to it. My body runs on Standard time.....