And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
News you can use -- About the length of day as seasons change.
DST sucks to the max. I hope it is eliminated someday. People that can afford the time and expense of playing golf in the afternoons can just start an hour early as far as I am concerned. Men working outside on oil well workover rigs, roustabouts and all kinds of labor hate it. Not everybody works on 8 hours a day. Many work from can to can't. Get up and go to work in the dark, instead of early morning light,,,, and come home at dark or near dark as usual. SUCKS
Bingo! Judging by a local talk radio show this week, most folk seem to think that we will actually be getting more daylight. Nope, just moving it around. Their comments reflected a complete lack of understanding as to why the amount of daylight we receive changes during the year, why we have Seasons. Here in Ottawa, we are getting about 140 minutes more daylight since the Solstice and the clocks have not even been touched yet. I like having the extra daylight at the end of the day....when I can use it. Not with two feet of snow on the ground. Staying on DST here would mean a sunrise in late Dec/Jan of around 8:45 AM which means kids are going to school in the dead of darkness. And I guess there's that Scandi part of me that likes the evenings drawing in early and doing the Hygge thing like the Danes. Something that never gets mentioned in this debate is that Richard Nixon tried this during the energy crisis (there's that Middle East thing again) back in the '70s. It was a complete failure. I still miss Nixon though. Do I sense yet another distraction? Steve_in_Ottawa
Remember the first day, was about 12, it truly sucked, the first time too, coming to the realization really crazy people was running things. Now they are psycho's.
All this whining about changing clocks twice a year gets really tiring. As Thomas Sowell pointed out there are no ideal solutions, only tradeoffs. This DST issue is a perfect example of that principle. I think Steve in Ottawa has it exactly right; I live a little south of him but if I were on year-round standard time sunrise here would be around 4:30am in the summer. I'd rather have that hour of sunlight in the evening, when it's useful, than in the early morning when it isn't. As for year-round DST, as Steve points out we've already tried that and it was a fiasco. Parents hated the idea of their kids walking to school in the dark, and I don't blame them. I wish the rest of you would suck it up and resign yourselves to the appalling hardship of spending ten minutes twice a year to change your clocks.
It looks like no daylight is gained north of the Canadian border. The premier in BC wants to permanently adopt DST next fall much to the dismay of every neighbouring jurisdiction. Saskabush is permanently on regular time
DST sucks to the max. I hope it is eliminated someday. People that can afford the time and expense of playing golf in the afternoons can just start an hour early as far as I am concerned. Men working outside on oil well workover rigs, roustabouts and all kinds of labor hate it. Not everybody works on 8 hours a day. Many work from can to can't. Get up and go to work in the dark, instead of early morning light,,,, and come home at dark or near dark as usual. SUCKS
ReplyDeleteMy post above is true. Of course you can't make a blanket longer or more hours of sunshine. But you can make the work day longer by starting earlier.
DeleteYou can't make a blanket longer by cutting off the top and sewing in on the bottom.
ReplyDeleteBingo! Judging by a local talk radio show this week, most folk seem to think that we will actually be getting more daylight. Nope, just moving it around. Their comments reflected a complete lack of understanding as to why the amount of daylight we receive changes during the year, why we have Seasons. Here in Ottawa, we are getting about 140 minutes more daylight since the Solstice and the clocks have not even been touched yet. I like having the extra daylight at the end of the day....when I can use it. Not with two feet of snow on the ground. Staying on DST here would mean a sunrise in late Dec/Jan of around 8:45 AM which means kids are going to school in the dead of darkness. And I guess there's that Scandi part of me that likes the evenings drawing in early and doing the Hygge thing like the Danes. Something that never gets mentioned in this debate is that Richard Nixon tried this during the energy crisis (there's that Middle East thing again) back in the '70s. It was a complete failure. I still miss Nixon though. Do I sense yet another distraction? Steve_in_Ottawa
DeleteAbolish daylight saving time. Standard time is all that we should follow and government should leave our time alone.
ReplyDeleteI agree! Or you could move to Arizona, we don't allow that DST stuff here ... (well, I dunno about the reservations, though)
DeleteTo hell with it. God never intended for it. I admire the few places that don't allow it.
ReplyDeleteIf God made everything, then He also made DST. Besides, pretty presumptuous that you would know God’s thoughts on the matter.
ReplyDelete"..He also made DST.":
DeleteNo, He did not-He made day and night. DST is a man-made delusion.
-JLM
What about Canada?
ReplyDelete- macxcool
Remember the first day, was about 12, it truly sucked, the first time too, coming to the realization really crazy people was running things. Now they are psycho's.
ReplyDeleteThe times in this graphic have nothing to do with DST. It is the actual length of the day from sun-up to sun-down.
ReplyDeleteThe cat loves the spring equinox and supper arrives one hour early, hates the autumnal equinox when it suddenly comes an hour late.
ReplyDeleteAll this whining about changing clocks twice a year gets really tiring. As Thomas Sowell pointed out there are no ideal solutions, only tradeoffs. This DST issue is a perfect example of that principle. I think Steve in Ottawa has it exactly right; I live a little south of him but if I were on year-round standard time sunrise here would be around 4:30am in the summer. I'd rather have that hour of sunlight in the evening, when it's useful, than in the early morning when it isn't. As for year-round DST, as Steve points out we've already tried that and it was a fiasco. Parents hated the idea of their kids walking to school in the dark, and I don't blame them. I wish the rest of you would suck it up and resign yourselves to the appalling hardship of spending ten minutes twice a year to change your clocks.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like no daylight is gained north of the Canadian border. The premier in BC wants to permanently adopt DST next fall much to the dismay of every neighbouring jurisdiction. Saskabush is permanently on regular time
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