Good one Carl/Ken ...
And don't even get me started on converting calendars and clocks to
*metric* (y'all know how much I prefer fractions over decimals for
everyday measures and calculations).
As a child, WWV was one of the very few constant signals I could tune
in on my parent's antique (even then) "Zenith Wave Magnet" they let me
keep in my bedroom... I can still see the dull orange glow seeping out
of the back of the set when the tubes were cooking... now-adays when I
fire it up I also smell the dust burning off. Deeply visceral...
"beep, beep, beep..." WWV-Fort Collins.
I haven't cared "much" about DST in any part of my life... it has just
been an opportunity to stir the pot and be contrarian about something I
know to be arbitrarily arbitrary really. Same for
metric/english/archaic measures. All those things exist for good reason
even if they persist for bad ones.
On 11/4/22 10:45 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
OK, then. Ken Nordine on Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYpCdY4Y_0
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:33 PM Gillian Densmore
<[email protected]> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act#:~:text=The%20bill%20received%20bipartisan%20support,consent%20on%20March%2015%2C%202022.
steeeve
It's a BFD to me because of GP. mucking about with the clock a
ruining winter is dumb.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:26 PM glen <[email protected]> wrote:
Honestly, I just don't get why it's such a big deal. Sure,
it's obsolete. And maybe it kills a few people, raises
cortisol, etc. But there are so many other things that affect
our (sleep) cycles soooooo much more, like obesity,
alcoholism, wage slavery, TikTok fomo, ... on and on. Passing
such a law feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the
Titanic. Or maybe complaining about how a reporter discussing
Putin mispronounces "nukular" ... an odd thing to complain
about while the ICBM heads your way.
On 11/4/22 15:17, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> On 11/4/22 4:14 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>> Didn't the sunshine act already pass? but yes I agree I
despise the clock change bull sh**** It takes effect next year
unless Turtle neck had his usual tantrum.
>
> From the linked article:
>
> /Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed
bipartisan legislation to abolish clock changes and make
daylight saving time permanent, beginning in 2023. Sen. Marco
Rubio, R-Florida, introduced////the Sunshine Protection Act
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>//,
and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, was among the co-sponsors./
>
> /"Glad the Senate has passed the Sunshine Protection Act
so Oregonians aren’t springing back & forth each year in a
silly exercise that hurts everybody’s health & our economy,"
Wyden tweeted March 15. "Time now for the House to act."/
>
> /In June 2022, the U.S. House failed to pass the bill,
which is now stalled and scheduled to expire in December./
>
> /Let the debate resume in March 2023./
>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:10 PM Steve Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> as we all know I'm no fan of semi-annual clock
changes... and I thought the Sunshine Act
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>would
put an end to that nonsense even if did fall on the "wrong
side" with a year-round DST timesqew. Looks like it is going
to fail despite bipartisan support in the Senate (unsurprising
that Florida, closest to the equator, effected least, would be
the one to sponsor/promote it?)...
>>
>> Oregon (in coordination with CA/WA) have tried to take
things into their own hands independent of the rest of the
country?
>>
>>
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2022/11/03/oregon-daylight-saving-time-november-march/69613463007/
>>
>>
>> I suppose I could live with the sqew and just change
the idioms from 12 noon and 12 midnight to 11 noon and 11
midnight and call it a day/year/life. Seems like it would
just make more sense to sqew the 8-5 (or 9-4) for bankers) an
hour earlier instead, but what is the point of having a
state/federal/global government if it isn't going to decide
for you how we index time?
>>
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