Re: Re: Daylight Savings
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Mar 20 2025 08:52:00

Growing up in a state where half the state (and most all my extended
family relatives) were in a different time zone helps. ;)

Let me guess, Indiana? I have reletives there, too.
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Re: Re: Daylight Savings
By: Dumas Walker to NIGHTFOX on Thu Mar 20 2025 09:00:00

... people don't realize how late it would stay dark in the morning
during December/early January.

This is true. On EST, the earlies the Sun rises is about 8:01, which means on DST it would be 9:01. For me, that would be unacceptable.
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Growing up in a state where half the state (and most all my extended family relatives) were in a different time zone helps. ;)

Let me guess, Indiana? I have reletives there, too.

Close. Kentucky. ;)


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... people don't realize how late it would stay dark in the morning
during December/early January.

This is true. On EST, the earlies the Sun rises is about 8:01, which means

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DST it would be 9:01. For me, that would be unacceptable.

Same here.

I am not quite old enough to remember this but, during one of the energy crisises of the early 1970s, the US went on year-around DST. People hated
it so they reverted back after one year, so I am told.


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Drive-In Movies are a thing of the past now where I live.

We had one left in this area, it made it until last year when they
decided to shut down. Pretty sure developers bought the land.

Used to be 3 here, 1 rather remote for me, on the other side of town, one down the coast a ways but doable for an evenings entertainment. And the closest that was he go to if we were going to do a thing.

The closest and fave closed down after COVID. A confluence of the council either put the rates up or changed the zoning to amount to the same. And they'd had regulars prior to COVID, and afterwards a lot didn't come back.

Bit sad really,

ST

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Double-edged sword here in Brissie. Solid UTC+10 year-round (that's

You guys still flooded or dehydrating now?

good!), but out of sync with Sydney and Melbourne in summer. (that's bad)

You'll fit in with any Dairy farmer I've met. The cows don't care what the clock says they keep coming in for Milking at the same time.

We're back on +10 o'course for now...

ST

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You guys still flooded or dehydrating now?

High and dry for the time being! :D

You'll fit in with any Dairy farmer I've met. The cows don't care what the clock says they keep coming in for Milking at the same time.

Makes sense, it was the farmers that killed any chance of us getting DST in QLD. Technology still kind of makes it moot, but it always used to piss me off when the schedule on Pay TV was all an hour out, during summer holidays when I was watching it the most hahaha!

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