Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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there is no such thing as wintertime - it's the time we are supossed to have. we're back to normal - 0800 hrs is 0800 hrs again it used to be 0700 hrs before last sunday
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I went to one of my favorite restaurants today. One of the workers was wearing a red and white striped knit hat and a red and white striped shirt. I pointed at him and said, "I found Waldo!" He thanked me and said most everyone else asked him, "and what are YOU supposed to be?"
My apologies, but I'm not sure I understand what you are asking?
If you mean "why force permanent daylight time on everybody", then I would say:
- Switching time twice a year is terrible
- The sun setting before 5:00pm in the winter is terrible
My apologies, but I'm not sure I understand what you are asking?
If you mean "why force permanent daylight time on everybody", then I would say:
So anything that gets rid of two terribles is good!
- Switching time twice a year is terrible
- The sun setting before 5:00pm in the winter is terrible
- yes - timeswitching has to go
- nope, there's just not enough light in winter to leave the house and come back without running through the dark at at least one end.
timezones are a necessary compromise to run a modern society but standard time is the closest to natural time to be had.
summertime (daylight saving time) never produced the results it should. during world war I wie had kriegssommerzeit (everybody got up two hours early). it acchieved nothing.
for most humans the biorythm is adjusted to a day where the sun reaches it's highest point at noon (ideally). why bring everybody out of sync for more that 8%?
... and btw, if i had a regulated work schedule (as a freelancer i don't) i'd prefer very much to leave the house when there is natural light. going out into the dark is kinda depressing.
but it's not about you and me - it's about the vast majority.
unfortunately the proponents of forever summer(time) are a rather loud bunch.
nix fia unguat (bavarian for no offense intented)
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True, but as an evening person, I'd rather have the extra light at the late end!
I personally find it depressing when it's dark by 5:00pm, but we all have our own ideas about this. Fortunately, I don't have to leave the house super-early, so the darkness in the morning doesn't really bother me.
True, but we can still share our own opinions!
Since one province already moved to permanent daylight time, and another is looking at it, it would seem that permanent daylight is the preferred option over permanent standard, at least here.
I mean, we're already on daylight time for two-thirds of the year, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult an adjustment to just stay on daylight time for the remaining four months as well.
What's Bavarian for "none taken"?
There's no such thing as "the time we are supposed to have". Time zones are arbitrary and don't follow any obligatory scientific rule. If we followed the sun scrupulously, IE if noon, for example, was the time when the sun is the highest in the sky then two people ten meters apart at my latitude would have a different time (about one second), instead, we compromise and decide that people living between two arbitrary lines will have the exact same time. When the weather forecast person says that the sun will rise at 7:17 the next day, it is in fact literally false. One kilometer from east to west (or vice versa) at my latitude means that you'll see the sunrise one minute sooner or later. If you are at one end or the other of your specific country that could mean more than one hour of difference, meaning the sun could rise at 6:17 or 8:17 by your watch.
that's why i said time zones are a compromise to make a modern society possible. before 1893 we didn't even haven a single timezone in germany. after the war of 1870/71 the prussian military thought they could have performed (even) better with a unified timezone for the whole of the empire (since 1871). moltke especially wanted railway schedules to be improved.
man is a daylight creature. we are up all night but by nature we are not supossed to.
for some reason france is an hour late of their 'natural' time as this map of 'natural' times (wiki) shows; they probably didn't want to be in the same timezone as the brits.
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When did chopped liver become the measuring standard of unimportant things?
didn't even know it is
What am I, chopped liver?!
Because "most" people, dislike liver?
Chopped or in its many other forms, including w/ onions?
I kind of like liver and onions, though we don't have it often.
all my family members (mom, brothers, daughters, cousins, nephews and nieces) love it but they insist on adding apples.
... i really hate it
I've been told that my breath smells like springtime and sunshine.
Wise guy eh?there was a poem about outhouses in spring but i don't recall it
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