Random thought for the day

Look what came out just in time for Halloween pranks

Must be this tall... to use the soap!

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Sorry kids, you miss out!

Yes, this was found at 2 popular local restaurants 2020 & '22!

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of advancing clocks, typically by one hour, during warmer months to make better use of the longer daylight hours in the evenings. In the US, clocks "Spring forward" to DST in March and "Fall back" to Standard Time in November. The main goal is to shift the time to better use daylight hours later in the day, providing more light after the typical workday and during Summer evenings.

Daylight Saving Time has been discredited for most of the reasons people used to believe it was better. After some impartial studies, it has been shown to save no energy, and in some cases, the energy costs were higher on DST. It does not improve safety, because it is impossible to calculate the peak times when kids are enroute to schools and the traffic is heavier. Since an average mid-USA time zone is 500 to 600 miles wide, and all the people inside the Time Zone are on the exact same time, the difference in sunrise and sunset times is an hour or more from the Eastern most city in the Time Zone to the Western most city in it. This does not even take into account weather conditions, like fog or heavy cloud cover. The schools and businesses in that Time Zone would mostly open and close at the same time, leaving a large difference in the apparent position of the sun at points East and West in the Time Zone. How do you calculate the safety factor when there is no real relationship between clock time and darkness? If the kids going to school are safer, then change the time the schools open, not everybody’s clocks.

Then there are those claiming the Daylight Saving Time reduces crime, because it is easier to conceal criminal activities in darkness. It would be a really stupid criminal who could not figure out that waiting to break in just an hour later would allow them to hide their criminal enterprises in the darkness once more.

There is no real reason to keep going on Daylight Saving Time except for the natural human opposition to change. So that Congress does not need to change the standard back to regular time all year long, all the people of the United States, as well as all the other countries that have to do business with us, have to change the clocks twice a year. It makes no sense, and if we have been saving time, where do they keep it and what do they plan to do with it. It is all just foolishness. Some States have already over-ruled the use of Daylight Saving Time, causing even more confusion. JRH

Bfromla said:

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Arizona and Hawaii don't participate in the DST (silliness). Hawaii because there is relatively little seasonal difference in daylight hours. Arizona because traditional working hours (9 to 5) would extend further into hot afternoons. Lots of work shifts are over at 3 PM around here. One of my self-setting digital clocks does not have a DST delete option. It reads an hour later for half of the year. Monday morning it will start showing the correct time. Stupid clock!

canamjhb said:

Arizona and Hawaii don't participate in the DST (silliness). Hawaii because there is relatively little seasonal difference in daylight hours. Arizona because traditional working hours (9 to 5) would extend further into hot afternoons. Lots of work shifts are over at 3 PM around here. One of my self-setting digital clocks does not have a DST delete option. It reads an hour later for half of the year. Monday morning it will start showing the correct time. Stupid clock!

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Alaska may be the next to go back to standard time.

Alaska considering eliminating DST.

I grew up in S. California, but eventually moved to Indiana for a job.
At the time, Indiana didn't observe daylight savings time.
When they adopted it State wide in 2006, there was some discussion at work about how to know what time to change the clocks to.
So I taught them what I had been taught as a child to remember how to change the time:

Spring Forward, Fall Back.