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I have a pill box with a timer. It went off an hour early! I need to figure out how to fix that
I never really thought about that.... but now that you mentioned it, I did notice a difference living in Colorado... Now that I have moved back east again I realize how much more I like it. The football games come on at better times too...They would need to change the location of the time zones. It was on the western edge of the time zones where it was so dark in the mornings. In Atlanta, it was after 9 am before the sun came up. There's almost an hour's difference between the western and eastern sides of the time zones.
That's what my mom said too. Idk, it's dark when most kids get on the bus anyway (rural area=long bus rides), I don't see why it would make too much difference. Plus parents are more helicopter-y now and most bus stops have parents hanging around. I prefer the longer evenings myself and would rather stay on DST. I've often thought that if they wanted to abolish it they could split the difference and go to the half-hour.I hate it, too, when it's dark at 5 pm. There's some talk again about leaving DST on all year. This was tried back in the '70s, but too many children got hit by cars while they were waiting for the school bus in the morning darkness.
From what I'm reading it really doesn't. In the winter, the sun comes up at 7 am and sets around 5 pm (verses 4am & 9pm ish in the summer). That doesn't sound much different from what everyone's saying.I don't see why it would make too much difference
For this area on the solstices, on summer solstice sunrise was at 5:45 am and sunset was at 9:11 pm (it stays light until nearly 11 because of the angle though). Winter solstice sunrise at 7:56 am, sunset at 4:53 pm (and it's super dark right away because of the angle).From what I'm reading it really doesn't. In the winter, the sun comes up at 7 am and sets around 5 pm (verses 4am & 9pm ish in the summer). That doesn't sound much different from what everyone's saying.
And we don't have DST.
Thanks. I'm beginning to understand the reason.For this area on the solstices, on summer solstice sunrise was at 5:45 am and sunset was at 9:11 pm (it stays light until nearly 11 because of the angle though). Winter solstice sunrise at 7:56 am, sunset at 4:53 pm (and it's super dark right away because of the angle).
So if we stayed on CST, it would be 4:45 am/8:11 pm in the summer, if we stayed on DST it would be 8:56 am/5:53 in the winter.
So I can see why they came up with DST. But it's still a pain.
I think it had to do with the dairy farmers who had to milk the cows at a certain time. Milk production would be affected if the cows were milked an hour earlier or later. I believe Indiana stayed on standard time for some years for that reason.I had always thought it was for agricultural reasons. So that farmers could have more daylight to harvest or something like that. Which made no sense to me. The summers I spent on the cattle ranch, we were up at the crack of dawn and never even looked at a clock all day.