XPost: alt.home.repair
From: bowman@montana.com
On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 11:20:09 -0700, blank verse wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 12:40:51 -0500 Frank wrote:
>
>> On 3/6/2026 12:07 PM, Ed P wrote:
>> > On 3/6/2026 12:00 PM, Frank wrote:
>> >> On 3/6/2026 6:32 AM, redacted wrote:
>> >>> On 3/6/26 01:50, T wrote:
>> >>>> USA: Daylight Stupid Time starts on Sunday, March 8, 2026
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't know a single taxpayer who wants DST and I've never heard a
>> >>> reasonable explanation to keep it.... yet here we are.
>> >
>> > I want it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Wiki DST article is worth reading. Looks like US, Canada and EU are
>> >> most of the world users and negatives outweigh positives. I suspect
>> >> US would stop it but undecided between DST and standard time.
>> >
>> > Some of that depends on where you are in the time zone. On the
>> > eastern side, I like the light at end of day, but if I was on the
>> > western end, would not matter much.
>>
>> It is interesting and reminds me of the time I did a couple of days
>> work in western Michigan and people were up and going to work and
>> school in the dark while back home in Delaware it was daylight. Then
>> there were people I worked with in northern UK that in the winter Went
>> to work and came home in the dark. First time I was in that area in
>> the summer, sun was up at 5 am and down at 10 pm. Time zones would
>> make no difference.
>
> Of course they do, did you want dark nights earlier in summer?
>
> If so, why?
> Aridzona likes that because it (slightly) cools off a bit faster after
> work.
Arizona is also far enough south that the length of the day doesn't vary
as much. Around here in the summer the birds start raising hell around 5
AM and at the height of the summer I can comfortably read out on the deck
at 10 PM.
Of course Navajoland marches to its own drummer.
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