Is there really still confusion about amount of daylight when clocks are changed forward/backward?
Mar 11, 2024 09:41:57 #
dustie wrote:
This seems to me like another odd headline and art... (show quote)
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Mar 11, 2024 09:46:49 #
Mar 11, 2024 09:53:32 #
tamparectec wrote:
I still have trouble getting the Obelisk properly aligned on my sun dial twice a year.
Mar 11, 2024 11:01:50 #
dustie wrote:
Dustie, I had a brain spark!...People stay up late for a movie, or party, or New Year Eve...for more than one hour........ but is there any flurry of articles about how those should result in serious mental and physical health worries?
It's not the loss of an hour's sleep, it's all about the abrupt change in light. Whether you're now driving to work in the dark when yesterday it was bright, or whether you want to take sunrise photos before the roads get clogged with commuters, for those of us sensitive to the rhythms of the seasons and the slow change of light, moving the clocks an hour is painful! (and no, I haven't traveled outside my own time zone in a decade
)Mar 11, 2024 11:05:43 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Dustie, I had a brain spark! br br It's not the l... (show quote)
It throws off our internal diurnal rhythms.
Mar 11, 2024 11:07:23 #
Longshadow wrote:
It throws off our internal diurnal rhythms.
On the other hand, it appears that cats don't give a hoot! It throws off our internal diurnal rhythms.
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Mar 11, 2024 11:08:31 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
On the other hand, it appears that cats don't give a hoot!
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True!
Mar 11, 2024 11:31:48 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
On the other hand, it appears that cats don't give a hoot!
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As we speak, my cat is stretched out on a very sunny spot on the rug. She loves winter - no tree leaves to obstruct the sun through the windows, and she especially loves taking Saunas in front of the heat ducts. Cats like the warmth (at least my Abbysinian does), but they also seem to “know” they need direct Sun (to synthesize vitamin D).
Mar 11, 2024 11:45:19 #
nervous2 wrote:
So, as I stayed up Saturday night to hurriedly go ... (show quote)
That is fascinating!
Maybe it won't be long before we begin seeing ads between the posts on UHH for clocks with built-in time storage capsules.....
.....and help-needed topics in the posts:
"Help!!......Clock
Hi UHH helpful group.
Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to retrieve the time I put in my clock storage capsule last March?
I've tried every button I can find on this contraption, and no time is coming out of that capsule. Can these things leak, or become corrupted, so that the time is not recoverable?
It's the PrimeTime Sublime in the color lime, if that makes any difference."
Mar 11, 2024 11:47:17 #
I have no problem with getting up early or late. I have the problem that they change the clock from the standard time. Keep the clock on standard time and go to work early in the summer later in the winter. Don't mess with the clock.
Mar 11, 2024 11:48:03 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I was thinking about your link; Seattle is the largest city of those in the far north of contiguous US states (I think Minneapolis is second and a few degrees further south), but what about Canada?!*
Makes me curious how their "news" outlets (and population) address DST.
*yes, northern Europe too
Makes me curious how their "news" outlets (and population) address DST.
*yes, northern Europe too
Well.......I guess if they had a slow news day......😊
Mar 11, 2024 11:49:37 #
Longshadow wrote:
Time is relative, but a good standard reference point.
Imagine saying to someone on the opposite coast of a continent (or another continent) "I'll call you at sun up.", or high noon.
I don't think we could handle ONE reference point though, like UTC (GMT) only.
Imagine saying to someone on the opposite coast of a continent (or another continent) "I'll call you at sun up.", or high noon.
I don't think we could handle ONE reference point though, like UTC (GMT) only.
"We will visit again two moons from now."
Mar 11, 2024 11:52:41 #
tamparectec wrote:
I still have trouble getting the Obelisk properly aligned on my sun dial twice a year.
😊😊
Set up another one?
Have one for new time and one for old time.....just drape a tarp over the one that's out of service right now?
Mar 11, 2024 11:57:14 #
Dikdik
Loc: Winnipeg, Canada
It was originally used for plant operators to provide the greatest amount of natural light for their operations to reduce lighting costs.
Mar 11, 2024 11:58:58 #
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