Re: O.T. --- Just a Random Thought --- 10/26/2024

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:55:13 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2024-10-27 12:23 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:43:16 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
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The idea of extending DST to save energy doesn't make a lot of sense to
me. This week our neighbour's daughter will be catching her school bus
in the dark. The family will have lights on in the house to be able to
walk around. Next week it will be light out when she catches the bus.
They will need lighting later in the morning for a while and then they
will be using the lights in the late afternoon. There is nothing saved.

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DST is a curious thing that people on the mainland do. I don't
understand it either but it was certainly jarring the first time I
experienced it in California.
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OTOH, we live closer to the equator so we're less affected by the
difference between the sun and the clocks. I wish we could operate with
just two times: sunrise and sunset. Actually, that's pretty much how I
operate most days.

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There no is nothing to get wound up about if you are less affected by
sunshine hour shifts.  As you travel north the change is magnified.  In
the extreme north there is the midnight sun. Then there is the converse
of that, the middle of winter when there is almost no sunlight.
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At my latitude the days are shortest in December. At the end of December
this year sunrise will be about 7:50 am and sunset will be 4:50 pm.
Back in June sunrise was 5:40 am and sunset was 9:01pm. That is 9 hours
of sunlight compared to more than 15 hours. That is a huge difference.

Understood. At your latitude, the days are shortest in December. That's
the way it is in my latitude too. Of course, that's because we live in
the Northern hemisphere. For the Southern hemisphere folks, December
will have the longest days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKKqLl_ZEEY