Re: ⏱ Time Change? ???? 3/09/2025

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:58:05 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-10 3:28 p.m., dsi1 wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:56:50 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

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As far as I can figure, there are the same number of hours of sunlight
whether you are on standard time or daylight saving.  Rather than
changing the clocks and dealing with shift workers having to work an
extra hour or getting a free on and all the other nonsense we could just
adjust business hours. My dentist does that. He has summer hours,
starting at 7 am instead of 9, so his staff gets off earlier and can
enjoy some extra sunlight.

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I'm happy that we don't have any of that time shifting business. We're
so close to the equator that it's not needed. We should just shift the
tilt of the earth to make every day in every location on the planet
exactly 12 hours. Yeah, that's the ticket. Well, that's what I'd do if I
was God.

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Latitude figures a lot into it. During the summer the sun is up longer
and the farther north you are the bigger the difference.  In the extreme
north the sun doesn't really set at the summer solstice.  When we in
Sweden for Midsommer the sun went down but it never got really dark. We
could walk around in the guesthouse without having to turn on lights.
About 15 minutes later the sun was back up.
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We were on a lake about 50 miles straight west of Stockholm. You could
extend a line from St.Petersberg, through Stockholm, the Shetland
Islands, a little south of Greenland, the very tip of Labrador, midway
across Hudson Bay and along the northern borders of our prairie
provinces.
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On the flips side of the midnight sun in summer is the eternal darkness
of winter. Kids in  school may see the son for an hour or two at lunch
time.
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When my son was working in Africa he was taken by the shortness of dawn
and dusk. Around here in the summer sundown is a slow process. It gets
less bright, starts to get dim, then darkish, the sun goes down and it
darkens more. In Uganda that sun would be on the horizon and then...
poof, it was gone and it was suddenly dark.

Indeed, at the equator, days and nights will always be equal in length.
That's due to the earth's tilting relative to the plane of its travel
around the sun. If the earth wasn't tilted, the days would be twelve
hours long no matter what your latitude is. I suppose that near the
poles, it would still be pretty cold.