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warning: Daylight stupid time starts March 8th

On 3/7/2020 12:25 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote: ...

Certain ounties here swap between CST and MST.

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dpb
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I am off the clock and my dog gets up at sunrise so it really doesn't matter that much to me. We both usually go back to bed after he goes out for his morning thing. With the recorder, I don't really even care when things are on TV. This is my clock

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gfretwell

My kids lived in Mexico Beach Fl (Baja Alabama) and they were about a mile from central time. It was interesting because the stores actually honored the time zones. (particularly the liquor stores) ;-)

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gfretwell

Mine is a little different. Sunday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday

Go to bed when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, usually about 8 hours later.

Reply to
Ed Pawlowski

Idaho does that too. The panhandle is Pacific, the rest of the state in Mountain. Same deal, with Spokane wagging CdA's tail. It's quirky. If I go across Lolo Pass I'm in Pacific, but when I go south on 95 I get back into Mountain at Riggins. Adams county is a little thumb that sticks up and if Mountain.

I even get screwed up in Montana. The state is about 600 miles wide and far enough north that the seasonal day length variations are very noticeable. If I'm out by the North Dakota border in the summer it's like the sun comes up in the middle of the night.

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rbowman

You're lucky. Anybody that plans raids for 3 AM because everybody is in deep sleep doesn't know much about the sleep patterns of old men.

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rbowman

Lot of booze runs across the line?

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rbowman

On 3/7/2020 4:32 PM, rbowman wrote: ...

Yeah, used to travel to SK servicing online ash analyzers at mine mouth power plants...and vice versa in winter, wasn't much sun comparatively at all...

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dpb

I need to keep track of trash day.

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gfretwell

I put mine out on Sunday night.

Reply to
Ralph Mowery

They seem to do a brisk business right after the Mexico Beach bars close.

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gfretwell

One of the things I know factually but tends to boggle my mind is we are at the same latitude as Bern Switzerland. London, Paris, Berlin, and so forth are further north. The northern most point in the continental US is an oddity called Northwest Angle in Minnesota and it's only a little over 49 degrees.

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rbowman

Indeed. First time in London area doing coal flow testing at Kingsnorth Station was about this time of year...then back again the following year about midJune. Not much night at all even there, comparatively.

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dpb

I thought Mexico Beach got wiped off the map in a recent hurricane? Are they back up and running again?

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Jim Joyce

I don't know if you have ever been there but "downtown" is in a bowl and west of there everyone lives up on a hill if they are not at the beach. I could hit the water from my kid's house with a driver and they were 50-60 feet above sea level. It is more like California along that coast than most of Florida. Rt 98 is cut into the side of the cliff. It washes out a lot.

98 was gone and downtown was under water. A lot of those places can't rebuild (FEMA rules)
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gfretwell

_________ I must be one of a vast minority: I despise the feeling of Daylight/Summer Time.

It's always an hour later(by the clock) than it actually FEELS, and, that "extra hour" of evening daylight most people love has to come from somewhere: later sunrises and darker mornings.

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thekmanrocks

My clock would have 6 Saturdays and one Sunday on it, or maybe just one big Saturday and a small Sunday.

I do record many TV shows. Found I could watch about 3 shows by skipping the ads in the time it normally takes to watch 2 shows.

I do wish that the time would stay the same all the time. I have a daily ham radiio schedule with several others at 8:00 AM local time and it takes a while to get my internal clock reset. Then all the time to reset all the clocks.

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Ralph Mowery

Every clock ?

I have to set the clock on the microwave, stove, 2 vehicles, 3 battery operated wall clocks and 3 digital alarm types. Wife has 3 watches .

Not really that much , but still agervating to do.

Where I worked we had many stand alone microprocessors that had to be reset for time. Not that they would really make any difference, but for loging the process the management wanted them reset. Takes one person over half a day just to do that.

Many more did not get reset as they were not loged. Not even sure why they had the time on them other than maybe it told if they were still running and updating as one brand would get hung up and if it was not for the clock no one would know it before the process was upset. We did not reset them, but just noticed that the time was updating every second.

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Ralph Mowery
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My parents used to watch "The Today Show", broadcast live nationally. Because of the different timezones, they had a clock with only a minute hand. They's often say something like "It's 20 minutes after the hour".

Some people don't seem to realize that it could be 1PM somewhere and

11AM somewhere else, but is still the same TIME both places. They jus set their clocks differently.

BTW, I did stay up last night to watch the time on my phone change from

1:59 to 3:00.

"Due to stupidity, 2:00 AM has been canceled today." :-)

Reply to
Mark Lloyd
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I've been using a DVR (definitely NOT TiVo) since 1999. When I mention watching a TV show, I'm usually not prepared for the question "What time, and what channel?".

Last year, when I was experimenting with different clocks on a PC, I created one like that. Day of week is easy, since it's always a 7-day cycle. After that it gets complicated. BTW, the average month has

30.436875 days.
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Mark Lloyd

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