[FRIAM] Sunshine protection act

[cody dooderson]

For those of you who don't get all of your news from XKCD,
https://xkcd.com/2594 .

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:03 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>> > Please pass
>> >
>> https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/
>> >
>> > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that I was
>> > misreading things.
>>
>> except they got it backwards?   People who *like* getting up and going
>> to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is
>> rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many.   But how many folks
>> want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM?
>>
>>
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>> I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at noontime
>> and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that moment.  It is
>> a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares.
>>
> Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the sky.
> And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech fixes to
> get  a lot of sunshine through the day for any given location. such that
> noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56' 39.0588'' W*.  For Santa Fe, NM
> means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks,
> computers etc know to make adjustments through out the year to make sure
> noon means the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky on a y axis for
> those coordinates.
> lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically even,
> Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n sunshine. For the
> white house would make to many peoples eyes glaze over. just getting to
> have one or the other is a pretty good solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments
> can come along shortly.
> What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around going
> we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is this weirdness
> going to keep going.
> I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and how
> many more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it passes.
>
>> but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me, and those
>> that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST differences.
>>
>> > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who looks and
>> > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel.
>> >
>> > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS.
>> >
>> I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might help break
>> up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up, but I think
>> the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that the UBI
>> and NHS would confront.
>>
>> LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right.
>>
> I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a lot
> don't. Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer and winter
> clock system?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
> so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places and the
> rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of clock? coolness!
>
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