[FRIAM] Obligatory (and gratuitous?) screed about time changes.
Steve Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Sat Nov 5 12:17:36 EDT 2022
Good one Carl/Ken ...
And don't even get me started on converting calendars and clocks to
*metric* (y'all know how much I prefer fractions over decimals for
everyday measures and calculations).
As a child, WWV was one of the very few constant signals I could tune
in on my parent's antique (even then) "Zenith Wave Magnet" they let me
keep in my bedroom... I can still see the dull orange glow seeping out
of the back of the set when the tubes were cooking... now-adays when I
fire it up I also smell the dust burning off. Deeply visceral...
"beep, beep, beep..." WWV-Fort Collins.
I haven't cared "much" about DST in any part of my life... it has just
been an opportunity to stir the pot and be contrarian about something I
know to be arbitrarily arbitrary really. Same for
metric/english/archaic measures. All those things exist for good reason
even if they persist for bad ones.
On 11/4/22 10:45 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
> OK, then. Ken Nordine on Time.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYpCdY4Y_0
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:33 PM Gillian Densmore
> <gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act#:~:text=The%20bill%20received%20bipartisan%20support,consent%20on%20March%2015%2C%202022.
> steeeve
> It's a BFD to me because of GP. mucking about with the clock a
> ruining winter is dumb.
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:26 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Honestly, I just don't get why it's such a big deal. Sure,
> it's obsolete. And maybe it kills a few people, raises
> cortisol, etc. But there are so many other things that affect
> our (sleep) cycles soooooo much more, like obesity,
> alcoholism, wage slavery, TikTok fomo, ... on and on. Passing
> such a law feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the
> Titanic. Or maybe complaining about how a reporter discussing
> Putin mispronounces "nukular" ... an odd thing to complain
> about while the ICBM heads your way.
>
>
> On 11/4/22 15:17, Steve Smith wrote:
> >
> > On 11/4/22 4:14 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> >> Didn't the sunshine act already pass? but yes I agree I
> despise the clock change bull sh**** It takes effect next year
> unless Turtle neck had his usual tantrum.
> >
> > From the linked article:
> >
> > /Earlier this year, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed
> bipartisan legislation to abolish clock changes and make
> daylight saving time permanent, beginning in 2023. Sen. Marco
> Rubio, R-Florida, introduced////the Sunshine Protection Act
> <https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>//,
> and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, was among the co-sponsors./
> >
> > /"Glad the Senate has passed the Sunshine Protection Act
> so Oregonians aren’t springing back & forth each year in a
> silly exercise that hurts everybody’s health & our economy,"
> Wyden tweeted March 15. "Time now for the House to act."/
> >
> > /In June 2022, the U.S. House failed to pass the bill,
> which is now stalled and scheduled to expire in December./
> >
> > /Let the debate resume in March 2023./
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 4:10 PM Steve Smith
> <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> as we all know I'm no fan of semi-annual clock
> changes... and I thought the Sunshine Act
> <https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623>would
> put an end to that nonsense even if did fall on the "wrong
> side" with a year-round DST timesqew. Looks like it is going
> to fail despite bipartisan support in the Senate (unsurprising
> that Florida, closest to the equator, effected least, would be
> the one to sponsor/promote it?)...
> >>
> >> Oregon (in coordination with CA/WA) have tried to take
> things into their own hands independent of the rest of the
> country?
> >>
> >>
> https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2022/11/03/oregon-daylight-saving-time-november-march/69613463007/
> >>
> >>
> >> I suppose I could live with the sqew and just change
> the idioms from 12 noon and 12 midnight to 11 noon and 11
> midnight and call it a day/year/life. Seems like it would
> just make more sense to sqew the 8-5 (or 9-4) for bankers) an
> hour earlier instead, but what is the point of having a
> state/federal/global government if it isn't going to decide
> for you how we index time?
> >>
>
>
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