I listened to the woman on the radio say "we'll have an extra hour of daylight!" Ummm, NO. We do not control the sun and the rotation of the earth by changing our clocks. You are SHIFTING an hour of daylight. Some of us like early morning light when we have to get up.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
It use to be very important to have the change in time.
But I don't see the real point now.
I wish they'd pick one and stay with it.
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The Boy does not reset his clocks. He just lets them be wrong half the year. I can't tell what time it is most of the time since some of them are on daylight time all year and some are standard time all year.
The Boy does not reset his clocks. He just lets them be wrong half the year. I can't tell what time it is most of the time since some of them are on daylight time all year and some are standard time all year.
Hmm, wonder where he got that from??
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But that's just where you live. In northern states daylight savings time makes it stay light until 10:00 pm as summer gets closer, which makes it difficult to get kids to go to bed. And then it's really dark in the morning when kids have to catch the bus. I mean, right now, it's 7am and it's still pitch black outside, which makes it difficult to get up and moving. Our sunrise won't be until 7:46 am - that's too late.
-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Wednesday 15th of March 2017 07:04:53 AM
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
I would like it to get darker earlier in the summer. We wouldn't have to wait until 9:30 pm to shoot off fireworks. We could do night swimming. We could sit by a firepit and toast marshmallows at "night".
Where you are in the time zone does make a difference. When I lived in Indiana, it is the western most state in the eastern time zone. When they started to observe daylight saving time, it would be daylight until after 10 pm, which is too late in my opinion. Here in Ohio, sunset is 8:30-9, for the middle of the summer that's fine. Now, before we "fall back" the sun sets on my dad in NY well before 5.
But that's just where you live. In northern states daylight savings time makes it stay light until 10:00 pm as summer gets closer, which makes it difficult to get kids to go to bed. And then it's really dark in the morning when kids have to catch the bus. I mean, right now, it's 7am and it's still pitch black outside, which makes it difficult to get up and moving. Our sunrise won't be until 7:46 am - that's too late.
-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Wednesday 15th of March 2017 07:04:53 AM
That's why I think we make the switch too soon, LL.
I hate this sunrise at 7:40am. BS as much as anyone.
If we waited until the 3rd or 4th weekend in April, it wouldn't be so bad.
(We'd go from sunrise at 5:50am to sunrise at 6:50am.) I think that would be much easier for most folks to handle.
But that's just where you live. In northern states daylight savings time makes it stay light until 10:00 pm as summer gets closer, which makes it difficult to get kids to go to bed. And then it's really dark in the morning when kids have to catch the bus. I mean, right now, it's 7am and it's still pitch black outside, which makes it difficult to get up and moving. Our sunrise won't be until 7:46 am - that's too late.
-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Wednesday 15th of March 2017 07:04:53 AM
That's why I think we make the switch too soon, LL.
I hate this sunrise at 7:40am. BS as much as anyone.
If we waited until the 3rd or 4th weekend in April, it wouldn't be so bad.
(We'd go from sunrise at 5:50am to sunrise at 6:50am.) I think that would be much easier for most folks to handle.
That's what I would do, if I were in charge!
But that doesn't fix the staying daylight until 9-10 pm going into May, June, July, August issue. That's too light too late.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
But that's just where you live. In northern states daylight savings time makes it stay light until 10:00 pm as summer gets closer, which makes it difficult to get kids to go to bed. And then it's really dark in the morning when kids have to catch the bus. I mean, right now, it's 7am and it's still pitch black outside, which makes it difficult to get up and moving. Our sunrise won't be until 7:46 am - that's too late.
-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Wednesday 15th of March 2017 07:04:53 AM
That's why I think we make the switch too soon, LL.
I hate this sunrise at 7:40am. BS as much as anyone.
If we waited until the 3rd or 4th weekend in April, it wouldn't be so bad.
(We'd go from sunrise at 5:50am to sunrise at 6:50am.) I think that would be much easier for most folks to handle.
That's what I would do, if I were in charge!
But that doesn't fix the staying daylight until 9-10 pm going into May, June, July, August issue. That's too light too late.
I guess there is no perfect answer.
When we lived in Ohio, sunset was never later than 9pm. That's as far north as we have lived.
Staying on Standard time would put sunrise at 4:50am., in Ohio in June.
I have a hard time believing that most folks would want that.
I visited Oklahoma in May 2016 and am still amazed at it being daylight at 830p. I can't imagine have to put a child to bed when it's still light out. It was hard for me to start getting tired and winding down for bed because, to me, it's still daytime.
AZ doesn't do time changes and I don't miss it. It can, however, be hard for me at times to remember where we are in relation to the rest of the country time-wise.
I visited Oklahoma in May 2016 and am still amazed at it being daylight at 830p. I can't imagine have to put a child to bed when it's still light out. It was hard for me to start getting tired and winding down for bed because, to me, it's still daytime.
AZ doesn't do time changes and I don't miss it. It can, however, be hard for me at times to remember where we are in relation to the rest of the country time-wise.
Chef, that's the trade off.
When you visited Oklahoma in May, and sunset was at 8:30pm., that means sunrise was around 6:20am.
Would you have rather had sunset at 7:30pm., and sunrise at 5:20am.?
That's what you would get, and your little person would be up and about, that much earlier.
It's not just about when the sun goes down. When it comes up, makes a difference, too.
I visited Oklahoma in May 2016 and am still amazed at it being daylight at 830p. I can't imagine have to put a child to bed when it's still light out. It was hard for me to start getting tired and winding down for bed because, to me, it's still daytime.
AZ doesn't do time changes and I don't miss it. It can, however, be hard for me at times to remember where we are in relation to the rest of the country time-wise.
Chef, that's the trade off.
When you visited Oklahoma in May, and sunset was at 8:30pm., that means sunrise was around 6:20am.
Would you have rather had sunset at 7:30pm., and sunrise at 5:20am.?
That's what you would get, and your little person would be up and about, that much earlier.
It's not just about when the sun goes down. When it comes up, makes a difference, too.
JMHO.
His bedroom doesn't get the morning sun. I don't know if that factors in to how long he sleeps or not. He's woken up in the wee hours proclaiming it's morning when it's still pitch black out. I do understand what you're saying, I just don't know if it would actually affect DS. He sleeps like a rock - usually a good 10-12 hours depending on how tired he is.
I'm used to no time changes and would pitch a fit if AZ started doing them. I have no idea when sunrise is here since I don't get up that early. Sunset averages 530p/dark by 6 in the winter and 730p/dark by 8 in the summer. We eagerly anticipate dusk in the summer because desert summer nights here are so beautiful. It's also the time of day that DS can go outside and play since the playground equipment isn't scorching hot.
Sunrise and sunset should be at roughly the same time, give or take up to an hour (for extreme East to extreme West variance on location in the time zone), on a 12 hour clock, just one would be AM and the other PM.
I meant the same number of hours from Noon. IE: If sunrise is 7 hours before Noon, then sunset should be 7 hours after Noon. If it's 5 before then it should also be 5 after.
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