Your comments are what really makes blogging for me. On Wacky Idea the opinions expressed were very thought provoking. So thought provoking that I want to say more. You were very frank about what you think of time change.
It's not surprising that people don't like time change. People aren't sure if they want to stay on standard time or daylight savings time.
I used to think that I would like to stay on standard time. Your comments have made me take another look at the issue.
The following photos were taken just before 10:00 PM on June 21. I was out riding my bike. Many people were riding and walking. The second photo shows the sun about to set a few minutes before 10:00 PM. The third photo shows my back yard when I got home from my bike ride. You could still sit outside when it was light.
So when I think about this , do I want to lose the long summer evening? I also know that at this time sunrise would be about 5 :00 AM.
Now if we were on standard time it would be getting dark and we would not have such a long evening. The sun would rise at 4:00 AM. Much daylight would be wasted because I would still be in bed.
So you made me have another look at the situation.
And no one made fun of my wacky idea and some very respectfully thought about it.
:) Good points and bad points with the time change, it gets dark at 4:30 PM now I don't like that and sunrise is around 8 AM :(
ReplyDeleteIt's winter time that we don't like!
DeleteFor millennia, human beings lived without ever considering that they might change time. They adapted to the lengthening and shortening of days. Of course close to The Equator the length of a day remains pretty consistent through the year.
ReplyDeleteOur time measurement is fairly recent. For long time people didn't have a time piece. It worked as they used the sun to tell time.
DeleteThe sun rises at 4:30 am at midsummer here anyway. I have a clever plan to outflank the early sunrise: I get up earlier.
ReplyDeleteBefore time pieces were invented, that's exactly what people did. I was in the Arctic for five years and a few times people got midnight and noon mixed up although if they had looked at the sun they would have known noon or midnight.
DeleteI love comments, too. My blog wouldn't be the same without conversation.
ReplyDeleteOur latest sunset is about 8pm and that's late enough for me.
Try 24 hour daylight like I did in the Arctic!
DeleteYes, the lon summer evening are pretty nice.
ReplyDeleteHere if you look north at midnight you can see a faint glow.
DeleteI love the long summer evenings too. This time of year, in the cold, the early darkness is okay. I don’t want to be outdoors much anyway.
ReplyDeleteWell . I have to be out on winter evenings. If the weather is nice it's not too bad.
Deleteooh please forgive my ignorance as i had no idea that you evening in winters are so long and sun sets after 10 pm ? wow my eldest son told me about such long evening when he was in Germany .
ReplyDeletei agree on good points you made here dear Red as i share your longing for spending more awakening time when sun is shining :)
our sun rise is at 7 am in winters here and sunset is on around 6 pm and i like it more than longer summer days .
health ,peace and happiness to you and family!
You get a much longer day in Dec. than we do.
DeleteI don't like the incredibly long summer days with DST. I much prefer standard, but that's just me. I too enjoy comments, they make me feel like my online community is my virtual family. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou like to go to bed early so I understand why you don't want long summer evenings.
DeleteI like falling back but springing ahead hurts! In fact, stats prove there are way more accidents and injuries when we move the clocks ahead an hour in spring. I'd be just as happy leaving things be as moving them around. We'd all get used it.
ReplyDeleteThose accidents are just around the change times but it's still an important point to consider.
DeleteI guess the flip side would be that if we were on Daylight Saving Time year-round, our winter mornings would be darker. Right? And I think that's a problem for kids waiting at the street for the school bus. You don't want them waiting in the dark if possible.
ReplyDeleteYes that's exactly right. the sun would come up later. In some rural areas here the kids have a two hour bus ride. It's very hard on the little guys.
DeleteMy feeling about time and time change is that once we're retired, we can follow our own inner body rhythms for when we wake up and when we go to sleep. The light and darkness exist without our systems of clocks. The revolving earth and the sun change the daylight time and darkness. We humans are very tricky about trying to accommodate work and summer and fun and light.
ReplyDeleteBefore time measurement was devised we did go by the sun for time. People were very good at sensing time.
DeleteI like your reasoning to stay on Daylight time. At least you agree that we should quit going back and forth. Standard Time is based on the fact that the Sun should be at its highest point in the sky at Noon on our clocks. That gives us about the same amount of daylight before and after Noon. It appears that many humans like to sleep later in the morning and enjoy more evening daylight. My preference has been for Standard Time since it seems more like what nature intended. Also, I'm a morning sort of person and enjoy getting up early. I don't really like it when the sun is still shining at 9:30 PM and I'm trying to go to sleep. But, to me, it's not really a big deal. I can go either way but let's get it done one way or the other and quit messing with the clocks.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that Our time zones are wide, only a small area would actually have noon at noon! I think we've also become too tied up with time in this modern era.
DeleteLong summer evenings are the best for me at least.
ReplyDeleteNothing better than a long summer evening with pleasant weather. .
DeleteYes, we have to wait for the fireworks in the 4th of July until 10:15, so that it is dark enough here in Seattle. On the other hand, I don't like the dark mornings we have now.
ReplyDeleteOn these winter mornings just think of little kids who have a two hour bus ride to school.
DeleteI prefer the night to begin with.
ReplyDeleteOkay you could live in the arctic for the dark period and the Antarctic for their dark period. You also like snow so you'd do well.
DeleteI can't even imagine the day still being light at 10:00 pm. I'll have to go back and read your wacky idea. I just left a comment on your last post. Henny
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the summer days with the longest sunlight. Now, the sun is not rising until after 7am and the sun sets before 5pm. Take care, have a happy day!
ReplyDeleteComments are what keeps me blogging for sure. Like DJan, you all feel like real friends I've come to know. I don't like time change just because Hawaii doesn't change and Illinois and Maryland where my kids are do. I keep forgetting.
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