Sunday, April 03, 2005

Happy DST!

Daylight-saving time is here at last.

This would be a good opportunity to promote a movement I have started that would require continual time changes to guarantee the sun never sets before 8:30 pm. I don't care if the sun wouldn't rise until 10:00 am or whatever, I want light many hours after I get off work. Please actively lobby your lawmakers. Perhaps if we called the legislation the "Sunny Days Act" or something it might gain more appeal.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you mad?

Little children would be run over in the millions while standing out on dark street corners while awaiting their morning school bus rides.

It might be a nice idea to simply keep DST year round as a baseline (this would get us one additional hour year round without much sweat). Additionally, in the Fall we could fall forward, and in the Spring we could spring back - which would provide an additional hour (actually two) of daylight in the Winter evening.

Winter mornings are already dark, cold, horrible affairs, and most of us work indoors, under artificial lighting during those hours anyway. So it would be a trade well worth considering.

I believe it would be beneficial to have at least a little more Sun around when it can be enjoyed - even in the dead of Winter - when the Sun seems distant and cold, low upon the South-Western horizon.

Then again, there are a lot of morning folk, many of them retired folk, who cherish a slowly rising sun on a Winter's morn - to those folk, we'd be robbing them of perhaps the highlight of their days, a sip of warm tea, or coffee, reading their freshly unwrapped and cold to the touch newspaper, while eating their warm English Muffin, with the cherry amber Sun slowly rising low upon the frozen horizon, slashing orange rays, and casting dark shadows upon drifts of snow piled just outside their baywindows.

Yup, a lot of people are gonna be pissed.

ETK

4/03/2005 10:10:00 PM
Dave said...

Yeah, I'm mad. Mad that it's dark when I get home form work in the winter!

As for kids getting hit be school buses, make them all where those blinking shoes.

And the early rising elderly are all really in Arizona and Florida for the winter anyway. Maybe those states could be exempt from my floating DST. OR...maybe we could give them their own time. Elderly Concurrent Time (ECT). They could set their clocks to whatever time they damn well please and the hell with the rest of us.

4/04/2005 08:11:00 AM
Anonymous said...

As Mrs. Eleventh Hour, I have to put in my two cents worth on this one as well.

Yes, Mr. Eleventh Hour is MAD. I'm sure he would also like to pass a bill wherein he would be allowed to sleep until 10:00 each day as well! Of course, that would ruin his many hours of light after he gets off of work unless he could reduce his work day to 4 hours at the same time.

I actually LIKE waking up to the sun in the morning. It helps get me going and makes me feel better inside to see it before I go off to work and while getting all of my morning things done.

4/04/2005 08:13:00 AM

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