Comments on: From The Archives -- Is It Time Yet? http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/ Reality-based political commentary Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/#comment-222861 Kick Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:31:39 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27837#comment-222861 Mezzomamma 4 <i>And sunrise is what resets and maintains the circadian rhythm. </i> Exactly, and for that reason, apparently most doctors/scientific types opine that changing clocks permanently to daylight savings time would be detrimental to the overall health of Americans. We certainly wouldn't want that. :) Mezzomamma
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And sunrise is what resets and maintains the circadian rhythm.

Exactly, and for that reason, apparently most doctors/scientific types opine that changing clocks permanently to daylight savings time would be detrimental to the overall health of Americans. We certainly wouldn't want that. :)

]]> By: Mezzomamma http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/#comment-222859 Mezzomamma Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:18:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27837#comment-222859 Maybe it makes a difference whether you live in a city, suburb/small town or rural area, but it certainly makes a difference whether you are north or south. As you go north, you gain very little evening light with permanent daylight savings, perhaps just for a month or so in spring and fall, and you certainly don't save on heating or lighting with an extra hour of darkness moved to the morning--especially if you have to start work early. But even further south, I remember 'old folks' tending their gardens early in So Cal summer mornings, using the early light to beat the heat, which can still be pretty fierce into the evening. And sunrise is what resets and maintains the circadian rhythm. Maybe it makes a difference whether you live in a city, suburb/small town or rural area, but it certainly makes a difference whether you are north or south. As you go north, you gain very little evening light with permanent daylight savings, perhaps just for a month or so in spring and fall, and you certainly don't save on heating or lighting with an extra hour of darkness moved to the morning--especially if you have to start work early.

But even further south, I remember 'old folks' tending their gardens early in So Cal summer mornings, using the early light to beat the heat, which can still be pretty fierce into the evening.

And sunrise is what resets and maintains the circadian rhythm.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/#comment-222856 Kick Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:39:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27837#comment-222856 I'm from Texas and don't care whether they choose standard time or daylight savings time; please just stop the flipping of the flippin' clocks one way or the other. :) I'm from Texas and don't care whether they choose standard time or daylight savings time; please just stop the flipping of the flippin' clocks one way or the other. :)

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/#comment-222851 dsws Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:19:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27837#comment-222851 I said that backward. Springing forward by a minute means having a 23:59 day, and falling back by a minute means having a 24:01 day. I said that backward. Springing forward by a minute means having a 23:59 day, and falling back by a minute means having a 24:01 day.

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/14/from-the-archives-is-it-time-yet/#comment-222850 dsws Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:16:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27837#comment-222850 Changing the clocks doesn't change the number of minutes of daylight. They happen when they happen, regardless of numbers on screens and numbers pointed at by slowly rotating bits of plastic. If we want to wait until it's light outside before we do stuff on winter mornings (even though it will be dark outside that much longer before we finish our daily activities), or if we want to get going early on summer mornings (so that we can get lots of stuff done before it gets dark in the evenings), that's a question of when we schedule the stuff we do. We could just schedule things for the times we want to schedule them for. Using the same number for different actual times of day is one way of making it easier to schedule stuff differently at different times of year -- even if it means we're calling noon "1:00 pm" part of the year. But there's <i>nothing</i> gained by calling noon "1:00 pm" the whole year, compared to just scheduling stuff when we actually want to schedule it. If we want the shift but we don't like the jolt, there's an obvious alternative: soften the jolt. Have two months of 23:59 days in the spring, and two months of 24:01 days in the fall. Clocks are almost all electronic, so it wouldn't be that difficult. Changing the clocks doesn't change the number of minutes of daylight. They happen when they happen, regardless of numbers on screens and numbers pointed at by slowly rotating bits of plastic. If we want to wait until it's light outside before we do stuff on winter mornings (even though it will be dark outside that much longer before we finish our daily activities), or if we want to get going early on summer mornings (so that we can get lots of stuff done before it gets dark in the evenings), that's a question of when we schedule the stuff we do. We could just schedule things for the times we want to schedule them for. Using the same number for different actual times of day is one way of making it easier to schedule stuff differently at different times of year -- even if it means we're calling noon "1:00 pm" part of the year. But there's nothing gained by calling noon "1:00 pm" the whole year, compared to just scheduling stuff when we actually want to schedule it.

If we want the shift but we don't like the jolt, there's an obvious alternative: soften the jolt. Have two months of 23:59 days in the spring, and two months of 24:01 days in the fall. Clocks are almost all electronic, so it wouldn't be that difficult.

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