I'll leave this here then: http://web.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.timecube.com/ and no it doesn't make sense.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 10:18 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. 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