Henry Wong wrote:
so this leads to the question, with so much daylight, what is this daylight "savings" supposed to do?
Henry
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Paul Anilprem wrote:
Henry Wong wrote:
so this leads to the question, with so much daylight, what is this daylight "savings" supposed to do?
Henry
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Henry Wong wrote: what is this daylight "savings" supposed to do?
Paul Clapham wrote:Well, there's just as much daylight before noon as there is after noon.
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fred rosenberger wrote:
Paul Clapham wrote:Well, there's just as much daylight before noon as there is after noon.
That's a neat trick. If I live on the VERY western edge of the Central time zone, how do I get such a dramatic difference from someone who lives on the VERY eastern edge of the Mountain time zone? We may only be a few feet apart, but somehow the sun crosses the meridian for him an hour later than me?
Bear Bibeault wrote:I have all those hours of sunlight saved away in a Leyden jar just waiting for the zombie apocalypse.
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(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
Mike Simmons wrote:Well, I mean real vampires. Duh.
Bear Bibeault wrote:Sigh, "modern" vampires just sparkle when exposed to sunlight, not vaporize into ash like a vampire should.
Paul Clapham wrote:
Bear Bibeault wrote:Sigh, "modern" vampires just sparkle when exposed to sunlight, not vaporize into ash like a vampire should.
What's up with that? Some secret military weaponization project?
fred rosenberger wrote: If I live on the VERY western edge of the Central time zone, how do I get such a dramatic difference from someone who lives on the VERY eastern edge of the Mountain time zone? We may only be a few feet apart, but somehow the sun crosses the meridian for him an hour later than me?
Pat Farrell wrote:Seems that with DST, the kids were standing on the corners waiting for school buses in the dark. We can't have that. Our kids are too dumb to recognize what a big yellow school bus is without the sun.
Pat Farrell wrote:the kids were standing on the corners waiting for school buses in the dark. We can't have that. Our kids are too dumb to recognize what a big yellow school bus is without the sun.
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