Grumble About Daylight Saving Time
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Grumble About Daylight Saving Time
*grumble*
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
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Tired?
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
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"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
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They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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I'll join you.
I don't want to save any daylight!
I don't want to save any daylight!
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Why Arizona?
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None of this Daylight Savings Time nonsenseMsMary wrote:Why Arizona?
I didn't even know what Daylight Saving Time was until my family moved out of Arizona...
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Huh, I didn't realize Arizona doesn't have DST. I thought Indiana used to not have it but now they do. Although I haven't checked and could be wrong about that.
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I know about Arizona as my manager some years ago was based in AZ and for half of the year she was Mountain Time, and the other half Pacific Time.
Hawaii doesn't observe it either, but it matters a little less for them as they're not surrounded by other states.
I think Indiana does observe it but has a very convoluted history of both time zone and DST. I recall taking with someone in Chicago about it years ago and saying he gave up trying to understand it.
Hawaii doesn't observe it either, but it matters a little less for them as they're not surrounded by other states.
I think Indiana does observe it but has a very convoluted history of both time zone and DST. I recall taking with someone in Chicago about it years ago and saying he gave up trying to understand it.
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D.S.T. results from trying to align our rigid 24 hour clock to the very non rigid amount of daylight during the course of a year. After a few days the change doesn't bother me. I do like having the extra hour of daylight after work in the summer.
It used to be that about 3/4 of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time year round and the rest was on Central Time. They changed that a few years ago: The Eastern Time Zone portion now uses Eastern D.S.T.
Hawaii doesn't need D.S.T., the amount of daylight doesn't vary as much that far south.
It used to be that about 3/4 of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time year round and the rest was on Central Time. They changed that a few years ago: The Eastern Time Zone portion now uses Eastern D.S.T.
Hawaii doesn't need D.S.T., the amount of daylight doesn't vary as much that far south.
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I heard a story about someone on spring break, getting drunk on Saturday night, and then being unable to find his wallet.
First I thought, poor guy, he's going to lose an hour of hangover.
Then I thought, he's going to be like, "oh my god, I have no memory of what happened from 1am to 2am!"
Bad night to drink, I say.
First I thought, poor guy, he's going to lose an hour of hangover.
Then I thought, he's going to be like, "oh my god, I have no memory of what happened from 1am to 2am!"
Bad night to drink, I say.
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More than 3/4 stayed on Standard time. Just 3 counties in northwest Indiana (Lake, Porter, and LaPorte) and a few in the southwestern "toe of the sock" would switch to Daylight time in the summer. I grew up in LaPorte County, about three blocks from the Michigan state line -- and Michigan is in the Eastern time zone and always switched to Daylight time.Damelon wrote:It used to be that about 3/4 of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time year round and the rest was on Central Time. They changed that a few years ago: The Eastern Time Zone portion now uses Eastern D.S.T.
We had *endless* fun figuring out the time when I was a kid. We were always the same time as Chicago, and always an hour behind New Buffalo (in Michigan). But we were on the same time as South Bend and Indianapolis only in the summer.
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Very confusing.
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I thought I read that a term the rest of Indiana has for the Northwest counties of the state is "The Region". Is that true?aliantha wrote:More than 3/4 stayed on Standard time. Just 3 counties in northwest Indiana (Lake, Porter, and LaPorte) and a few in the southwestern "toe of the sock" would switch to Daylight time in the summer. I grew up in LaPorte County, about three blocks from the Michigan state line -- and Michigan is in the Eastern time zone and always switched to Daylight time.Damelon wrote:It used to be that about 3/4 of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time year round and the rest was on Central Time. They changed that a few years ago: The Eastern Time Zone portion now uses Eastern D.S.T.
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It is. It's short for the Calumet Region. And I didn't learn that 'til I went to college in Bloomington.Damelon wrote:I thought I read that a term the rest of Indiana has for the Northwest counties of the state is "The Region". Is that true?aliantha wrote:More than 3/4 stayed on Standard time. Just 3 counties in northwest Indiana (Lake, Porter, and LaPorte) and a few in the southwestern "toe of the sock" would switch to Daylight time in the summer. I grew up in LaPorte County, about three blocks from the Michigan state line -- and Michigan is in the Eastern time zone and always switched to Daylight time.Damelon wrote:It used to be that about 3/4 of Indiana was on Eastern Standard Time year round and the rest was on Central Time. They changed that a few years ago: The Eastern Time Zone portion now uses Eastern D.S.T.
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