Out of the Blue

[Mar 12, 2012, 09:28 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Still missing that damned hour (*shakes fist at DST*) though last night's 7:00 pm sunset was pretty awesome. What's also awesome is that it's supposed to be about 70 around here today and tomorrow. March used to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb around here, but I'm afraid the new paradigm is in like a lamb and out like mutton.

R.I.P.: Ozone pioneer Rowland dies at 84.

Muttony Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	The Love Letter.
Stories:	Orchestra brawl: Fistfight in elite seats stuns symphony patrons. Thanks Boing Boing. Famed USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage. Thanks Slashdot.
Science:	Venus and Jupiter to pass in the night sky. Astrophile: The rock that sprayed 'fairy dust' on moon. Sign language 'turned into text' by Aberdeen scientists.
Images:	Goggie ob teh Week FACE OFF.
Media:	Hardly Working: Leaked Nude Photos. NSFWish. Plane crosses the sun. Thanks Jim. Fruit Jedi. Back to the Future II Quadrocoptor.
The Funnies:	Dangerous Games Cartoon - Savage Chickens. Show Her You Care.
Follow-up:	2012 Doomsday Scenarios Debunked By NASA Scientist. Easter bunny next.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Mar 12, 2012, 18:11

Kitkoan

Cutter wrote on Mar 12, 2012, 17:36:
Jim wrote on Mar 12, 2012, 13:11:
Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 12, 2012, 10:25:
GMT all the time, everywhere! Screw time zones and DST!

I could live with that.

Ditto. There may have been a time when we needed DST - though I sincerely doubt we ever "needed" it. If that ever was the case it's certainly long past. Time to get rid of it.

If I remember right, DST was for farming issues. With the hour being moved it helped keep time and the sun in more or less same order. IE, the rising of the sun was around the same time and not different times depending on the time of the year.

It's the exact same thing with spring break and summer vacation. Spring break was to help let the family have the kids home to help plant the first crops of the year and the summer break to have the kids home to help manage the crops at the point of when they would be needed most. (Also why different countries have spring/summer break at slightly different times since different areas have different needs in farming).




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		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Mar 12, 09:42	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	2.	Mar 12, 09:52	Re: Out of the Blue	nin
	4.	Mar 12, 10:16	Re: Out of the Blue	Ant
	20.	Mar 13, 00:50	Re: Out of the Blue	banddirector
	3.	Mar 12, 10:04	Re: Out of the Blue	Blue
	6.	Mar 12, 10:48	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	7.	Mar 12, 11:13	Re: Out of the Blue	The Half Elf
	8.	Mar 12, 11:31	Re: Out of the Blue	InBlack
	9.	Mar 12, 12:04	Re: Out of the Blue	Bucky
	17.	Mar 12, 20:09	Re: Out of the Blue	DNForever
	12.	Mar 12, 14:15	Re: Out of the Blue	space captain
	5.	Mar 12, 10:25	Re: Out of the Blue	Mr. Tact
	11.	Mar 12, 13:11	Re: Out of the Blue	Jim
	14.	Mar 12, 17:36	Re: Out of the Blue	Cutter
>>	15.	Mar 12, 18:11	Re: Out of the Blue	Kitkoan
	10.	Mar 12, 13:08	Venus and Jupiter	Jim
	13.	Mar 12, 17:17	Re: Out of the Blue	Dev
	16.	Mar 12, 19:57	Re: Out of the Blue	xXBatmanXx
	18.	Mar 12, 20:35	Re: Out of the Blue	JaguarUSF
	19.	Mar 12, 20:49	Re: Out of the Blue	Ant