Comments on: I Want My DST http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/11/24/i-want-my-dst/ My opinions...if you don't lke 'em, get your own Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:59:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alisa http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/11/24/i-want-my-dst/#comment-321 Alisa Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=339#comment-321 The trouble is that DST is a help in the summer, when it makes sunrise a semi-tolerable 5:30 instead of 4:30 (when your kid's internal alarm is set for sunrise, that matters), and gives you more daylight at a later hour of evening. In the winter, everyone is on Standard Time. We and the kids end up starting the day in the dark because Indiana is at the east edge of the Central Standard Time Zone. My attitude on the whole thing got reset when I lived in Seattle. Sunrise today is at 7:26 a.m. there, which would have been the middle of my first period class. It was already dimming when we got out of school at 3:30 p.m. and sunset had arrived by 4:30. Of course, all of this was exacerbated by the perennial rain of a Seattle winter. On the other hand, I have never understood the farmer's lobby on DST. It's not like cows can read clocks. The trouble is that DST is a help in the summer, when it makes sunrise a semi-tolerable 5:30 instead of 4:30 (when your kid’s internal alarm is set for sunrise, that matters), and gives you more daylight at a later hour of evening.

In the winter, everyone is on Standard Time. We and the kids end up starting the day in the dark because Indiana is at the east edge of the Central Standard Time Zone.

My attitude on the whole thing got reset when I lived in Seattle. Sunrise today is at 7:26 a.m. there, which would have been the middle of my first period class. It was already dimming when we got out of school at 3:30 p.m. and sunset had arrived by 4:30. Of course, all of this was exacerbated by the perennial rain of a Seattle winter. On the other hand, I have never understood the farmer’s lobby on DST. It’s not like cows can read clocks.

]]> By: Li's Mom http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/11/24/i-want-my-dst/#comment-322 Li's Mom Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=339#comment-322 It's not just the farmers. The teachers insist that if we went on Daylight Savings Time, the kids would be waiting for the bus in the dark more days of the year, completely ignoring the fact that if we went on Central time with DST, the kids would be waiting for the bus in the dark fewer days of the year. And just in case you never noticed it, Indiana is not just on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, it should logically have been in the Central time zone all along, but when time zones were started, New York was much more developed than Chicago and Indiana chose to go into the Eastern zone instead of the Central zone where we belong, because all the business contacts were in New York. But of course, the cows don't understand all that. It’s not just the farmers. The teachers insist that if we went on Daylight Savings Time, the kids would be waiting for the bus in the dark more days of the year, completely ignoring the fact that if we went on Central time with DST, the kids would be waiting for the bus in the dark fewer days of the year. And just in case you never noticed it, Indiana is not just on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, it should logically have been in the Central time zone all along, but when time zones were started, New York was much more developed than Chicago and Indiana chose to go into the Eastern zone instead of the Central zone where we belong, because all the business contacts were in New York.

But of course, the cows don’t understand all that.

]]> By: Li http://lirapkin.yarinareth.net/2003/11/24/i-want-my-dst/#comment-323 Li Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=339#comment-323 Not to mention the fact that because the clocks go forward in the spring, sunrise wouldn't be at 4:30 AM anyway. Not to mention the fact that because the clocks go forward in the spring, sunrise wouldn’t be at 4:30 AM anyway.

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