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Well it would definitely get dark early running standard time year round. Without DST, the sun would be setting in San Diego at 6:59PM during the summer solstice. Sunsets during the 6 o'clock hour throughout the entire San Diego summer doesn't sound very appealing to me. After work, I'd much prefer searching for seashells by the San Diego sea shore in daylight!
Well, see, I like the sun to go down early, especially in the summer when it's hot, because it's the only comfortable time to go horseback riding, and I'd rather the sun go down by 6 so my friends and I can jump on the horses and ride for a good two hours, and still get a good night's sleep. But when DST is here, we have to wait til 8, and we either have to cut our ride to an hour, or lose an hour sleep.
No matter what your state or the Federal Government does, there will be people who are unhappy.
For that matter, you don't have to set your clocks. Just adjust your starting times. You work an 8 hour shift, with an unpaid half hour for lunch. You start your shift at 0800, and clock out at 1630. everybody sets their clocks ahead one hour, but you don't want to. So, DON'T DO IT! Now your shift starts at 0900 and you clock out at 1730 according to YOUR time-piece. You go to lunch at 1300, and return at 1330. When keeping an appointment with somebody who is on DST, just add an hour to the time.
No problem.
If you like to schedule your recreational activities for 1800 you will still be doing it at 1800. Everybody else will think it is 1900, but why do you care what they think? Your life is scheduled on John Doe Standard Time!
Of course it does. We have birds--it takes them two weeks to adjust to the sun coming up and going down at different times.
The rooster crows when the sun comes up, not when his alarm clock goes off.
The only thing that changes is what time you (i.e. human) have to go to work, or school, or whatever humans have to do. The day is just as long with or without DST as far as the birds are concerned.
There is nothing "special" about midnight at 5:00 PM or even 5:30. Nothing.
Getting up in the morning to get ready for work is the same whether it is dark or light out. It's depressing either way and you'll get used to it. Anybody who advocates going out and watering the garden before leaving for work needs counseling.
But dark at 5:00 is unthinkable to me. I grew up in the western part of the Eastern Time Zone, way north...but there was always a peek of daylight at 5:30 dinner time - even in December. Can you East Coasters even imagine?
I spend winter in a popular resort place way in the eastern part of its time zone. It is midnight at 5PM from Nov 10 til Jan 10. Worse yet, the sun goes behind the mountains at 3:45. No wonder the restaurants are deserted after 4 o'clock. Who wants to go out in the dark of night? The retirees here don't.
DST all year long! The Soviet Union moved its zones forward to begin with and even then much of it had DST in the summer.
You ain't lived until you've experienced sunset at 9:45 and dusk at 10:30 PM on lovely (seemingly endless) summer evenings. Love it!
No Boston baloney for me!
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Getting up in the morning to get ready for work is the same whether it is dark or light out.
Not just getting up and getting ready but doing your entire commute in the dark.
I'm not sure where you live but if you lived "way north," what were you growing in your outdoor garden exactly that needed water? That's the most confounding thing* about your statement to me.
*That said, I know of some *cough* indoor gardeners in Michigan where the lights are on while the sun's down, so six in the evening outside is the same as six in the morning inside, and the "sun" shines 18 hours a day everyday in veg
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