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that means you'd prefer daylight savings time year around. Though I get earlier than 5:30 am sunrises for a couple months even with daylight savings time. Eastern Maine has 4:40 am sunrises in early June, at one extreme.
I wouldn't be bothered by 8 am sunrises too much, but they'd be impractical for lots of people.
Here in the summer the daylight lasts forever, but when they switch back in November the sun goes down at about 6pm.
It's kinda silly actually. I would rather the sun come out later and avoid those 6pm sunsets than to get those 5:30 sunrises but be dark by 6.
Yesterday the sun set a few minutes past 6. Today it will set a few minutes past 7. At the summer solstice it will set past 9pm. At the winter solstice, the sun sets before 4:30pm.
I prefer after work daylight to before work daylight! But even more I detest the twice yearly clock changes. Since the divide between those wishing for year round standard time and year round daylight time is so great, I think we should just split the difference with a year round compromise time, putting the clocks permanently at one half hour between the two.
Here in the summer the daylight lasts forever, but when they switch back in November the sun goes down at about 6pm.
It's kinda silly actually. I would rather the sun come out later and avoid those 6pm sunsets than to get those 5:30 sunrises but be dark by 6.
Your sunlight patterns are very different than mine. When we swtich back in November the sun goes down just before 5 pm. I dislike early sunsets, too.
One of the main reasons I hate daylight saving time....it is currently almost 1am and my internal clock still isn't ready for bed.
But on the grander scheme I just think it makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. We artificially add more daylight later in the day during the spring and summer months when that happens naturally anyway; and we kick it back later in the fall and winter when again, that's what happens naturally too! If ANYTHING...it would make more sense to skip ahead in the fall and turn 'em back in the spring. Here in Western NYS, in the western half of the eastern time-zone....it won't get dark until almost 10pm in mid summer (I imagine it's even later in areas like Michigan and Northern Indiana). I mean it's nice I guess but not necessary. Give me an extra hour of daylight in the dead of winter so it's not pitch-dark out by 5:00!
But ideally we would just do away with the whole stupid thing in the first place. I was baffled when they extended it a couple years ago.
One of the main reasons I hate daylight saving time....it is currently almost 1am and my internal clock still isn't ready for bed.
But on the grander scheme I just think it makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. We artificially add more daylight later in the day during the spring and summer months when that happens naturally anyway; and we kick it back later in the fall and winter when again, that's what happens naturally too! If ANYTHING...it would make more sense to skip ahead in the fall and turn 'em back in the spring. Here in Western NYS, in the western half of the eastern time-zone....it won't get dark until almost 10pm in mid summer (I imagine it's even later in areas like Michigan and Northern Indiana). I mean it's nice I guess but not necessary. Give me an extra hour of daylight in the dead of winter so it's not pitch-dark out by 5:00!
But ideally we would just do away with the whole stupid thing in the first place. I was baffled when they extended it a couple years ago.
You're right. According to my link, Ft. Wayne's sunset on June 22 is 9:17. It's even later in Terre Haute, in central Indiana, but right on the Indiana/Illinois state line where the eastern time zone extends. There, it's 9:20 PM. That's about the farthest west extent of the eastern time zone. It used to be that way western Indiana didn't switch in summer, but some law made it a requirement for the states to go as a whole, either yes or no.
Buffalo, NY, the farthest western NY city my calculator lists, is 8:58 on June 22.
I've always wondered why it has been such a big deal in Indiana. There are other states split into two time zones. Maybe Indiana should have had most of the state in the Central Time Zone, and Eastern Time for the areas near Louisville and Cincinnati.
I've always wondered why it has been such a big deal in Indiana. There are other states split into two time zones. Maybe Indiana should have had most of the state in the Central Time Zone, and Eastern Time for the areas near Louisville and Cincinnati.
In point of fact, most of Indiana is on eastern time, with areas around Chicago and the very southwest part of the state on central time. Some of the counties used to go DST and some not, until 2006 when the state had to go all DST, due to their legislature passing a law saying so. Daylight Saving Time | Infoplease.com
The issue in Indiana, which is different than that of Nebraska, which is in two time zones, is that the parts of IN in the central time zone are split up, with several counties in the northwest (Chicago suburbs) and several counties in the extreme southwest (Evansville area) on central time and the rest of the state being eastern. Current Time in Indiana
Prior to 2005, all the eastern time zone counties except those around Louisville, Ky and Cincinnati stayed on standard time during the summer, and the counties in the central time zone switched to DST to keep in sync with Chicago in the north, and the part of Kentucky on central time in the south. In Nebraska, it's basically a line going north-south, dividing the state into central and mountain time. http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/...ime_zone.shtml
I still wonder why George Bush changed the date of the time change back in 2007. It's still kind of weird "springing forward" when we are still practically in the dead of winter.
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