Daylight saving times opinions

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> I can't imagine anything more
> depressing than darkness at 4:30 in December.
> Really it's closer to 4:45pm in our part of Indiana Central time...

 

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> So now that Indiana has been under DST for a little bit
> now.. How is everyone feeling about it staying daylight
> until 9.00 p.m in april... Unusual to say the least, do you
> realizes Indiana will have daylight until 10.00 P.M during
> the summer months. I think we are too far west, to be on
> eastern time. What do you think??? How does this affect
> radio stations that air Syndicated programs, picked up by
> satelite from other time zones?
>
Wichita and Hutcheson, Kansas go through this every year at the west end of Central Time...When DST is in, it gets dark in Wichita, Kansas about 10m...Helps with spotting Tornados in season, which tend to fester in the "Alley" up until about 9m to 9:30pm local time in the wheatfields of Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.....Easier to see with some late western light against the funnels and wall clouds coming in from the southwest of those towns....

 

[fybush]

> Wichita and Hutcheson, Kansas go through this every year at
> the west end of Central Time...When DST is in, it gets dark
> in Wichita, Kansas about 10m...Helps with spotting
> Tornados in season, which tend to fester in the "Alley" up
> until about 9m to 9:30pm local time in the wheatfields of
> Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.....Easier to see with some
> late western light against the funnels and wall clouds
> coming in from the southwest of those towns....

So if they didn't have DST in central Kansas, or if that area were on MST, the tornadoes would form an hour later? <P ID="signature">______________
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[oldiesfan]

Skip, I had pretty much the same reaction--
I think--as Scott "Tower Calendar" Fybush.

Similar to the saying "cows don't wear
wristwatches" which to me means just the
opposite of its use by the anti-DST farm
lobby. Cows want to be milked at sunrise,
no matter what the clock says. Assume
sunrise is at 0500 standard time/0600 DST,
so the farmer gets up just before sunrise.
Isn't getting up at 0545 on the clock better
for the mindset than getting up at 0445?

Anyway, back to Kansas and tornadoes...

That twister that you spot backlit by the
setting sun at 2055 CDT would show up--
and be backlit--at 1955 CST if Kansas
was not on DST, since tornadoes also don't
wear wristwatches.

Now if we can only convince the holdouts in
AZ that DST doesn't give you an extra hour
of sunlight, it just shifts it on the clock.

 

[fybush]

> Now if we can only convince the holdouts in
> AZ that DST doesn't give you an extra hour
> of sunlight, it just shifts it on the clock.

I can understand Arizona's reluctance, to a certain degree. If you're sweltering through a 105-degree summer in Phoenix or Tucson, you WANT darkness - and cooler temperatures - as early in the evening, on the clock, as you can get it.

This could, of course, be accomplished just as easily by switching to PST/PDT, but there's apparently pretty strong political pressure against being on the same time zone as California.

Note that the Navajo reservation, in northeastern Arizona, does observe MDT - and that the Hopi reservation, within the Navajo reservation, does not!

I still remember, not especially fondly, the confusion a few years ago when I drove from Phoenix (MST) up to the Grand Canyon (MST), then through the edges of the Navajo reservation (MDT), up into southern Utah (MDT), and ended up in Las Vegas (PDT). <P ID="signature">______________
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[oldiesfan]

> I can understand Arizona's reluctance,
> to a certain degree.

"...to a certain DEGREE"--was that perhaps
pun intended? ;-)


> This could, of course, be accomplished
> just as easily by switching to PST/PDT,
> but there's apparently pretty strong
> political pressure against being on the
> same time zone as California.

Or maybe having early December sunsets around
1620 (PST), similar to opposition in much of
Indiana on switching to the Central time zone.