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snobuilder

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Daylight saving time

The ultimate in delusional thinking, power and control of da-masses....LOL...
Now that DLST is about 7.5 months out of 12....doesn't that make it normal time?
Besides the fact we are sheeple....
Why do we do this again?
 
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garyl62

garyl62

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snobuilder said:
The ultimate in delusional thinking, power and control of da-masses....LOL...
Now that DLST is about 7.5 months out of 12....doesn't that make it normal time?
Besides the fact we are sheeple....
Why do we do this again?
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We don't do Daylight Savings Time

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.

Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Because of this, it would be more accurate to refer to DST as daylight-saving time. Similar examples would be a mind-expanding book or a man-eating tiger. Saving is used in the same way as saving a ball game, rather than as a savings account. Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue. Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries. Adding to the confusion is that the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, and Daylight Time Shifting more accurate, but neither is politically desirable.

Figured I could beat Frnash to the punch all be it with a little help from some web article
 
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lenny

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you lost me as soon as you started talking about particles,,,,oh crap,,,, I'm late for church
 
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frnash

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garyl62 said:
We don't do Daylight Savings Time

The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
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Figured I could beat Frnash to the punch all be it with a little help from some web article
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That's a good work up, Gary.
The only thing I can add is that we don't do either Daylight Savings Time or Daylight Saving Time in Airyzony[SUP]1![/SUP] In fact, even as a kid growing up in Detroit, I never thought it made any sense at all. All it does is cause sunrise/sunset and the other solar phenomena (civil, nautical and astronomical twilight) to occur one hour later than "normal".

About the last thing we would need in Arizona is one more hour of blazing sunlight in the evening, with sunset as late as 8:42PM. Pure lunacy!

[[SUP]1[/SUP]Well that's not the whole story: The State of Arizona stays on Mountain Standard time for the entire year.

Except for the Navajo Nation, which is located in the northeast corner of the state and in parts of Utah and New Mexico as well. Since those neighboring states use DST, in order for the Navajo Nation to have a uniform time, they also use DST!

But there's more; although the Hopi Reservation is wholly contained within the Navajo Nation, the Hopis do not use DST! Is anyone confused yet? :confused: ]
 
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snobuilder

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Wasn't it a wise native America that said only a white man would think that cutting off part of a blanket on one end and sewing it back on the other end is a good idea.
 
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Hoosier

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MZEMS2 said:
Who's from Indiana here? Don't they skip the whole saving daylight idea too?
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Indiana now does it too, since probably 6 or 8 years ago I would say. Before that just the parts of the state closer to Chicago changed clocks
 
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