First world problems
There’s been so much big news every day since Trump’s inauguration that it’s hard to keep up. Today, though, I was further hampered by a new computer problem – this time a bum modem. I’ll skip the details, but let’s just say I’m too tired from struggling with that (and fixing it, I think) to write some of the larger posts I had planned for today, although I hope to get around to them tomorrow or the next day.
Meanwhile, I went out for a walk while it was still light out. I can’t wait till the clocks spring forward in just a couple of weeks!
Speaking of which, I saw this the other day:
Speaking for myself, I don’t need a clock change to make me feel good about the lengthening of daylight hours. It sure feels good to have the sun up well before 7am and still up after 5pm.
I can wait for the time change. I think it’s absurd. My whole life dealing with this human folly. Sorry about your tech issues. Bummer.
Robins. Do they disappear from your area in the winter?
Turdus Migratorious. Not quite news of crocus shoots but close enough an indication.
Jon baker:
You see much fewer, especially in a snowy year. This year has been snowy.
See this.
I have to ask: what benefit do you get from the clock change?
Here in CO we are having what are called Chinook Winds. High, warm winds. Was 62 today, going to be in the 60’s all week. Doesn’t mean we can’t get snow and some cold, but not too cold.
steve walsh:
When you set the clocks forward one hour, it stays light later. I love that.
There seems to have been a dearth of birds where I am in the Midwest, but I’ve seen robins and cardinals the last couple days!
I support eliminating Daylight Saving Time, which I think is a rather “conservative” stance. President Trump agrees.
https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ct-trump-end-daylight-saving-time-atlantic-20184250.php
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113647254141876924
Seeing your photo and drawing a blank on recalling the name “robins”, I did a quick search for “orange breasted birds” to obtain a list. Turns out I had listings providing 7, 13, 15, 21, 25, and 27 candidates.
I had enough of waking up at O Dark Thirty while in the Army and while working. Now retired, I like being able to wake up or get up with the sun de-eclipsing in the morning. If you remember the adage “Spring forward; Fall back” for clock settings, there should be little confusion. Plus, with an Internet of Things in your house, the internet and computers [will] do a lot of that change over for you.
Then again, FL doesn’t have the swings from 8 vs 16 hours of light that Seattle, Chicago, et al. do.
In Yuma, AZ, it will be over 90 tomorrow after a night in the 80s — quite sultry in the Southwest desert.
After migratory song birds have already made their presence known daily.
Sure signs of Spring coming….to the North.
Daylight: Yes, FL doesn’t have the extreme swings, but they actually voted to STOP the time changes a few years ago!
Didn’t matter. Congress somehow had to approve it, and would not even bring it to a vote.
My FL relatives are not pleased.
Me neither!
I always thought daylight saving time was a dumb idea. The amount of daylight is still the same and you don’t save anything.
People want longer daylight hours, especially after the magic of a White Christmas fades, usually before New Year’s.
Reality doesn’t comply with human wishes.
I like the time change, with 6am sunrise instead of 5 am, with added daytime after lunch. AM rise & PM set at 6, twice a year on the equinoxes, is the key reality. With 120 minutes more light in June, it’s better to be 6am & 8pm, rather than 5am & 7pm. (And other time combinations adjusted accordingly).
Nice sunrise & sunset site.
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/slovakia/bratislava?month=6&year=2025
I don’t understand people who ask what the benefit is with Daylight Savings Time.
It’s very simple: with Daylight Savings Time, I have more light in the evening, when I want to be outside, and less light in the early morning when I am trying to sleep. Do these people get up at 5:00am every morning, and then not do anything outside?
Tom Grey:
Actually, due to astronomical reasons I don’t understand, the date of an actual twelve hour day does not fall on the equinoxes and where it does depends on latitude. Here in the mid-latitudes those days are 3/17 and 9/25, give or take a day.
As far as the actual local time where sunrises and sunsets occur on these 12:00 or 11:59 or 12:01 days depends on longitude, i.e., how the locale is situated within its time zone. Only in narrow longitudinal strips would those times be 6am and 6pm.
@Mr. Bill:It’s very simple: with Daylight Savings Time, I have more light in the evening, when I want to be outside, and less light in the early morning when I am trying to sleep.
1) You have exactly the same amount of light, regardless of what the clock says.
2) Why don’t you change your schedule to accommodate the daylight you want, instead of wanting everyone else to change theirs?
I was going to write that my preferences would be (1) Year-round Standard Time; (2) Year-round Daylight Saving Time; and (3) the current system. A little reading indicated that (2) is a bad idea, because of children traveling to school in the dark.
I think that year-round Standard Time will not pass, because too many people like DST. Also because
Not to mention youth and adult outdoor sports participants.
Still, the idea seems a bit silly to me. It reminds me of when I was a child, and our family had a chronic problem with punctuality, so my father set all the clocks five minutes fast.
https://time.com/6157915/daylight-saving-time-history/
@Dax:our family had a chronic problem with punctuality, so my father set all the clocks five minutes fast.
It’s exactly the same as daylight time.