Having a tiny bit of computer trouble today
More of a slowdown than anything else. It’s coming along, but I’ll use it as an excuse for late posting.
Meanwhile I’ll just observe here that we turn the clocks back this weekend, which means it will get dark very early here. Ugh.
But the good news is that, in a bit over a month, sunsets will be getting later again. Looking on the bright side. And yes, I know the winter solstice – the shortest day – is later than that. But the earliest sundown comes in early December.
I’ve linked this here before. It’s fun to refer to it at times.
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5347578
DST…I feel for you Neo. The worst time for me in New England was Thanksgiving through mid January when the sun was heading down at 330pm.
That’s modified here in Florida to more tolerable levels.
Why, oh why does our nation change the time of day on our clocks twice a year?
Why, oh why can’t Congress pass Rubio’s, “Sunshine Protection Act?”
Rufus, I’m appalled, yet again, by yesterday’s (or today’s?) failure in congress to end the annual time change.
We the People deserve a vote on it!
I never cared much one way or the other about the time changes. If I had to pick one or the other as a permanent regime I’d probably go with standard time. While it’s nice to have an extra hour of daylight in the summer it really sucks when it’s dark at 8 in the morning.
The thing I don’t get about this, why don’t local municipalities alter hours based on the fact that the Earth is tilted on its axis?
In winter, school should start later in Olympia, Washington than it does in Miami, Florida. Businesses should change their hours seasonally. The hours of daylight have a lot to do with how our bodies function. Before artificial light, humans adjusted lifestyle to match changes in day length local to their area. There is no reason we cannot still do the same.
The Sun STILL rises and sets at the same time!
Sennacherib on October 31, 2025 at 2:42 pm:
“The Sun STILL rises and sets at the same time!”
Except that according to Buckminster Fuller, what really happens is that the earth eclipses the sun in the evening and de-eclipses the sun in the morning. Adopting that mindset, I can now often view me and my place on the earth as rotating towards the East and the sun in the morning; and “see” the horizon coming up in the evening rather than the sun “going down”.
Where I live we are blessed with quite a few very colorful “horizon risings”.
But they don’t occur at the same place along the horizon over the half year.
It is doubtful, but YMMV 🙂