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TiddyBaby · 04-02-2006, 06:55 AM

Do people in Alaska really need daylight savings?

xoxoxoBruce · 04-02-2006, 01:17 PM

Does anybody really need daylight savings?

Griff · 04-02-2006, 02:29 PM

Nope.

Stevonez · 04-02-2006, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Does anybody really need daylight savings?

Here in Florida we do... gives us a chance to get those yards mowed in the afternoon after a day at work... this allows us to free up our weekends... :p

TiddyBaby · 04-02-2006, 02:43 PM

ya know, i heard tell that the Mayans got some kinda calendar,....

And i think we're suppose to be all dead this year, or some kind of bad things gonna happen.

Yeah, I really want to set my clock ahead to lose an hours' worth of life.

dar512 · 04-02-2006, 03:11 PM

Of course the truth is you don't gain or lose anything, really. It's all just juggling the books.

Cheyenne · 04-02-2006, 04:00 PM

i like late days. i can get a lot more done outside.

Kagen4o4 · 04-02-2006, 05:45 PM

time is relative and a human invention

SteveBsjb · 04-02-2006, 05:53 PM

Weeks are the only truly arbitrary time designation. In a way.

dar512 · 04-02-2006, 08:56 PM

I'd go the other way. Only days and years are not arbitrary. You can make a case for months, but we don't really follow lunar months, so that's arbitrary too.

24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. All seem pretty arbitrary to me.

Kagen4o4 · 04-02-2006, 11:56 PM

1 day makes sense, 1 year makes sense. the rest can be accounted for by degrees on a sphere. the sun moves 15° accross the sky every hour. or 0.25° every minute

SteveBsjb · 04-03-2006, 04:34 AM

how can weeks be accounted for? couldn't there be two weeks every month, if they were 14 days long each?

Kagen4o4 · 04-03-2006, 05:22 AM

dividing the lunar cycle by 4. which it has 4 main phases anyway

SteveBsjb · 04-03-2006, 05:31 AM

Hmmmm... sounds logical.

Cheyenne · 04-03-2006, 09:54 AM

Standardized time began with the railroads.

04-02-2006, 01:17 PM	#17
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Does anybody really need daylight savings? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-02-2006, 02:29 PM	#18
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Nope. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

04-02-2006, 03:11 PM	#21
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Of course the truth is you don't gain or lose anything, really. It's all just juggling the books. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

04-02-2006, 04:00 PM	#22
Cheyenne Operations Operative Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: http://www.kevinlahey.com/mt.html Posts: 616	i like late days. i can get a lot more done outside. __________________ ~What Flows From Your Fingertips Is A Reflection Of Your Heart~~ Chey~~

04-02-2006, 05:45 PM	#23
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	time is relative and a human invention __________________ something we both can enjoy??

04-02-2006, 06:55 AM	#16
TiddyBaby The internet's like a bra, underneath ya find a boob or two Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fl Posts: 326	Do people in Alaska really need daylight savings?

04-02-2006, 02:43 PM	#20
TiddyBaby The internet's like a bra, underneath ya find a boob or two Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fl Posts: 326	ya know, i heard tell that the Mayans got some kinda calendar,.... And i think we're suppose to be all dead this year, or some kind of bad things gonna happen. Yeah, I really want to set my clock ahead to lose an hours' worth of life.

04-02-2006, 05:53 PM	#24
SteveBsjb Operations Operative Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ. Posts: 713	Weeks are the only truly arbitrary time designation. In a way. __________________ "It's only an internet community."

04-02-2006, 08:56 PM	#25
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	I'd go the other way. Only days and years are not arbitrary. You can make a case for months, but we don't really follow lunar months, so that's arbitrary too. 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. All seem pretty arbitrary to me. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

04-02-2006, 11:56 PM	#26
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	1 day makes sense, 1 year makes sense. the rest can be accounted for by degrees on a sphere. the sun moves 15° accross the sky every hour. or 0.25° every minute __________________ something we both can enjoy??

04-03-2006, 04:34 AM	#27
SteveBsjb Operations Operative Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ. Posts: 713	how can weeks be accounted for? couldn't there be two weeks every month, if they were 14 days long each? __________________ "It's only an internet community."

04-03-2006, 05:22 AM	#28
Kagen4o4 The Sheriff of Nothingland Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 1,794	dividing the lunar cycle by 4. which it has 4 main phases anyway __________________ something we both can enjoy??

04-03-2006, 05:31 AM	#29
SteveBsjb Operations Operative Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Moved from Manhattan to Edgewater, NJ. Posts: 713	Hmmmm... sounds logical. __________________ "It's only an internet community."

04-03-2006, 09:54 AM	#30
Cheyenne Operations Operative Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: http://www.kevinlahey.com/mt.html Posts: 616	Standardized time began with the railroads. __________________ ~What Flows From Your Fingertips Is A Reflection Of Your Heart~~ Chey~~

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