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#101
To understand the historical background of why we tell time the way we do, it is intrinsically tied to the problem of longitude arguably the greatest technological challenge of the 18th Century and the Development That made the modern World possible.
Longitude by chronometer - Wikipedia
It is a journey of discovery that started for me when I got my first shortwave radio in 1975 and first heard the glorious steady monotonous beat of radio station WWV. Time was now a science to me. Leap seconds, the equation of time, the sextant, the quartz watch….it is a fascinating topic of history and technology
And to see people just arbitrarily throw whole hours around like they are disposable Starbucks cups 😡😡😡
 
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OrangeTsar said:
To understand the historical background of why we tell time the way we do, it is intrinsically tied to the problem of longitude arguably the greatest technological challenge of the 18th Century and the Development That made the modern World possible.
Longitude by chronometer - Wikipedia
It is a journey of discovery that started for me when I got my first shortwave radio in 1975 and first heard the glorious steady monotonous beat of radio station WWV. Time was now a science to me. Leap seconds, the equation of time, the sextant, the quartz watch….it is a fascinating topic of history and technology
And to see people just arbitrarily throw whole hours around like they are disposable Starbucks cups 😡😡😡
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I read a book about longitude and how the first reliable chronometer was developed. Pretty damn fascinating how they used to navigate without it.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Numerous studies have been been done and overall it is a wash. In general, decreased electricity use from lighting is offset by increased gas usage for people going places with the „extra“ daylight. Overall, we use the energy we use
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I stand corrected.

More gas from golf carts as well, I'd assume
 
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If you grew up listening to this until you had the notice memorized (like I do to this day), you are in definite possession of a nerd license 😂
As a youngster, No one ever argued with me if my watch was correct more than one time
 
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Best thing about shortwave, authoritarian governments can’t track who is listening to what, and they can’t shut it down with the flip of a firewall switch. We should be airlifting pallets of solid state shortwave receivers into Ukraine as fast as we can
(Not the 44 pound tube built Hallicrafters unit I grew up with. You could actually stand above it and warm up like you would a heater)
 
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VolStrom said:
Living on the western edge of eastern time, daylight comes at almost 5:30 am on the first day of summer. If we switched to standard time year round, it would move that to 4:30. Who in the hell wants it to start getting light at 4:30 in the morning?
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Blackout curtains. Needed em in Alaska. They're awesome
 
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Grand Vol said:
I would actually say that has some merit. You think about "peak hours" with an electrical grid and how much a later setting sun might help.

Don't give AOC any ideas though. She'd **** it up.
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"The night time is the right time ..." and Daylight Savings Time cuts into that. It's March and 7:30 PM and still light - that's just wrong. Daytime at midnight in Sweden was novel, but this just isn't right.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
If you grew up listening to this until you had the notice memorized (like I do to this day), you are in definite possession of a nerd license 😂
As a youngster, No one ever argued with me if my watch was correct more than one time
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I used to be like that, too, when I had a shortwave radio and discovered WWV.
OrangeTsar said:
Best thing about shortwave, authoritarian governments can’t track who is listening to what, and they can’t shut it down with the flip of a firewall switch. We should be airlifting pallets of solid state shortwave receivers into Ukraine as fast as we can
(Not the 44 pound tube built Hallicrafters unit I grew up with. You could actually stand above it and warm up like you would a heater)
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You had the good stuff; mine was a Heathkit.
 
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NurseGoodVol said:
In Norfolk they are dropping young kids off from school at 8:30 at night. I used to be home by 4 pm everyday.
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Do what? That’s crazy. I did have an hour bus ride when I lived in the suburbs of Tampa and got bussed downtown. That sucked. I’d get home about 4:45.
 
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OrangeTsar said:
The only meaningful thing the Senate could do would be to resign en mass
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I would have agreed until this bill passed.

Heck, I've given considerable thought to forming a single-issue party with no other goal than to kill standard time. I'm not sad to see my political aspirations made irrelevant.
 
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bamawriter said:
I would have agreed until this bill passed.

Heck, I've given considerable thought to forming a single-issue party with no other goal than to kill standard time. I'm not sad to see my political aspirations made irrelevant.
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Standard time Is the official time of the Angels. Daylight Saving Time is Satan Spawn Time, the stupidest idea of Benjamin Franklin next to wanting the Turkey as the National Symbol
 
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