[BC] DST for the rest of you

[Cowboy]

On Monday 18 November 2013 01:23:17 pm Donald Chester wrote:
> It takes me about two days to re-acclimate back to standard time in autumn. 

 It's taking me a good deal longer.
 Almost a traumatic change in nightfall.
 It's dark so, so much "earlier" than it should be.

> The spring shift used to take me a couple of months, and I never 
> completely acclimated to re-setting the clock and pretending it is an hour
> earlier that it really is.

 For me, I do eventually acclimate, but it's weeks of misery either way.
 ( both spring and fall )

 Jet lag is far easier to deal with, for me.

> Just about the time it would be getting daylight when I had to get up in the morning,
> the time shift would send me back to fumbling and stumbling in the dark in the morning
> struggling to get out of the house and make it to work on time.      
 
 About the only "benefit" I see, is that it ( now ) isn't quite as dark as the kids make
 their way down the driveway to the school bus stop.
 It's a temporary thing, week or three.

 Worth it ?
 Only in the mind of a congress-critter as far as I can tell.

 No matter how you slice it, the sun and the rotation of the planet
 really don't care.
 A little envious of those who don't suffer this insanity,
 but that, too, shall pass. ( until spring, this time probably about the
 same time I get used to the fall change )

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