Scantlings

Thanks to the increasing prevalence of time pieces that re-set themselves for DST, someday soon, we may be unaware of it - we'll go to bed, wake up with things a little different, and then go about our day. I'm wondering if DST is such a great idea. We don't get more daylight, we just get more of it at the end of the workday. Should we do away with it?

What do you chaps think?

I think Big Government and elites need to stop telling us how to set our clocks. For that matter, why does America have to recognize international time zones, anyway? I think we ought to be able to set our clocks any way the hell we want to!

Aboard MAYAN we tend to just use GMT (Zulu Time) and not worry about what the "actual" local time is. After all, those celestial bodies above us don't care/know. The watches are all the same length, the bells are a little weird (noon in Greenwich isn't necessary noon where we are) but the only time we care is while doing celestial navigation. To be more correct, the only time we used to care. We haven't actually used a sextant in decades.

I grew up without it, and I think it stinks.

Dump Standard Time and keep DST.

Orestes Munn wrote:I think Big Government and elites need to stop telling us how to set our clocks. For that matter, why does America have to recognize international time zones, anyway? I think we ought to be able to set our clocks any way the hell we want to!

I didn't t know you were from Adelaide.

LarryHoward wrote:

Orestes Munn wrote:I think Big Government and elites need to stop telling us how to set our clocks. For that matter, why does America have to recognize international time zones, anyway? I think we ought to be able to set our clocks any way the hell we want to!

I didn't t know you were from Adelaide.

Addle-aid. Not just for seniors anymore.

Of course it all depends on where you live- here on the eastern edge of a time zone I'd rather be on DST all year. What I'd really like to be is on Newfoundland time- that 1/2 hour difference just appeals to me.

I really like the extended daylight hours in the summer with DST. It's one of my favorite things.

JoeP wrote:I really like the extended daylight hours in the summer with DST. It's one of my favorite things.

Long evenings are really one of the major delights of Spring and Summer.

The "Golden Hour" in late evening is quite simply the best and most beautiful time to be alive.

JoeP wrote:I really like the extended daylight hours in the summer with DST. It's one of my favorite things.

Without DST in the summer, beer can racing would disappear.

The glorious twilight you get at 50 north ... makes November bearable. Sort of.

I'm with Ish on this one. Most things, actually.

kdh wrote:I'm with Ish on this one. Most things, actually.

I'm not sure where Ish stands on this one. Enlighten me.

Bull City wrote:

kdh wrote:I'm with Ish on this one. Most things, actually.

I'm not sure where Ish stands on this one. Enlighten me.

I proposed dumping Standard Time entirely and going with DST year-round.

Also, welding Donald Trump and Hillary together into a steel drum and setting it adrift on the Japan Current. Keith might not be entirely with me on that one.

Ish wrote:

Bull City wrote:

kdh wrote:I'm with Ish on this one. Most things, actually.

I'm not sure where Ish stands on this one. Enlighten me.

I proposed dumping Standard Time entirely and going with DST year-round.

Also, welding Donald Trump and Hillary together into a steel drum and setting it adrift on the Japan Current. Keith might not be entirely with me on that one.

Nope. Definitely with you. I think they were made for each other.

Talk about sucking up the oxygen, Trump is getting into every thread!

Back on topic...

Maybe the problem is that DST is good for people who work during the day, but meaningless for the retired class.

Good for us too - love those long evenings.

Bull City wrote:Talk about sucking up the oxygen, Trump is getting into every thread!

Back on topic...

Maybe the problem is that DST is good for people who work during the day, but meaningless for the retired class.

My child bride still works, so we have an unequal balance. I think it's just a huge stupid pain in the ass to adjust all the timepieces in your life twice a year.

SloopJonB wrote:Good for us too - love those long evenings.

Sloop, I once said you were never, ever wrong. Do you realize what you just said? I am gutted.

Bull City wrote:

SloopJonB wrote:Good for us too - love those long evenings.

Sloop, I once said you were never, ever wrong. Do you realize what you just said? I am gutted.

What, now that the master has said you were wrong? Suck it up, cupcake.

Sucks to be a kid in our house!
Daylight savings ends on Sunday, My 10 year boy knows this.
We have had issues that he will get up to early in the morning so we have a rule, you are not allowed to get up before 7 am.
All the clocks in the house except the one in his room just got moved one hour back.
Remember, this is NZ time, think about the date tomorrow.
People like me should not allowed to have children! Poor kid.

When I was a kid in Maine in the summer we got unpasteurized milk. I was an early riser even then so would go downstairs and pour the cream off the top of the milk for my cereal. I would then shake the bottle thus eliminating hard evidence. Complaints would come from older kids and mom about using low fat milk. I would use the Bart Simpson defense "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything." Next day same thing. Thus the youngest in the family learns to assert his will. My youngest grandson at 3 has similar steel in him and occasionally brings mom,dad and older brother to heel.

Sorry I'm not much help here.

The cream on top means it's unhomogenized.

Real raw milk is coming back. The cream is the best part, and good for you if the cows are healthy.

Tucky wrote:When I was a kid in Maine in the summer we got unpasteurized milk. I was an early riser even then so would go downstairs and pour the cream off the top of the milk for my cereal. I would then shake the bottle thus eliminating hard evidence. Complaints would come from older kids and mom about using low fat milk. I would use the Bart Simpson defense "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything." Next day same thing. Thus the youngest in the family learns to assert his will. My youngest grandson at 3 has similar steel in him and occasionally brings mom,dad and older brother to heel.

Sorry I'm not much help here.

Haha! I used to do that too. We had a real milk man on Long Island and the bottles had foil caps- you could suck off the cream on top and put the cap back on. If you weren't too greedy no one could tell.

We never had the joy of fresh cream (that I know of), we had hatches built into the sides of houses so you could leave bottles and money and get fresh milk in the morning. In Saskatoon, the bottles were either frozen solid in the winter or turning funny colours and expanding rapidly in the summer.

We had a "milk box" that had a minimal level of insulation. But this was the Apollo moon-shot days when the more processed, the better, so the milk was homogenized.

The milk box was a critical element in learning how to ride a bicycle, was used to step up and get stable on the bike with no training wheels. This was my eventual ride, bought for $80 with newspaper route money.

Milk crates?

My whole family, including my ten brothers and sisters, lived in a milk crate....

Actually, my father was a milkman and I was out there from the age of nine at 3am delivering milk before I went to school.

My grandfather was also a dairyman and a milkman, when horses pulled sulkys and the milk was in metal churns.

To prove the milk was fresh they used to dip the horses tail in the milk so the housewives would see some hair and think it had come straight from the cow.

Olaf Hart wrote:Milk crates?

My whole family, including my ten brothers and sisters, lived in a milk crate....

Actually, my father was a milkman and I was out there from the age of nine at 3am delivering milk before I went to school.

My grandfather was also a dairyman and a milkman, when horses pulled sulkys and the milk was in metal churns.

To prove the milk was fresh they used to dip the horses tail in the milk so the housewives would see some hair and think it had come straight from the cow.

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I can see Pasteur spinning in his grave.

Olaf Hart wrote:Milk crates?

My whole family, including my ten brothers and sisters, lived in a milk crate....

Actually, my father was a milkman and I was out there from the age of nine at 3am delivering milk before I went to school.

My grandfather was also a dairyman and a milkman, when horses pulled sulkys and the milk was in metal churns.

To prove the milk was fresh they used to dip the horses tail in the milk so the housewives would see some hair and think it had come straight from the cow.

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Interesting architecture for the house on the left. What year was the photo taken?