Sleepy Monday Morning Rambly Bits
Mar. 10th, 2008 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomi-- I hate Daylight Saving Time. Let me be clear on this. And I want my hour back.
-- On Friday, I had an inconveniently-timed doctor's appointment (is there any other type on Friday if you're a Shabbat observer?), so I worked from home. Got lots accomplished, both workwise and preparing-for-Shabbat-wise.
-- Walked to shul on Shabbat in drizzle. Walked from shul to the friends' house at which we were having lunch in significant downpour. Got ride back home after Shabbat from very sweet friend because significant downpour had become torrential downpour. It was sunny yesterday and in the 30s, and today it's bright and sunny and in the 20s. Ah, New England. How I love your weather oddities.
-- And, oh, look! A flood warning for the Charles River and other rivers in the area due to the aforementioned torrential downpour. Oh, goody. With luck, this time the Muddy River won't flood into Kenmore Station.
-- Off to a Sheva Berachot tonight. Yay for people getting married!
-- Because it came up in conversation *again* this weekend: Weekly World News report: 12 U.S. SENATORS ARE SPACE ALIENS! (transcription).
-- On Friday, I had an inconveniently-timed doctor's appointment (is there any other type on Friday if you're a Shabbat observer?), so I worked from home. Got lots accomplished, both workwise and preparing-for-Shabbat-wise.
-- Walked to shul on Shabbat in drizzle. Walked from shul to the friends' house at which we were having lunch in significant downpour. Got ride back home after Shabbat from very sweet friend because significant downpour had become torrential downpour. It was sunny yesterday and in the 30s, and today it's bright and sunny and in the 20s. Ah, New England. How I love your weather oddities.
-- And, oh, look! A flood warning for the Charles River and other rivers in the area due to the aforementioned torrential downpour. Oh, goody. With luck, this time the Muddy River won't flood into Kenmore Station.
-- Off to a Sheva Berachot tonight. Yay for people getting married!
-- Because it came up in conversation *again* this weekend: Weekly World News report: 12 U.S. SENATORS ARE SPACE ALIENS! (transcription).
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Date: 2008-03-10 02:49 pm (UTC)I have many issues with DST, one of which is the US arbitrarily deciding what time it should be.
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Date: 2008-03-10 10:25 pm (UTC)Isn't Standard Time also an example of the US arbitrarily deciding what time it should be? In the old days each city had its own local time, determined by solar noon. So (e.g.) NYC would be offset around 15 minutes or so from Boston. I assume you don't want to go back to that.
I don't mind DST so much, but it shouldn't start before the spring equinox. I *hate* getting up in the dark (and pity the poor folks in cities in the western ends of their time zones, like Detroit, where sunrise today was 7:52 EDT).
Actually, the thing I hate most about DST is how, when DST is in effect, people are always specifying times as EST instead of EDT.