Subj : Re: Daylight Savings Time
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Mar 10 2022 21:46:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to Blue White <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Daylight Savings Time
 Ni>   By: Blue White to Orbitman on Thu Mar 10 2022 03:57 pm

 BW> It could. I am sure there are benefits in the Summer months for some
 BW> purposes, but I don't think the people in this area who want it year-round
 BW> have thought it through much. In December/January, there is not enough
 BW> daylight, period, so trying to stay on DST isn't going to gain them much,
 BW> and would make it stay dark really late in the morning.

 Ni> That's a good point.  In the winter, on standard time, it gets
 Ni> dark here around 4:30PM on the days when we have the shortest
 Ni> sunlight, so if we were on DST year round, it would get dark
 Ni> around 3:30PM.

I think that's backwards.  If you were on DST year round, it would get
dark at 5:30 instead of 4:30 (not at 3:30).  The problem is that it
would still be dark in the morning until like 8:00AM or something.



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