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Originally posted by sigfan91:
DST essentially means noon is at 11am. Nothing more.

It's actually the other way around, while observing DST noon would be at 1pm .

But since time is relative and our perception of it even more so, in this day and age, have we not, through modern invention, made the measure of it more critical than in past times. In the history of man the timepiece is a new invention that we have become enslaved by. Our ancestors were happy by simply being slaves to the rising and setting sun. In our anal compulsive modern world has our fetish for marking the passage of time changed the fact one iota? No I say, time will be what time is and the machinations of politicicians, and the scheming of internet theorists shall not hold a hand over the natural course of events. Time will ever pass unaware and unaffected by our artificial measurements and values. Man's concern with the trivial incriments are of value to he and he alone and have no effect upon the greater and larger world in which he dwells.

Now, if you will forgive me, I have to see what's on TV next hour.

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Originally posted by Larry_K:

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Originally posted by sigfan91:
DST essentially means noon is at 11am. Nothing more.

It's actually the other way around, while observing DST noon would be at 1pm .

But while observing DST, the DST noon is actually 11am regular time. Regular noon would be 1pm DST.

Noon is defined as when the sun reaches its zenith during the day. What we did was define the zenith not as noon, but as 1pm.

Dark at 4:30 in the afternoon?

Where are you...Finland?

Here in TX...right under CO...it gets dark at about 6:15.

- brickboy240

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Originally posted by Audiostar:
Anyone who has worked in a bar on a Saturday that DST started!

It's fun going out to a bar in states where they stay open until 2.

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Originally posted by sleepla8er:

Ha, if I lived in AZ I wouldn't want an extra hour of daylight in the Summer either!!!

We move our twice-weekly pistol matches up to 8:00am (from 9:00am) during the summer.

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Originally posted by sigfan91:

Noon is defined as when the sun reaches its zenith during the day.

Noon (in this country) is when GMT minus your time zone offset = 12.

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Originally posted by roberth:

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KevinCW - I love it. I hate it getting dark at 4:30 PM. I think we should make daylight savings time permanent.

I agree. I love MDT, dark at 4:30 in the afternoon is just baloney. We should be on Daylight Savings all year round.

And I bitch about it getting dark at 5:30. I don't think I could handle dark at 4:30.

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Originally posted by henryaz:

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Originally posted by sigfan91:

Noon is defined as when the sun reaches its zenith during the day.

Noon (in this country) is when GMT minus your time zone offset = 12.

Noon at GMT is...?

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Originally posted by sigfan91:

Noon at GMT is...?

Seriously? It's the same as any other time zone, except the offset is zero hours; local time = GMT.

DST is critical and absolutely necessary. It gets hard to finish 18 holes before sunset without it.

Seems that someone has given some thought about this.

Interesting time-zone map too.