@atannir When I looked at the newly-posted Meh deal on Saturday night (since I’m in Central time), it was giving the time remaining as 1:58:37 (and counting down). Obviously, the script and/or my system/browser was coughing up the right result. maybe AWS has its servers in Indiana, where confusion about what time it is comes naturally to anyone who drives more than 50 miles (and sometimes less)…
The bi-annual time change is one of the stupidest things the Congress has ever authorized. The clock change is annoying, dangerous and costly. It’s really too bad that the number of daylight hours actually changes (daily) but laws can’t change that…
There is a (probably apocryphal) story that has a Native American elder saying “Only a white man could believe that you can make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off of one end and sewing it on to the other.” Regardless of who said it, I agree with the sentiment, and I have my own very practical reasons for hating DST in the early Fall and the Spring. Summer? Even more so! The late afternoon is too fegging hot to be out there doing anything! Let the fegging sun set BEFORE I have to hit the sack, for f***'s sake! I’d like to have a little evening reduced-swelter time outdoors.
@werehatrack and idk like to have more useful daylight after work. I could not care less about light and cold in the morning when I’ll be stuck at work.
Regardless of which though we’d be better if it stopped.
Since I work evenings and have always had a very fluid bedtime/rising time, it’s never really bothered me either way… even more so when I was doing 24 hour shifts as an EMT.
Interestingly, the SideDeal countdown has correctly added one hour. (Admittedly, it might not be that interesting.)
@atannir When I looked at the newly-posted Meh deal on Saturday night (since I’m in Central time), it was giving the time remaining as 1:58:37 (and counting down). Obviously, the script and/or my system/browser was coughing up the right result. maybe AWS has its servers in Indiana, where confusion about what time it is comes naturally to anyone who drives more than 50 miles (and sometimes less)…
The bi-annual time change is one of the stupidest things the Congress has ever authorized. The clock change is annoying, dangerous and costly. It’s really too bad that the number of daylight hours actually changes (daily) but laws can’t change that…
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There is a (probably apocryphal) story that has a Native American elder saying “Only a white man could believe that you can make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off of one end and sewing it on to the other.” Regardless of who said it, I agree with the sentiment, and I have my own very practical reasons for hating DST in the early Fall and the Spring. Summer? Even more so! The late afternoon is too fegging hot to be out there doing anything! Let the fegging sun set BEFORE I have to hit the sack, for f***'s sake! I’d like to have a little evening reduced-swelter time outdoors.
@werehatrack and idk like to have more useful daylight after work. I could not care less about light and cold in the morning when I’ll be stuck at work.
Regardless of which though we’d be better if it stopped.
Since I work evenings and have always had a very fluid bedtime/rising time, it’s never really bothered me either way… even more so when I was doing 24 hour shifts as an EMT.