A (not so) deep thought.

[gmc2003]

I can still have plenty of drinks while it is light in the hot tub. No one can see me in the backyard hot tub anyway. After 30 years of marriage I still don't mind seeing the wife on daylight...lol

Beware of Drones Cliff

Chris

 

[DougE]

Wearing watches has come up a few times. Some of us wear smart watches that really have little, if anything, to seeing what time it is. They provide other useful functions.

 

[Winterrider]

A lot of the scuttlebutt on DST is kids having to wait for the bus in the dark. How much validity there is in that , no idea

 

[chopsaw]

How much validity there is in that , no idea

There's some when you make a living working outside .

 

[ajbert]

DST is completely useless and just messes up our sleep. I have enough sleep issues without moving the clock around when the sun comes up.

Try taking a ship across the Atlantic into the med or across the Pacific. And to make matters worse, when you cross the Pacific there is an imaginary line called the International Date Line. When you cross that you lose or gain an entire day.

I hate clocks and their authoritarian "time". Then there's the humans that jack with them and tell us what time stuff has to be done. I find it funny these days with people who wear watches. I mean, unless you're timing something constantly...there are clocks everywhere, most people carry a mobile phone, even grandpa's jitterbug has a freaking clock on it! Old habits are hard to break I guess...

I've worn a watch most of my life. Being in the Navy before everyone had a cell phone, depending on your job and where you worked, you needed to know the time every minute of the day.

I took up welding a few years by going to the local-ish community college. I wore my "work" wrist watch that I wore in the Navy, always covered by my welding jacket. I was in my mid 50's at the time and one of the young whipper snappers asked what that thing on my wrist was. Yes, I knew he was trying to kid me so I told him some long winded answer that probably had some mystical wonders that he would never understand.

When someone has worn a wrist watch for over 50 years it is just natural to put it on first thing in the morning. I do have a cell phone, yep, one of the so called smart ones, that is more of a leash than some I need. I very seldom ever have it with me unless my wife is with me. She makes me take it whenever I go somewhere on my own. Like I said, I look at it as leash solely so she can keep tabs on me. I do like to keep phone numbers but I'll use the house phone and not call on the cell. I do like the picture part, though. Hate texting to no end!

 

[JckDanls 07]

I look at it as leash solely so she can keep tabs on me

Yea, cell phones... That's why I DON"T own one...

 

[schlotz]

Sometimes simplicity outweighs technology and there are still old school ways that have stood the test of time being great at doing exactly what they were designed to do.

 

[Fueling Around]

My reason for hating DST...

It gives the wife a chance to make the "after work" honey-do list longer... "Well, We have more daylight after work now to do more things around the house in the evenings after work"... BS... No more DST ...

In a few months you will be on permanent DST AKA retirement. Maybe you want to reconsider hanging it up so early?

 

[JckDanls 07]

In a few months you will be on permanent DST AKA retirement. Maybe you want to reconsider hanging it up so early?

It's entered my mind a few times...

 

[chef k-dude]

Try taking a ship across the Atlantic into the med or across the Pacific. And to make matters worse, when you cross the Pacific there is an imaginary line called the International Date Line. When you cross that you lose or gain an entire day.

I've worn a watch most of my life. Being in the Navy before everyone had a cell phone, depending on your job and where you worked, you needed to know the time every minute of the day.

If I remember correctly, I saw the sun rise and set twice flying back from Japan, and it was something like a 14 hour flight I think...that was over 40 years ago...and there's something about flying against the rotation of the earth...OK, now my brain hurts a little...

Didn't mean to offend anyone with the watch comment. That's why I said "Old habits are hard to break I guess". I've asked watch people, they just dont feel right without their watch. It's kind of like the "underwear or no underwear" thing...Some that do, some that dont!

 

[clifish]

It's kind of like the "underwear or no underwear" thing...Some that do, some that dont!

And some of us don't want to know your answer to the above statement...lol

 

[Steve H]

And some of us don't want to know your answer to the above statement...lol

Well, it does go proportionately with the alcohol content.

 

[chopsaw]

I heard some people talking about gaining an extra hour of daylight.

I worked with a guy years ago , that would draw a line on a drywall colume where the sun cast a shadow at break time . Then mark the line with the time . As the shadow moved down the column , he started measuring the distance between lines and said , Yup , gained 25 minutes since Monday . Lol .

 

[JckDanls 07]

I worked with a guy years ago , that would draw a line on a drywall colume where the sun cast a shadow at break time . Then mark the line with the time . As the shadow moved down the column , he started measuring the distance between lines and said , Yup , gained 25 minutes since Monday . Lol .

Kinda do the same thing with the tide to find out if it's coming in or going out... Stick a stick in the ground right at waters edge... Wait and see which way the water goes from the stick... If it goes away from the stick the tides going out... Stick starts getting covered in water, tides coming in...

You can also look at dock posts... if they are wet above the water line, tides going out... Dry above the water line, means it's coming in..

As the title of the thread says... Not that it matters...

 

[SmokyMose]

It used to be a problem when I was still employed and keeping track of times in four states and four company branches, but since I retired, except for having to change 7 or 8 clocks twice a year I really couldn't care less. I go to bed when I feel like it and get up when I feel like it and don't lose any sleep....