I’d like to make note of my observation this morning at quarter to seven it looked as dark as 5:30am, even a week before the clocks change, which I found interesting,

so we can’t entirely blame the shitty darkness on our shitty government-mandated clock changes. It’s just a matter of where the earth is in relation to the sun at any given time of year.

When we change our clocks next week, technically the winter clocks are the astronomically accurate time, and we’ve been lying to ourselves all summer, though I’m still not sure why.

Everyone hates changing the clocks and for at least three decades citizens have been imploring the govt to stop the practice, but you know how slow the government is to change any standardized thing. Decades & decades of slowness & stupidity.

As slow as if USA ever comes to its senses & adopts the metric system.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I was with you until the metric jab. It’s tiresome and ignores the complexities.

    Are you going to pay the trillions it’ll take to do this? And pay for the errors along the way?

    The Mars Climate Observer is the cautionary tale you apparently need. And this occurred in organizations that are painfully meticulous. Now imagine changing any industry.

    It’s just not a simple thing, despite people wanting it to be. Go to any manufacturer that has multiple decades of ACU tools - you’re saying everyone needs to retool. There aren’t enough manufacturers of tools to meet this one element of changing.

    I do find it frustrating that metric isn’t taught alongside ACU consistently. My school did decades ago, but many of my friend’s schools didn’t teach it. That’s a major mistake.

    Things like road signs should get both Miles and KM when they’re replaced, but regulation would have to be changed at the federal level first.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    1 month ago

    I’ve noticed this as well and wondered if the loss of snow and ice is contributory.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Well I live in a region where snow & ice simply never happen, and I’m pretty sure daylight is dependent upon the rotation of the earth upon its axis and in relation to its proximity to the sun at any given time of year.

        • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Hmm, let’s let that article speak for itself since I don’t entirely understand whether or not it’s related to my observation of days getting shorter as they always do this time of year.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
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            1 month ago

            Ah, I was responding to

            I’d like to make note of my observation this morning at quarter to seven it looked as dark as 5:30am, even a week before the clocks change, which I found interesting…

            I have noticed it seems darker in mornings and evenings, and shortly after having marked the phenomenon to myself, that article showed up. I meant to ask for the more scientifically educated to remark on it but got busy and forgot. Maybe they will, now.