Re: [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time
Posted by Gillian Densmore on Mar 14, 2013; 7:46pm URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Please-sign-this-thing-Eliminate-the-bi-annual-time-change-caused-by-Daylight-Savings-Time-tp7581998p7582013.html
Typical stomping grounds for philosophy but the practical issue is that some of us object to looking at the clock and being told by a dead president from a while back that it isn't 830 at night it's actualy 930 at night and it's about that time to unwind. Some states and few reservations seem to get along just fine w/o that nonsense. I know the rest of us can it's not as if sudenly the dynamics of how the earth rotates in relationship to the sun dramitcly changed- at least not sufficiently to warrent a flip flop.
As to time being a construct- that's a mix of philosphy and at least theoretical cosmotology- I can't remember where I read it some famous person stated fairly certainly that the thermo dynamic sense of time and a potential carrier particle of some sort interacting with us (ie humans and the 3rd rock from the sun) such that while events do have a astronomicly small chance to accur out of sequence that by and large it seems as if they must happen in a certain order. The only exception is if we were significantly closer to the galactic core where that might not be true. for reasons I don't understand something having to do with the quanta of time being less stable than it is where our solar system is located.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Parks, Raymond <[hidden email]> wrote:
"Time. Time is an artificial construct. An idea based on the theory that events occur in a linear direction, at all times. Always forward, never back. Is the concept of time correct? Is time relevant?"
On Mar 13, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Carl Tollander wrote:
But I like it! Should happen an odd number of times a year! Clocks are arbitrary anyhow; just wake up with the Sun.
On 3/11/13 3:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
The title sez it all:
Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time |
We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
Basically a petition to either keep DST or standard time, and not flip/flop for no apparent reason. Arizona for example has survived without time change so maybe the rest of us can too?
I am SO sick of this weird, unnecessary attack on my poor ailing metabolism. Takes me a week to adjust. Taint needed.
-- Owen
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