OT: Daylight Saving Time
Personally, I'm not a fan of Daylight Saving Time. My internal clock seems to have a hard time adjusting to the spring forward bit.
Fortunately, someone introduced a proposal in the MI House to end it. Not trying to get political here, as I'm pretty sure DST hate (or love I suppose) is a non-partisan issue.
Also, is MGoBlog boycotting DST? Or has someone just forgotten to reset the server clocks?
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the summer light is priceless to me.
but I would disagree with the OP, it seems entirely polical though I don't understand why.
For whatever reason, DST-bashing is all the rage right now.
I think 7 PM sunsets right now in exchange for a day of feeling "off" is worthwhile trade. Plus, I really hate going to work and leaving work both in the dark during the winter months. I'm enjoying reloading on the vitamin D right now!!!
DST is unrelated to Leap Year. Leap years are necessary because a day is actually 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds. Over four years, this 3 min 56 second "lost time" adds up to a full day so we get Feb 29th to correct for the lost time. If there was no leap year, over time, the calendar would not align with the seasons (in 30 leap years [120 years] we would be a month off).
When I was in college in the late 60's, people were circulating petitions to kill DST in Michigan because it somehow hurt the farmers. Now someone claims it's a health issue. People travel across time zones all the time and adjust fairly quickly. One day a year with a one hour change can't require too much adjustment.