Daylight Saving Time

[Montanan]

Turn up your volume. You know the lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD...l=BobDylanVEVO

[Montanan]

Time keeps on slipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb9B...annel=chad1616

[Montanan]

Be sure to make Time for this classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-...nnel=PinkFloyd

[barnakiel]

Originally Posted by massnspace

What does this have to do with sailing? Doesn’t belong on this forum….

Time of no importance in navigation ??


Well well. Gen zed I guess.


;-)
Cheers,
b.

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

Time of no importance in navigation ??


Well well. Gen zed I guess.


;-)
Cheers,
b.

Only time will tell.


Reference link - Smithsonian Institute:

Time & Navigation
The untold story of getting from here to there.

https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/

[Bowdrie]

Oh great, now the cat will wake me up an hour earlier.
At least the chronometer, (GMT,) knows what the "real" time is.

[GordMay]

The Canadian Province of Quebec launches online questionnaire, over abolishing daylight saving time.
The online questionnaire asks people their opinions on the time change, and whether they would prefer to remain on daylight saving time year-round, or on eastern standard time.

Daylight Savings : For or Against?

About the Public Consultation ➥ https://consultation.quebec.ca/processes/changement-heure

Survey ➥ https://consultation.quebec.ca/proce...t-heure/f/397/

[GordMay]

Members of the British Sleep Society [BSS], a professional organisation, for medical, scientific and health workers, said evidence clearly shows that natural daylight, in the morning, is good for sleep patterns, while changing the clocks has a negative impact.

The society has issued a statement [1] saying it “strongly recommends” that Greenwich Mean Time [GMT] runs throughout the year.

They argue circadian rhythms – the physical, mental, and behavioural changes we experience over 24 hours – are most impacted by clocks moving forward in the spring.
In the UK, the clocks go forward one hour, at 1am, on the last Sunday in March, and back one hour, at 2am, on the last Sunday in October.

[1] “The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK” ~ by Megan R. Crawford et al , for the BSS
➥ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.14352

[marcjsmith]

Originally Posted by GordMay

Q: What do you call the guy, who's responsible for the seating arrangements, for the disinterested?
A: Chair man of the bored.

Bad Joke thread is down the hall....

[sailcub]

Originally Posted by massnspace

I didn’t read it. I just saw the thread title and did not have any interest in a topic that does not have anything to do with the forum.

What’s your ultimate point? That people should just post anything they want on this forum, regardless of if it has to do with sailing or not? And that it is the job of the reader to just not read irrelevant posts? Don’t you think this forum would get all clogged up with random posts if this was the case?

Typical...."if I don't like it, then others can't like it either"....nothing is getting clogged

[massnspace]

Originally Posted by sailcub

Typical...."if I don't like it, then others can't like it either"....nothing is getting clogged

I never said this….

It’s not a good argument strategy to put words into others mouths….you even used “quotes”…..weird.

What I did say was this topic has nothing to do with this forum, and I stand by that. Threads like these need to be called out, or else more and more will do it, and then the forum gets clogged up with topics that don’t belong here.

You’re welcome.

[sailcub]

On the porch with arm waving.....Stay off my lawn....!

[Montanan]

Might it be simpler to just adjust the spin of the earth by 1/24th of a rotation, and / or the tilt of the axis of the earth relative to the sun, instead of having billions of clocks reset twice a year as to making a respective change to their relative time zone, or am I missing something?

[robbjd]

Gord, thanks for the reminder. I do hate Port Arthur for enacting such an unnecessary, and disruptive tradition. Can't we all agree that it serves no useful purpose in the 21st century? Ontario, Quebec, New York, and Michigan have been talking about abolishing DST for years!

[smacksman]

Summer Time is relevent to sailors. Most tide tables on this side of the pond are in GMT year round so when to add on an hour is very relevent.
Times have changed since 1908. Society has moved on. Keep GMT year round. Anyway, by the end of April, there is about an hour extra daylight anyway. Check your almanac.