re: #20 ipsos

To those who would say DST “serves no real purpose,” I’d offer this: in southern California, the shortest day of the year has just under 10 hours of daylight and the sun is up before 7 even on standard time. The longest day of the year is just over 14 hours of daylight, and the sun would be up just before 5 on standard time….

I see you are still logged in. Great points, I have had the habit of disliking dst. Arizona does without it. But you made me realize this is more of a latitude problem than time zone (vertical segments by necessity) or state problem. The southern tier could do without, the north really can’t. California would split this one I think.

So as a society we fail to deal with this the best way. Given current technology centering clocks to have noon at solar noon all year long would be trivial in terms of technology. But stubborn humans can’t imagine a sliding work schedule I suppose. Or a day that is not quite 24 hours long and avoid leap year.

Anyway on this morning we are all adjusting I offer this link to a nice Wired pictorial. Some product to make getting up early suck less like clever clocks that wake you gently or in rhythm with your REM sleep.

Wake up easy.