Can I ask a Daylight Savings Question?

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Edited Date/Time 3/18/2022 8:08am
If we never change the clock, but the sun sets a little later every day (because a day is not an exact 24 hours to the minute) how come it does eventually set at midnight?

Does it go backwards at some point?

I hate changing all the clocks and shit, but I fear what happens if we didn't

How does it all balance out?

I'm being serious, not shit stirring (I know you know believe me)

You AZ people should know
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borg 3/12/2022 4:05pm
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I think leap year is the correction that you are talking about. The time change is for a different reason.
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flarider 3/12/2022 4:09pm
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Sun doesn't set the same time every day, why weather man tells you sunrise and sunset times....I think it's 6-7 minutes different a day or something
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indy_maico 3/12/2022 4:12pm
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Yes, at the solstices it changes and the days get shorter starting June 21 and then reverses direction on Dec 21
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flarider wrote:
Sun doesn't set the same time every day, why weather man tells you sunrise and sunset times....I think it's 6-7 minutes different a day or something
It gets later, then it gets earlier, then starts the cycle over again every summer and winter solstice.

The leap day corrects for almost all of the ‘extra’ time needed to account for each orbit of the sun not being exactly 365 days.
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flarider 3/12/2022 4:19pm
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I guess because of all the damn changes, I can't really get a feel for it coming back....

I don't know no differn't
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flarider wrote:
Sun doesn't set the same time every day, why weather man tells you sunrise and sunset times....I think it's 6-7 minutes different a day or something
Yeah I adjust all my clocks about that much every single day . Huh
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ATKpilot99 3/12/2022 4:23pm
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Personally I think we should just adjust to daylight savings time then just leave it there .
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APLMAN99 3/12/2022 4:24pm
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flarider wrote:
I guess because of all the damn changes, I can't really get a feel for it coming back....

I don't know no differn't
Daylight savings really doesn’t affect anything other than it ‘tricks’ our brains to think that we should be awake longer in the evening. The earth’s rotation and the time it takes to revolve around the sun are still the same.

I like daylight savings, but not everyone does. I suppose we could compromise and simply move ahead 30 minutes tonight and just leave it that way forever, though!
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flarider 3/12/2022 4:35pm
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I hate changing the clocks, especially when traveling.

No bullshit, I have a nice Tag watch I only wear half the year, it's too much of a bitch to change it. Come to think of it, it'll be right again tomorrow

I just don't know any better and just wanted a picture on how it work.

How late does it usually get for sundown?

We usually have sundown between 6-7
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Jeremy A.K. 3/12/2022 4:52pm
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I can't even count the number of times my phone has saved my ass by changing automatically.
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flarider wrote:
I hate changing the clocks, especially when traveling. No bullshit, I have a nice Tag watch I only wear half the year, it's too much of...
I hate changing the clocks, especially when traveling.

No bullshit, I have a nice Tag watch I only wear half the year, it's too much of a bitch to change it. Come to think of it, it'll be right again tomorrow

I just don't know any better and just wanted a picture on how it work.

How late does it usually get for sundown?

We usually have sundown between 6-7
Depends on your latitude.

Our‘earliest’ sunset in December was 4:10PM. Our ‘latest’ sunset in June was 9:02PM (8:02 standard time). So nearly 4 actual hours difference in sunset over each 6 month period, which would mean close 7.5 hour swing in day length over that same time.
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flarider 3/12/2022 5:09pm
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That's crazy.

I've been up north in summer and I know it can get dark late, but I didn't know that.

Must be why we have a tendency to eat earlier in Florida (and old people), most restaurants are closed by 10 or 11pm on many nights, and up there, it'd just have gotten dark!

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GeorgiePorgie 3/12/2022 5:15pm
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Daylight savings sucks. Totally sucks for my 3 year old and 1 year old bedtime routines and morning wake up. Jacks them up for a month or so.
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borg 3/12/2022 5:22pm
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flarider wrote:
That's crazy. I've been up north in summer and I know it can get dark late, but I didn't know that. Must be why we have...
That's crazy.

I've been up north in summer and I know it can get dark late, but I didn't know that.

Must be why we have a tendency to eat earlier in Florida (and old people), most restaurants are closed by 10 or 11pm on many nights, and up there, it'd just have gotten dark!

For sunhouse it probably never really gets dark in June.
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flarider 3/12/2022 5:24pm
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Yeah, I knew those polar people get that....no thanks
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borg 3/12/2022 5:30pm
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flarider wrote:
Yeah, I knew those polar people get that....no thanks
Why do you have to be such a dick about it?
No more Engine Ice for me!
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flarider 3/12/2022 5:34pm
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flarider wrote:
Yeah, I knew those polar people get that....no thanks
borg wrote:
Why do you have to be such a dick about it?
No more Engine Ice for me!
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sumdood 3/12/2022 6:07pm
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Indians take on daylight “savings” “Only a white man would be stupid enough to think if he cuts a foot off one end of a blanket and sews it on other end that he’ll have a longer blanket”
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borg 3/12/2022 6:10pm
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sumdood wrote:
Indians take on daylight “savings” “Only a white man would be stupid enough to think if he cuts a foot off one end of a blanket...
Indians take on daylight “savings” “Only a white man would be stupid enough to think if he cuts a foot off one end of a blanket and sews it on other end that he’ll have a longer blanket”
Yup. Like taking a bucket of water from one end of the pool and pouring it into the other end.
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profeshenal125 3/12/2022 7:48pm
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sumdood wrote:
Indians take on daylight “savings” “Only a white man would be stupid enough to think if he cuts a foot off one end of a blanket...
Indians take on daylight “savings” “Only a white man would be stupid enough to think if he cuts a foot off one end of a blanket and sews it on other end that he’ll have a longer blanket”
Haha I was talking naitive style delivering to green castle Pa. clerk says go park in lot g when I get a dock I,ll call ya. She calls I tell her I hv a cable seal it is metal it is man made. I talked with naitive pauses. I could here her ask the rest of the office and here them answer. Too funny like what else would a cable seal b made out of. I meet the yard jock . I say I have traveled a great distance to bring you gifts. My arms sign to the trailer as to where the gifts r. My name is Dark Path I,m in the soaring Eagle clan of the Oneida Tribe. My Chief sent me here , I am glad. We laughed what if we greated each other in the world this way today. Watch 1930 Indian sign language vid , it’s a trip. Time change well the world is turning . The magnetic north changes the earths latitude 8 degrees a yr. survey your yard then again 6 months later it will b 4 degrees different
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Nighttrain 3/12/2022 7:51pm
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Why does the sun set a few seconds later everyday after Winter Equinox but doesn’t start coming up in the morning earlier until a few days later into January? I don’t think that reciprocates at Summer Solace or does it?
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Dls used to be a few weeks later, GW moved it back a few weeks. I switch times zones 7 days a week. I get up b4 sunrise so it don’t bother me. Sunday I jump forward 2 hrs. But if I end up in cst I will only get 1 hr back. I think I,ll live
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JAFO92 3/12/2022 8:40pm
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Daylight Savings is the stupidest shit ever. The days are already getting longer, there is no need to fuck with the clocks. The sun still goes down at the same time for that time of the year regardless if your clock says '8' or '9'. Its gonna go down when it goes down. All changing clocks does is make you get up an hour earlier. And like I said before, the fricking days are much longer without dinking with anything due to the fuckin' axis tilt. @#$%^& Can you tell I hate Daylight Dumbass Savings?

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lestat 3/12/2022 8:50pm
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Daylight savings time makes more sense the further you are from the equator .
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flarider 3/13/2022 1:52am
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lestat wrote:
Daylight savings time makes more sense the further you are from the equator .
In Florida, it really doesn't shift a whole lot, which is why it's a little confusing to me what would happen without it.

As a FL native, it's hard to wrap my head around
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Nighttrain wrote:
Why does the sun set a few seconds later everyday after Winter Equinox but doesn’t start coming up in the morning earlier until a few days...
Why does the sun set a few seconds later everyday after Winter Equinox but doesn’t start coming up in the morning earlier until a few days later into January? I don’t think that reciprocates at Summer Solace or does it?
Yeah, we are dealing with the earths rotation combined with an elliptical orbit around the sun. I had it described to me before, but I don’t think that I could begin to actually describe it. But it’s the reason why the sunset and sunrise change at different rates depending on the time of the year.
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G-man 3/13/2022 3:20pm
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It's Daylight Savings time? Woohoo

I forgot....Laughing
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NvHermit 3/13/2022 5:36pm
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My vote is daylight savings time year round, I'm not a fan of darkness at 4:30
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avidchimp 3/13/2022 6:34pm
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G-man wrote:
It's Daylight Savings time? Woohoo

I forgot....Laughing
It's actually Daylight Saving time, no "s". Sorry, I had to do it. hahaha
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