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    Daylight Savings Time Begins Sunday @ 1AM on 3/10/13

    Time to spring forward an hour for the beginning of Daylight Savings Time early this Sunday morning (or Saturday evening if you prefer).

    It's always interesting to see who comes to church an hour late... ;)

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    SK Member (07/07/2014) VK3ZL's Avatar
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    Daylight saving finishes here at the end of March..I hate daylight saving..All that extra sunshine fades the curtains..The cows get confused and give an extra gallon of milk a day..I seem to work less DX with the shorter nights..All that extra sunshine dries the garden out so Jeannie uses more water..With all that extra daylight I miss out on my proper sleep..Wish they would leave us alone with all this new fangled social engineering stuff.. Bastids...

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    Quote Originally Posted by VK3ZL View Post
    Daylight saving finishes here at the end of March..I hate daylight saving..All that extra sunshine fades the curtains..The cows get confused and give an extra gallon of milk a day..I seem to work less DX with the shorter nights..All that extra sunshine dries the garden out so Jeannie uses more water..With all that extra daylight I miss out on my proper sleep..Wish they would leave us alone with all this new fangled social engineering stuff.. Bastids...

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    ...and get off my lawn!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WU9G View Post
    ...and get off my lawn!
    I'm not smart enough to go to Stanford, much less get onto your yard.

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    There's always this bon-mot:

    You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century....
    This should come as no surprise to any reasonable person. As you know, Daylight Saving time started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of Congress would ave considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they?
    Perhaps this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat. Perhaps the next time there should be serious tudies before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects.
    CONNIE M. MESKIMEN
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    Nothing more needs to be said on that.

    One more that predates that one... no snopes for that one.

    I am sure that if you have been out on the trails of our wonderful mountains lately you have noticed the snow is disappearing rapidly, and there are rocks and trees poking through at levels seemingly unprecedented in the memory of those of us that pay attention to such things. It is heartbreaking to to see their majestic finery slipping away so early.

    Ah, the locals say, global warming is to blame! They have seen the movie by Albert Gore and are convinced, and even our own Aspen Skiing Co. is buying it. But the true culprit is right under their noses, on the faces of their watches, foisted upon us by another sainted Democrat - one Franklin Delano Roosevelt!

    Yes, my friends, I am speaking of the insidious evil known as daylight-saving time! When we switched our clocks ahead on March 10, we not only lost an hour of sleep for one night, we added an hour of sunlight to every evening until next November. Any fool can tell you that afternoon sun is the hottest sun, as that is the hottest part of the day! Think of the damage an extra hour of solar radiation does to the snow on our mountains. And this year, with a Democrat congress, daylight-saving time was moved up four weeks, adding all that extra melting time. It will be a wonder if there is even a snow bank left to play in when April rolls around.

    Now is the time for all right thinking Americans to call their congressman to tell them that this madness must stop, before Aspen and its economy melts away.

    David K. Gibson
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    Darn-gummit Dems!
    Last edited by N2NH; 03-06-2013 at 01:14 AM.
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    this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!
    "... and another thing about you democrats ... you all believe in science!" -- denny crane

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    Quote Originally Posted by n6hcm View Post
    this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!
    Yeah but it does help me save money on lamp oil. The extra hours of daylight means that I burn my oil lamps for an hour less every night before retiring. That means I burn less lamp oil which means the less often I have to hitch up the team and ride 20 miles into town to go to the General Store to buy lamp oil.
    I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by n6hcm View Post
    this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!
    I agree. Just move it forward an hour permanently. More daylight when I'm home is nice.

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    I'm glad we don't do that shit in this part of the desert.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    I'm glad we don't do that shit in this part of the desert.
    +1 :-)
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