Damn Daylight Savings Time Anyway!!

kennyc · 10-30-2010, 07:49 AM

Not Putting the Clocks Back This Weekend Would Improve Health, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029075801.htm

GeoffC · 10-30-2010, 08:31 AM

And the next expert will say otherwise ...

Same topic, but a question to those of us who dread dark mornings....

Can anyone recommend, by their experience, any of the dawn/alarm simulators. There seem many products on the market, but with widely differing reviews ....

HarryT · 10-30-2010, 08:50 AM

I haven't come across those, Geoff. Do you have any links to examples?

kennyc · 10-30-2010, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

And the next expert will say otherwise ...

Same topic, but a question to those of us who dread dark mornings....

Can anyone recommend, by their experience, any of the dawn/alarm simulators. There seem many products on the market, but with widely differing reviews ....

Is this like full-spectrum sun lamps? I'd appreciate links as well.

kindlekitten · 10-30-2010, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Not Putting the Clocks Back This Weekend Would Improve Health, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029075801.htm

oh I absolutely HATE it!!! here shortly it will be dark before 5. this means I either need to feed horses in the dark, quite awkward, or feed them terribly early!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

And the next expert will say otherwise ...

Same topic, but a question to those of us who dread dark mornings....

Can anyone recommend, by their experience, any of the dawn/alarm simulators. There seem many products on the market, but with widely differing reviews ....

I don't have any product names, but I have heard that the ones that mimic natural dawn, slowly bringing light up in your room are the best ones for SAD

GeoffC · 10-30-2010, 10:30 AM

Dawn Simulators - if not specifically for the treatment of SAD, at least as a help-me-to-wake up the mornings !

HarryT · 10-30-2010, 10:34 AM

Interesting - thanks for that. Can you connect it to your sprinkler system for added realism for those rainy winter dawns?

lene1949 · 10-30-2010, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

oh I absolutely HATE it!!! here shortly it will be dark before 5. this means I either need to feed horses in the dark, quite awkward, or feed them terribly early!

What time would you feed them, if there were no daylight saving?

We still don't have daylight saving in Queensland.. Most of the other states do. They had some ridiculous reasons, such as the extra hour of sun would fade the curtains.., but I suppose with livestock and working, you have to go by the time set... But, if you were on a farm, couldn't you just go by the clock of the animals?

HarryT · 10-30-2010, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by lene1949

What time would you feed them, if there were no daylight saving?

We still don't have daylight saving in Queensland.. Most of the other states do. They had some ridiculous reasons, such as the extra hour of sun would fade the curtains.., but I suppose with livestock and working, you have to go by the time set... But, if you were on a farm, couldn't you just go by the clock of the animals?

How can DST "fade the curtains"?

lene1949 · 10-30-2010, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Not Putting the Clocks Back This Weekend Would Improve Health, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029075801.htm

But.... wouldn't that confuse the other planets?

lene1949 · 10-30-2010, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

How can DST "fade the curtains"?

Honestly, I think it must have been a joke, but apparently it was one of the excuses NOT to get daylight saving.. (One extra hour of sunlight)

kindlekitten · 10-30-2010, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by lene1949

What time would you feed them, if there were no daylight saving?

We still don't have daylight saving in Queensland.. Most of the other states do. They had some ridiculous reasons, such as the extra hour of sun would fade the curtains.., but I suppose with livestock and working, you have to go by the time set... But, if you were on a farm, couldn't you just go by the clock of the animals?

their natural rythym is dawn to dusk. in the winter when the nights are SO long and of course rather cold I wish I could feed them later so they had more food in their belly overnight. I pretty much feed at dusk most of the year except right around summer solstice when that is almost 10. I usually don't feed much past 8:30 then

wodin · 10-30-2010, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Not Putting the Clocks Back This Weekend Would Improve Health, Says Expert

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1029075801.htm

What it takes to be an "expert" is to be willing to call yourself one.

wodin · 10-30-2010, 02:23 PM

Don't like DST? Move to Hawaii, or Queensland, or Arizona. We still retain a modicum of sanity. And in Hawaii, there is still time to get nine holes of golf in between "pau hanna" and "too dark to see your balls".

Seanette · 10-30-2010, 02:24 PM

Cue my semi-annual "standard, daylight, split the difference, pick something else altogether, I really don't care what pseudo-time zone it is, just pick something and STICK WITH IT" rant.

I hate the transitions.

10-30-2010, 07:49 AM	#1
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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Interesting - thanks for that. Can you connect it to your sprinkler system for added realism for those rainy winter dawns?

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Seanette Addict Posts: 254 Karma: 834 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sacramento, CA Device: Samsung Galaxy s3 (Android 4.4.2), iPad 2, Win10 laptop	Cue my semi-annual "standard, daylight, split the difference, pick something else altogether, I really don't care what pseudo-time zone it is, just pick something and STICK WITH IT" rant. I hate the transitions.