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Old 10-31-2010, 01:39 AM   #31
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And in honor of the holiday, I also often worked " graveyard shift". I didn't like that as much. Sunlight in your eyes when driving home, and such.
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I remember in the mid 70's here in the US they kept DST all year... I walked to school in the dark... In the snow... Uphill...
you forgot the both ways bit!

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And in honor of the holiday, I also often worked " graveyard shift". I didn't like that as much. Sunlight in your eyes when driving home, and such.
besides being in daylight would interfere with your otherwise flawless pasty white northwest complexion! (there's some sunglasses to help with the morning commute!)
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:15 AM   #33
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besides being in daylight would interfere with your otherwise flawless pasty white northwest complexion! (there's some sunglasses to help with the morning commute!)
Actually, at this time period I lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I was more windburned than pale

And I would have said "both ways" but when I walked home it was uphill tornadoes.
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:19 AM   #34
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However you twist it, daylight just isn't long enough to last an entire working day. Might as well get at least some daylight in the morning...
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:30 AM   #35
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However you twist it, daylight just isn't long enough to last an entire working day. Might as well get at least some daylight in the morning...
As your President/Senator/Representative/Prime Minister/King I promise daylight an entire working day!

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Old 10-31-2010, 04:27 AM   #36
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Which it never is here. In winter we're around 30 minutes ahead of the sun, in summer it's 90 minutes...
Well, if you will live at a longitude that isn't (near) a multiple of 15°....
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When you live as far north as Britain, there would really be no point in year-round DST; in winter the days are so short (about 7-8h of daylight) that, no matter how you arrange things, it's going to be dark in the mornings and the evenings.
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Old 10-31-2010, 09:24 AM   #38
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Not Putting the Clocks Back This Weekend Would Improve Health, Says Expert

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It is obvious, isn't it?
Putting clock back and force is against natural body clock.
Got owl type in spring. Forcing myself to wake up one hour earlier, causing me much distress and discomfort for about two following the move weeks.

I truly hate it
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Actually, at this time period I lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I was more windburned than pale

And I would have said "both ways" but when I walked home it was uphill tornadoes.
ha! how funny! I *did* 6 months just north of there in Glenn Rock (contract for the railroad)

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It is obvious, isn't it?
Putting clock back and force is against natural body clock.
Got owl type in spring. Forcing myself to wake up one hour earlier, causing me much distress and discomfort for about two following the move weeks.

I truly hate it
isn't it funny how the one hour change is so much more difficult than a big change of several hours when you are traveling?
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It is obvious, isn't it?
Putting clock back and force is against natural body clock.
Got owl type in spring. Forcing myself to wake up one hour earlier, causing me much distress and discomfort for about two following the move weeks.

I truly hate it

clocks are against the natural body (erm) clock....
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isn't it funny how the one hour change is so much more difficult than a big change of several hours when you are traveling?
I never thought about it, but you are right.....if...if...I go west. Going east is unpleasant, I am owl type person.
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I never thought about it, but you are right.....if...if...I go west. Going east is unpleasant, I am owl type person.

quite right, the North Sea is getting colder by the day ....
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quite right, the North Sea is getting colder by the day ....
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And in honor of the holiday, I also often worked " graveyard shift". I didn't like that as much. Sunlight in your eyes when driving home, and such.
I prefer the night shifts.. that way I don't have to deal with all the politics at work...
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Memory serves me correctly, it was the night shift when the politics came out - like vampires and ghouls....
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