I enyoy the crows and ravens visiting the deck and yard. This morning a raven was sitting in the high trees behind my house scoping the yard for treats. I had a half pound of week old loverwurst, cut it into bitsize chunks and deposited the meal on the rock ledge 25' from the house. Also had months old dates with pits and included them and a few pounds of horse corn kernels.
That was when farming pretty much dictated people's lives and we generally lived outdoors. That no longer applies to the majority of us.
I only just now saw this. Yeah, toolmakers extraordinaire, much more so than chimpanzees, surprisingly enough .
No, the introduction of daylight savings was in part due to farmers. I was saying that the human being was created as a "diurnal" creature that was meant to be active during the daylight.
No offense, but that seems like a ridiculous statement... how does daylight savings impact the intensity of the sun?
Again, this has nothing to do with daylight savings time... it is purely related to the position of the sun relative to the earth.
I hope so. The days are longer, there are more sunny days in the summer and the sunlight is more direct.
Thanks Jim, just had a chance to find Betty, busy this morning.
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Wrong. It's in our biology... we haven't evolved to become nocturnal crepuscular (most active during both dawn and dusk), we still function better during daylight hours. I'm not saying that we need to sleep 12 hours a day during the winter, but this is science.
Correct. We operate better in daylight hours. Hence, in today's world, few people are outside at 4:30AM. In today's society we are more active in the early evening than in the early morning. That is largely because most of us don't wake up to milk the cows at 4:30AM. So it makes far more sense to bias the daylight hours to the evening when it would be most beneficial to the most people. Daylight standard time would waste a good bit of daylight hours in the morning when few would take advantage of it. In today's society we don't change when we wake and go to sleep based on when the sun comes up and goes down. We base when we wake and go to sleep largely on our workplace. And our work hours don't change because the sun is coming up earlier or going down later. Our work hours are fixed throughout the year.
My point is that we shouldn't be switching the time back and forth as it gets our internal clocks out of whack.
I agree. It should just be Daylight Savings Time that we stick to, not Standard Time.
It's not the time of the day that bothers me, I could care less. Its the change of time that affects me and several hundred million other Americans. BTW, we don't have extended summer evenings, we just leave work/school or have dinner earlier in the day relative to the position of the sun. We could still do that be adjusting out scheduled and not the clock.
That fact that you don't know the difference between choosing to get up and hour earlier and changing your clock to read an our earlier explains this issue completely!
Change your schedule, change the clock, you're getting an hour earlier in both cases.
