[CW] Fwd: Re: [SWL] Daylight SHIFTING time

[Donald Chester]

Yes, the idea is to set your clock one hour ahead and pretend that it is an 
hour later.  What a bunch of crock!

It doesn't matter what we do with the clocks; the bottom line is we are 
being forced to get up an hour earlier.

This really cuts into ham radio time for those of us who work 160 and 80m.

Why don't the "day people" who seem to be the ones who run things just leave 
the clocks alone.  Let the early birds set their own alarm clocks to ring 
earlier so they can enjoy the pleasure of getting up and stumbling around in 
pitch black every morning, and let the rest of us observe our natural 
biological clocks plus be able to operate a little ham radio in the hours of 
darkness in the evening before we have to go to bed.

I suppose those who live by the TV don't notice it too much.  But I find 
myself exposed to too many cues to what time it really is, to ever adjust to 
the time change: daily radio propagation, and even the nighttime sky that is 
still somewhat visible out here in this shrinking rural area.  As a rusult I 
  suffer from chronic sleep deprivation from April through October.  I have 
to get up an hour earlier in the morning, but never get sleepy any earlier 
in the evening. I keep my clock in the radio building  set on GMT year 
round.

I wish whoever initiated Daylight Shifting Time could be strung up and made 
to suffer the effects of an all-metal Wouff-Hong energised with the full rf 
output from my kilowatt transmitter!

Don K4KYV  >:-(

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