[HCARC] Daylight Savings

[John Canfield]

For the last few years we've basically stayed on daylight time 
year-round - we're pooped out by 9 pm CST and in bed a bit later. Being 
retired means we can use any time zone we want :-)

John, WB5THT


On 2/25/2018 7:28 PM, Kerry wrote:
>
> You do know that if you used UTC, Zulu, or GMT - whatever you want to 
> call it - you would never have to change your clocks again. After a 
> while the conversion from local time to your time for appointments and 
> TV programs becomes second nature.  The whole country could convert to 
> UTC and then there would be no more confusion and it probably wouldn't 
> take any longer to convert than the conversion from English units to 
> metric units!
>
> PS - I can't believe any ham doesn't use UTC for their logging - Oh, 
> yes, I remember, no one logs anymore.
>
> On 2/25/2018 11:49 AM, Fred wrote:
>> I wish we would just leave it alone so folks could get used to it.  I 
>> remember once upon a time going to 89N and it made no difference 
>> depending on winter or summer.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Fred/w0lpd
>>
>>
>> On 2/25/2018 11:05 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>> 2 weeks from today sanity reigns supreme once again.  Imagine, one 
>>> extra hour of daylight in the evenings when people get home from 
>>> work – what a concept.  The only queer thing is why we drop back in 
>>> November instead of moving 1 more hour ahead and dropping back an 
>>> hour in the spring.  I don’t care if its dark when I am sleeping, 
>>> just that it is light when I am awake.  Time is a relative concept 
>>> whose major feature is to ensure we all get to appointments “on 
>>> time”.  As long as we all are using the same time it works.
>>>
>>> However as Hams we go from +5 to +6.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Gary J
>>> N5BAA
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