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I think the places where you see the negatives are in the western edges of time zones. For example, IN is in the western edge of Eastern; AZ western Mountain and even Kansas western Central.

That said I’m with Kev. I didn’t mind coming to work thsi morning in the dark knowing I’ll have nearly 3 hours of daylight this evening.

Reading the Wichita EAGLE early this morning, I noticed it said the Sun should rise at 6:50 AM BUT IT WAS STILL DARK. What was going on? Had the Sun disappeared or turned around and gone backward?

Then I realized this morning was first day of DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. The EAGLE had failed to correct its sunrise/sunset charts so the Sun would be right on schedule.

There would still be about 11 hours, 43 minutes of sunlight today — just more lopsided than before here in Wichita.

Since the Earth is round, 360 degrees, and 24 hours, each “time district” around the world theoretically advances one hour every 15 degrees. However, Wichita is 97 degrees west of Grenwich, England so even in STANDARD TIME, we have more sunlight on the afternoon side than on the morning side.

Here in Wichita, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME gives us even more sunlight after noon than before noon. Today, March 9th, Wichita will have 4 hours, 12 minutes of Sunlight before noon and 7 hours, 31 minutes of Sunlight after noon.

Arizona and Indiana both being at the west side of their respective time zones, choose not to go on Daylight Savings Time.

Personally, I would favor dropping Daylight Savings Time here in Kansas for the following reasons:

** I wouldn’t have to adjust my twenty clocks including in my car and my watch.

** Sun would go down earlier at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium baseball games to get the Sun our of our eyes in the Hardball Cafe area.

Pass the Coppertone here please —- gonna start my tan with all this extra ….

Daylight savings time should go year round.

Sorry Jwink and the other 2 people in Hardball Cafe.

Hank Price posted March 9, 2008 at 9:22 am

“I have a new atomic clock that I bought at Sams last month.”

I doubt very much that Sams sells “atomic” clocks, and the station WWVB is near Fort Collins CO.

http://tf.nist.gov/

AmWay: Today, Sunday, 3/9/08, no matter whether the clock time “springs forward an hour,” OR “falls back two hours,” or slips sideways somehow … we will have 11 hours and 40 minutes of sunlight/daylight.

So, you should be able settle down with a few cold ones no matter what the clock says in these almost 12 hours of sunlight and more as summer approaches.

As usual June 21/22 will be the longest day of the year and then the days start getting shorter again.

And in this month of March … the full moon will occur on March 21st. Its on the night of the full moon, Wichita’s Earl Browder favorite son society is said to meet secretly on the top floor of one of downtown Wichita’s tall vacant office buildings. The only clues is loud laughter, lots of cigar smoke and congratulations on putting the half billion dollar downtown arena over on the taxpayers.

So who was Earl Browder?

Earl Browder grew up in the Delano area of Wichita, not far east of Friends University. He was eventually nominated twice in the 1930’s for President of the United States on the national ticket of the American Communist Party.

He lost … both times.

I love the story about two white guys trying to explain the concept of Daylight Savings Time to a distinguished Native American man.

He listened carefully, nodded appropriately, and took in all the explanation. Then he pronounced “I see. It is ancient white people superstition”.

Hehehehehehehhe. True enough.