[Shotimes] OT: Day light Savings

[Beisler Jonathon]

Zach,
I understand.  Like I said, I usually work from 6A to 5P or so, so in the
winter, it's dark whenever I drive.  Hell, my wife gets excited on December
21 every year because it's the shortest day of the year and because that
means every day thereafter until March, the day gets longer.  They should
pass a law that says we always advance an hour.  That way, every few hundred
years or so, it would be daylight at night for all those poor souls working
11-7.  :)  Just kidding.  It's all about money.  Oil prices go up during the
"summer months" because everyone drives more for vacation, travel, what not.
They have to offset the lower electric bills somehow....:)
JB

-----Original Message-----
From: Zach Leahy [mailto:leahyz@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:12 AM
To: Beisler Jonathon
Cc: Shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT: Day light Savings


You gain the hour of sunlight on the summer, or if you asre looking
from a summer perspective.. you loose the hour in the winter (in the
evening).  That's what my gripe is, the winter months of going to, and
coming home from work in the dark.

Z

On 4/27/05, Beisler Jonathon <Jonathon.Beisler@hcahealthcare.com> wrote:
> I should have mentioned, in case you don't read the article that we might
> lose some morning shine, but the majority of people turn their lights on
> that early anyway.  At night, you have a longer day, meaning you can do
> without electricity for lighting for an extra hour or so.  It's not for
the
> farmers, it's for the money savings.  It also means that you can stay out
> later playing with the kids, working on the SHO, etc.  In the winter, I
get
> home in the dark no matter what, that's not DST, that's shorter days
because
> of the sun being further away and the earth's rotation.  In the summer
> months, I can have up to two or three hours to hang out with my kids and
> wife outside, etc., if I so choose.
> JB
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