It's getting darker earlier...
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It's getting darker earlier...
Whose not-so-bright idea was THAT?
Every day it seems to get darker even earlier. It's still light after dinner, but not for long. I don't like this trend. Is there someone I can speak to? Can we get up a petition?
Every day it seems to get darker even earlier. It's still light after dinner, but not for long. I don't like this trend. Is there someone I can speak to? Can we get up a petition?
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You could move south of the equator, the days are getting longer there.
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Its shrinking on both ends
Every morning its light later.
I'll sign the petition.
Every morning its light later.
I'll sign the petition.
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I have a hunch that in a few months, the days will start to get longer. In the mean time, here's a good forum that may offer a solution.
https://www.bikeforums.net/electronics-lighting-gadgets/
https://www.bikeforums.net/electronics-lighting-gadgets/
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Lights!
I've got lights
I just prefer sunshine.
I've got lights
I just prefer sunshine.
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He also lives in the extreme south of the USA, where the days are longer in the winter, not to say anything of being much warmer.
Believe me, it is much more difficult to face the prospect of a long, dark, cold Wisconsin winter than one in San Diego.
Consider that we have days where the sun sets at 4:23, we get only 9 hours of daylight, with an average low of 4 degrees (it is even worse in Minneapolis).
But in San Diego the sun sets at 4:42, their shortest day is 10 hours of daylight, and the lowest avg temp on any day is 48. I could deal with that.
Believe me, it is much more difficult to face the prospect of a long, dark, cold Wisconsin winter than one in San Diego.
Consider that we have days where the sun sets at 4:23, we get only 9 hours of daylight, with an average low of 4 degrees (it is even worse in Minneapolis).
But in San Diego the sun sets at 4:42, their shortest day is 10 hours of daylight, and the lowest avg temp on any day is 48. I could deal with that.
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Dear chief, I fear this old boy just might have a screw loose talking about shorter days--but then it could be that he has been on the road and he is having withdrawals from not being able to post. Now I'm no doctor, but maybe, just maybe, by not being able to post, he has a cronic buildup of BS
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Push afternoon group ride meeting time back to 5:30 p.m. at the latest!
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I once lived for 18 months of winter straight. A winter in the U.S., a winter in Australia, then a winter in the U.S. The weather was fine, but a year and a half of short days drove me nuts.
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Work at night??
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Sunrise and Sunset in Parker, CO
Actual Time 6:20 AM MDT 7:41 PM MDT
Civil Twilight 5:52 AM MDT 8:08 PM MDT
Nautical Twilight 5:19 AM MDT 8:42 PM MDT
Astronomical Twilight 4:43 AM MDT 9:17 PM MDT
Moon 6:22 PM MDT 2:52 AM MDT
Length Of Visible Light: 14h 16m
Length of Day 13h 20m
Tomorrow will be 2m 25s shorter.
Actual Time 6:20 AM MDT 7:41 PM MDT
Civil Twilight 5:52 AM MDT 8:08 PM MDT
Nautical Twilight 5:19 AM MDT 8:42 PM MDT
Astronomical Twilight 4:43 AM MDT 9:17 PM MDT
Moon 6:22 PM MDT 2:52 AM MDT
Length Of Visible Light: 14h 16m
Length of Day 13h 20m
Tomorrow will be 2m 25s shorter.
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Yes, the shorter days are depressing. Makes one think of the inevitability of death; how much longer do I have, will I be a vegatable, what was that little pain in my leg today; bad circulation, cancer, nothing? Was that little headache last night the sign of a coming stroke?
Death is surely coming, whats after that? Oblivion I fear.
Death is surely coming, whats after that? Oblivion I fear.
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Yes, the shorter days are depressing. Makes one think of the inevitability of death; how much longer do I have, will I be a vegatable, what was that little pain in my leg today; bad circulation, cancer, nothing? Was that little headache last night the sign of a coming stroke?
Death is surely coming, whats after that? Oblivion I fear.
Death is surely coming, whats after that? Oblivion I fear.
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"It's getting darker earlier... "
I'm glad someone else noticed that too. I was afraid it was just me.
I'm glad someone else noticed that too. I was afraid it was just me.
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We Hoosiers are new to this Daylight Savings Time business; some of us will be very bent out of shape when we loose a hour of life-sustaining daylight in October. That's on top of the incremental losses, already happening, that have been previously mentioned. Woe is us!
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We get a swing of over 9 hours. That is, winter days are 8-9 hours shorter.
I am getting to the point where I hate it.
I am getting to the point where I hate it.
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In the summer it regularly gets to 100 degrees in the East County, which is what we call the eastern suburbs, about 15-20 miles inland. I used to live in that area. Now that I live closer to downtown and the beach (but not on it, dammit), the climate is usually more temperate, often ten degrees or more cooler in the day and a little warmer at night (in the summer).
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This past Jan I went to Florida for a week to break up that dark, cold monotony.
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