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Rollo Tamasi

Rollo Tamasi

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Yes, here in the United States, we change our clocks this coming weekend.
Also to be noted is that 4 weeks from today is Thanksgiving, 8 weeks from today is Christmas, and 9 weeks from today is New Years.
 
The whole idea of moving the clock ahead or back around the time of the devil's hour never sat well with me. What were they thinking? :lol
 
Yeah, ya gotta watch that "Devil's Hour." (Humm..... Wasn't that about the time Paul and Silas were freed from prison by the earthquake?) Acts 16:25
 
Very true ... but the majority of the states do

Indianapolis keeps to the same time year round.... really can be a problem during the winter months!
 
The biggest laugh I get is when someone looks at one of my sundials and says "it's an hour slow" when we have DST. Well, if I could move the sun ahead an hour, then it would cease to be DST and still be standard time. The correct way to adjust a sundial is to take a magic marker and cross off the 1 o'clock hour and write in 2, cross of the 2 o'clock marker and write in 3, and so forth. :lol That means it is now "noon" at 1PM (adjusting for the equation of time variations and your time zone difference). As a matter of fact, the slate sundials I have only have hour markings without numbers on them to prevent this sort of sundial abuse. :wink
 
That is too funny, someone saying your sundials are an hour slow during DST.

There's just no understanding some people's kids!
 
Isn't a sundial only truly in sync with a clock twice a year? (discounting DST)
 
Rollo Tamasi said:
Yes, here in the United States, we change our clocks this coming weekend.
Also to be noted is that 4 weeks from today is Thanksgiving, 8 weeks from today is Christmas, and 9 weeks from today is New Years.
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Actually, it's time to stop playing Christianity and ti, just, walk the walk.
 
Willie T said:
Isn't a sundial only truly in sync with a clock twice a year? (discounting DST)
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Long story. First of all, we tell time by timezones, so in effect we are using some privileged meridian to tell our time, in which DST is doing the same thing. We are merely calling someone else's solar noon (who live 15 degrees from us the next meridian over) our solar noon. And the same goes with time zones. In other words, what I am saying is that at some locations, the sun never agrees with the clocks.

However, if you are lucky enough to live on or close to a meridian the time zone is based on, such as the one I am living near at 75 degrees, then the sun agrees with the clocks 4 times a year on the meridian:

Mid April, mid June, early September and around Christmas. Before the railroads and time zones, everyone had their local clock time (and meridian) so these 4 times a year were consistent all over.

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But now as we move further away from the time-zone meridian, this offsets linearly to be different times of the year at different locations which I won't explain here as it's too detailed.
 
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