View Full Version : DST 2008 - Will you have more daylight for hiking?
Fannypack
02-17-2008, 07:10
The annual question:
When daylight saving time begins, will you have more daylight for hiking?
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
When we change our clocks
Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.
Btw, good thing DST does NOT happen on the w/e Feb 29 - March 1.
Can you imagine the confusion that would occur in Duncannon for the Billville crew?
More info:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22749&highlight=daylight+saving+time
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22356&highlight=daylight+saving+time
generoll
02-17-2008, 09:17
.....no
Toolshed
02-17-2008, 10:38
Yes, everbody gets an extra hour of light, which is good, because we really don't need that whole other hour of darkness. Though I could never figure out where exactly they got it from, the extra hour of light is good for things like walking a little further each day, burrnging your hand on your alky stove eating dinner in the daylight, seperating your darks and lights the night before you hike into town for laundry, having a longer more leisurely breakfast...
:welcome
Fiddleback
02-17-2008, 11:06
Oh, there's extra daylight, alright. We've already gained about 1 /3/4 hours here in Missoula County since the solstice. But what we've gained, and what is yet to come, has nothing to do with DST...:eek: (I know...I know...it was a shock to me too:D)
Here's a fun site, http://sunrisesunset.com/usa/
FB
Nearly Normal
02-17-2008, 11:09
Good site.
It will be grear for me on the Bartram Trail because I will start on March 15. This will mean daylight maybe just a hint before 7 and and daylight until nearly 6:45 PM. This means I don't have to get up at 5:30 AM to maximize my daylight. I regard this as a GOOD thing!:banana
Grumpy Ol' Pops
02-17-2008, 16:03
The annual question:
When daylight saving time begins, will you have more daylight for hiking?
When the time change occurs from EST to DST, all that is happening is that the times of sunrise and sunset are shifted one hour ahead. As a result, the hour of sunset is one hour later, but so is the hour of sunrise. Will you have more time for hiking? No, you'll simply have the same amount of time, but the start of your hiking day will simply be closer to sunrise after the change to DST. In other words, you'll sleep the same number of hours and hike the same number of hours, but if you wake at the same hour of time each day (let's say 5 A.M.), regardless of EST or DST, it will simply be darker later in the morning and lighter later in the evening when you settle down at the end of the hiking day during DST.
dessertrat
02-17-2008, 16:07
Yes, and I would like to thank our Congress people for giving us more daylight. It would be awful if they repealed daylight altogether and left us in the dark.
What about moonlight? Can they give us an extra day or two of a full moon and make the full moon rise at twilight and set at sunrise. I want to hike 24 hours a day.
I don't like waking up at 6am, so I changed my watch to read 9am at 6am. The fun begins when another hiker asks for the time and I tell him what my watch says.
The annual question:
When daylight saving time begins, will you have more daylight for hiking?
On the day DST begins you will have more daylight than the day before, but not as much as they day that follows.
Nearly Normal
02-19-2008, 10:48
I don't like waking up at 6am, so I changed my watch to read 9am at 6am. The fun begins when another hiker asks for the time and I tell him what my watch says.
I don't take a watch anymore. I only need to know what day I'm suppose to go home.
I don't take a watch anymore. I only need to know what day I'm suppose to go home.
Yes, well most calendar watches take up less space than a calendar and you can wear a watch. The watch also tells me how much time I have left until cocktail hour on a cloudy day. Also, the nail hole for the calendar in the tent/tarp/hammock tends to let in water. :D
Here's a fun site, http://sunrisesunset.com/usa/
FB
Thanks. Bookmark. Moosrise, too!
I do not grasp the concept of changing time in the first place. :)
After all, it's worked just fine for millions of years