It’s Saturday, and (if you are in America) you’re supposed to turn your clock back an hour at 2 AM on Sunday morning. That’s just one of the ridiculous aspects of this clock-twisting rule. Do it, of course, before going to bed today. America returns to standard, or approximately true solar, time till 2024 March 10.
If while doing this around 9 o’clock you take a look out of a south-facing window, here’s the sky you may see.
How much of this broad east-to-west view you actually see depends on obstacles such as clouds and trees; and features such as the ecliptic and the dim planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are for the mind’s eye.
The point we mark as the “anti-Sun” is the direction opposite to (180° from) the Sun, and Jupiter is near it, having been at opposition on Nov. 3. About 90° from it is the “antapex of Earth’s way,” the direction away from which we are traveling at this moment in our orbit around the Sun.
How does time pass in a solitary cell?
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Regarding Daylight Time, in the summer, the sun sets so late that folks can’t enjoy stargazing, ie, at a 45 degree latitude, it won’t get dark until past 10PM. I help an astronomy club to help the public know more about our wonderful Universe, we have to fight light pollution, very little astronomy topics in K12, and now DST in the summer. We can’t hold any astronomy events from the middle of May until mid-August as a result.
Jim Head
The Northwoods Explorers
http://www.TheNorthwoodsExplorers.org
While I am encouraged to hear more and more chatter about folks being sick of altering their clocks, the preponderant “solution” is to leave Daylight Altered Time as permanent. The meaningless exception to this is a proposal in Massachusetts to move from Eastern Standard Time to the Atlantic Standard Time zone. I have yet to hear of a proposal that occurs to me; shift the Time-zone meridia by 7 1/2 degrees; effectively splitting the difference – with local times being then + 1/2 hour. What think you?
I stillthink: stay on standard time. Simplest.