Well, we couldn't just ignore the guy. And look what happened (on the 10 o'clock news) upon stopping at the Hindsdale Oasis.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Monday, March 11, 2019
Morning may become Electra, but not me (sorry, Mr. O'Neill)
Welcome back to daylight saving time! And I mean that very
sincerely. After all, it’s the mechanism that makes mornings a bit more bearable
here on the eastern cusp of the Central time zone.
Sunrise, which
announces itself through our south-facing bedroom window, has been creeping ever
earlier since January. Last Saturday, it came at 6:11, but thankfully slipped
back to 7:09 on Sunday.
The blazing Sun will again continue to wake us earlier each day from
now until mid-June – and that’s OK, and as it should be. But being on the
eastern edge of the time zone means that by then, which is to say June 13 and
14, the sun will be up at 5:14:40 a.m. Without daylight saving time, sunrise would be at 4:14,
which even for a “morning” person is pretty early.
I’ve recently been working with a Scottsdale, Arizona-based
company, which helps to put this whole switching back and forth thing in
perspective. Except for the Navajo Nation, the state of Arizona does not
observe daylight saving time. (For an interesting explanation of why, check out
this ASU
article; it boils down to avoiding the heat of the day). Suffice it to say,
however, that even without making the switch to daylight saving time, the earliest that people
in Scottsdale are awakened by the sun is 5:17:09 — which happens on June 11 —
not quite as early as we in Chicagoland will be awakened two days later, when
we will be spared the indignity of an ungodly early light of day only by the coming
of DST.
I'm sure if I were a farmer, I'd have a different perspective. But I'm not, and I'm glad daylight saving time has once again arrived. (Wake me in an hour.)
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