Summer Time (1988)
Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon done in 1988. Here in Israel it's not called Daylight Savings Time. It's called Summer Time. Even though it marks the start of Spring. Don't ask, we're a complicated country. For many years it was an annual battle between secular and religious factions over when to start it and when to go off Summer Time. Apparently we settled the matter. I don't know how. I don't know when. I don't know which side won, but in any case ...tonight's the night!!
Labels: Spring, Summer Time
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Call it what you will, I hate it.
Today, in Fairbanks, AK, sunrise was at 7:36AM, and sunset at 8:20PM, for a total of 12 hours, 43 minutes of daylight.
In one month, sunrise will be at 5:43AM, and sunset at 9:58PM, for a total of 16 hours, 15 minutes of daylight.
In two months, sunrise will be at 3:57AM, and sunset at 11:41PM, for a total of 19 hours, 44 minutes of daylight.
And in slightly less than three months, on the Summer Solstice, sunrise will be at 2:57AM, and sunset at 12:47PM, for a total of 21 hours, 50 minutes of daylight. However, during the 2 hours, 10 minutes between sunset and sunrise, it will be light enough outside to require sunglasses.
Daylight Savings Time? in Alaska??
Feh... Call it what you will, I hate it.
Oops, make that "...and sunset at 12:47AM"
I don't get it. Is there reference to people like Toldos Aharon and Neturei Karta who ignore the daylight savings decrees imposed upon them by the so-called "Evil Zionist entity"? Because if not, then I'm lost...
Summer time? Why not. In Holland wel also call it summer time even as it starts on the last Sunday in March, at the very beginning of springtime.
But what is the halachic problem? The Shabbat starts an hour later and finishes an hour later. That means that in Summer the Shabbat finishes at eleven 'o clock around the longest day. How is that in Scandinavia when the sun doesn't go down at all?
B"H
OK, so here's how it is: the fixed-length hours time as we know it is not Jewish. It's goyshe. Our halacha (Jewish Law) divides the day into daylight time and night time. This means that the length of the hours (and the minutes, etc.), varies constantly every day, according to the length of the time between sunrise and sunset. So, here is my X-Price-like challenge for electronics engineers and software developers, without the millions in price-money, the J-Price: design and build a wrist-watch AND a computer program that keeps the G-d given Torah time, with the constantly changing length of the daylight and night-time hours, so that it can eventually replace the "Daylight Savings Time" with the relative twice-yearly changing of the clocks madness that everyone hates and that create only problems for farmers and families with babies, pets, etc. Please comment on http://thetorahrevolution.blogspot.com/2010/03/j-price-pls-fw-to-your-friends-and.html
Well, a nice and descriptive story. That's cool one, man.
Ariel, I don't think that was his point because that issue is not with daylight savings exclusively, it's a general issue with the way that the secular keeps time, even not during daylight savings.
Our time change was on the 14th. Then the TV announced that the heart attack rate always increases significantly on the Monday follow the change. I feel that if they want to change our time it should stay on Daylight time the whole year. That makes more sense than only in the Summer. I am not really familiar with it but there is an apt for the blackberry for candle lighting time.
Ariel should have added that DST or "Summer Time" causes a few miseries for observant Jews if started too early in the calendar. For example, those who work for a living and commute far to their job must arrive at roughly the same time on the clock each day, no matter when the sun comes up. The closer the start of the work day is to sunrise means that there is a very short time period to put on tallit and tefillin and conduct morning prayers. People with offices have to pray at work. People who work in cubicles have problems. Another problem is for Passover. The seders must begin after dark. But babies and small children cannot necessarily stay awake longer to accomodate sundown (plus an hour) if that time is an hour later than normal. Grown ups, too, get upset if made to wait until 10 or 10:30 to finish the seder and start eating. It's not enough to just blame the government when your stomach growls.
Dear Friends:
Please do have Kosher Pesach and fun with the other all of the above. When Shabbat comes around do have a great one.
Please be well.
Shalom, Shalom, Yosef of Ok.
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