"... so early (Sunset was 5:06 P.M., and it was dark by 5:31 P.M. — Isn’t that ridiculous?). Just a few days ago it was so nice and sunny at this same time. In addition, everyone’s been running around changing their clocks all over the place. I didn’t want to make a big deal out of this prior to the Election because I didn’t want to have certain Senators lose their Race, in a landslide, but it is too bad they can’t get it done.... President DONALD J. TRUMP (
at Truth Social)."
Now that the elections are over, he can concentrate on what really matters: the way it was nice and sunny a few days ago and now it's dark because the clocks reset.
Yes, the clocks reset themselves. No one — not "everyone" — is "running around changing their clocks all over the place."
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I thought we were going to roll back the clocks all the way to Jim Crow 2.0, and put y'all back in chains.
I’m looking forward to the critiques of Crowley.
"sunshine protection act" ???? !!!!
What stupid crap.
Our northern hemisphere location on planet earth, moves us all into the shorter day winter season. The days are shorter - no matter what you do to the clock.
How about the "Keep Standard Time for all" act?
and stop messing with us.
Grok:
In the Northern Hemisphere, winter brings shorter days (less daylight) because Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.5° relative to its orbital plane.
During Northern Hemisphere winter (peaking at the December solstice, around December 21), the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun. As a result:
The Sun follows a lower, shorter path across the sky.
It rises later and sets earlier.
Daylight hours drop well below 12."
Me: Shifting the clock does nothing to extend actual daylight.
I was so distracted by all this talk about changing clocks that I nearly missed your new tag, "Trump on the way out."
"Yes, the clocks reset themselves."
"How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him”
I, for one, don't have no automatic clock money.
I wasn’t expecting such sarcasm from Althouse. Affected by the midterm nonsense?
Speak for yourself...
The oven clock, the car clock, and one run on batteri3s up high that requires mynstepladder are still running behind the other clocks in my 1BD. Not everyone is as automated or handy as tou. Got your screens out and storms in? Leaves raked? Good for you two. Brag away?
This is all backwards crap. Standard time for all would help combat the loss of productivity when the clocks change twice a year.
We don't need "daylight savings time" anymore. It's a relic.
Standard time for all/ forever. Vote for Pedro!
as we move from late winter to spring ,the days grow delightfully longer. and then summer comes and the days are nice and long. No clock change needed. We don't need it to be light out at 9PM. 8:00PM is good enough. sheesh. his so-called pals a bunch of pussies.
I am not sure how to define 'all over the place', but I have to adjust the following clocks myself: 3 wall clocks, microwave, oven, coffee maker, bedside clock, and car. I also have to change the page on the hanging calendar 12 times per year.
More like Trump already checked out
Leave the clocks alone and tell the school boards to open later in the winter, that is if your state really controls its schools….
Unlike other Republicans, Trump can multi-task. He can talk about DST, and also about Iran.
But I'm against the "Sunshine act", if people didn't want DST they can get their state to opt out. In Canada, BC is off DST and Ontario is on it. No big whoop.
Right now, Victoria in BC has sunrise at about 8 AM. Seattle has a 7 AM sunrise. On December 21, the Sunrise in Victoria will be 9 AM. That's insane.
Well... I've got two clocks from the late 1800s and one that I built the case for, myself. They're cantankerous to varying degrees and not prone to adjusting themselves predictably, by even hours. Sometimes they strike the hour with such gusto, they strike the next hour's chime as well. Then there's the microwaves, ovens, coffee makers, wristwatches, so on.
Worth repeating. Just about everyone hates changing times twice a year, but there is serious disagreement about whether to stick with Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time. The obvious solution: split the difference. There are quite a few places around the world that already have fractional time zones - zones where the time difference from Greenwich is not a whole number. One of them, Newfoundland, is not far away. All we have to do is make the next time-change a half hour instead of a whole hour, and then never change again.
“In the garden, growth has its seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
Resetting the manual clocks is one of the many ways Meade justifies his existence.
Too bad the Senate couldn't help us save the nation with real measures to stop illegals from voting.
Also, I intentionally bought an old-fashioned analogue wrist-watch ($10.95 at Walmart) because I like to know what time it is when I'm watching a play or hearing a live concert, and I don't trust a digital watch, or an iPhone that's not turned entirely off, not to make sudden noises and disrupt the performance.
Put the iPhone on silent, you say? That doesn't always work. Six or eight years ago, I was watching a mediocre performance of Tartuffe at the Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. when several dozen cell phones started ringing, and kept on ringing until intermission, which fortunately was only 10-15 minutes later. It turns out that the National Weather Service overrides 'silent' when they announce a weather emergency, or advisory, or whatever they call it. When we went out in the lobby for intermission, we found that rain was coming down in sheets, literally sideways, but it didn't matter because we were all warm and dry inside. Since then, whenever I meet a theater manager, I tell them that, so they can tell the audience to turn their phones off if a weather emergency is likely. (Obviously, the front desk needs to keep their phones on, so they can move everyone to the basement if a tornado is coming.)
He's kind of like Santy Claus in a way. You get up in the morning and the presents magically appear under the tree and the clocks reset.
A Dem moderate from Mississippi who ends up voting like Liz Warren is not a moderate.
We shall see what happens.
Say what you want about Trump 2026 but he has a keen sense of what really matters to the American people.
this is what this Humpty Dumpty fella is concerned about? Is it any wonder he got trashed in mid terms which was easily predicted. Make believe im on the ticket! thank you Don ,the country did. Totally out of touch .End this stupid war you and bibi wanted and started ,get prices down and quit the grifting. Nobody cares about your beams and pools and arches ,dont you get it, that will do nothing for the population. GET OUT OF THIS WAR OF CHOICE and those ridiculous Tariffs.
…he’s pretty good at doing many things at once. People who aren’t have a problem with that…
We'll always have Paris
lol - the tariff nonsense.
In CO - all the dems who rule the state (one party rule) and have wasted so much money and gotten us into so much debt.. - they all blamed Trump's tariffs.
Total Bs.
When inflation first skyrocketed under Crook Joe Biden - the left all said it was due to "gouging". That too was a lie.
Perhaps the silly No kings freaks will settle down.
Will the Tesla dealership fire-bombs and vandalism re-start? we shall see.
Howard said...
More like Trump already checked out
LOL!
Trump is overseeing the most important and comprehensive reorganization of the world economy in over a century.
The United States is reindustrializing after decades of republican and democrat political class betrayal and treason.
The only thing checked out are a bunch of boomers on a message board waiting for their retirement and social security benefits.
I’m so relieved that Trump is focusing on the utmost important issues. Just other day he mentioned the new wonderful kitchen on the ground level under the ballroom.
If the US is reindustrializing and succeeding as Achilles claims, then the Dems will likely ride to an easy victory in 2028 as it will be on their watch.
--- Will the Tesla dealership fire-bombs and vandalism re-start?
No idea. But stock is down -11% today and has broken some big past support lines. Market assumes Elon will be drawn and quartered, then put on trial. Without a robust defense, he could be limited in his possibilities. Death by bunta?
The ballroom is important to finish. he saved tax payers a lot of money and it will be a safer useful structure. (unless you prefer muddy ground, tents and port-a-potties)
tho - I think the radical left will rage rage rage and tear it all down.
I point my stinky finger of blame for the loses where the loses occurred: the do nothing congress, the miserable senate especially. The bastards couldn't be bothered to do anything important that might have kept themselves relevant. Passing the SAFE Act might have saved them, but it would be too hard. Easier to roll over, play like the Dems' butt boyz for the next two years, then tell us how conservative you're going to be, this time.
The Republican senate candidates, incumbents and challengers alike, were a most uninspiring lot. At least we're getting rid of several of the worst of them by retirement.
It's over, Althouse. You won. You can stop the cruelly neutral Trump attacks now.
----- Dems will likely ride to an easy victory in 2028 as it will be on their watch
This is an ROFL. Even though you're mostly trying to one-up Achilles -- that helps your posts, you almost make sense.
But the ROFL starts to fade when one thinks about what is likely to unfold. You fuckers are going to be destroyed, Marky. It is already underway. Smart people can see the rough outlines of what is coming, economically and financially. But thank the good Lord for watching over America, we are going to need it.
Save us from the time of trial. When even our fair-weather friends, including many US citizens, will tell us we need a little socialism, look how free-market capitalism is turning out. We are going to need a lot of faith in the structures we have been handed down. And saved, no thanks to the likes of you.
I will be critical of anyone pushing daylight savings time year round.
Standard Time is cleaner. Standard Time is lighter naturally in the AM hours during winter, which is good for School kids. Standard Time is better for our circadian rhythms, and it helps with travel/ jet lag and strange time zone issues. (not every state uses daylight savings time)
Spring forward is harmful to good sleep and can cause decreased mental output and stress, and loss of productivity.
Fall back and keep that hour forever. Standard Time is best.
𝑌𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝑁𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 — 𝑛𝑜𝑡 "𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒" — 𝑖𝑠 "𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒."
Indeed. Let's not teach young people how to tell time from those old-fashioned, big hand little hand clocks, either. And no point in teaching them cursive or any form of handwriting, since everything is done on computers and keyboards now. No point in teaching them how to tell one coin or bill from another either, since everyone uses plastic and EFTs now.
Still have to manually change them on my stove and microwave.
I'm not sure which half of the year is DST and which isn't, but it occurs to me that we are doing things wrong. When night falls earlier and earlier, why not give us an extra hour of light on autumn and winter afternoons? When the sun doesn't go down until 9 PM, does it make any difference if we call it 8PM instead? Someone will bring up the kiddies waiting for the bus in darkness in the morning, but are school hours fixed in stone?
Mark is openly admitting the dems will try to take credit for something Trump started.
Gross.
Day light savings time begins in the spring. Spring forward is when we all lose an hour. The days are already getting longer due to the tilt of the earth and the earth's rotation around the sun with summer at hand in our hemisphere.
Stop messing with it. DLST is a relic.
DLST is a boomer relic.
I don't reset the clock in my car. I know how to add and subtract one hour in my head.
Peachy, give me a break.
Beyond the fact that its voters who will have that impression, you act like there is a single politician who hasn't taken credit for every positive on their watch while blaming every negative on the guy who went before.
Are you that stupid?
Imagine a world and a life where you get that extra energy back to focus on greater and better math problems.
Mark - of course democrats lie and take credit for stuff they didn't do. You are all lying liars who lie. It's your religion.
Again- Mark is already queued up to give the corruptocrats credit for stuff Trump did. Just book marking it here.
bagoh20 said...
"I, for one, don't have no automatic clock money."
"It's an integrated computer network and I will not have it aboard my ship." - Commander Adama
Given the recent freezer hacking in Europe, I'm starting to see his point.
"DLST is a boomer relic."
Is that so?
"Daylight saving time was first implemented in the United States in 1918 as a wartime measure to conserve energy during World War I. It became federal law with the Uniform Time Act in 1966, standardizing the practice across the country."
Boomers weren't alive in 1918 and weren't eligible to vote in 1966.
But it's their fault.
Oh come on Mason G. That is all true - but the boomers kept it going.
The Dems are liars and thieves, for the most part, Peachy.
I hate Day light savings time. I will use truth and logic selling my opposition to it - but I will also stoop to propaganda.
Boomer. Relic.
Mark said...
“If the US is reindustrializing and succeeding as Achilles claims, then the Dems will likely ride to an easy victory in 2028 as it will be on their watch.”
The days when Democrats did anything additive or constructive are long past, Mark. Most of what they have the audacity to trumpet about are now acknowledged as detrimental failures.
Peachy+2 said...
The ballroom is important to finish. he saved tax payers a lot of money and it will be a safer useful structure. (unless you prefer muddy ground, tents and port-a-potties)
tho - I think the radical left will rage rage rage and tear it all down.
11/5/26, 2:15 PM
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The ballroom is needed but it needs to be 15 feet shorter and more republican, as opposed to imperial, in design.
AMDG - well good thing your party just won. The 15 feet shorter will be accomplished with a wrecking ball.
To cheers of rage.
"Oh come on Mason G. That is all true - but the boomers kept it going."
This has to be the silliest thing I've read in a long time. And that includes stuff from the idiot left here on the blog.
"The boomers kept it going?" Everybody who's not a boomer has been begging for it to be changed but have been unable to, because of the boomers? That's your argument?
Yeah, that sounds real sane.
We tried permanent daylight saving time in 1974. Winter arrived, dark mornings arrived with it, public support collapsed, and Congress reversed course.
Apparently, 52 years is long enough for Trump to forget how the experiment ended. Nothing says “new idea” quite like rerunning an old one and hoping the ending changes.
Can someone tell Trump to stop focusing on renaming shit and other stupid shit like this? Susie Wiles? Rubio?
I have a dozen "atomic" clocks that use WWV to set themselves. 6 of them changed properly, three went to Pacific Time instead of Eastern Time, and three didn't change at all.
The ones that didn't change properly had to be removed from the wall, have batteries taken out and put back in to reset them, and be left outdoors for a half hour to find the radio signal they need.
Amtrak handles the fall time change by waiting at the first time change station for an hour (or whatever amount makes them leave on time in the new time system).
Amtrak adjusts to the short bus folks. I love it.
Again - just think of all the freed up brain cells if we simply ended the twice a year time yank.
The time change for atomic clocks involves a lot of logic, so complicated that La Crosse got it wrong on an enormous number of their retailed clocks. In spite of guarantees against defective workmanship etc they didn't honor any of it, feeding users (me) a line about being too far from Colorado or too close to Colorado. The problem is that WWV transmits UTC and a daylight time bit to signal on or off. Once the clock sees the bit change, it has to remember it past not only local midnight 4-7 hours later but until 1 or 2 in the morning, and then change the clock. Furthermore it has to remember that it did that come next midnight.
Here's a fall back fail when at 7pm the first EST day it switches back to daylight time at midnight UTC.
Here's a Spring forward fail when at 8pm EDST it switches back to EST at midnight UTC.
Notice the Doberman.
Mark said...
If the US is reindustrializing and succeeding as Achilles claims, then the Dems will likely ride to an easy victory in 2028 as it will be on their watch.
If you weren’t a bunch of retards you would be right.
But one thing we can count on is Democrats being fucking idiots. You’re gonna spend all your time, hauling business people like musk in front of Congress, trying to raise taxes, blocking data center, build outs, regulating space, industry, and trying to shut down new refinance.
The only time you’re gonna take a break from that stupidity is when you try to impeach Trump for the 42nd time.
All you’d have to do is hang back and let the economy grow. But we all know the average democrat is just a vicious stupid insect and you are going to spend the next 2 years showing everyone your asses.
Im sure Socialists will help
"Boomer. Relic."
Yes, Good Morning. How long was I out? What time is it? What's for breakfast?
I can almost hear the WHOOSH as the slam at the do-nothing Republicans in the Senate goes over all y'alls heads.
“ Right now, Victoria in BC has sunrise at about 8 AM. Seattle has a 7 AM sunrise. On December 21, the Sunrise in Victoria will be 9 AM. That's insane.”
Now try Kotzebue Alaska.
Clocks do not always reset themselves. Probably because I refuse to connect my household appliances to the Internet - given the European hacking, I think that wise - my microwave, oven, and thermostat need to be manually reset. Actually, one of them may reset itself for daylight savings, but if it loses power then it requires human attention. My bed clock also does not reset itself, unless it is connected to my phone as the clock syncs to the phone. Which seems ironic, somehow.
The gay footman in Downton Abbey had the job of making sure all the timepieces in the huge house stayed wound and accurate. UK adopted Summer Time during the Great War, but I don't think the episode had anything to do with that: the nature of wind-up clocks meant you have to tend to them almost daily, whether or not the time changes.
The best part is that Lord Crowley, played by Hugh Bonneville, referred to him, with perfect deadpan delivery, as the Clock Expert. CC, JSM
I'm with Trump on this one.
I’ve issued this challenge to more people (all Trump supporters) than I can count; let’s get a small auditorium, and an audience of educated Republicans. And a big screen tv, with a DVR, and a pause button.
And go through whatever his most recent speech, rally, appearance might be. And go through it line by line.
Not for the usual political fact checking. (Did he exaggerate the 3rd quarter numbers? Did he mischaracterize the draft bill in the Senate? Does his language match the language used by the Secretary General of the UN?)
No; what I want to do is expose and drill down on the deep craziness; the psychopathy of the lying; the delusion and the dementia.
All the stuff that Althouse rarely touches. She likes the funny bits. Trump as somehow culturally interesting.
And Althouse isn’t even all that typical among Trump fans. After all, she’s consuming the New York Times. Most of the serious Trump supporters I know have maybe been to a Trump rally perhaps once or twice. But rarely ever watch any of his speeches for actual content. Their Trump News comes from curated tidbits on social media or their number one favorite show, “The Five.” Trump rallies are basically like political Jimmy Buffet shows. It’s all about the merch, and the fun, and the comfort of people who all think the same. The actual content is less than irrelevant.
Eggs and bakey
Chuck said...
I’ve issued this challenge to more people (all Trump supporters) than I can count; let’s get a small auditorium, and an audience of educated Republicans...
See what I mean?
Chuck is absolutely perfect. Every word out of his stupid mouth is just going to piss every person with an IQ over 85 off.
Chuck is going to be talking like this for two years thinking democrats won something on Tuesday and every time he opens his mouth he will remind everyone why they hate democrats.
Welcome back retard. We missed you.
If I want nice speeches, I can vote for A.I. It won't be as dishonest as Obama, as sad as Biden, or as incoherent as Harris, but it will use words correctly.
Wow Chuck, people go to rallies to enjoy sharing time with like-minded people? Who knew?! Jesus effing Christ but you’re tiresome.
Btw, Trump doesn’t give one shit what verbiage the UN Secretary General uses. Neither do 100% of the American people. Except prigs (pricks)Ike you.
Hey chuck go round up Joe Biden and Kamala ding bat snd fans and do that.
Hey chuck go round up Joe Biden and Kamala ding bat snd fans and do that.
I dont observe Daylight Savings Time. I just keep track, mentally, that everyone esle is on CST and I am on EST. It helps that I'm retired.
Without reading other comments - to be fair, lots of things are still "dumb" and require manual time resets. We are actually aware of this from our Airbnb/hotel life. I do, however, wish that President Trump would get off the dime and use his last two years in office to move the ball down the field, to mix my metaphors grossly.
I meant that we are ACUTELY aware. Sigh.
I will note that my 2025 Toyota has a 'daylight savings' toggle in my clock menu on the screen. The tech who set it up at the dealership did it correctly so it's quite simple to switch.
Apparently my cheap daily driver Corolla is nearly 'automatic clock money'. Its amazing we evolved as much as we did given the issues people seem to have with pretty pedestrian issues.
I have several analog clocks (battery powered) that need attention every 6 months to be on the correct time; standard or daylight time. It's an issue that can't seem to be solved. Like Voter ID.
Jan 21, 2029 can’t come soon enough. Trump needs to go away at this point and he needs to take Bibi with him.
Oh I think some people are still changing clocks manually. Hell, I had four of 'em to change: two wall clocks, bedside table digital, and the coffee-maker.
In the case of coffee-maker, I F'd up and set it an hour forward, not back, resulting in the coffee being brewed at 3 am standard time Sunday, instead of 5 am (that's fixed now).
So yes, by all means get rid of it, but get rid of DST, do not make it permanent. After about a decade or so, no one will miss it.
Achilles @2:02
Give it to him. He thinks he's being edgy.
As the state of Arizona has established, any state that really wants to can decree that their clocks stay the same year round.
And any school system that wants to can decree that the kids don't have to show up until an hour later, or earlier, or whatever.
Someone might want to alert the Sun that the politicians are messing around with the days.
It appears that regardless of what the laws are, we get only 9 to 10 hours of daylight in midwinter. If you work an 8 hour day, that kind of sucks.
But not even Trump can do anything about that.
Actually, other than my computers, including my phone, none of my clocks reset themselves, other than the two who pick up the time from the Naval Observatory. My truck, all the wall clocks at church, all the wall clocks at home, have to be reset.
I reset all of mine in eight minutes. I timed it.
Well, not the car- I did that the next time I drove it. Took probably 45-50 seconds, but I don't really count that since I was sitting there already and not really doing anything else.
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