I was watching the TV news last night, Steve Raleigh on KRON doing the
weather. He referred to our "springing ahead" showing various
sunrise-sunset times for the year, and there was an obvious "jump" forward
for daylight savings. He mentioned June 26 as having either the latest
sunset or longest daylight of the year - I forget which - but I then
realized we are holding SSP during what amounts to the shortest night of
the year! Who's idea was that?!!!
Now, I always thought the summer solstice was the longest daylight day of
the year - falling on June 21 (12:10 PM PDT), so I'm not really sure what I
heard on the news last night. For a brief minute I thought we should have
some sort of Druid celebration, erecting a mini-Stonehenge at the star
party, but the local folks would probably conclude we were even more odd
than we might already seem (shoot, maybe not... they have Mt. Shasta just
up the road!) .
Then I realized, it is not when the dark comes that makes a difference to
me, it is dawn that I abhor, and that's a constant. Dawn is truly an
unwelcome astronomical intrusion.
I've said it before.... dawn... what a lame idea.
I can't wait for SSP!
Mark