1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:03,679 Mike tells world number four one four for 2 00:00:03,679 --> 00:00:06,019 11/08/2025. 3 00:00:42,765 --> 00:00:45,104 And, yes, I'm going to rant about 4 00:00:45,564 --> 00:00:47,744 the, yearly time change. 5 00:00:48,685 --> 00:00:51,005 Of course, here in The United States, at 6 00:00:51,005 --> 00:00:53,185 least 48 of The United States, 7 00:00:54,060 --> 00:00:57,359 we observe a thing called daylight saving time, 8 00:00:57,739 --> 00:01:00,159 sometimes also known as daylight savings 9 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:04,079 time. But, actually, I think it's more accurate 10 00:01:04,299 --> 00:01:05,760 daylight saving time. 11 00:01:06,594 --> 00:01:09,394 Currently, we're on standard time. We changed a 12 00:01:09,394 --> 00:01:11,715 couple weeks ago or last week, something like 13 00:01:11,715 --> 00:01:12,215 that. 14 00:01:12,834 --> 00:01:15,555 First weekend in November is usually when it 15 00:01:15,555 --> 00:01:19,075 happens on Saturday late Saturday night, early Sunday 16 00:01:19,075 --> 00:01:19,575 morning. 17 00:01:20,194 --> 00:01:21,174 And, yeah, 18 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:25,140 you know, every year, twice a year, we 19 00:01:25,140 --> 00:01:26,519 all get to complain 20 00:01:27,939 --> 00:01:29,159 about the time change. 21 00:01:30,659 --> 00:01:31,159 And, 22 00:01:31,859 --> 00:01:33,400 you know, it affects more 23 00:01:34,354 --> 00:01:36,614 of the people that are in the Western 24 00:01:36,754 --> 00:01:38,435 side of a time zone. Now I'm, you 25 00:01:38,435 --> 00:01:40,594 know, way on the West side of the 26 00:01:40,594 --> 00:01:42,994 Eastern time zone. Technically, we should be in 27 00:01:42,994 --> 00:01:45,394 central here, but, that's just not how it 28 00:01:45,394 --> 00:01:45,894 goes. 29 00:01:46,194 --> 00:01:48,274 We're on the same time zone as East 30 00:01:48,274 --> 00:01:51,390 Coast, and, you know, we're several 100 miles 31 00:01:51,450 --> 00:01:54,109 inland from the from the East Coast. 32 00:01:55,689 --> 00:01:57,929 So, you know, when it's on daylight saving 33 00:01:57,929 --> 00:01:59,310 time in the summer, 34 00:01:59,929 --> 00:02:02,009 it doesn't get dark till, like, 10:30 at 35 00:02:02,009 --> 00:02:03,310 night in June. 36 00:02:04,444 --> 00:02:05,265 And, conversely, 37 00:02:06,444 --> 00:02:07,984 as soon as the time flips, 38 00:02:08,685 --> 00:02:11,664 not quite four, like, that little song. 39 00:02:13,084 --> 00:02:14,544 I thought that was kinda funny. 40 00:02:14,844 --> 00:02:15,164 But, 41 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,099 you know, it's like 05:30 42 00:02:18,319 --> 00:02:19,439 right now is, 43 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:21,459 you know, I don't know if that's official 44 00:02:21,519 --> 00:02:23,519 sundown. I guess I could look that up, 45 00:02:23,519 --> 00:02:25,379 but, I'm not going to. 46 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,607 But, you know, December 47 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:29,854 21, 48 00:02:29,854 --> 00:02:32,334 which is usually around the shortest day of 49 00:02:32,334 --> 00:02:32,995 the year, 50 00:02:34,094 --> 00:02:34,754 it can 51 00:02:35,134 --> 00:02:37,375 be dark by the time I leave work 52 00:02:37,375 --> 00:02:39,694 at five in the afternoon or five in 53 00:02:39,694 --> 00:02:40,354 the evening. 54 00:02:41,150 --> 00:02:43,569 And, you know, it's quite the the difference 55 00:02:43,629 --> 00:02:47,069 from summer. Now the days don't get any 56 00:02:47,069 --> 00:02:48,610 longer or any shorter. 57 00:02:49,550 --> 00:02:52,050 It's just, you know, what the clock says. 58 00:02:52,430 --> 00:02:52,930 And, 59 00:02:54,235 --> 00:02:56,074 you know, the the rumor was that this 60 00:02:56,074 --> 00:02:57,935 all started because of the farmers. 61 00:02:58,474 --> 00:03:00,094 Well, the farmers hate it. 62 00:03:00,395 --> 00:03:02,335 Think about this. All the animals 63 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:06,395 are tuned to the clock. I mean, you 64 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:06,895 know, 65 00:03:07,194 --> 00:03:10,280 we do this fallback thing in in November, 66 00:03:10,980 --> 00:03:12,900 and my dog is ready to eat at 67 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:13,400 four 68 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:14,360 because, 69 00:03:14,819 --> 00:03:16,280 to him, it's 70 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:17,800 supper time, 71 00:03:18,420 --> 00:03:20,980 which is normally five. And so it takes 72 00:03:20,980 --> 00:03:22,819 him a little while to get used to 73 00:03:22,819 --> 00:03:24,685 that and same thing in the morning. 74 00:03:25,224 --> 00:03:26,504 You know? He's like, what are you giving 75 00:03:26,504 --> 00:03:28,585 me food for already? Jeez, hun. I'm not 76 00:03:28,585 --> 00:03:29,645 even out of bed. 77 00:03:31,784 --> 00:03:34,344 So, you know, the farmers, they hate it, 78 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,000 because they don't really care about the what 79 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,460 the the clock says. 80 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,379 It's all about the sun. 81 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,139 You know, same thing with, 82 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:45,080 you know, working fields. You got the morning 83 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,020 dew. You got you know, you can only 84 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:48,860 start at a certain time. 85 00:03:50,044 --> 00:03:52,064 So it really makes no difference, 86 00:03:53,164 --> 00:03:55,164 you know, unless you're trying to interface with 87 00:03:55,164 --> 00:03:55,745 the rest 88 00:03:56,044 --> 00:03:58,384 of, you know, the rest of the world. 89 00:03:59,645 --> 00:04:00,145 But, 90 00:04:00,604 --> 00:04:02,310 yeah, we we have kind of a unique 91 00:04:02,310 --> 00:04:03,270 thing. We have, 92 00:04:03,989 --> 00:04:04,969 employees in 93 00:04:05,270 --> 00:04:07,530 all the different time zones in The US, 94 00:04:07,750 --> 00:04:09,209 and we also have, 95 00:04:10,389 --> 00:04:13,209 some employees over in The Philippines. The Philippines 96 00:04:13,430 --> 00:04:15,530 does not change their clock. So 97 00:04:16,185 --> 00:04:20,444 for daylight savings time, daylight savings time, whatever, 98 00:04:22,504 --> 00:04:23,805 our Filipino employees 99 00:04:24,185 --> 00:04:27,324 are twelve hours off from us. And then 100 00:04:27,384 --> 00:04:29,645 when we fall back an hour, they're thirteen 101 00:04:29,705 --> 00:04:30,205 hours. 102 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:31,939 And, you know, 103 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,879 of course, doesn't matter to them. They work 104 00:04:34,879 --> 00:04:35,620 East Coast 105 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:38,399 hours, but, you know, it is a bit 106 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:39,220 of a change, 107 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,599 and it really doesn't make a whole lot 108 00:04:41,599 --> 00:04:42,339 of sense. 109 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:43,860 There was this old 110 00:04:44,855 --> 00:04:47,735 Indian thing I I saw a meme about 111 00:04:47,814 --> 00:04:49,814 yeah. Okay. I get my stuff from the 112 00:04:49,814 --> 00:04:50,795 Internet. But, 113 00:04:51,175 --> 00:04:54,295 anyway, was, you know, you cut, off of 114 00:04:54,295 --> 00:04:54,955 a blanket 115 00:04:55,415 --> 00:04:57,095 on the top and you sew it onto 116 00:04:57,095 --> 00:04:59,274 the bottom. The blanket's the same length. 117 00:04:59,810 --> 00:05:01,509 You know? So our daylight 118 00:05:01,970 --> 00:05:04,150 is the same length. We're not 119 00:05:04,770 --> 00:05:06,150 saving any daylight. 120 00:05:07,009 --> 00:05:07,750 We're not 121 00:05:08,050 --> 00:05:09,509 wasting any daylight. 122 00:05:10,370 --> 00:05:12,850 You know? The the the day is as 123 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:14,230 long as the day is, 124 00:05:14,770 --> 00:05:15,704 by the sun. 125 00:05:17,704 --> 00:05:19,784 So, you know, I don't know. It just, 126 00:05:20,104 --> 00:05:23,144 something to complain about every year. In 2022, 127 00:05:23,144 --> 00:05:25,164 the senate in The US passed 128 00:05:25,865 --> 00:05:29,050 the an act that said that it would 129 00:05:29,050 --> 00:05:29,709 be permanently 130 00:05:30,169 --> 00:05:32,029 daylight saving time, which 131 00:05:32,569 --> 00:05:34,810 that's that'd be fine. You know? I'm I'm 132 00:05:34,810 --> 00:05:37,129 happy with that. Like I said, I just 133 00:05:37,129 --> 00:05:38,430 don't want the change. 134 00:05:40,185 --> 00:05:43,225 What's interesting during World War one, World War 135 00:05:43,225 --> 00:05:44,524 two, and then 136 00:05:45,064 --> 00:05:46,605 after that for a while, 137 00:05:48,824 --> 00:05:50,925 they did go on what's called wartime 138 00:05:51,705 --> 00:05:55,349 where they had daylight savings time the whole 139 00:05:55,410 --> 00:05:55,910 year. 140 00:05:56,849 --> 00:05:59,029 That was in The US. And, 141 00:05:59,889 --> 00:06:00,389 also, 142 00:06:03,169 --> 00:06:04,389 what year was that? 143 00:06:05,169 --> 00:06:05,669 I 144 00:06:06,449 --> 00:06:07,829 forget what year, but 145 00:06:09,305 --> 00:06:10,204 president Nixon 146 00:06:10,504 --> 00:06:12,944 yeah. There we go. In January 147 00:06:12,944 --> 00:06:14,185 1974, 148 00:06:14,185 --> 00:06:14,685 Nixon, 149 00:06:16,665 --> 00:06:18,204 signed a bill to make 150 00:06:20,104 --> 00:06:23,004 saving daylight saving time permanent. 151 00:06:24,060 --> 00:06:24,800 And then, 152 00:06:25,819 --> 00:06:27,600 later that year in October, 153 00:06:28,460 --> 00:06:31,660 Gerald Ford signed a law repealing that because 154 00:06:31,660 --> 00:06:33,600 there was a lot of people 155 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:36,699 complaining about kids going to school in the 156 00:06:36,699 --> 00:06:37,520 dark and 157 00:06:38,044 --> 00:06:39,985 people commuting in the dark 158 00:06:40,605 --> 00:06:42,285 and all that. But, you know, up here 159 00:06:42,285 --> 00:06:44,204 up north, you know, we have a little 160 00:06:44,204 --> 00:06:45,024 bit more 161 00:06:47,324 --> 00:06:49,584 variation in the day, you know, the sunlight 162 00:06:49,805 --> 00:06:52,560 length. You know, up here in the wintertime, 163 00:06:53,180 --> 00:06:56,060 regardless whether we're on daylight saving time or 164 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:58,139 not, the mornings would be dark and the 165 00:06:58,139 --> 00:06:59,600 evenings are gonna be dark. 166 00:07:00,860 --> 00:07:02,939 It's just the way it is the further 167 00:07:02,939 --> 00:07:05,644 north you go. I lived in Iceland for 168 00:07:05,644 --> 00:07:06,464 a year and, 169 00:07:06,845 --> 00:07:07,824 you know, for 170 00:07:08,925 --> 00:07:10,605 a few months out of the year, the 171 00:07:10,605 --> 00:07:13,644 sun really didn't go down completely. It wasn't 172 00:07:13,644 --> 00:07:16,384 quite above the Arctic Circle, but really close. 173 00:07:17,139 --> 00:07:18,900 And so the sun would go all the 174 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:20,439 way down just 175 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:21,240 below 176 00:07:21,779 --> 00:07:22,360 the horizon, 177 00:07:23,139 --> 00:07:24,839 so it was kinda like a twilight. 178 00:07:25,379 --> 00:07:27,720 And then you'd see it move sideways for 179 00:07:28,259 --> 00:07:30,020 a couple hours, and then it would pop 180 00:07:30,020 --> 00:07:30,759 back up. 181 00:07:31,145 --> 00:07:33,165 So it was totally light out 182 00:07:33,545 --> 00:07:34,685 twenty four hours. 183 00:07:36,025 --> 00:07:36,525 And, 184 00:07:37,625 --> 00:07:39,404 you know, conversely, in the wintertime, 185 00:07:40,105 --> 00:07:42,685 the sun would come up about 10:30. 186 00:07:42,919 --> 00:07:45,339 It would get just above the horizon, 187 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,720 go sideways for an hour or two, and 188 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,980 then drop down, and it'd be dark again. 189 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:51,899 Both of those were 190 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:53,959 you know, there's nothing you could do about 191 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:56,060 it. Whatever the clock said didn't matter. 192 00:07:56,625 --> 00:07:58,625 You know? Come out of the bar at 193 00:07:58,625 --> 00:08:00,064 two in the morning, and you had to 194 00:08:00,064 --> 00:08:03,585 put your sunglasses on. And, conversely, you can 195 00:08:03,585 --> 00:08:05,504 go to lunch and, hey, that's the only 196 00:08:05,504 --> 00:08:07,125 time you have, sun. 197 00:08:07,824 --> 00:08:10,769 So I don't know. Yeah. Just my my 198 00:08:10,769 --> 00:08:12,389 little rant for today. 199 00:08:13,409 --> 00:08:14,129 I do have a, 200 00:08:14,769 --> 00:08:15,269 proposal. 201 00:08:16,129 --> 00:08:17,349 I I would say, 202 00:08:17,729 --> 00:08:19,509 why don't we just worldwide 203 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:22,389 go ahead and 204 00:08:25,045 --> 00:08:26,504 make it so that 205 00:08:28,165 --> 00:08:30,105 the whole world is on one time. 206 00:08:30,564 --> 00:08:32,725 Doesn't matter what time it is. Okay? So 207 00:08:32,725 --> 00:08:33,625 here in Michigan, 208 00:08:34,325 --> 00:08:36,664 our wake up time would be, 209 00:08:37,539 --> 00:08:39,700 you know, I don't know. I guess it'd 210 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:41,539 be four in the morning, three I don't 211 00:08:41,539 --> 00:08:43,720 know. If you use Greenwich Mead time, 212 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:45,480 it would, 213 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:47,620 you know, we would be five or six 214 00:08:47,620 --> 00:08:49,639 hours different than everywhere else. 215 00:08:50,285 --> 00:08:52,925 So, yeah, that'd probably be confusing, but at 216 00:08:52,925 --> 00:08:55,085 least we'd know what time everything was. You 217 00:08:55,085 --> 00:08:56,605 know? Like like I said, when we 218 00:08:58,285 --> 00:09:00,605 you know, at work, we have employees in 219 00:09:00,605 --> 00:09:02,045 all the different time zones. In fact, we 220 00:09:02,045 --> 00:09:04,045 have one in Arizona. Arizona is one of 221 00:09:04,045 --> 00:09:06,700 the states that doesn't do the time change. 222 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:09,340 So his time changes 223 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:10,379 on him, 224 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:13,960 you know, but, everybody at the company works 225 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,960 East Coast hours with the exception of the 226 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:16,860 guy in California, 227 00:09:17,875 --> 00:09:18,754 which, he's 228 00:09:19,235 --> 00:09:22,215 he works nights and weekends. So it's, 229 00:09:22,915 --> 00:09:25,095 that's that's a whole different thing. 230 00:09:25,795 --> 00:09:27,394 But, anyway, that's, 231 00:09:28,274 --> 00:09:30,035 that's all I really gotta say about it. 232 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:32,419 I did get all my stuff changed. 233 00:09:32,799 --> 00:09:35,200 Ironically, my new truck or new to me 234 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:35,700 truck, 235 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:37,460 changed itself. 236 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:39,759 And my wife's car, I have to change, 237 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:41,860 and the old Corolla, I gotta change. 238 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:44,325 And we got a couple of alarm clocks 239 00:09:44,404 --> 00:09:46,965 in the house that we use for various 240 00:09:46,965 --> 00:09:48,424 things. Had to change those 241 00:09:48,884 --> 00:09:51,705 and of course the microwave and the stove, 242 00:09:52,004 --> 00:09:53,524 now I would have thought those would be 243 00:09:53,524 --> 00:09:55,544 no new enough to auto 244 00:09:55,924 --> 00:09:58,960 auto change, but, nope. They're not connected to 245 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,980 the Internet, so I guess that's good. 246 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,360 Why would you want your microwave connected to 247 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,100 the Internet anyway? That's a whole another story. 248 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,299 Anyway, glad you, dropped by. Stay subscribed. 249 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,420 Napod Pomo is still going. 250 00:10:13,105 --> 00:10:15,125 We're eight days in, and 251 00:10:15,665 --> 00:10:16,485 I look forward 252 00:10:17,665 --> 00:10:19,904 to you guys, hanging out with me for 253 00:10:19,904 --> 00:10:20,965 the rest of the month. 254 00:10:21,345 --> 00:10:22,644 Catch me later.