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Old September 22nd 03, 10:14 PM
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As much as I love the long summer days with sun setting late in the
evening I loath the short spring/fall/winter days even more. Currently
the sun sets around 7:30 PM and it's getting worse everyday plus the
totally obsolete Day light saving time thing is coming making it even
worse is coming up.

As it is now riding in the woods on work days is close to impossible as
it's not allowed to be in the forrests after sunset, this is of course
to protect the animals which I'm all for but I miss the riding and soon
eveing leaving work early will be enough. In fact in a couple of months
I'll be having lights on my bike in the morning comuting to work and
going home from work it will be dark as well. By then long rides in the
woods will even be impossible on weekends:-(

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!

Kind regards

Bruno, Denmark

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Old September 22nd 03, 11:01 PM
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:14:10 +0200, iddqdATworldonline.dk wrote:

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!


Well, its not exactly like daylight savings time is a Danish thing.
Besides, all we're doing this month is reverting to STANDARD time, so if
your country didn't observe DST, it'd already be an hour later.

Personally, though, I wish we'd just STAY on DST, for the after-work
rides.

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Old September 23rd 03, 03:35 AM
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Bb wrote:
Personally, though, I wish we'd just STAY on DST, for the
after-work rides.




ooh, I'm with you on that. Who needs it to be light out in the morning
just to go to work. At the shortest days, it's not even light then
anyway. I hate this time of year, the weather is still nice enough that
you want to go riding after work but it is too dark



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Old September 23rd 03, 06:50 AM
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BB wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:14:10 +0200, iddqdATworldonline.dk wrote:

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!


Well, its not exactly like daylight savings time is a Danish thing.
Besides, all we're doing this month is reverting to STANDARD time, so if
your country didn't observe DST, it'd already be an hour later.

Personally, though, I wish we'd just STAY on DST, for the after-work
rides.


Heh... you should move to Arizona. We don't do no steenken' DST at
all. The LAST thing you want in the summer is more daylight. The
nice riding is in the morning, so having the sun come up at 4
something is a GOOD thing. Heck, even now it's plenty light to ride
at 6am (though it won't be long before I need a light in the morning).

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame
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Old September 23rd 03, 11:40 AM
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:50:41 -0700, Mark Hickey wrote:
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Heh... you should move to Arizona. We don't do no steenken' DST at
all. The LAST thing you want in the summer is more daylight. The
nice riding is in the morning, so having the sun come up at 4
something is a GOOD thing. Heck, even now it's plenty light to ride
at 6am (though it won't be long before I need a light in the morning).


Bah, I think Arizona's situation sucks. It's never light here past 8 pm, and
today the sun went down before 6:15 pm. I would much rather have it be dark
in the morning and light in the evening. But then again I don't have a
particularly "normal" sleep schedule.


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Old September 23rd 03, 12:46 PM
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"iddqdATworldonline.dk" wrote in message
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As much as I love the long summer days with sun setting late in the
evening I loath the short spring/fall/winter days even more. Currently
the sun sets around 7:30 PM and it's getting worse everyday plus the
totally obsolete Day light saving time thing is coming making it even
worse is coming up.

As it is now riding in the woods on work days is close to impossible as
it's not allowed to be in the forrests after sunset, this is of course
to protect the animals which I'm all for but I miss the riding and soon
eveing leaving work early will be enough. In fact in a couple of months
I'll be having lights on my bike in the morning comuting to work and
going home from work it will be dark as well. By then long rides in the
woods will even be impossible on weekends:-(

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!

Kind regards

Bruno, Denmark


And here I was looking forward to daylight saving.
You guys in the Northern hemisphere have got to learn to share more. Some
of us down here want some decent daylight hours for a change!
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Old September 23rd 03, 01:41 PM
Mark Hickey
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Tlacatecatl wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:50:41 -0700, Mark Hickey wrote:
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Heh... you should move to Arizona. We don't do no steenken' DST at
all. The LAST thing you want in the summer is more daylight. The
nice riding is in the morning, so having the sun come up at 4
something is a GOOD thing. Heck, even now it's plenty light to ride
at 6am (though it won't be long before I need a light in the morning).


Bah, I think Arizona's situation sucks. It's never light here past 8 pm, and
today the sun went down before 6:15 pm. I would much rather have it be dark
in the morning and light in the evening. But then again I don't have a
particularly "normal" sleep schedule.


The only problem with the above is that in the summer it's still
really hot at 8pm, but it's usually nice early in the morning (it's
down to "only" 88 F (31 C) right now at 5:40am. It'll probably be
100F or more at sunset tonight.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame
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Old September 23rd 03, 03:57 PM
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iddqdATworldonline.dk wrote:

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!


Move to Germany - the daylight's the same and you only pay 54% tax...

ps - what's wrong with riding in the mornings?

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Old September 23rd 03, 09:17 PM
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 5:41:54 -0700, Mark Hickey wrote:

The only problem with the above is that in the summer it's still
really hot at 8pm, but it's usually nice early in the morning (it's
down to "only" 88 F (31 C) right now at 5:40am. It'll probably be
100F or more at sunset tonight.


Yeah, in the summer the temp hits its highest point of the day at around 4 or
even 5 pm. I guess I'm lucky that the heat doesn't seem to bother me. I often
ride when its 105F or hotter, and as long as I drink plenty of water I'm
fine. The fact that the RH is in the teens is a big help. For me mornings are
for sleeping and afternoons are for riding, but I guess I'm in the minority.


Tlacatecatl Tlacaxipe

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Old September 23rd 03, 09:56 PM
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Let's start a petition!

Ozark 'already charging up my batteries' MTbr




"BB" wrote in message
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:14:10 +0200, iddqdATworldonline.dk wrote:

Someone tell me why I live in this country - I mean with the world
record tax levels we pay they could at least provide more daylight!


Well, its not exactly like daylight savings time is a Danish thing.
Besides, all we're doing this month is reverting to STANDARD time, so if
your country didn't observe DST, it'd already be an hour later.

Personally, though, I wish we'd just STAY on DST, for the after-work
rides.

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