Warren D
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For those affected, DST has ended and we fall back 1 hour. Remember to change the time in your cameras, too.
Daylight Savings Time Ends
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arbitrage
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Thank goodness....could't stand sitting around waiting for an 8AM sunrise to start shooting. Ready to hit the marsh by 7 this morning!!
Flyboy
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WAHOOOO! 
There's less daylight and it's getting worse. You'd think they would have fixed that by now.
Warren D
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Be like an Osprey and go south of the equator for the winter, plenty of long days down there!
One of many reasons why I love living in Arizona. No Daylight Savings Time!
Or move to Australia or New Zealand. I hear they have some good wildlife subjects down there.
One benefit of being retired AND a wildlife and nature photographer is time really has little meaning to me any more. Sure, when I have appointments or am meeting someone but by and large, I go by nature's clock most of the time. I like to get out just at sunrise and shoot for a few hours and I like to get out in evening for the same reasons. It doesn't matter much if sunrise is at 8 o'clock, 7 o'clock or sometime in-between. It's just when the day starts and when the sun sinks below the horizon it is time to start heading back. When I worked, I really hated getting off work after dark but these days, the actual time is irrelevant. Dang, being retired is great (all except the no paycheck coming in part but you get over that too).
One of the advantages of living in Anchorage is that shooting sunrises in the winter doesn't change that much. Just a matter of getting up at 7 am for the 8:30 sunrise versus 8 am for the 9:30 sunrise. A little different in the summer.....
Thanks for the reminder. Need to check my cameras, some may not automatically correct for the change even if checked off in the settings.
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Partially correct. During daylight savings time season, part of Arizona IS on daylight savings time - namely the very large Navajo reservation in the northeast part of AZ goes on daylight savings time. The rest of the state is not. See https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html
A number of studies have shown Daylight Saving Time wastes energy but trying to get rid of something with "Saving" in it's name is an uphill battle.
arbitrage
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I still prefer to have the switch between PST and PDT. If I didn't have PDT in the summer then I'd be having 4:10AM sunrises which means leaving to go shoot in the good light at 3:30. I'm an early morning person but that is a bit extreme. If we didn't go back to PST in the winter we would get to the point where sunrise isn't till 9:06AM. That drives me nuts having to wait around till 8:30 to get out and start shooting.
I don't feel any effects from the time change one way or the other so not concerned about "losing" or "gaining" an hour.
I don't feel any effects from the time change one way or the other so not concerned about "losing" or "gaining" an hour.
Yes I am aware of that and it is a bit of an oddity, especially since I think one city in Navajoland matches the rest of Arizona in not observing. Also gets tricky because it is a sovereign nation, so technically it could be considered not part of the state of Arizona (even though the majority of the nation lies within Arizona).
Warren D
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It's the Hopi nation that doesn't change times. It's in the middle of the Navajo lands.
David Berry
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Time for a spot of trivia:
Yes, the Scott-Amundsen Base at the South Pole is observing NZ Daylight Saving Time right now!
“Today, 3 hours ahead” is a comparison of their time (UTC+13) and mine (Queensland, UTC+10).
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Yes, the Scott-Amundsen Base at the South Pole is observing NZ Daylight Saving Time right now!
“Today, 3 hours ahead” is a comparison of their time (UTC+13) and mine (Queensland, UTC+10).
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