Mike Garrahan

Mike Garrahan

@mgarraha.bsky.social

Amateur classical musician and astronomer. Advocate for year-round standard time.

100 Followers 172 Following 413 Posts Joined Jan 2025
3 hours ago

The NY legislature also has bills for year-round standard time, which does not depend on federal action: S7982, A3758, A4531A.

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1 week ago

Thanks for correcting it.

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New NASA Asteroid Observations Eliminate Chance of 2032 Lunar Impact - NASA Science Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observations collected on Feb. 18 and 26, experts from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the

Hey, so, we have some news about something that won't be happening in 2032.

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1 week ago

Headline and "the brief" are wrong! VA SB541 is for year-round standard time.

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1 month ago
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Missouri: Tell State Lawmakers “Yes on SB 1072, HB 2092, HB 1685; No on SB 1326, HB 1758”. Ditch DST! Tell your state lawmakers to ditch Daylight Saving Time and restore permanent Standard Time! Daylight Saving Time makes us set our morning alarms an hour earlier than Standard Time, every work da...

Missouri: Tell state legislators “Yes on SB 1072, HB 2092, HB 1685” to ditch Daylight Saving Time, as is federally pre-approved and widely endorsed! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...

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Frontiers | Daylight Saving Time and Artificial Time Zones – A Battle Between Biological and Social Times Many regions and countries are reconsidering their use of Daylight Saving Time (DST) but their approaches differ. Some, like Japan, that have not used DST ov...

There are many other studies. For a review see Roenneberg et al. 2019:

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Why daylight saving time is unhealthy – a neurologist explains By altering the body’s internal clock, ‘springing forward’ may contribute to an increase in heart attacks and strokes.

I think Dr. Malow explains it well:

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1 week ago

That's correct, states may observe either seasonal DST on the national schedule or standard time year round. Arizona does the latter. The current bill for that in California is SB-1197.

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Health risk warnings ignored as B.C. moves to permanent daylight time, researchers say | CBC News If B.C. goes ahead with the switch to permanent daylight time, the sun won’t rise until after 9 a.m. for a full month in Vancouver during the winter. Some parts of the province won’t see the sun until...

Sleep scientists are virtually unanimous that Permanent Standard Time is the way, not Permanent Daylight Time. This is literally going to kill people.

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2 weeks ago

I reckon the other way for international events.

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2 weeks ago

Any state can observe standard time year round without federal action.

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3 weeks ago
Dog, waking up Popo: Crow, guy! It's six am!
Popo: Can't! My crower doesn't work til dawn and it isn't due for an hour yet!
Dog: But our guide is due at the airport at seven!
(Popo pecks Gordo in the head and goes back to sleep)
Gordo: I hate daylight saving time.

Gordo by Gus Arriola, June 14 1984:

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3 weeks ago

5 years ago my local Krispy Kreme ran out of them.

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3 weeks ago
closeup of a male takahe, with green back, deep blue breast and head, and massive bright red bill.

Takahē were thought to be extinct until 1948.

When I first learned about them as a kid visiting New Zealand in 1981, there were only 100 birds and I desperately wanted to see one.

Now there are 500 birds. Yesterday I first saw them—seven in one day. Thank you, NZ, for brilliant conversation work.

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3 weeks ago

Kanopy has it.

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1 month ago
NJ Legislature The New Jersey State Legislature

Ask your state senator to support S293.

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1 month ago

My sources say yes

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1 month ago

That is only true of perma-DST bills. The MN standard time bill would exercise the same option as AZ and HI did.

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1 month ago

States cannot go on permanent DST. The Uniform Time Act (15 USC §260a) requires that states either follow the national DST schedule or observe standard time year round. AZ and HI do the latter.

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1 month ago
Photo of the described owl art. It looks like muddy scratch marks on a mottled brown cave wall. The head is very round with two upright lines for ears and a line in the center for a beak. Numerous parallel lines suggest plumage on the wings.

The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

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1 month ago

Standard time balances AM and PM daylight. DST was an early bird's attempt to make his neighbors get up earlier in summer.

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I live in DC and I'm not famous, so it was a really big deal for my art to be featured in the Washington Post a few times and to speak at the Kennedy Center once 😞

The destruction of these organizations is far from the worst thing happening right now, but goddamn it, evil billionaires suck 😣

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1 month ago

State perma-DST laws also leave voters hanging. The Uniform Time Act of 1966, a remedy to the chaos which preceded it, limits states' options to (1) seasonal DST on the national schedule or (2) standard time year round. There is no (3).

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1 month ago

In the past lunar month, these potentially hazardous asteroids were recovered, improving our estimates of their orbits: 2022 CR4, 2023 RJ3.

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1 month ago

Like the penguin in 8 Ball Bunny

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst

Directed by Thom Zimny
Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro
Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

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1 month ago

The kind that values AM light as well as PM light. Until 1966, far SW VA kept standard time year round to match TN and KY.

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1 month ago

State perma-DST laws depend on a change in US law. AZ and HI went the other way.

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1 month ago

Then winter mornings would be darker, as big a problem today as in 1974.

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1 month ago

My search of the Federal Register finds no such order.

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