Violent?

Move south towards the equator and you’ll get 6 am sunrise / 6pm sunset year round. Europe regularly gets 4 am sunrises in summer months in northern regions. Scotland. Scandinavia. Etc.

There are lots of studies and expert opinion that all support stopping the change. But only if it stays in standard time.

The country's population fundamentals are part of all that too. For housing developers, there's every incentive to choose to build pricey houses because there are still plenty of people buying them.

I saw this recently in a city in the south. Dozens of recently built (<20 years old) developments, each with a hundred or so houses...and none of them affordable on an average income, because there were always plenty of above-average earners ready to buy them.

The key being that some companies change control will require a structured plan to roll it out, possibly in phases. My last company only had a few thousand production servers, in a non emergency would probably do this over a month or two. In tandem with regular patching. Network devices are sometimes another story.
People don't realize it's a bit more complicated than just saying "don't change your clocks".

Yeah that’s not gonna happen. If this ever changes it’s going to be all or the Eastern time zone. So Michigan is going to hold us hostage.

I actually liked more beers at True West than Rapscallion, although now that my boys aged out of youth hockey and I don't need to go to the Nashoba (Acton Boxboro) rink anymore, I haven't actually been there since before the pandemic + another year or two before that. Perhaps they have gone downhill since? At the time I thought their IPA was their least appealing beer (and I am an IPA drinker). Oddly I thought their brown ale was very good considering I don't normally like browns all that much. And their Belgian Tripel and Dubbel were both good.

I don't recall them every having much of a "bar" for cocktails, to get back on track with this thread. Just a handful of kind of standards I used to see them make a lot of the same things over and over sitting at the bar.

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Dream tenant responsible adult would either accept the proposed rent, try to negotiate lower mutually agreeable rent or choose not to renew the lease at the time when the notification is received, not wait till the very last second just so they can screw over the property owner (and in the end just end up screwing themselves.)

If you know one way or another then I don't see the harm in informing them early.

There's a whole protocol for doing exactly this. It's the time zone database/tz/tzinfo and is regularly updated for this very reason. Lots of countries and regions fiddle with their time on a regular basis and every major operating system has been able to accommodate it for decades. You can see a long discussion about managing DST or lack thereof in Egypt and Lebanon in the associated mailing lists just this month.

tzinfo updates usually are packaged into broader OS updates. Getting the right time is just a matter of running Windows Update or whatever other update utility you use. You can even check out the list of all of the DST-specific updates that Microsoft has done here.

Right and now that sunrise will change to 7:30/8:30 am if you keep it DST year round. After 9 am in Michigan.

Listen, say what you want. It was tried in the early 70s and everyone hated it so much it didn’t even last 1 year. That will happen again

It’s much better to have the sun rise at 4 am and set at 8 pm in summer than to have the sun rise at 8:30 am and set at 5:30 pm in Winter.

Too soon to make a change. Every computer needs to be updated, probably millions in MA alone. In companies with thousands of computers and network devices, this could take six months of testing and actual production deploys.

*fewer

I don’t know but this would be a clever marketing strategy.

What time are you coming? That is the most important factor.

So you know what to expect: There is one lane going off Cape (the outer one with a sidewalk) and one lane going on Cape that goes down the center line of the bridge. It is lined on both sides by cones. The rightmost lanes going on Cape are closed at all times because they are ripping up the pavement to repair underneath. Lots of heavy machinery and workers on the right side.

7-9 AM is rough both ways going over the Sagamore and there are backups going over the Bourne bridge as well.

9 AM- 2 PM tends to be okay for going from mainland to island. Small pockets of congestion periodically going from island to mainland.

2 PM- 3PM There is a little bit of a jam on both bridges because of school traffic. You may be fine heading over Sagamore to island though.

3-4 PM You’ll be fine either bridge heading on Cape. Off Cape will be absolutely jammed on the Sagamore, backed up an exit or more.

5-6 PM Heading home from work traffic, so you may get a little bit of a slowdown heading over Sagamore to Capeside.

7PM onwards, you’ll have absolutely no issues getting over.

I work around the Canal and cross the bridges a few times a day so this is what I’ve noticed so far. Please keep in mind there have been LOADS of accidents around both bridges since last Monday (one or more almost every day) that is causing even more unexpected traffic, so please take your time and be careful. Once you are over you shouldn’t have issues on the highway.

Good luck and be safe!

yes but I thnk we need to turn the clocks back this fall and stay on that time which is 'normal' time.

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I am a dream tenant. Tons of great references. Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Just throwing mud for no good reason.

Yes. There is no advantage anymore.

MB is super localized. I grew up in Eastern Mass and I don’t think I’ve ever been in one. Big Y and Aldi are your best bet here. I alternate depending on what I need.

Hyper inflation interest rates and the large number of people wanting to leave the state is probably the big reasons.

You do what you want but don't come back whining when you need to find an apartment with a month to spare and "avoid like the plague" reference from your landlord. Or were you planning to take it a step further and squat once the lease isn't renewed and you're asked to leave because the law says you can't be evicted without a court order?

Atkins is wonderful but it’s definitely not cheaper than Big Y

That's the level of inventory you're seeing on the market now. Ain't much.

Thank you. I've grown really tired of people saying New England should be on AST or permanent DST. When we are on standard time we are right where we are supposed to be, in terms of solar time.

Yes, this means ~4:30am sunrises and ~7:30pm sunsets in the summer. 👍

It just depends on the time. Just check google maps traffic or whatever and see which one has less traffic. Pretty simple.