Last Sunday, we changed the clocks an hour ahead and shifted sunset well after 7pm in Columbia. For some reason, the mornings seemed much darker than normal. Granted the time change moved the time of sunrise from 6:44 am to 7:44 am, but I don't recall it being as dark in past years. For comparison, the latest the sun rises in December/January is 7:30am. We get back to that time around March 18th. I've lived in Columbia several years now, so I figure the westward/southward location compared to Long Island shouldn't have as great an effect on me.
For all intents and purposes, we've shifted to Central Standard Time in the east. Through college, DST began on the first Sunday of April. In 2015, that would have shifted the start of DST to April 5th, when the sunrise is at 6:06 / 7:06 am. I was living in NY for one year (2007) after the new schedule of switching the second Sunday in March was enacted. The timing there works out to move sunrise to exactly when the latest time occurs in the winter (7:06am, using Bridgeport, CT as an estimate).
Of course none of this really matters long term, next year the change is made March 13th, when sunrise will be at 7:37am. I find it funny that I went to such an extent looking up the late sunrise times because I am more of a night person, and generally enjoy the later sunsets. What it really probably comes down to is having a dog now that is more in tune with being fed early in the morning.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Starting Over
I've made it a point this year to get back into my website. It's now March, and the ball is only starting to roll. I want to begin updating the site by posting here more and even though this is just tangential to the other content on the site, I can at least use this as a way to get back into it. I've been posting on here since 2008, and it's been very irregular; I haven't made any updates to mattrodgers.net since 2010. To start, here's a few goals:
- at least one post a week
- improve python skills, and begin introducing them to the website
- take more pictures, post to the site
- add a resume area that focuses on technical skills
- develop some web mapping projects
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