sunset adjustment?

Funny you should say that. My hubby went down in February and each night we talk after we have eaten. My hubby always asks if the sun is still up. He keeps saying that is one thing he is having a hard time with.

Marlene

In over two decades here I still find adjusting to annual LOCAL sunset time changes a chore and we're only talking here a difference of maybe an hour and a half all told. Going to England to visit family (when I was able to do so) I'd be starving at 5PM and they didn't eat until 9-10PM. Leave us not even talk about Alaska!

Your body clock will adjust in due course.

We havn't moved there yet, but I know I will miss the long, lazy days of summer.

cam

That's one thing that has never bothered me at all.

We seem to follow the sun more closely here than we did in the states, up with the sun and to bed likewise. The compensation for the shorter summer days are the longer winter days.

What do people do after sunset? How do you spend your time.

VI gets 12 hours of daylight per day, on average, same as everywhere else on the planet. I like that it varies so little in the VI. I like waking up at dawn and going for a walk, and I don't have to adjust my schedule too much from summer to winter.

Looks like I'm going to have to start getting up before 10 am, huh?
Really starting to question this whole thing 😉

Oh, I wish I could sleep late like I used to. I don't even need an alarm clock any more. Lucky you, Neil!

STXBob: I hate to disagree with you, but I believe the closer to the equator, the more equal the days/nights. People in the big northern latitudes (50, 60 etc) have much shorter than 12 hour days in the winter. 🙂

I am with Trade. It has never bothered me. But I also don't miss the changing seasons that some people seem to miss.

"But I also don't miss the changing seasons that some people seem to miss."

People use the changing seasons and color of the leaf's changing to justify an existence of living in cold weather. Storm windows, snow tires & gas in the furnace is not good for the average human being. I like you enjoy our one season in Los Angeles. If I want winter I'll drive a couple of hours to the mountains. But I don't.

I agree...giving up a few hours of sunlight in the summer months to gain beautiful days all year long is what most are looking for...forget the days when you get off work at 5 and it's already dark!!!!!
Kim

isn't this more of the fact that the USVI doesn't change with daylight savings? Here in AZ we don't either, and I like the fact that I know there is always a 3 hour time diofference. Also I've always been puzzled as to why only 3 hour time difference. It seems that the USVI should be at least a hour ahead of the east coast, and during daylight savings time 2 hours.

terry - read East Ender's post again which explains all relative to our geographical location close to the equator.

I noted in an earlier post that I still have a problem getting used to the minimal difference here between day and night hours but that's because I have an evening business establishment and, as the equinoxes gradually change I have to get used to either turning on the outside lights an hour earlier or leaving them off until an hour or so later. No biggie, it was just a personal observation.

I used to know why "daylight savings time" was instituted on the US mainland in particular and in different "zones" but obviously that information has long been relegated to the back burner of my turgid old brain and isn't of any significance where my life right now in the VI is concerned. But I really don't think I would be able to adapt now to anything akin to the extreme of basically six months dark and six months light (with of course graduating variations) as encountered in the far Northern hemisphere.

East Ender: When I said "VI gets 12 hours of daylight per day, on average, same as everywhere else on the planet," I meant on average throughout the year. VI gets 13 hours of daylight in summer, 11 hours in winter. Toronto gets 15 hours in summer and 9 hours in winter. The average is always 12 hours.

To me, it isn't the timing of the "sunset" but the quality of the sunsets, and the ability to enjoy them over an ocean vista.

I'm not looking for extra daylight hours, but the quality of the daylight. Ohio is grey for too many months.

I'm also looking forward to seeing stars in the evening sky. The ambient light of suburbia is ridiculous.

Okay, the old "average day." Now I see! 😉

Speaking of atmospheric phenomenon, what is with all this HAZE?

Yeah, it seems early for it to be this hazy. The volcano in Montserrat isn't acting up again, is it?

Trade: The paper says it is Sahara dust. I don't think I remember seeing it this thick, this early.

Yeah, I heard it on the radio this AM. It was really bad today. As I recall, the dust helps to prevent hurricanes or lessen their intensity or something but I dislike all this grey. And my car is gritty.

Where do you think all the sand on the beaches comes from? It is from the Sahara desert.

Jim

:S

I thought the sand was from parrotfish poop!
🙂 🙂

EE LOL!

Neil,

Here is an article from the Daily News regarding Saharan Dust:

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17609099

🙂