[Dixonary] OT: Daylight Savings Time

[Guerri Stevens]

Those of you outside the United States may not know that on March 11
Daylight Savings Time is being inflicted upon us. At least most of us -
there used to be a few places that refused to have it and maybe are
still refusing. I wish we were among them - I live far west in my time
zone and it is only now getting light at a reasonable hour in the morning!

--
Guerri

[bonnyjars]

Guerri

Thanks for that...For us it begins as usual at 2:00 am on the last Sunday in March (25) - why are you guys out of step this year? -
that is a fortnight earlier

JohnnyB





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[Dave Cunningham]

Why are we out of step? some idjuts persuaded Congress that Daylight Time will save billions of dollars. The reality is that it makes no real savings of anything at all (sigh) as it is only a change of name for times. Sorta like saying that in the summer, bottled water should be counted as wine, thereby decreasing the average cost of wine during the summer ...

Dave (noting the same sort of idjuts run the EU)

[Kathryn Lance]

We in Arizona do not participate in the madness of Daylight Savings. (Except
for the Navajo Nation up north.) So we don't need to change any clocks; we
only need to remember that the rest of the country changes around us.



KL



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[Tim Bourne]

> The reality is that it makes no
> real savings of anything at all
>
I suppose an alternative would be for everyone to change
their working hours when the lighter days arrive, but I
can't see that happening. Being almost on the Greenwich
Meridian, I suppose I must be about in the middle of a time
zone. I _like_ Summer Time! It's still daylight when I get
up, so that isn't a problem, and I get an extra hour of
daylight in the evening.

Perhaps the point is that the closer to the Equator you
are, the less point there is in such a change. Maybe you're
in a latitude where the benefit is marginal.

Best wishes,

Tim B