Perhaps it is better explained this way, as a wise old Arizona Indian chief once said when daylight savings was explained to him: "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket." > From: jlcarmich...@comcast.net > To: illustratingshad...@yahoo.com; sundial@uni-koeln.de; > frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk > Subject: RE: DST Misconceptions > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:11:02 -0700 > > > I also heard of a study last year that concluded that DST caused heart > attacks! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On > Behalf Of Simon [illustratingshadows > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:29 AM > To: 'Sundial Mailing List'; Frank King > Subject: Re: DST Misconceptions > > My understanding, not having followed this thread, is that at best there is > a believed savings of energy to the order of 1%. I have no idea if that is > statistically valid. I am also told that the shift from standard to daylight > time causes some 263 traffic deaths during the transitional period, compared > to the norm. No consideration is given to the southern states. > > This is political folly at its best, and we like sheep. > > Congratulations Arizona on standing firm, with a NO to DST. > > Simon > > > Simon Wheaton-Smith > www.illustratingshadows.com > Silver City, New Mexico W108.2 N32.75 and > Phoenix, Arizona, W112.1 N33.5 > > > --- On Mon, 3/15/10, Frank King <frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > From: Frank King <frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk> > > Subject: Re: DST Misconceptions > > To: "'Sundial Mailing List'" <sundial@uni-koeln.de> > > Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 4:10 AM > > Dear John and Jack, > > > > Reading about the benefits of Daylight Saving > > Time always reminds me of Betrand Russell's > > remark: > > > > If you make a single false assumption you > > can prove anything. > > > > Daylight Saving Time is just a legislative > > trick to get people out of bed an hour early > > by telling lies about the time. > > > > By telling these lies you can make all kinds > > of dubious claims but suppose, for a moment, > > that we accept all these claims... > > > > Let us accept that there are huge economic, > > social and conservation benefits from getting > > up an hour earlier. > > > > In which case why aren't people doing this of > > their own accord? > > > > There is no need to tell lies about the time! > > > > Frank King > > Cambridge, U.K. > > > > P.S. > > > > Russell was once challenged at a talk... > > > > OK, suppose you accept the false assumption > > that 1+1 = 3, can you prove that you are > > the Pope? > > > > Certainly said Russell. You subtract one > > from both sides to give 1 = 2. Now the > > Pope and I are two people so this means > > that the Pope and I are one person and, > > therefore, I am the Pope. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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