Dear Chuck, Your message was very useful therapy for me. [You should charge a fee :-) ]
> I ... conclude that DST is ... unnecessary > ... for people who are capable of ... > modifying their morning alarm clock. It is so much easier to change one alarm clock than to change all the other clocks: from the central heating to the microwave! I don't need a Government to tell me how to parcel out the hours of daylight and night. I could argue that DST is almost UnAmerican. I am simply astonished that so many people who get up at 7am can be persuaded to get up at 6am only if you CALL it 7am. I remember a child whose favourite snack was X's Yogurt. One day his Mom couldn't get X's Yogurt in the supermarket and got Y's Yogurt instead. The child wouldn't touch it. His Mom took it away, washed an old tub with X's Yogurt written on it and poured Y's Yogurt into it. The child ate it with a happy smile. It is amazing how susceptible people are to this kind of rebadging but I don't want my time rebadged thank you! The BBC's U.K. Farming Today program had five minutes of propaganda on this subject this morning. You can hear it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/farmingtoday Click on "Listen now" for 18/03/2010. The clip starts 8m30s into the programme. You can click on COMMENTS BOARD and leave a comment. They might publish it. They didn't publish mine even though I followed all the guidelines about not using "offensive or defamatory language"! Ooops! I have just checked and they HAVE published my remarks. Look at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/farming-today/comments/ Please send in some more! Don't let Governments fiddle with time! Frank King Cambridge, U.K. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
