Dear Frank King, You definitely had been too moderate! Dr Frank King, University of Cambridge Summer Time is a legislative trick to get people out of bed earlier by telling lies about the time. Only a simpleton would chop the first foot off a tape measure and then claim to be a foot taller. You don't get "more usable daylight" by fiddling the clocks. If you want to use the morning daylight then set your alarm clock earlier. Changing one alarm clock is much quicker than changing every clock from the one on the microwave to that on the central heating. If there are so many benefits, economic, social and environmental, from getting up earlier then why aren't people doing this of their own accord? Probably because they prefer staying in bed. In which case, let them stay in bed. A change to double summer time would simply amount to time inflation. People would continue to stay in bed and before long we would have calls for triple and quadruple summer time. Keep the clocks at GMT and let people decide how they wish to parcel up their days. Many tourists come for the night-life whether on beaches or in cities. By sticking with GMT their night-life appears to start earlier! As a wise Indian Chief said in Arizona when daylight saving time was explained to him: only a white man could believe that by cutting one foot off the end of a blanket and sewing it to the other end can you end up with a longer blanket. I followed all the guidelines about not using "offensive or defamatory language"! Dont put yourself in charge of such a BBC guardian! :-) Don't let Governments fiddle with time! When I read this sentence also other subjects came into my mind Best wishes! Reinhold Kriegler * ** *** **** ***** ****** ******* Reinhold R. Kriegler Lat. 53° 6' 52,6" Nord; Long. 8° 53' 52,3 Ost; 48 m ü. N.N. www.ta-dip.de http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=XyCoJHwzzjU&fmt=18 http://www.ta-dip.de/203,0,r-e-i-n-h-o-l-d,index,0.html -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] Im Auftrag von Frank King Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. März 2010 12:05 An: Chuck Nafziger Cc: Sundial List Betreff: Re: DST Misconceptions 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
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