But DST is surely mandated by the government and could be undone by the 
government.  Why they even shifted when it occurs by a couple of weeks 
recently.  Well in 2005,  by that royalist Bush and his congress.  Looks like 
these guys actually do have the power to change things.

http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/daylight_saving_time_extended.shtml


--joshua

On Mar 19, 2013, at 11:07 AM, "Nicholas  Thompson" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Owen:
>  
> The thing that keeps puzzling me about your appeals here is the hidden 
> assumption (I think I detect) that there is Somebody In Charge.  It’s the 
> parasitic ant model.  There’s a species of ant that makes its living by its 
> fertilized “queens” putting on perfumes and waving their little antenna until 
> workers of another species pick them up and carry them to their queen, where 
> upon the parasitic queen jumps on the back of the true queen, bites her in 
> the back of the neck to terminate her egg laying, and then lays eggs which 
> are cared for and raised by the parasitized ants.  Faculty members at 
> universities are particularly prone to the Parasitic Ant Fallacy.  They think 
> that  if they just go and complain to the President, The World Will Change.  
> It’s a harmless fantasy in its place, except that it leads to disparagement 
> of the people who are actually trying to make change, and getting muck all 
> over themselves in the process.  Viz Obama.  In short, I suspect you of being 
> a closet royalist.  So there!
>  
> Nick
>  
>  
>  
> From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:35 AM
> To: [email protected]; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the 
> bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time
>  
> Sorry to bump, but now *another* DST fkup: Europe does not change DST when 
> the US does.
>  
> So today our skype Italian class was shifted, and both Dede and I had to 
> cancel scheduled events.
>  
> If we have to live with time changes, we should at least try to make it 
> global, we're a pretty global community now and I bet others got hit by 
> US/Euro/Worldwide differences.
>  
>    -- Owen
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