For those of you who don't get all of your news from XKCD, https://xkcd.com/2594

You mean "snooze buttons" are not wired to a system like this? What, otherwise, is the real point of them?

It certainly seems to be common in popular song titles/lyrics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_World




On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:03 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:



    On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:


        On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
        > Please pass
        >
        
https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/

        >
        > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that
        I was
        > misreading things.

        except they got it backwards?   People who *like* getting up
        and going
        to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is
        rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many.   But how
        many folks
        want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM?

        I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at
        noontime
        and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that
        moment.  It is
        a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares.

    Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the
    sky.
    And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech
    fixes to get  a lot of sunshine through the day for any given
    location. such that noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56'
    39.0588'' W*. For Santa Fe, NM
    means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks,
    computers etc know to make adjustments through out the year to
    make sure noon means the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky
    on a y axis for those coordinates.
    lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically
    even, Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n
    sunshine. For the white house would make to many peoples eyes
    glaze over. just getting to have one or the other is a pretty good
    solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments can come along shortly.
    What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around
    going  we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is
    this weirdness going to keep going.
    I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and
    how many more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it
    passes.

        but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me,
        and those
        that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST
        differences.

        > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who
        looks and
        > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel.
        >
        > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS.
        >
        I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might
        help break
        up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up,
        but I think
        the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that
        the UBI
        and NHS would confront.

        LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right.

    I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a
    lot don't. Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer
    and winter clock system?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
    so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places
    and the rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of
    clock? coolness!

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