-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say: > On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you > > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on > > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be? > > Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does?
Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were waiting for the bus in the dark." It was utterly inconceivable to start school later, to adapt to local conditions. No, everyone _else_ had to be changed. > And I guess > by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot that `winter' even was > ever a thing.... Just like everyone forgets how to drive in snow over the summer. - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTaYVhJsIalt8scIDa2T1fo1pHhqQUCYEaCCwAKCRC2T1fo1pHh qcBWAP9tjJK6fbagBRBeWEaLIEEGMAzkIwAzOwwUi+Yz2jev+AD/WXBR34aXTXvq Vh4G+HQLPH4F5qdH3Q3ZB1hDPWPMseQ= =AYrj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/