No conversation about time is complete without a nod to 'Calendrical Calculations' by Reingold and Dershowitz: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/computer-science/computing-general-interest/calendrical-calculations-ultimate-edition-4th-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781107057623
I have three editions of this on my shelf. Everytime I think I have a hard problem to solve I peruse a chapter and then realize my problems aren't as difficult as time... --Ray On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually in was the Germans in 1916 that implemented it first. Almost > every other country adopted it shortly after, and we adopted it in 1918. > > IMHO: it made sense back then when the world was not universally > electrified. It does not make sense in the 21st century. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> > Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org > PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 > PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 > B B6E7 > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 12:41 PM Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:59 PM Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: >> >>> -----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." >>> >>> >> And when they moved the dates by 3 weeks in 2007, they found that the >> energy changes depended on your climate. A study in California found a >> 0.2% decrease in electricity. A 2008 study in Indiana had a 1% increase in >> consumption. >> >> Of course that 1% in Indiana translated to ~ $9 million/yr. >> >> FWIW, changing the clocks is not an American thing. The UK developed BST >> 1st. So even the UK doesn't stay on GMT! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- Raymond Cote, CTO voice: +1.603.924.6079 email: rgac...@appropriatesolutions.com skype: ray.cote Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/ray_cote/60min/
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