On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:30:28 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 10/10/2011 at 09:13 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>Sounds good in theory, but in practice, the will of the people, wise >>or otherwise, prevails. That will can't be overruled by the needs of >>IT. > >It's not just people in IT that hate DST. > >>Your proposal, if implemented, would soon engender a semiannual >>switch between GMT and GMDT. > >That would be your proposal, not his. His proposal is to shift the >work day by an hour twice a year without messing with the clock >settings. Since it makes sense, Congress will never adopt it; I can't >speak for the legislatures of other countries. > It matters little what he proposes, or who adopts the proposal. A majority want to adjust their work hours to follow the sunrise, and they find it more convenient to reset their clocks semiannually than it would be to repaint their hours of operation on shop doors semiannually.
It isn't all legislative tyranny sometimes with the objective of energy conservation; often with questionable effect. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
