Tom, There is a fair body of scientific evidence regarding the validity of "circadian rhythms."
I don't like clocks period, never mind having to reset them. (That only compounds the problem of clocks themselves.) I do like sunrise/sunset for my measure of time (at least on a daily basis, not living near the equator). On the other hand, standards are necessary (evils?) in order to do much of what we call business or commerce, at least on the support end. (Seems to have disappeared on most other fronts somehow, count your fingers after a handshake.) With the exception of sunrise/sunset mandates regarding headlights, access to parks or hunting laws, we see little use of this common sense measure of daily time. Personally, I suspect our children may see a continuous offset from GMT, possibly coupled with sunrise/sunset for a variety of new (to me, mostly ISO) standards. Peter p.s. if I sound like an unrepentant Luddite, Amen. (Long live the slide rule!) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >A majority want to adjust their work hours to follow the sunrise, >and they find it more convenient to reset their clocks semiannually Interesting hypothesis. How did you determine that? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
