On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:06:43 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on 10/12/2011 > at 04:22 PM, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> said: > >>One of the justifications (?) we had here in Illinois was so that >>school children would not be in transit to/from school during >>darkness hours. > >Changing school hours twice a year would solve that.
I fail to see how. The argument, if it has indeed been made, is absurd. The length of daylight is the longest at the start of summer and shortest at the start of winter. If there is a concern with children going to school or returning home in the dark, that situation is worst at the beginning of winter. The time is adjusted during the summer though, when there is ample daylight before and after school. Extending summer time to November increases the likelihood of children going to school in the dark. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
