Is it too soon to pat ourselves on our collective back for surviving
the fall back from xDT to xST with nary a post on the subject?
My cellphone provider finally changed the network time at around
0600 this morning.
My cable provider was ahead of the game; its network time never
did spring forward 8 months ago, so no fall back was required. ;-)
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:06:33 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?
> To: [email protected]
>
> > But, it can/does cause some problems with things like young children going
> > to (or coming from) school in the dark.
>
> The more I think about this, the less sense it makes.
>
> The thing that saves the children from going to school in the dark is
> *standard time*, not DST. So, if we stayed on standard time all year,
> the kids would be alright. It's DST that screws everything up!
>
> What DST does is get us out of bed an hour earlier in the spring and
> summer months. That's the daylight saved -- the hour that we
> would otherwise spend lying in bed sleeping (or whatever). So DST
> shifts an hour of daylight from the early morning to the afternoon/evening.
>
> Standard time gives the kids their best chance of going to school and
> coming home in daylight during the months when daylight is at its shortest.
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:17:26 +0000
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?
> > To: [email protected]
> >
> > >Heck, I wish Daylight Savings Time would go away, and wouldn't be averse
> > >if local time would go away. China is on one time zone and it doesn't hurt
> > >them.
> >
> > So, is India.
> > But, it can/does cause some problems with things like young children going
> > to (or coming from) school in the dark.
> >
> > -
> > Too busy driving to stop for gas!
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