begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0800: > > On Tue, March 6, 2007 3:06 pm, John Oliver wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:42:23AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >> Then again, I hate the whole idea of timezones to begin with. > > > > Until someone figures out how to stretch the Earth out like a Mercator > > projection, we're stuck with 'em :-) > > Perhaps he meant daylight savings time which is certainly debatable. On > one level, it's a convenience and gives us more magic hours of fun in the > summer. On the other, it's as silly as setting your watch 10 min fast so > you'll never be late. > > But when I lived in Minnesota, it made a _real_ difference in the morning, > and I'm concerned for pedestrians in those March mornings, especially the > kids going to school. Minnesota kids.
Um, so just change the start-of-school time to 9AM. All this obsessing over being at work at 8AM sharp is just, well, obsessive. -- We should name the hours like we do the months. I figure "Stremler" is ~1AM. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
