On Tue, March 6, 2007 4:06 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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. >
Decent people would but not corporations. Mom has to hold a job to keep little Timmy's medical bills paid and Mom has to take Timmy to school (way early) so old Mr. Bassett won't fire her. School and work times are inextricably entwined. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
