On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:40:24PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > 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.
I set the clock in my car, and my nightstand alarm clock, a few minutes fast :-) > 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. Same thing happens at the other end... I think it's ridiculous that the sun should go down at 4:30 in the afternoon. If we were going to stop changing the time, then I say stop doing so in the DST position. I don't mind getting up before the sun, but I hate driving home in the dark. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
