For giggles Alaska has one time zone. They used to have four, but that made for issues doing business. Now it is all based on SE. Sun up in Juneau is the same time as the last island in the Aleutian chain. Sun will not get up for four more hours. And to make it all even stupider, they do DLS.
clay On Mar 9, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > Everyone should move into the same time zone - the Washington, D.C. metro > area This not only obviates the need to bicker about time zones but also > broadens our tax base while providing a broad constituency to grant D.C. > Statehood. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> With perpetual DST, there would be a lot of children walking to school and >> waiting for the bus in the dark, especially on the western edges of time >> zones. Frankly (unlike 1940) most jobs do not depend on daylight and >> office buildings are artificially lit regardless of outside light (so >> energy use is not a factor). For the most part, work that really requires >> daylight (e.g. farming, construction, etc.) is scheduled around the sun and >> weather anyway. I've seen a factual analysis but I suspect very little is >> really effected by the DST time change except more daylight after work and >> the thrash of the biannual change. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Don via Mercedes >>> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 3:22 PM >>> DST is not the problem, the problem is changing the clocks twice a year. >>> DST is great, since we would never get all the businesses and government >>> offices to work 7-4 instead of 8-5. Getting home earlier to have another >> hour >>> before dark is great. Emotionally it's harder to get to work at 7 than >> 8, even if >>> the "real" time is the same. >>> The spring change that results in getting less sleep and having to >> adjust our >>> internal clocks is the problem. >>> The solution is to set DST as standard time across the whole country >> forever - >>> NO changing the clocks at all. Set it and leave it. One adjustment once, >> never >>> again, more sunlight after work, all is well. >>> Grants problem is bucking the rest of the country - you always suffer >> that way, >>> whether you're right or not. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner >> has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
