15 degrees east is Jay’s snarky way of describing permanently putting everyone on a timezone that was formerly applicable to a position roughly 15º east of their current position.
In other words, Permanent Daylight Savings time. Owen > On Mar 15, 2022, at 12:19 , Mel Beckman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don’t follow why cancelling DST has the effect of moving the US fifteen > degrees to the east. Also, your subject line reads “permanent DST”, but from > your language the bill will be permanent standard time. > > I haven’t read the bill, but I’m hoping you can explain your position more > clearly. > > -mel via cell > >> On Mar 15, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would >> >> 1) Cancel DST permanently, and >> 2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east. >> >> My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric. Hopefully, it will >> fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and even >> if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult. >> >> I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on... >> >> Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their >> decision on this engineering construct. >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra >> >> -- >> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink >> [email protected] >> Designer The Things I Think RFC >> 2100 >> Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover >> DII >> St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 >> 1274
