Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:17:09 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? What frakk'in greenhouse gases ?

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Feb 2010, at 02:17, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? What frakk'in

[gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Peter Humphrey wrote: Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks. When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in that insane idea of messing up the clocks would bring anything but useless

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks. When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here in Germany, there're lots of them who still believe in

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:14 +0100, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Outside USA we have no illusions of saving time by adjusting our clocks. When it comes to politicians, I'm not quite that sure. Over here

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing time puts a lot of stress on the body. But it means you spend more of your waking hours in

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. With daylight savings the sun is not the highest at noon. And changing time puts a lot of stress on the body.

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:25 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, for the exact reasons you wrote, daylight saving make no sense. With daylight savings the sun is

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:36:51 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: But it means you spend more of your waking hours in daylight (unless you're a postman or milkman), which has both health and environmental benefits not really. If I have to get up at 4am in the morning to reach my job at

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Dale wrote: The only good thing, it helps some people remember to replace the battery in the smoke detector. Of course, one could come up with a better way of doing that too. Most of them beep for weeks when it gets low, which is ironic since the beeping runs the battery down. o_O In our

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Neil Bothwick wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? What frakk'in greenhouse gases ? Is anyone stupid enough to still believe in

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Neil Bothwick wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment?