[LEAPSECS] clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Allen
Following the recent op-ed in the New York Times I was looking around at the sorts of antics that accompany daylight saving time. The wikipedia page about time in Indiana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana gives a more subdued version of things than the web2.0 comments in NYT. But as

Re: [LEAPSECS] clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20081216173625.ga13...@ucolick.org, Steve Allen writes: To disconnect UTC, and thus civil time, from the sun [...] Steve, Civil time is not UTC anywhere that I have heard about. Even the British had other and better reasons than landscaping in public parks for holding on to GMT.

Re: [LEAPSECS] clinical evidence about time and sun

2008-12-16 Thread Zefram
Steve Allen wrote: http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/ViewAbstract.aspx?citationid=3721 Interesting results, but unfortunately this only looks at a one-hour difference at one point in the year. I'd like to see the same stats done across the entire year. In particular, is the road accident rate