Hi Robert All,
There is a lot of factual info on your site (and the rest of the web)
about DST. What is puzzling me is the following. From 1977 on we
(in the Netherlands) had DST from the last weekend in March to the
last weekend in September. Loosely speaking: while solar
declination was
Sara Schechner wrote:
At 06:56 PM 10/15/01 +0100, Chris Lusby Taylor wrote:
By the way, John, could you please note in the BSS Glossary that the
correct term for a diagonal scale (used to interpolate the shadow edge
between successive hour lines) is a nonius, from Pedro Nuez,
the
Portuguese
Hi Sara,
Thanks for responding - I had remembered our previous discussions on the list
re classifying dials, but I don't have a quotable reference to what you and
your colleagues have produced that I, and the other dabblers at dialling, can
refer to. Perhaps when you return home you could
Frans W. Maes wrote:
There is a lot of factual info on your site (and the rest of the web)
about DST. What is puzzling me is the following. From 1977 on we
(in the Netherlands) had DST from the last weekend in March to the
last weekend in September. Loosely speaking: while solar
Peter Mayer wrote:
In parts of Australia it is claimed that daylight savings tends to
bleach curtains (all that extra UV?) and confuses dairy cows!
I have no comment on the bleached drapes but re those poor dairy cows,
yes, they are confused by daylight savings. Why? Because farmers
