Dear Roger, How splendid to hear from a fellow non-enthusiast for so-called Daylight Saving.
> Although her suit may lack merit, I sympathise > with the lady in Perth. In fact, I feel sure I could contrive a way in which her case might be pursued!! Maybe she is in the habit of reading by a west-facing window in the late afternoons and when the low sun is troublesome draws her curtains across the window. Now she finds she has to do this for a whole hour longer :-) > This change was driven by profiteering not energy > conservation. Indeed so! > Give us back that hour of light in the morning... Yes, yes! I cycle to work about 6am (sun time) each morning and it was just getting so I could see the sun peeping over the eastern horizon but now I am put back in the dark for a few more weeks. The whole business is a confidence trick. You trick people into getting up an hour earlier by telling lies about the time. There was a U.S. State in the 19th century which got close to legislating that pi should be 3 because 3.14 was inconvenient. I regard changing the time of midnight by legislation in much the same way. Just imagine trying to change the time of sunset by legislation? At least Italian Hours are safe!! Frank King --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
