Dear Dick, > In Boston, the summer solstice sunrise > is at 5:08 AM. That's two hours before > I'm even thinking about getting up. :-)
OK. Suppose I broke into your apartment while you were asleep and advanced all your clocks so they said 7:08AM. Would you think about getting up then? That's pretty much what Governments do except that they don't have to break into your house. They make a law so that you change your own clocks :-) Suppose they introduced another law that said... During the summer months you should cut the first foot off all tape measures so they start at 1 instead of 0. We would all be a foot taller during the summer. Everyone would be happy. I think I shall set up a political party to introduce this legislation! Why stop there? During the summer we could add 10 volts to the readings of all voltmeters and 10mph to all speedometers. We could finally pass the Indiana bill that attempted to set the value of pi to 3.2, but only during the summer of course. Oh, how about adding $1bn to all bank accounts too? Hey, wait a minute. Didn't they already try that one? Enjoy your extra daylight! Frank King Cambridge, U.K. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
