Dear Reinhold,
I see you are trying to provoke me...
> Frank King will tell us perhaps a nice
> sounding Latin expression?!
This is the worst day of the year for me,
truly...
Dies irae, dies illa...
The day of wrath, that day... :-)
Or, perhaps, you seek my thoughts on whoever
first decided that daylight saving time saves
any daylight...
Contemni est gravius stultitiae quam percuti
To a fool it is worse to be in receipt of
contempt than to be thrashed.
I am not familiar with the Bremen cow but I am
sure she deserves my sympathy as do the even
more famous Bremen donkey, dog, cat and hen,
your Stadtmusikanten.
As well as sympathising with all the livestock
in Bremen I am 95% with Mike Shaw...
> I'm losing a lot of my potential time in the
> sun today sitting indoors changing all my clocks.
Don't bother Mike. Leave them at GMT!
Oh. One more thing. Mike says...
> If we ignore refraction effects, everywhere
> gets an average of 12 hours per day with the
> sun above the horizon, doesn't it?
Not quite true. We in the northern hemisphere
average rather more than 12 hours per day because
the sun has a positive declination for about a
week longer each year than it has a negative
declination.
I extend my sympathy to those readers who live
in the antipodes.
Frank
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