And yes, the central european time zone is huge by 33°, which is more than double the suggested width. Better* split the zone. And more revolutionary*: Cancel time zones, use UTC for global adjustments (intl. transport, communication), and LAT for local appointments. Deviations by ground based travel distances are neglibigle. Or automatically are considered by smartphones/GPS driven devices - "not rocket science".
*With respect to >10^6 years in human evolution synched to sun light variation. Kurt Jack Aubert <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 16. März 2022, 16:32: > Not exactly. In Paris, lunch time is at 1:00. That is very close to > solar noon. Paris is just a few degrees east of London. > > Maybe lunch time is at solar transit. > > > > *From:* sundial <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Kurt Niel > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 16, 2022 7:18 AM > *To:* Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Sundial List <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time > permanent > > > > Noon is noon while the sun is up in the sky - over and out. > > > > Kurt Niel <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 16. März 2022, 12:12: > > It is still a shame, that DST is really that prominent. I stay in Europe > and hope we can get rid of it - dammned DST. > > > > I am still very emotional about it and see it as one of many homan made > mistakes. > > > > Kurt > > > > Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 15. März > 2022, 22:51: > > > It seems the USA may be getting ready to abolish seasonal clock > changes. The proposal has just passed in the Senate but still has to be > accepted by the House of Representatives, so we can't celebrate yet. ( > > https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/ > ) > > If it happens, Canada would quickly follow. In fact, here in British > Columbia it's already in law that we will switch to permanent DST once > Washington (state), Oregon and California have switched. The EU is > already on the same path but things have got bogged down with some > member countries yet to decide which timezone to adopt. EU-wide > preparations were further delayed due to the pandemic ( > > https://www.thelocal.it/20211029/clocks-to-go-back-in-italy-despite-eu-deal-on-scrapping-hour-change/ > ). > > I would have preferred permanent Standard Time over permanent > Daylight-saving Time but, even so, I hope the plans proceed. It will > certainly simplify the my designs for Civil Time sundials and Equation > Of Time signage. > > Cheers, Steve > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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