My earlier reply about flexible working practices still holds. Why not just move with the seasons. Before clocks, I'm sure that's what we did - we got up when it was light, and went to bed when it was dark. The bit in between just happens to be elastic...
I live at 53 degrees North in the UK by the way. Rob K -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Palfreyman Sent: 19 July 2011 1:58 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] The future of UTC Far out. I've just read so many logical fallacies and government conspiracies I'm embarrassed for this high quality list. Let's inject some facts here. I live at 43 degrees south. At the winter solstice (June 21) the sun rises at 7:41 and sets at 16:43. At the summer solstice (December 21) the sun rises (no DST) at 04:28 and sets at 19:49. Sunrise at 04:28 is ridiculous. Including twilight it starts getting light at 3:30. Switch to DST and sunrise moves to 05:28 and sets at 20:49. Much more reasonable. Nice summer evenings too. We have DST for 6 months of the year and wouldn't swap it for anything. I understand it's different the closer to the equator you are, but for mid latitudes it really works. Jim On Tuesday, 19 July 2011, Thomas A Frank <[email protected]> wrote: >>> BLOCK: This may be kind of an urban legend, but I thought I had heard that one of the backers behind extending Daylight Saving Time into the beginning of November was the candy industry, and it all had to do with Halloween. >>> >>> Mr. DOWNING: This is no kind of legend. This is the truth. For 25 years, candy-makers have wanted to get trick-or-treat covered by Daylight Saving, figuring that if children have an extra hour of daylight, they'll collect more candy. In fact, they went so far during the 1985 hearings on Daylight Saving as to put candy pumpkins on the seat of every senator, hoping to win a little favor. > > > I would say it backfired. > > At least here in Rhode Island, the extra daylight resulted in the compression of the trick or treating schedule, since all the little goblins and ghouls wanted to go out after dark (to better scare the homeowners and enjoy their glow in the dark costumes), but they also were expected home by 8pm (local). > > Net result is less candy given out. > > At least that has been my experience. > > Proving you shouldn't tamper with time. Measure yes, tamper, no. :-) > > Tom Frank, KA2CDK > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
