Joy Beeson wrote:
>
> The strange thing is, nobody has *ever*, as far as I know, offered a
> defense of Devil Satan Time, yet it has been adopted all over the
> world.
>
> Ask a DST proponent why he likes it and he'll give an enthusiastic
> rendition of "early to bed and early to rise/makes a man healthy,
> wealthy, and wise" with many, many corroborating details -- but he'll
> studiously avoid explaining why longer and longer periods of DST are
> progressive and with it, but year-round DST just won't do.
>
> A few play the "Gee, ma, all the other kids are doon' it" card, which
> hits the table with a snigger-worthy lack of snap in Indiana, where
> the only way to come reasonably close to doing what all the other kids
> are doing is to match Illinois half the year and Ohio half the year --
> which Indiana did for thirty years. And they never explain why all
> the other kids are doing it.
>
> But I take back all the nasty things I've said about Benjamin
> Franklin. While poking around the Web one day, I came across his
> original proposal -- and it was clearly and obviously meant as a
> *joke* -- something too absurd to ever implement.
>
>
Try living up here in the almost Arctic circle - where dawn would
arrive at about 2am at midsummer without "summer time" - and somewhere
around 10m at midwinter if we stuck to "summer time" all year round.
(actually for a few weeks in June, we barely get any darkness at all
at night)
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Jette Goldie
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