Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2008-03-21, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> And is calling the period of darkness that was from 10 pm to 2 am
> 11 pm to 3 am actually an improvement?
Uh, that would be midnight to 3am - and yes. Unless you want to
change the opening hours of shops and offices to take advantage of the
daylight instead.
>
> Further, is it enough of an improvement that it compensates for the
> groginess and significantly higher accident rates in the week falling?
A week? Two days at most - that's why the changes happen at the
weekend. Leastways that's the experiences here in the UK.
>
> If you want to change when you get up and when you go to sleep, do so by
> all means. But you don't have to relabel the hours to do so, nor do you
> need to so by one-hour jumps, instead of adjusting slowly and
> organically across the year.
>
Much more efficient to change the clock than change all the work and
shop opening hours.
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Jette Goldie
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