Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2008-03-21, Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ah, well part of the problem must be that you're living offset from the
> center of the timezone. At the center, if the sun rises near 4 am, it
> must set near 8 pm.
Scotland is pretty far north. We only get 12 hour days and nights at
the equinoxes - currently the sun *rises* some time after 6am ........
but it's already light enough to wake me by 05.30. Come summer proper
(June into July) even after the sun has set and before it rises again
there's the "gloaming". I can sit outdoors at midnight and read a
newspaper. I'm actually looking forward to next weekend when the
clocks go forward - it will be darker in the morning, so I don't wake
too early, (well, for a few weeks at least, but then it's back to
"fergawdsake, shut those blackout curtains!!") but stay light in the
evening so I can enjoy evenings in the park.
--
Jette Goldie
jette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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