Daylight Saving Shift
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From: Lew on 2 Nov 2009 01:29 Morris Keesan wrote: > On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:44 -0500, Thomas Pornin <pornin(a)bolet.org> wrote: > >> According to Roedy Green <see_website(a)mindprod.com.invalid>: >>> I see no advantage in losing an hour of evening daylight in November. >> >> Historically it is the other way round: DST is a special time shift >> applied during summer. Thus, DST does not remove an hour of evening >> daylight in November; rather, it adds an hour of evening daylight in >> March. > > Rather, it removes an hour of morning daylight in March, which doesn't get > restored until November. It does neither for me. I just get up "later" and stay up "later" by the clock during DST. I find the longer summer days do plenty to add both morning and afternoon daylight during that season. Since I'm required to get to work an hour earlier (by the sun) during DST, I get more tardiness lectures from the bosses in the summer than the winter. I've read that the clock changes produce increased health problems, but I have no idea how valid that assertion is. -- Lew
From: Peter Duniho on 2 Nov 2009 02:13 Morris Keesan wrote: > On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:44 -0500, Thomas Pornin <pornin(a)bolet.org> wrote: > >> According to Roedy Green <see_website(a)mindprod.com.invalid>: >>> I see no advantage in losing an hour of evening daylight in November. >> >> Historically it is the other way round: DST is a special time shift >> applied during summer. Thus, DST does not remove an hour of evening >> daylight in November; rather, it adds an hour of evening daylight in >> March. > > Rather, it removes an hour of morning daylight in March, which doesn't get > restored until November. The thing that really annoys me isn't so much the forced deposit of that hour, but the fact that it generates no interest during the 6+ months it's being held from me! If I could bank an hour in Spring, and get back 90 minutes in the Fall, now _that_ would be something. :) Pete
From: Wojtek on 2 Nov 2009 13:53 Roedy Green wrote : > Daylight saving shift back happened 2AM this 2009-11-01. Not in Saskatchewan it didn't -- Wojtek :-)
From: Wojtek on 2 Nov 2009 13:54 Roedy Green wrote : > The other possibility, at least for Internet communication, email and > international meetups is to use UTC. And database dates. -- Wojtek :-)
From: Mike Schilling on 2 Nov 2009 17:45
Arved Sandstrom wrote: > My point was, you can always pin a meeting time to a datetime in *one* > given location. Phrasing it as a 9 AM Pacific *and* 5 PM British is > already a cause of problems - just phrase it as 5 PM British *or* 9 AM > Pacific, and let the other parties worry about the translation. Which places the onus on them to figure out that DST has arrived in a remote country. Not a recipe for success. |