[ale] Stupid people and DST

[Jim Kinney]

As most functioning adults know, the annual stupidity action happened at 2am Sunday: yes, we changed the numbers on the clocks "so we could get more sunshine".

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Did anyone with access to writing in a national news medium ever actually take basic science? Did anyone with policy making responsibility actually pass a science class in their life?

I don't think so.

The time shift never made any sense. Now that there's a fair amount of evidence that is has a detrimental impact on human health maybe we should get rid of it. Yay! Great idea!

But to shift permanently to DST "to get more sunshine" is just dumb.

The east coast of USA (Unbelievably Stupid Authorities) is 5 time zones away from the UTC zone. Not 4. 

Maybe we can get policy punks to take an astronomy class and learn about things like axial tilt being the reason the planet has seasons and that determines the length of time the sun is visible above the horizon.

And if they still want more sunshine, and moving them to the equator is not an option (current occupants will ship them back),  maybe we can ship them to Mercury.

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