[ale] Stupid people and DST

[Bob Toxen]

As the sun rises earlier and earlier as we get closer to the Summer
Solstice, the idea was, I believe, to get up earlier so one had more
hours of sunlight to work the farm or work in the factory without having
to burn candles or kerosene.  During WWII this also helped us preserve
resources needed to defeat the European dictator (of that time).

Several of our esteemed elected officials fiddled with DST, including
Nixon that earned him the "nixon" variable on older versions of the
Unix kernel.

It may not be worth the effort now.  Going back to standard time in the
fall is especially bad in Western Georgia as it's still dark when the
children go to school in the morning.  This is because that area properly
should be in the Central Timezone if the every 15 degrees of latitude timezones
were drawn straight.  However most states want to be all in one timezone.

It's not so useful now and certainly a pain.

Bob

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 03:41:30PM -0400, Brian Stanaland via Ale wrote:
> Join rant
> 
> Remember the old saying, "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM?" People
> still said it long after they should have been fired for it. Politicians
> and time change are the same way. They talk about it to show concern but
> they won't DO anything about it even though years of studies show that
> changing times is very bad for our health and well being.
> 
> Leave Rant
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> Brian
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 3:16 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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".
> >
> > Begin Rant
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > End Rant
> >
> >
> >
> >
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