[Magdalen] Time is -- uh ....

Jon Egger revegger at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 20:31:07 UTC 2015


I'm on the NO DST for the USA.  We used to talk about this at work.  If
someone 'coded' at 150AM and the code lasted one hour, and DST happened at
2am.......oh never mind. haha

Grace and peace,
brud

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 1:28 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Same story here. Kids going to school in the dark put the kibbosh on the
> whole thing.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
> > On 01/11/2015 13:53, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> In a message dated 11/1/2015 8:28:06 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> >> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >> We're  going to a place where daylight savings doesn't exist -- it's
> >> called
> >> Arizona.">>>>>>>>
> >>   I wonder how the Europeans can get along on continuous DST
> >> and we can't?
> >>
> >
> > Excuse me, we have DST over here as well but change at different times
> > from you (last Sundays in March and October).  Some years ago there was
> an
> > experiment for a couple of winters of keeping it year-round in the UK but
> > that was dropped.  A big part of the problem was the North West of
> Scotland
> > as it meant children going to school in the dark at the same time as
> other
> > commuters.  The end of the school day was before the ebening rush hour so
> > that was not such a problem.  Most of Western Europe is on GMT + 1hr over
> > the winter but moves forward another hour for the Simmer.  Portugal stays
> > in time with the UK.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>


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