DST: Blame Ben

Love it, exempt from it, or hate it, here's a good site about Daylight Savings
Time:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

Including Ben Franklin's original essay from 1784...
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html

And some interesting opposition...
....A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as
there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even
object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed
after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy
insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of
the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism,
eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them
healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary
of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)

Personally, I'm glad to get back to Standard Time, and the longer stargazing
hours it heralds.
Happy Cross-Quarter (Halloween)!
SSX

The State of Hawaii dosen't belive in DST. They Don't change their clocks,
it's HST all year round.


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"SaberScorpX" wrote in message
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Love it, exempt from it, or hate it, here's a good site about Daylight
Savings
Time:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

Including Ben Franklin's original essay from 1784...
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html

And some interesting opposition...
...A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so
long as
there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am
saving
daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I
even
object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay
in bed
after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy
insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the
back of
the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of
Puritanism,
eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
them
healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The
Diary
of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)

Personally, I'm glad to get back to Standard Time, and the longer
stargazing
hours it heralds.
Happy Cross-Quarter (Halloween)!
SSX




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http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

The State of Hawaii dosen't belive in DST. They Don't change their clocks,
it's HST all year round.

Arizona doesn't play either. And Indiana has three different time arrangements
within the state:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/f.html

In article ,
(SaberScorpX) writes:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

The State of Hawaii dosen't belive in DST. They Don't change their clocks,
it's HST all year round.

Arizona doesn't play either. And Indiana has three different time
arrangements
within the state:
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/f.html


The Navajo Reservation areas of northern Arizona follow DST (Mountain Daylight
Time) to be consistent with portions of the reservation outside state
boundaries. But some local state offices within the reservation boundaries stay
with Mountain Standard Time. When driving across the northwest part of the
state, it can be strange to watch the time reading on your cell phone change
back and forth as the ground rules used by different cells gets applied.

Jim
"A Bad Night With A Telescope
Beats a Good Night Doing Anything Else"

"starlord" wrote:

The State of Hawaii dosen't belive in DST. They Don't change their
clocks, it's HST all year round.

HST all year round? I guess the ground-based telescope operators on
Mauna Kea must find that hard to compete with. ;-)