Taupter wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with > > daylight savings time in a tropical country? > > Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million > people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with "Coming > soon... Coca Cola!". Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some > people would think. > Hey, settle down there, guy! If I may be so presumptuous, I think John's point was that there's so little difference in the tropics in amount of daylight between summer and winter.
True story, not even tangentially on-topic: In high school I was in a car with 3 other guys going to play tennis doubles. I knew two of the other guys, but the 3rd, a friend of one of the others, was unknown to me (he looked kind of dark; I thought he was Oriental). Someone mentioned South America, and I said, "Aw, all they do in South America is blow darts." (Yes, it was a lousy, bigoted attempt at humor.) The dark guy piped up and said, "I assure you, we do not just blow darts." I was so embarrassed, I didn't even say anything. I just looked at the floor.