On Mon March 30 2009 16:12:57 Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an > > hour' in switching from standard to summer time. It is conventional > > wording, it is manifestly untrue. But if people say it often enough, > > it becomes something that is used in syllogisms as if it were a fact. > > To be slightly pedantic about it, if you go to bed at whatever your > usual time is before the clocks change and still have to get up at the > same (clock) time in the morning as you did the day before, then you do > lose an hour of sleep, that night. Then again, by the same argument, > seven months or so later you get that hour back, so it all balances > anyway.
In which case, you wouldn't mind randomly sleeping sixteen hours or zero hours with equal probability because in the long run it all balances anyway? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
