On 2009-03-31_00:12:57, 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. > > Cheers, > Tom
You did not lose an hour. You got up an hour early because you are a slave to the reading on a clock that you know you set forward by an hour the night before. This is not the behavior of a rational being, IMHO. The only reason, IMHO, that you subscribe to such nonsense is that it has been repeated so many times that you have forgotten that it is a lie. Cheers and Peace. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org