Owen-
Sorry to bump, but now *another* DST fkup: Europe does not change DST
when the US does.
So today our skype Italian class was shifted, and both Dede and I had
to cancel scheduled events.
If we have to live with time changes, we should at least try to make
it global, we're a pretty global community now and I bet others got
hit by US/Euro/Worldwide differences.
Yup... my Australian colleagues would love it if we made them set their
clocks forward in *their* Autumn and back in *their* Spring. They
could enjoy the *worst* of both the natural sidereal day's limitations
and our ideal of mucking with it.
Better yet, let's defer to *them* and let them decide when *we* should
set our clocks forward and back based on *their* preferences and
convenience... if it got bad enough some of us might just quit
referencing our clocks!
Let's just get it over with and set Pi == 3 (or 2 or 4 for those with a
fetish for binary and for "better to be wrong than vague").
I agree that it would be convenient if the Southern Hemisphere could
spring forward when we fall back and vice-versa... as having to adjust
by 0 or 1 or 2 hours throughout the year is a bit wonky... but our model
of solar time is imperfect and any and all adjustments are going to be
flawed.
- Steve
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