In 2005 bush extended DST to the current dates, but we had DST for many years before that.
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 2:59 PM Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say: > > On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you > > > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on > > > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be? > > > > Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does? > > Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the > wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST > through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were > waiting for the bus in the dark." > > It was utterly inconceivable to start school later, to adapt to local > conditions. No, everyone _else_ had to be changed. > > > And I guess > > by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot that `winter' even was > > ever a thing.... > > Just like everyone forgets how to drive in snow over the summer. > > - -- > You may my glories and my state dispose, > But not my griefs; still am I king of those. > --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iHUEAREIAB0WIQTaYVhJsIalt8scIDa2T1fo1pHhqQUCYEaCCwAKCRC2T1fo1pHh > qcBWAP9tjJK6fbagBRBeWEaLIEEGMAzkIwAzOwwUi+Yz2jev+AD/WXBR34aXTXvq > Vh4G+HQLPH4F5qdH3Q3ZB1hDPWPMseQ= > =AYrj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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