On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:58:44 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: > >Not directly answering your question, but do what Russia just >decided: Get rid of that stupid time change twice a year and >stick with summer time setting. I wish the EU would decide >likewise. > I'd not envision that working in the long term. People would gradually adjust their schedules to the old solar time and new clock times. Within historic times (Matthew 20:1â16) the sun was considered to rise at 00:00; people took their siesta at 06:00 (check etymology) and the sun set at 12:00. When the convention was changed to 00:00 at midnight, people continued to regulate their workdays by solar time, not by the new clock time.
I understand China has a single time zone. How do Chinese schedule their daily activities? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
