Tom Marchant is entirely correct. Arguments for Daylight Time--as in Eastern Daylight Time, EDT---that play on school children and darkness are at once specious and disingenuous.
They are nevertheless made because they are judged more presentable/persuasive than more cogent arguments in which an additional after-work hour for golf or tennis figure instead. Daylight [Savings] Time arguments, pro and contra, have always been characterized by nonsense, some of it amusing but almost none of it disinterested; and we are replicating these time-worn ritual controversies here on IBM-MAIN. The only notable omissis, so far anyway, has been an appeal to the welfare of the cows and chickens, whose putative inability to adjust to daylight time used to figure prominently in arguments against it. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
