In <[email protected]>, on
10/17/2011
at 08:53 AM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> said:
>I fail to see how.
Think about it.
>The argument, if it has indeed been made, is absurd.
The fact that you don't understand it doesn't mean that it is absurd.
>The length of daylight is the longest at the start of summer and
>shortest at the start of winter.
Water is wet.
>The time is adjusted during the summer though, when there is ample
>daylight before and after school.
What does that have to do with my proposal?
>Extending summer time to November increases the likelihood of
>children going to school in the dark
In other words, you read a criticism of DST as a defense of DST.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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