"Ed Gould" <ps2...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<1320768102.42684.yahoomailmob...@web161404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>... > After listening to all the controversy about DST how about just adding 30 minutes and stay at the that time year around? That would make everybody happy, no? > > Ed >
What I missed in the DST discussion until now is why countries decided to go to DST (or summer time as we call it here). >From the term (save daylight) and several arguments in the discussion (children coming home in the dark v.s. during daylight), I think the reason in the US might have been ot have more hours of daylight during the period most people don't sleep. In Europe the reason was energy saving. It you have one more hour of light during the evening, you will use one hour less of electricity for light, plus other related savings. The net energy savings are regular subject of discussions, but if this is the reason, you can't get everybody happy with 30 minutes all year, probably get half of the savings in the summer, giving them away again in the winter. So you cannot negotiate the DST duration, suppose the optimum would be calculated to 42 (to take an arbitrary number) minutes , or 42 plus the local longitude, would anybody be happier than? I suppose there are only 2 possibilities: have it and take the pros and cons or abandon it. Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
