If I had a say, I would prefer to keep DST and end the switch back to Standard.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: xkcd is too true, but posted at the wrong time. > > There was a great deal of debate over DST during the petro crisis of the early > 1970s. Proposal then was to make DST the year-round standard for further > energy saving--if DST really saves energy at all. One debating point was the > specter of millions of children waiting for school buses in the pitch dark. > There were in fact a few highly publicized incidents of kids getting hit by > the > road side at oh-dark-thirty. Permanent DST proposal died, although the start > and end dates were (much) later shifted to elongate the DST period. > > > > Another motivation for DST, I was told as a kid, was to encourage working > stiffs to cultivate vegetable gardens. DST was a war measure after all, and > food was a critical resource. What impact DST ever had on the dinner table is > moot, but on paper at least it gave the old man an extra hour to hoe his > tomato patch before dark. > > > > . > > . > > J.O.Skip Robinson > > Southern California Edison Company > > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > > 323-715-0595 Mobile > > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > > robin...@sce.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of zMan > > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:09 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: (External):Re: xkcd is too true, but posted at the wrong time. > > > > And then there are the clocks we have that automatically do DST--but which > predate the semi-recent date adjustment. So instead of having to adjust the > clocks twice a year like most clocks, we have to adjust these FOUR times a > year. Yay. And no, there's no switch to disable it (so I guess they never > wanted to sell 'em in Indiana or most of Arizona). > > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:54 PM, scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So I guess no one ever thought about stopping the usage of DST.. > > > > > > A bunch of us would be grateful....lol > > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:49 PM Paul Gilmartin < > > > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:23:58 -0500, Allan Kielstra wrote: > > > > > > > > >The start date and end date for DST was adjusted sometime in the > > > > >decade > > > > of the 2000s. ... > > > > > > > > > 2007: > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https- > 3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Daylight-5Fsaving-5Ftime-5Fin-5Fthe- > 5F&d=DwIGaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb- > Je7sw&r=u9g8rUevBoyCPAdo5sWE9w&m=BEGqdq789SrxwMQyYp3fo0n3LK > 1Sc1PELx4siiS5dxs&s=b00Q_0_ym4zeL3Om36Uc2Ts_byBC- > vwY2XXXj0gsGhI&e= > > > United_States#2005.E2.80.932009:_Second_extension > > > > > > > > > ... Again, this was done as an energy saving scheme. I can't find > > > > > the > > > > evidence of it at the moment but I recall another instance of the > > > > law of unintended consequences. Apparently, (at least in the US) > > > > early in the > > > new > > > > DST period, a fair number of people got home from work while it was > > > > quite light and used the opportunity to drive to a mall or place of > > > > entertainment. As a result energy consumption actually went up in > > > > the first weeks. (Again, this may be apocryphal. Still, I found it > > > > a bit > > > > amusing.) > > > > > > > > -- gil > > > > > > > Scott Ford > > > IDMWORKS > > > z/OS Development > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
