This prob'ly is a Kooler thread, but this whole subject honks me off in so many ways.
DST is an agreement to change the customary hours we do things (go to work, watch our favorite TV shows, etc) by one hour because of the annual diurnal changes in sunrise and sunset. OK. Maybe changing the clock makes as much sense as changing the agreement. But here's the thing. First, this move to March is a thoughtless, stupid agreement that is designed to move a little bit of convenience money to corporate bottom lines. The "save energy" thing is bullshit. I'll believe the government has gone all environmental on us when they take even a passing interest in fuel economy (for one example). So why does it matter? School safety, for one thing. Every year the number of kids hit by cars at crosswalke has an inflection point in the fall and spring when the time shift adds or subtracts an hour of daylight to their morning walk to school. You could look it up -- it's real and it's unequivocally associated with the start/stop of daylight savings time. So the government is saying that we'll time shift earlier and keep it longer because saving corporations money on their energy bills is more important than sending more kids to the hospital or their graves. Sheesh! What a country we've become! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
