Tony Finch wrote: > if the people in a country or region don't like the alignment between their > clocks and the sun, they can use their political processes to change their > timezone offset and/or DST rules.
But Jacob Rees-Mogg's suggestion that: > "Somerset should have its own time zone, with its clocks running up to 15 > minutes behind the rest of the UK." Was met here with reactions ranging from gentle bemusement to outright sarcastic rejection. Meanwhile, Ian Batten replied to a rhetorical gedanken: > I see no particular reason why a zonetime shift every year would be be an > insurmountable problem. They'd all be in the same direction, so all you need > is to drop one of the DST changeover dates (Note that only 10-15% of the world observes DST.) Ian continued: > Introduced at no notice there might be some fun and games, but I don't see > anything that wouldn't sort itself out after a day. This echoes Ben Franklin's satirical essay (http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html): > All the difficulty will be in the first two or three days; after which the > reformation will be as natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, ce > n'est que le premier pas qui coûte. [it is only the first step that costs] (Correction of the translation welcome.) But Michael Deckers notes a problem: > Nobody would use the Gregorian calendar if the IERS determined the leap years > only a year in advance. I submit that replacing our common worldwide civil timekeeping infrastructure with a hodgepodge of local governance through willy-nilly timezone roulette would be 1) a bad idea, and 2) never enacted, and is 3) not mentioned in the work products of ITU-R Study Group 7. Rob _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
