On 03/09/2021 18:37, Chris Angelico wrote: >>>> Without DST the schools opened in the dark so all the kids >>>> had to travel to school in the dark and the number of >>>> traffic accidents while crossing roads jumped. > > Are you saying that you had DST in winter, or that, when summer *and* > DST came into effect, there was more light at dawn? Because a *lot* of > people confuse summer and DST, and credit DST with the natural effects > of the season change.
OK, I see the confusion. What I should point out was that the experiment involved us staying on DST and not reverting to UTC in the winter - that unified us with most of the EU apparently... So although I'm saying DST it was really the non-reversion from DST to UTC that caused problems. Arguably, if we just stayed on UTC and didn't have DST at all there would be no issue - except we'd be an hour out of sync with the EU. (Post Brexit that may not be seen as a problem!! :-) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list