Daylight Saving Time ~ in the lower states where the difference between winter and summer daylength is less than the northern states, I wish we had either no summer time shift, or, stay on summer time. Let the businesses adjust their opening hours based on their specific needs in their locations rather than have government create this farcical one size fits all plan.
I have seen studies that show energy savings do not materialize with the annual time shifts, especially since the introduction of heat pumps. And further, the spike twice annually in human pedestrian road kill. But our politicians, all praise to the wise ones, know best. Simon Simon Wheaton-Smith www.illustratingshadows.com Silver City, New Mexico W108.2 N32.75 and Phoenix, Arizona, W112.1 N33.5 --- On Tue, 2/15/11, John Carmichael <jlcarmich...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: John Carmichael <jlcarmich...@comcast.net> > Subject: RE: part 2 of longitude correction > To: "'Frank King'" <frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk> > Cc: sundial@uni-koeln.de > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:47 AM > Hi Frank: > > It's interesting that you mentioned the UTC+4 Time Zone as > being shunned. > Coincidentally, just last week I heard that President > Medevev (sp?) of > Russia last year reduced the number of Time Zones in Russia > from twelve to > nine. He is now proposing that Russia observe > Daylight Saving Time all > year! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank King [mailto:frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 5:04 AM > To: John Carmichael > Cc: 'Frank King'; sundial@uni-koeln.de; > frank.k...@cl.cam.ac.uk > Subject: Re: part 2 of longitude correction > > Dear John, > > That is a fascinating map... > > http://www.travel.com.hk/region/timezone.htm > > It bears out many of my prejudices and gripes!! > > Alaska seems to be a whole time-zone wrong and > John Pickard's eloquent contribution draws > attention to the curious way that Australia > is carved up. > > One particular curiosity is that the time zone > for UTC+4 seems to be actively shunned. Maybe > this is because 4 is an unlucky number in some > cultures :-) > > To be fair, the Mercator's projection is > slightly exaggerating my conjecture. Once > you are in the Arctic, time zones are a bit > academic. > > I very much take your point... > > > If your sundial is located far from its > > Prime Meridian in one of these crazy Time > > Zones...then designing it with built-in > > longitude correction is a must. > > Yes. Agreed. > > You also say... > > > ...at worst, a longitude corrected dial will > > only be about 16 minutes off (because of the > > Equation of Time). On the average, it is > > only off by about seven minutes... > > Hmmm. I cannot resist pondering that assertion! > I feel a separate message coming on... > > All the best > > Frank > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
