Noon is noon while the sun is up in the sky - over and out.

Kurt Niel <kepler...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 16. März 2022, 12:12:

> It is still a shame, that DST is really that prominent. I stay in Europe
> and hope we can get rid of it - dammned DST.
>
> I am still very emotional about it and see it as one of many homan made
> mistakes.
>
> Kurt
>
> Steve Lelievre <steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 15. März
> 2022, 22:51:
>
>>
>> It seems the USA may be getting ready to abolish seasonal clock
>> changes.  The proposal has just passed in the Senate but still has to be
>> accepted by the House of Representatives, so we can't celebrate yet. (
>>
>> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/
>> )
>>
>> If it happens, Canada would quickly follow. In fact, here in British
>> Columbia it's already in law that we will switch to permanent DST once
>> Washington (state), Oregon and California have switched. The EU is
>> already on the same path but things have got bogged down with some
>> member countries yet to decide which timezone to adopt. EU-wide
>> preparations were further delayed due to the pandemic (
>>
>> https://www.thelocal.it/20211029/clocks-to-go-back-in-italy-despite-eu-deal-on-scrapping-hour-change/
>> ).
>>
>> I would have preferred permanent Standard Time over permanent
>> Daylight-saving Time but, even so, I hope the plans proceed. It will
>> certainly simplify the my designs for Civil Time sundials and Equation
>> Of Time signage.
>>
>> Cheers, Steve
>>
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