Here's an interesting one... Did I get the math right? Those of us here in the USA are faced again with a proposed change in DST rules. Is this local to the US or is there a similar daylight saving time inflation trend in other countries?
Previously we had about 7 months of saving time; the new proposal has us now saving 9 months of time. We're getting too closer to saving 12 months; where everyone effectively Springs forward and doesn't Fall back; where everyone turns their watch forward one hour, shifting one zone to the east, permanently. The interesting thing about this trend is that a leap hour, should it become future practice, would do just the opposite. For example. If you have an accurate non-radio-controlled wristwatch, chronometer, or pendulum clock you have to manually set it back one second after a positive leap second is added to UTC. So in the year 2900 +/- 300 if a leap hour were to occur you will have to set your wristwatch, chronometer, or pendulum clock back one hour after a leap hour is added to UTC. In other words, the leap hour will be just the antidote we need to offset the political trend of 12 months of daylight saving time, yes? /tvb http://www.leaphour.com/ // begin quote http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7599782/ WASHINGTON - When people go through the ritual of moving their clocks forward each spring ushering in Daylight Savings Time, they're also saving energy by using more sunlight instead of electricity in the evenings - the equivalent of thousands of barrels of oil, in fact. The House, in approving a massive energy bill that covers more than 1,000 pages, would extend daylight saving to the first Sunday in March and to the last Sunday in November. It now starts in early April and ends in late October. The Senate must agree - and it is likely to do so. "We all just feel sunnier after we set the clocks ahead," said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who along with Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., got the measure into the energy bill. Upton said extending daylight time "makes sense especially with skyrocketing energy costs" even though farmers for years have not been all that happy about daylight time as it now exists. They complain the later daylight in the morning makes it harder for them to do their work. Citing Transportation Department figures, he said the additional two months could save the equivalent of 100,000 barrels of oil each day, or 1 percent of the nation's total energy consumption. Markey said both sport fans and kilowatt counters ought to be happy. // end quote Wow, I thought we time-nuts were bad; imagine being a kilowatt-counter. Watts the fun in that? /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts