Kind of puzzled about timestamps

[Jerry Feldman]

In 2005 bush extended DST to the current dates, but we had DST for many
years before that.

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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 2:59 PM Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

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> On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:
> > On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> > > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you
> > > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on
> > > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be?
> >
> > Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does?
>
> Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the
> wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST
> through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were
> waiting for the bus in the dark."
>
> It was utterly inconceivable to start school later, to adapt to local
> conditions. No, everyone _else_ had to be changed.
>
> > And I guess
> > by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot that `winter' even was
> > ever a thing....
>
> Just like everyone forgets how to drive in snow over the summer.
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