<div dir="auto">In 2005 bush extended DST to the current dates, but we had DST for many years before that. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a><br>PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7<br>PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6<br>B B6E7</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 2:59 PM Curt Howland <<a href="mailto:Howland@priss.com">Howland@priss.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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On Monday 08 March 2021, Joshua Judson Rosen was heard to say:<br>
> On 3/6/21 9:17 PM, Curt Howland wrote:<br>
> > I mean, how silly can one be to object to it being dark when you<br>
> > wake up, and then demanding that everyone else change the time on<br>
> > their clocks so it's light at 7am the way you want it to be?<br>
><br>
> Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does?<br>
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Yes. That is given as a reason to change the clocks. Back during the <br>
wave of "energy saving measures" in the early 1970s, staying on DST <br>
through the year was objected to because, and I quote, "Children were <br>
waiting for the bus in the dark."<br>
<br>
It was utterly inconceivable to start school later, to adapt to local <br>
conditions. No, everyone _else_ had to be changed.<br>
<br>
> And I guess <br>
> by the time *spring* rolls in they've forgot that `winter' even was<br>
> ever a thing....<br>
<br>
Just like everyone forgets how to drive in snow over the summer.<br>
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- -- <br>
You may my glories and my state dispose,<br>
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.<br>
--- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"<br>
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