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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I think that "time" is a bit like "taxes". Everyone agrees life would be better if it was simpler, but people can not agree on how to do that, so we waste a lot of effort dealing with it.<br><br>md<br><br></span>On 03/10/2021 4:28 PM Ray Cote <rgacote@appropriatesolutions.com> wrote:
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No conversation about time is complete without a nod to 'Calendrical Calculations' by Reingold and Dershowitz:
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/computer-science/computing-general-interest/calendrical-calculations-ultimate-edition-4th-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781107057623">https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/computer-science/computing-general-interest/calendrical-calculations-ultimate-edition-4th-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781107057623</a>
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I have three editions of this on my shelf. Everytime I think I have a hard problem to solve I peruse a chapter and then realize my problems aren't as difficult as time...
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM Jerry Feldman <
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Actually in was the Germans in 1916 that implemented it first. Almost every other country adopted it shortly after, and we adopted it in 1918.
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IMHO: it made sense back then when the world was not universally electrified. It does not make sense in the 21st century.
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 12:41 PM Tom Buskey <
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:59 PM Curt Howland <
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<br>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?
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<br>> Isn't that pretty much exactly the _opposite_ of what DST does?
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<br>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."
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And when they moved the dates by 3 weeks in 2007, they found that the energy changes depended on your climate. A study in California found a 0.2% decrease in electricity. A 2008 study in Indiana had a 1% increase in consumption.
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Of course that 1% in Indiana translated to ~ $9 million/yr.
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FWIW, changing the clocks is not an American thing. The UK developed BST 1st. So even the UK doesn't stay on GMT!
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