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Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:01:15 -0400
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On 3/12/24 5:58 AM, trotsky wrote:
> On 3/12/24 2:37 AM, FPP wrote:
>> On 3/11/24 4:36 PM, super70s wrote:
>>> On 2024-03-11 08:02:34 +0000, trotsky said:
>>>
>>>> On 3/10/24 9:13 AM, FPP wrote:
>>>>> On 3/9/24 11:22 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-03-09 23:53:23 +0000, super70s said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In article <usiho3$2gr6i$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>  "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is that time of year to discuss the start of Daylight Saving 
>>>>>>>> Time.
>>>>>>>> It's not "Savings".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And it's sure not energy savings either, especially with the entire
>>>>>>> globe warming up. They can't wait for the sun to go down in Arizona.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hawaii remains on standard time year round. This makes sense 
>>>>>>>> given how
>>>>>>>> close they are to the equator.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And how far away they are from the mainland.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dependencies American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marina
>>>>>>>> Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands, and the US Virgin 
>>>>>>>> Islands do not
>>>>>>>> observe Daylight Saving Time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That brings us to the wackiness that is Arizona. Arizona observes
>>>>>>>> Standard Time year round but does not control commerce in the 
>>>>>>>> Indian
>>>>>>>> reservations. The multi-state Navajo Nation observes Daylight 
>>>>>>>> Saving
>>>>>>>> Time, but the Hopi reservation, entirely surrounded by the Navajo
>>>>>>>> Nation, does not observe Daylight Saving Time. There are 
>>>>>>>> alternating
>>>>>>>> bits of land in which tribal jurisdiction changes, for much 
>>>>>>>> confusion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Far as I'm concerned Standard Time should be observed all year long,
>>>>>>> everywhere. Things seem to be going in the wrong direction.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep, Dumbass Stupid Time needs to be abolished worlwide. It's a 
>>>>>> relic of the past and wasn't even wanted nor useful then either. 
>>>>>> Just the usual idiot politician who came up with an inane idea and 
>>>>>> forced it on everyone else.  :-\
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then let's put it to a vote!  Every year I suggest this, and every 
>>>>> year the Standard Time Lovers reject the idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is that?  I mean if it's so useless and unpopular, there 
>>>>> shouldn't be an issue leaving it up to voters, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the same shit over and over and over: "We yearn for the good 
>>>> old days when there was no "Savings Time" and women were barefoot 
>>>> and pregnant in the kitchen and frozen embryos were people."  Sure, 
>>>> that shit makes a ton of sense.
>>>
>>> Savings time has been around for as long as I remember and I'm old. 
>>> They did lengthen it several years ago and now you have kids trick or 
>>> treating while the sun is still up.
>>>
>>
>> It's safer that way...
> 
> 
> When you're old isn't talking about your memory kind of silly?
> 

I don't remember...

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