Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:01:15 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 83 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:01:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a8a96f299628f4f3858e1a3196420bb4"; logging-data="591111"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OQ2yG9FXT2+1dVrRiEkDH" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y3+w/CARwgK4LVQy7XtHAKiu/68= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4567 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 , >>>>>>>  "Adam H. Kerman" 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... -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0