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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:09:20 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>In article <usit1n$2j31j$1@dont-email.me>,
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>
>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>> >"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.
>> 
>> I agree.
>
>I haven't seen the standard flurry of news reports warning how changing 
>the clock one hour two times a year leads to heart attacks, strokes, and 
>all manner of health problems.
>
>Seems to me if that was the case then the millions of people who fly 
>across time zones and have to change their clocks three, four, even 
>eight hours at a time, we'd have bodies dropping like flies all over the 
>globe.

I'm in more danger from errant automobile drivers as I've lost my early
morning daylight. But yes, I've managed to cross into the Eastern Time
Zone without dropping dead.