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Subject: Re: SpringForward
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 16:19:56 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 16:19:56 1984
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>>	The only sensible situation is to have what we call "Daylight Savings"
>>	Time as our "Standard" Time. That is, one Spring, move forward one
>>	hour and then NEVER move back again.

>What an asinine idea!  The reason why most work and most schools start at 8AM
>is that this is what people like.  You can change it temporarily, and people...
>	Bill Pfeifer
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What an asinine response!  Seriously, I hope this isn't redundant, but
I believe the original idea was tried back a few years, as an energy
saving idea.  It didn't last long because in some (most?) areas it
was still dark in the morning when the kiddies had to walk to school
(which didn't fly too well).  There are still some states (Indiana
and Arizona) that live way to the west of their solar time zones...
the solar dividing line between Eastern and Central time should really
be somewhere between Columbus and Dayton, for example, but most
of Indiana is on Eastern time.  As a result, Indiana NEVER goes
on daylight savings time because they in effect already are on
daylight savings time!  Anyway, you get away with daylight savings
time in the summer because it is light when most people get up
(being that people don't generally get up earlier in the summer)
but you wouldn't get away with it in the winter for the opposite
reason.
-- 
Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
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