Peter Krefting via tz wrote in <dd2e53d1-4550-a9ff-b975-b734e8c6484e@softwolves.pp.se>: |Doug Ewell via tz: | |> I’ve always been led to believe that “Daylight Saving Time” (with or |> without the odious extra ‘s’) is North American and Australian |> terminology, and that Europeans instead use the term “summer time” |> to refer to an alternative time standard observed during some period |> that includes the summer. | |Indeed. In Scandinavia it is always "summer time" and "winter time". |(The only people using "normal time" or "standard time" are those of us |who want us to stop with the shenanigans of changing the clocks.) | |Before I started writing software on computers that had reliable |clocks in them, I had never heard about "daylight savings time". I want to note a psychological issue here. As far as i know people in the north have a high suicide rate, Finland especially. (However i did not look in all of that for almost twenty years, since beginning of September 2005 to be exact.) So either you are a hopeless Indian farmer in the fangs of Monsanto, or you are a Fin or another such poor soul. I think this thread already revealed the hope of the Stonehenge Brits to look at big LED lamps that shine in a warm white each and every day of the year (Yay!), but in the end my gut feeling says that Sunshine is still a bit different and preferable. In sofar "daylight saving" is a human engineering trick that is cheap but nice to have. Whoever did it is worth a worthy Noble price. (Thus not in these times, but maybe later again.) A nice SUNday everybody! --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)