Alex Livingston (alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
This is an ideal time for anywhere at a high enough latitude in the northern hemisphere to advance clocks *and* anywhere at a (numerically) high enough latitude in the southern hemisphere to retard clocks. Imagine if all the world that did change changed on the same weekend!
I totally agree. I would like to see a world convention where northern- hemisphere DSTers all agree to start and end on the last Sundays in March and September, as Europe did 1981-95, and southern-hemisphere DSTers end and start on the same weekends. Unfortunately things seem to be going in the other direction, given the EU's decision to copy the US/UK bad habit of ending DST on the last Sunday in OCTOBER, by the end of which the sun is rising later than the large majority of day-shift workers get up. Chris Carrier