The dates of daylight savings shift, and the assymmetry between the spring shift (when we in Alaska are already pracitically going to bed in daylight) and October (when it's already dark when we're going home in the evening) have bothered me for years. I wonder if the politicos who first devised the shift thought that solar symmetry was around the middle of the winter and summer? Anyway, a popular science article I wrote on the topic 10 years ago is on the web at <http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF8/812.html>, pointing out some of the oddities of time zones here in our 60 degree wide state. Sue Ann Bowling, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks Professional URL http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Bowling/Bowling.html Dog URL http://www.mcf.com/bowlingsite/dogpage.html