Mass switch at the equinoxes
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
<<On 20 Mar 97 23:41:37 EST, Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> said:
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.
And those of us who live in cities like Boston, which have ``night life'' rather than ``morning life'' think this is perfectly reasonable.... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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