Subj : Re: Daylight Savings Time
To   : Vk3jed
From : Blue White
Date : Wed Mar 02 2022 15:44:27

-=> Vk3jed wrote to Blue White <=-

 -=> On 02-27-22 09:21, Blue White wrote to Orbitman <=-

 BW> You are not the only one here who feels that way.  Where I live, there
 BW> seem to be a lot of people who really don't realize that DST <> more
 BW> daylight. They seem to think that if DST were to go away that the total
 BW> amount of daylight would drop.

 Vk> Sure the amount of daylight won't change.  The question is how _useful_
 Vk> that daylight is.  Changing the clock is one way to move more daylight
 Vk> hours to a more "useful" evening hour, during the longer summer days.
 Vk> It's not the only way, we could simply alter our schedule year round to
 Vk> follow the sun, but that seems harder for many people (and industries)
 Vk> than changing clocks to approximate this.

What makes it more useful is in the eye of the beholder.  For me, it moves
daylight away from a useful hour (before 8am) to somewhere that is not useful
(after 8pm).  Sunlight in the morning is more beneficial to your seratonin
levels.  More sunlight in the afternoon/evening does nothing for it.

The original "idea" for DST was floated by Benjamin Franklin as a joke.
When he was in France, the French liked sleeping in very late and not
keeping regular hours, which made it difficult to meet with them.  He joked
that they should switch the clocks so the "lazy" French could be places on
time.

Unfortunately, many years later, someone heard of his idea and missed the
joke.


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