[CW] Re: Daylight Savings Time.
Ken Brown
ken.d.brown at verizon.net
Fri Oct 1 00:24:16 EDT 2004
Sherrill Watkins wrote:
>Dear N7DC: I appreciate your further clarification and astute observation.
>Shifting the clock
>
> fools
>
> us into thinking we are getting more daylight! -
>73-Sherrill W. k4own.
>
Sherrill,
I think you have revealed the key to this whole Daylight Slaving Time
thing.
In the beginning there was dawn, sunrise, morning, noon, midday,
evening, sunset, night, and probably some other ways to describe the
time of day or night. Then people felt they needed to divide the days
into more precise increments. Probably to determine wages earned by
pyramid builders, or some other such endeavor. They picked twelve to be
the number of hours the day would be divided into, and eventually built
various clever machines to keep track of the hours. As illumination
technology advanced, and wages could be earned after dark, it became
necessary to also divide the night into hours also. When the machines
used to measure the hours became more precise it was discovered the
manmade system of time measurement didn't follow the natural order that
existed before man's invention. So instead of being wise and following
nature, and ignoring man's flawed invention, man decided to put an
offset into his system, and become fools.
DE N6KB
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