[CW] Daylight Savings Time.

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/28/2004 9:43:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, N7DC at cs.com writes:

>I alwlays call it "Daylight Idiot Time" personally. 

Why?

>If someone wants to go to work an hour earlier, or later, let him do it. 

Many employers don't allow that. Neither do schools. 

>Leave me alone?

Like it or not, most of us have to live by the clock.

>  I had much rather have an extra hour of daylight when I get home in the afternoon, so I can do some things around the yard. 

I agree - and that's *exactly* what DST is for!

If we left the clocks alone year 'round, we'd gain and lose daylight in fairly equal amounts in both morning and afternoon. But since most people have to live by the clock and not by the sun, getting up at 4:00 AM to enjoy midsummer daylight is not the same as having the same amount of daylight added to the end of the day. 

By springing forward and falling back, we put that extra summer daylight in the evening rather than the morning. And we can leave our schedules alone year round. That's all DST really does.

btw, the whole concept of "Standard Time" came from railroads, who had to have all their clocks agree, back in the days when all trains ran on timetable and train-order authority. 

> Thumbs up for Arizona.

How much daylight variation do you get from winter to summer that far south?

73 de Jim, N2EY