[Elecraft] Re: Time Change

[redmen1969 at optonline.net]

As I recall, the back in the '70's when they didn't turn the clocks back their was a concern, at least in the more populated areas, for the school kids being out in the dark in the morning. 

 I thought if that this morning when, for the first time in a few weeks I could see the kids walking to the bus stops as I drove to work.
tom
WB2QDG

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Wiley <jwiley at alaska.net>
Date: Monday, November 1, 2004 12:01 pm
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: Time Change

> 
> 
> Augie Hansen wrote:
> 
> >And now for the opposing view...
> >
> >I would like to see DT abolished. In my opinion, it no longer 
> serves any
> >useful purpose, if it ever did. . . . . . . <snip> 
> >
> 
> And yet another view -
> 
> I would like to see daylight time made permanent, as in year 
> round, with 
> no semi-annual adjustment.  I believe the vast majority of people 
> (not 
> all, or course) prefer longer evening daylight hours, and if you 
> really 
> think about it, Winter is when we really need some extra light in 
> the 
> afternoon/evening.   This was actually tried at least once, during 
> the 
> 1973 oil crisis, and it did result in some degree of energy 
> saving, 
> although I don't know exactly how much.  I clearly remember the 
> year we 
> went to daylight time and did not change in the fall, and the 
> longer 
> days in the Winter were really nice. 
> 
> Of course, we all know that there is no free lunch, and the extra 
> sunlight in the afternoon comes at the expense of  longer morning 
> darkness, but for many of us, it is a good trade.
> 
> In the summer time, up this way, we get 18-24 hours of sun, 
> depending on 
> where you are, so daylight savings time isn't that big a deal.  At 
> Prudhoe Bay, where the Alaska oil fields are, the sun comes up on 
> (roughly) the 20th of May and goes down on (roughly) the 5th of 
> August - 
> and is up 24/7 between those dates.  Weird. You can take a nap 
> after 
> supper,  wake up at 10:00, and literally not know, at least from 
> looking 
> out the window,  if you have had a 2 hour nap or are really late 
> for work!
> 
> Of course, we could put the entire world on Greenwich time,  and 
> some 
> places would have "noon" at "midnight", but people would get used 
> to it, 
> wouldn't they?
> 
> 73
> 
> Jim, KL7CC
> 
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