[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft[6/31] - Time Change

[Arthur W. Neilson III]

We hawaiian hams are most fortunate that we do not have to
engage in this clock setting madness, we just have to adjust
to the sun setting at 18:00 in the winter and 19:30 in the summer.

Phil Barnes-Roberts AD6PQ wrote:
> At 04:01 AM 10/31/04 -0500, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net juggled the 
> keys to produce...
> 
> Um, Sorry, Folks - including Kevin--
> 
> We seem to wrap ourselves around the axle twice a year trying to do this 
> right.  It's almost as bad as having to do metric/English conversions 
> and back, to make things work that should have been straightforward.  
> (Yes, I work there, but wasn't involved directly in that fiasco.  Just 
> laid off during the recovery was all.)
> 
> While the original rationale for having Summer Daylight "Saving" Time 
> has long since faded into obscurity, the fact of its hanging on in our 
> laws (in _most_ of the US) is still with us, and we still screw it up!  


-- 
Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N FISTS #7448
Bank of Hawaii Distributed Systems Services
art at pilikia.net, aneilson at boh.com, wh7n at arrl.net