[Discuss] Abolish DST (was This year's Beowulf Bash is not for the lily-livered)

[Jerry Feldman]

Sundial clocks are the answer.

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 11:06 AM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 11/22/21 7:15 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> > So yeah, abolishing DST isn't just a silly windmill tilting exercise,
> > IMO.
>
> My gripe with the abolitionists is that our ranks are infiltrated with a
> fifth-column: people aren't trying to abolish DST, they are trying to
> make DST permanent, year around.
>
> A bunch of morning people who like to wake up before dawn, being bullies.
>
>
> -kb, the Kent who keeps some of his clocks—the obscure ones he mostly
> forgets about anyway—on permanent Standard Time.
>
>
> P.S. And what happens over time, when collective habits drift back to
> later in the day? Do the dictatorial morning people impose /another/
> time zone change, put Boston on Greenland Time, to again make everyone
> get up early again? "Daylight Saving Time" really means "Make Everyone
> Get up Early Time".
>
>
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