[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Tue Jul 19 13:50:01 UTC 2011


Which part embarrasses you Jim, your belief that we as adults
haven't noticed that the number of daylight hours changes with
the seasons?  Or is it the fact that this deep into the thread
you still haven't figured out what it is about?

-Chuck Harris

Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> Far out. I've just read so many logical fallacies and government
> conspiracies I'm embarrassed for this high quality list. Let's inject
> some facts here.
>
> I live at 43 degrees south. At the winter solstice (June 21) the sun
> rises at 7:41 and sets at 16:43.
>
> At the summer solstice (December 21) the sun rises (no DST) at 04:28
> and sets at 19:49.
>
> Sunrise at 04:28 is ridiculous. Including twilight it starts getting
> light at 3:30. Switch to DST and sunrise moves to 05:28 and sets at
> 20:49. Much more reasonable. Nice summer evenings too.
>
> We have DST for 6 months of the year and wouldn't swap it for anything.
>
> I understand it's different the closer to the equator you are, but for
> mid latitudes it really works.
>
> Jim



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