Re: Yearly rant about this daylight savings stuff

Posted by Steve Smith on Nov 06, 2016; 1:22am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Yearly-rant-about-this-daylight-savings-stuff-tp7588107p7588108.html

Gil wrote:

Rant:

Why do we change around the clock?

From google searches, the US is one of the few countries left that does this ritual.

Here is what I found:

Blue and Orange follows Daylight Savings Time rituals, Light Gray have "reformed" from it, Dark grey have abstained (forever?).  Most of the "developed" world seems to continue the habit.

Having lived in AZ, I have some sense of the history there, including the "notch" of the Navajo Nation which follows NM time (their capitol Window Rock being in NM).  I was unaware of the Canadian and the Sonoran abstinence.   Mongolia and Iran are mild surprises.  I thought *all* of Aus went with DST.   Having friends in Melbourne, I am always frustrated by the "double shuffle" that occurs twice a year since we are out of sync as well as out of phase, so we range from being 0-2 hours off of "longitudinal" clock differences depending on time of year... for 4 distinct periods of difference!

As much as *I* don't live by a clock, I am still effected by the shifts...  I wish we could (all) stay on a single plan, preferably with the sun straight overhead at noon.

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