On 03/13/2016 12:52 PM, wrote:

[snip]


There will be more sunlight every successive
day until June 21, then the days start getting shorter again.

This rate of change is highest now (and the corresponding time in about
6 months), but is only about 2 min/day here, a lot less than that
imaginary "extra hour".

DST is
reflecting that, based on when the sun goes down, and gives an
apparently longer time between getting off work and dark.


Having the opposite effect in the morning. Net gain: zero.

I agree it might be easier for employers to simply let people start
work sooner in the summer but they want the whole area to be in sync.

I know of a military base in Arizona there they just do things earlier.
It works a lot better than those mind games.

I am retired and I am never sure what time it is anyway so I really
don't care anyway.


That's the ideal, where you never need to know the time. Ever had a
doctor's appointment?

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Mark Lloyd
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"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
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