Yah, I'm not impressed. The world had just provided me light upon waking up at 7.30 in the morning. It was glorious and really set me up for having a great day...and then they snatched it right back out from under me. Hmph.
Poor Canada. I can hear Mom chiding it. "If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?" "If your friend invaded Iraq, would you do it too?" "If your friend messed up all his clocks, would you do it too?" Canada needs a better class of friends.
Er, no. My words weren't chosen well, and I didn't mean to imply that Canada was involved in the invasion at all. Sorry. I'm pleased that Canada refused to participate. However, this isn't to say that Canadians haven't died over there or been involved in the aftermath, and that was what I was blathering towards.
Well, I think that the opinion down here would be one of two things: "get 270 million more people, and then we'll talk" or "we can't have our 51st state defying us, even if Hawaii and Arizona do."
I hate DST. AM means "ante meridian", PM means "post meridian", and "meridian" is when the sun is at its highest point. This does NOT occur at 13:40. And while I can accept standardizing the time to a line of longitude, and even attempting to keep an entire political unit on a single time (because 82.5 West runs almost down the middle of Ohio), but to have high-sun at 13:40 pm is a travesty, and that happens here with DST.
...advantages to having different timezones in different countries or states. When offices shut in the some zones, the ones that are open in later zones can get any business.
And the concurrant disadvantage is that someone has to be awake and functioning in every one of those offices during all opening hours or risk the ire of Head Office. I've lost count of people calling at ohymgodit'searly only to get rantingly upset upon being told it's only 6:30 local time and the person they're calling for doesn't start work until an hour from now. Far too many people just don't understand time zones. They think that because they're at work in the middle of the day, everyone should be at work.
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Date: 2007-03-13 01:48 pm (UTC)Honestly, aside from having lost an hour of sleep on the weekend, I'm enjoying having more daylight after work.
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Date: 2007-03-13 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-13 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-13 03:33 pm (UTC)Fortunately we're not that dumb.
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Date: 2007-03-13 09:26 pm (UTC)Iraq
Date: 2007-03-14 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-13 09:07 pm (UTC)I hate DST. AM means "ante meridian", PM means "post meridian", and "meridian" is when the sun is at its highest point. This does NOT occur at 13:40. And while I can accept standardizing the time to a line of longitude, and even attempting to keep an entire political unit on a single time (because 82.5 West runs almost down the middle of Ohio), but to have high-sun at 13:40 pm is a travesty, and that happens here with DST.
There are...
Date: 2007-03-14 02:19 am (UTC)Re: There are...
Date: 2007-03-14 12:59 pm (UTC)