Re: Blame Ben

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:00:45 -0700

The State of Hawaii dosen't belive in DST. They Don't change their clocks,
it's HST all year round. 

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"SaberScorpX" <saberscorpx@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041030022527.07779.00001862@mb-m25.aol.com...
> Love it, exempt from it, or hate it, here's a good site about Daylight
Savings
> Time:
> http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html
>
> Including Ben Franklin's original essay from 1784...
> http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html
>
> And some interesting opposition...
> ...A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so
long as
> there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am
saving
> daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I
even
> object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay
in bed
> after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy
> insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the
back of
> the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of
Puritanism,
> eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
them
> healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The
Diary
> of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)
>
> Personally, I'm glad to get back to Standard Time, and the longer
stargazing
> hours it heralds.
> Happy Cross-Quarter (Halloween)!
> SSX
>
>
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