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Adrienne Boswell wrote:

> I say it's time to get rid of DST altogether.

I propose a campaign to eliminate the scourge of DST by 2016 (the 100th
anniversary of the first usage of DST).

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Neredbojias wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2008, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:
> 
>
> Btw, check out my new email address.  I couldn't get it to "go through"
> without sticking the "me@" in front, but the link seems to work.
>

I'm assuming that goes to your form mail handler?  Neat!

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On 30 Mar 2008, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:

> Neredbojias wrote: 
>
> I'm assuming that goes to your form mail handler?  Neat!

We-ell, I goes to my form but Yahoo's form-handler.  Kind of a long story
here, but basically it boils down to the "idiosyncrasy" that you can't use
normal form mail with Yahoo hosting unless the "from" address is one of
your own.  I know it's hard to believe in this day and age, but so is
reality tv.

Which brings me to this request which I make in the most humble and
respectful manner.  Would you mind sending me a short test missive using
the form in question?  You need to include something in the "email address
or handle" box, but it doesn't have to be any email address; "Edward" would
be fine.  I need to see if the thing works outside of my own domain.

Thanks much.

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On 30 Mar 2008, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:
 
>
> Could it be that it's not an e-mail address.

Hmmmm, that might be a possibility...  <g>

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On 30 Mar 2008, nomail@please.invalid (Johan W. Elzenga) wrote:

> Neredbojias <me@http://www.neredbojias.com/_eml/fliam.php> wrote:
> 
>
> My computer sets the change automatically.

But it needs to know what time zone it's in, doesn't it?  And that
involves human intervention.
 
>
> Probably because it's a lot easier to only change the clock

I beg to differ.  All that clock-changing is one royal PITA.  It would
be _much_ simpler to have something like a "time-offset" twice per year
wherein everything occurs an hour earlier in spring and later in fall as
a matter of course.

> , than to
> change every time table and every schedule. I'm sure people would find
> that much more impractical and would miss regular meetings, planes,
> trains and busses before they finally got used to the new schadules.
> But hey, I didn't invent DST, so don't ask me why it was done this way
> and not another way.

I think it originally was a political ploy, -just a new way to curry
favor with the ignorant masses by convincing them they want what you
convince them they want.
 
>
> I didn't say I want it to be summer all the time.

True, but that would be all right by me.  I hate cold weather.  Man was
not put upon this earth to emulate the penguin.

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On 30 Mar 2008, Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:34:20 -0400, Warren Oates wrote:
> 
>
> Sure just Google for As The World Turns :)

The world doesn't turn.  It is stationary; the rest of the universe just
revolves around it.

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On 30 Mar 2008, Toby A Inkster <usenet200803@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> 
>
> I propose a campaign to eliminate the scourge of DST by 2016 (the 100th
> anniversary of the first usage of DST).

A nice sentiment which I'd fully support, but I think they're still working
on the heartbreak of psoriasis.

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Warren Oates
<warren.oates@gmail.com> writing in news:0245b37d$0$8869$c3e8da3
@news.astraweb.com:

> In article <pan.2008.03.30.12.46.16@invalid.org>,
>  Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:
> 
>
> Can you cite a reference for that?

http://cseligman.com/text/sky/rotationvsday.htm

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Toby A Inkster <usenet200803
@tobyinkster.co.uk> writing in news:5g05c5-ipv.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk:

> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> 
>
> I propose a campaign to eliminate the scourge of DST by 2016 (the 100th
> anniversary of the first usage of DST).
>

I'm with you. Let's do it.

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Toby A Inkster wrote:

> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> 
>
> Indeed -- I've been saying that for years.
>
> In fact, my vote is that we scrap timezones altogether and everyone goes
> by UTC all the time. I'm not suggesting that children in New Zealand ought
> to be going to school at night time, and eating their lunches by the light
> of the moon -- they'd keep their normal routines, it would just be the
> notation used for times that would change.

Would make it a bit difficult for long distance travellers I think. If
you travel from the UK to the USA, and arrive in what previously was a
timezone at UTC-7, you'll have to tell your mind that 1am is time to
get up, and breakfast will only be served till 3am. Of course your
body will agree with you that 3am is way too early to be even thinking
of breakfast, but I'm not sure which would be  more - your
body or you mind - when trying to adjust to a new time schedule.
You'd still have the jetlag, but now on top of it you have to keep
calculating the times.

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