Re: Weather now DST

So, Jim, how many pedestrians do your normally hit on your way to work?
Do you have a record number? Have you ever had a shut-out?


--
Kitty 
neIN, Zone5

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> Thanks for reminding me, Auralie. I've heard those arguments before. 
> But I'm not sure they are either true or relevant. For example, why 
> would running over fewer pedestrians in the morning be better than 
> running over more of them in the evening, or vise versa? [Do we still 
> have pedestrians in this country to run over anyway?] And, I suspect if 
> you factor increasing day length into the electricity-saved equation, 
> DST may even have a negative effect--burning power in the arising hours 
> of the AM but not saving much in the retiring hours of the PM. 
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, the only good thing about it is it keeps the 
> rising sun out of my eyes when I drive to work every morning and, 
> therefore, I hit fewer pedestrians than I normally would. 
> 
> I still think the whole thing was a WWII morale builder--something to 
> unite public sentiment behind the war effort with an easy "feel good" 
> payoff--that had no other real purpose. Kinda like putting an American 
> flag decal in the rear window of your pickup. 
> 
> Since then, it seems to have become a symbol of atonement for 
> squandering more than our share of the world's petroleum reserves. 
> 
> 
> On Sunday, February 27, 2005, at 07:14 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote: 
> 
> > In a message dated 02/27/2005 6:22:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> > jsinger@igc.org writes: 
> > Please do. It's one of life's most inane rituals. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, February 27, 2005, at 06:34 PM, Kitty wrote: 
> > 
> >> So just IN and AZ are sane? 
> >> I really don't know about the rest of the world. I don't even know if 
> >> Canada bothers. I'll ask. 
> > 
> > This may not answer you questions, but is an exerpt from a 
> > piece in my club's newsletter. 
> > The idea of Daylight Saving Time was first mentioned in a whimsical 
> > essay 
> > by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, titled bTurkey vs. Eagle, McCauley is my 
> > Beagle.b 
> > It was first advocated seriously by a London builder, William Willett 
> > (1865-1915), who proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four 
> > Sundays 
> > in 
> > April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in 
> > September. A 
> > bill was introduced in the British Parliament in 1909, and was met with 
> > ridicule 
> > and opposition. However a bSummer Timeb bill was adopted in 1917, 
> > following 
> > a similar enactment in Germany, with the object of saving coal. 
> > During World 
> > War II, clocks remained ahead throughout the year, and were set ahead 
> > for two 
> > hours during the summer. 
> > Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that 
> > Daylight 
> > Saving Time trims the entire countrybs electricity usage by a 
> > significant, 
> > but 
> > small amount, of less than one percent each day. There is also a 
> > small public 
> > health benefit to Daylight Saving Time. Studies in the U.S. and 
> > Britain have 
> > found that daylight, almost certainly because of improved visibility, 
> > substantially decreases (by four times) the likelihood of pedestrians 
> > being 
> > killed on 
> > the roads. 
> > 
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> Island Jim 
> Southwest Florida 
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W 
> Hardiness Zone 10 
> Heat Zone 10 
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C] 
> Maximum 100 F [38 C] 
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