Re: Weather now DST

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>
> Seriously, at 6 AM there are no pedestrians. The chances of wiping out 
> some idiot on a bicycle are much greater. The sad fact is there are no 
> pedestrians to hit because there are no places to walk to. But the same 
> is true at 9 PM. And when the sun rises and sets is truly irrelevant.
>
>
> On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 05:46 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> >
> >> 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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> 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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