Russell Chapman wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >>9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling
> >>reason why we observe daylight savings time.
> >>
> >Not true.
> >
> Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that for every clear and
> compelling argument why DST is observed, there is a clear and compelling
> argument that it should NOT be observed...
>
> We don't have it here, but every few years enough people complain that
> it goes to the vote again, and each time it is rejected. What I find
> amusing is that their most compelling argument is that other states in
> our time zone have it so we should too... (completely ignoring the fact
> that we are close to the equator and the other states aren't all that
> far from the Antarctic circle). If I lived where Ray lives, I'd insist
> on it - but where I am it would be awful...
Arizona doesn't observe it for the reasons you hint at. Every time we
make the switch, we have to adjust to being a different number of hours
from where my parents-in-law live, and they tend not to calculate it
right for about a month after the change, which can lead to phone calls
at an hour we'd consider to be ungodly on a Saturday.
Julia
who would just as soon drop anything that could mess up biological
clocks, and DST is a lot more droppable than, say, jet lag
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