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On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:03 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: >> > Please pass >> > >> https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/ >> > >> > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that I was >> > misreading things. >> >> except they got it backwards? People who *like* getting up and going >> to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is >> rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many. But how many folks >> want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM? >> >> > >> I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at noontime >> and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that moment. It is >> a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares. >> > Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the sky. > And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech fixes to > get a lot of sunshine through the day for any given location. such that > noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56' 39.0588'' W*. For Santa Fe, NM > means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks, > computers etc know to make adjustments through out the year to make sure > noon means the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky on a y axis for > those coordinates. > lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically even, > Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n sunshine. For the > white house would make to many peoples eyes glaze over. just getting to > have one or the other is a pretty good solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments > can come along shortly. > What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around going > we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is this weirdness > going to keep going. > I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and how > many more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it passes. > >> but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me, and those >> that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST differences. >> >> > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who looks and >> > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel. >> > >> > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS. >> > >> I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might help break >> up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up, but I think >> the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that the UBI >> and NHS would confront. >> >> LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right. >> > I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a lot > don't. Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer and winter > clock system? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country > so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places and the > rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of clock? coolness! > >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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