I hope the imperial measurement system is the next thing to go. On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 1:00 PM cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> For those of you who don't get all of your news from XKCD, > https://xkcd.com/2594 . > > 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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