There are plenty of arguments that the existing school hours aren’t best for educating children so the better answer might be to make school hours match later daylight hours.
> On Mar 15, 2022, at 5:23 PM, Matthew Huff <mh...@ox.com> wrote: > > They don't want their names on it when what happened in the 70s happens > again. The effect of setting everything to DST and staying there is that in > the winter, especially in the norther latitude it will be pitch dark during > most of the morning when children get picked up at school bus stops. When the > tragedy happens again, and it will, they will end up undoing this again... > > History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce... > > Matthew Huff | Director of Technical Operations | OTA Management LLC > > Office: 914-460-4039 > mh...@ox.com | www.ox.com > ........................................................................................................................................... > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Jay R. > Ashworth > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:30 PM > To: Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> > Cc: nanog@nanog.org list <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST > > Oh. This was "Unanimous Consent"? AKA "I want to vote for this, but *I do > not want to be held responsible for having voted for it when it blows up*?" > > I'd missed that; thanks. > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tom Beecher" <beec...@beecher.cc> >> To: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:04:02 PM >> Subject: Re: "Permanent" DST > >> I would say if something passes the United States Senate in our >> current political environment by unanimous consent (which this did) , >> I kinda feel like there won't be a ton of issues with everybody >> figuring out how to line themselves up appropriately. >> >>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:01 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> That is true but at present everything business related in BC has a >>> clear expectation of being in the same time zone as WA/OR/CA, and AB >>> matches US Mountain time. >>> >>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 13:35, Paul Ebersman <list-nan...@dragon.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> eric> If Canada doesn't do the same thing at the same time, it'll be >>>> eric> a real hassle, dealing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing >>>> eric> the border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done >>>> eric> consistently throughout North America. >>>> >>>> You must not have ever dealt with Indiana, where it was DST or not >>>> by choice per county. It wasn't quite the cluster***k you'd think. >>>> > > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
