Re: Save The Daylight!

Sara Running <srunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:fr42r501faj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

In article <92fat39dmndmii7h5bvgcf6pmkn0nfk6nk@xxxxxxx>, Penelope
Periwinkle says...

On 9 Mar 2008 22:08:44 -0400, Steve Daniels <sdaniels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I love daylight saving time. I'd run it all year. Hell, I'd
move the clocks up *two* hours. Here it is, early March, and it's
still light out at seven in the evening.


Meeeee Tooooo!

I've been listening to the radio, and all the usual po-faced
bellyachers, and fusspot economists have been trotting out the usual
mataeological piss points and pointless objections to daylight saving
time. I keep wondering why they never talk to people like me or you
who take such deep and satisfying joy in having hours of daylight when
we can use them. I get as excited about the first day of Daylight
Saving Time as I do Christmas.



It all depends on your perspective. For a business that runs 24X7,
switching is a big pain, especially if you have geographies that don't
change. (Meeting times can get screwed up, depending on who did the
scheduling.)

We're dealing with that this week. I'm no the planning committee for the
JA-SIG conference (for the fourth time) and we have a weekly conference call
with members from the U.S. East Coast to Hawaii.

.

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