[Info-vax] Time change

[AEF]

On Mar 10, 3:04 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
> billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> >And how would screwing with our internal time clocks stand any chance
> >of increasing, as opposed to decreasing, our personal productivity?
> >Don't tell me, the government paid for that study, right?
>
> The belief that DST "works" has been around for a while.  I don't know
> about Ben Franklin and the candles, but DST was put in place for WW1 to
> "conserve energy", and I think there was double DST (time advanced 2 hours)
> during WW2.  Farmers don't care for it (cows don't care for being milked
> an hour later all of a sudden)

So why don't the farmers schedule their cow-milking via Standard Time
year-round? They could rewrite the milking schedule the same way we IT-
ers reschedule jobs on systems that run on UTC.

I think Indiana finally has a uniform time system. IIRC, there used to
be 3 regions in which the time zone/DST policy differed from the rest
of the state. I believe I read that this was done to make the state
more business-friendly or similar or something like that or whatever.

AEF

>
> I know DST was changed very recently in the US (again to conserve energy).
> The change last weekend was earlier than last year's change. I was
> wondering if our Canadian neighbors made the same changes to stay
> in synch with the US or kept with the old date.

AEF