[Info-vax] Time change

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
> 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.

That makes a lot of sense to me.

It isn't quite as easy to reschedule other things, but we 
could instead of DST move the start times of many events earlier
in the summer.  

> 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.

Well, the time zone line goes through Indiana.  Most of the state
is on the eastern time zone side, but, because of the position in
the time zone already about half an hour ahead.  By not going to DST
that part is then at the same time as the western (central time) part
when that part did change.

Then there is Arizona, also close to a time zone line and far enough
south such that the seasonal change is not so big.  In Seattle in 
June and July it stays light out until about 10:00.  In the winter,
it is dark by about 5:00.

-- glen