[Info-vax] EU will abandon daylight savings time in 2021

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/5/19 2:54 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/5/2019 12:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 4/5/19 11:48 AM, Baldrick wrote:
>>> Didn't the US adopt different dates for "energy saving"? Is that 
>>> ruled out now with better efficiency LED lights? Europe effectively 
>>> banned incandescent lighting.
>>
>> I have heard this before.  Supposedly the idea started with
>> Ben Franklin to conserve on candle use.  Then in more modern
>> times to conserve energy.  In both cases it really doesn't
>> make any sense at all.  Who in Ben Franklin's day or ours
>> today does not start their day before the sun comes up and
>> not end it till long after the sun has gone down.  All DST
>> has ever done is shift the daylight period in regards the
>> wall clock.  It has never provided more daylight and thus
>> a savings of whatever means was used to generate artificial
>> light.  I'm retired and I still rise before the sun and go
>> to bed long after the sun has departed.
> 
> Sunrise and sunset depends on location and time of year.

Quite true.

> 
> If we pick a random location like Pennsylvania USA then
> at midsummer the sun raises around 5:30 with DST and 4:30
> without DST. I suspect there are people in Pennsylvania that
> get up later than that.

According to the website I just checked sunrise in PA on the
longest day of the years is 5:40.   Of course, that assumes
you can see the horizon.  NEPA where I live is very mountainous
and it can easily be an our or more later before the sun actually
clears the local horizon.

bill