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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/5/2019 8:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

OK 5:40. Without DST that would be 4:40.

I am sure people in Pennsylvania are hardworking, but I still
believe some will get up later than 4:40.

>                                        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.

:-)

Arne