Re: Oracle - DST 2007 heads up

In article <45d6036b$0$137$157c6196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dr. Dweeb" <spam@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
In article <45d4412e$0$30102$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Main, Kerry" <Kerry.Main@xxxxxx> wrote in message
In addition to the above, some additional links of interest:

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Don't forget:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings_time (also see Ben
Franklin link at bottom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005

Yeah, Daykight Saving Time. And idea that makes no sense now and
would have made even less sense in the time of Ben Frankilin who
is supposed to have invented it!!

bill

Would you like to elaborate on that bombastic statement ? I am curious as
to why you believe that it makes no sense.


All DST does is move the window of daylight within the window of time
during which we function. My day (and I am sure most others as well)
starts before the sun comes up and ends long after it goes down. What
difference does it make where in the second window the first falls?
I consume electricity and other resources whne I can't rely on the
sun to provide them. The amount of time I spend in natural darkness
is the same regardless of where you position window one.

In the case of Ben Franklin, the supposed reason was to "save on candles".
Considering that in the life a colonial farmer window two was even longer
than most of ours today, he had even more darkness on either side of his
daylight window. What difference does it make if ou burn candles in the
morning or in the evening? Actually, they would have burned them at both
ends of their rather long day.

Explain again where the saving from this is?

bill

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