Something Arizona does right

Yep...

We don't need no mo' daylight... we have enough already ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

And soon the illegal aliens will complain because they need that extra hour of daylight to cross over the border. I can see the ACLU filing a lawsuit now.

Hawaii doesn't have DST either, and it's a long swim from Mexico.

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Jim hates daylight saving as an idea. He thinks the sun shines out of his ass and he doesn't want to get up an hour early for anyone.

Ship some this way then. We can use any you don't want.

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  Keith

I miss it. Not the lack of silly clock-changing, but having the sun rise and set *on time*. Not having to change your internal clock is an added bonus.

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Good on ya Arizona...

Perth (Western Australia) is going through the DST battle for the 3rd time in 15 years - a referendum defeated it on both previous occasions.

The crux of the issue is that Perth already has more sunlight hours than any other capital city. Perth is actually (solar time) about 2hrs

20min behind the east coast cities of Melbourne and Sydney (which do have DST during summer) but for convenience sake we operate on a 2 hr difference in winter and 3 hrs in summer when they have DST. This means we already have 20min DST all year round as it is, but that is ok. Business which has vested interests and the younger carefree part of the community who only think of having more time to booze and nightclub and surf are all for DST during summer but the older and wiser part of the community is saying NO! Perth has just experienced a weeks run of around 40C (2 days above 42C) so we don't need more sunlight hours.

Perth has an average of more than 8 hours sunlight ALL year round with summer peaking at an average of over 10 hrs per day. Sydney on the east coast is lucky to average just over 6hrs per day all year round yet our state leaders want US to have even more daylight hours to play with. Bah - humbug, I say - I don't get to watch the 7pm tv news now (we are again currently trialling DST) and because it is still light outside I keep working. It just means burning the candle at both ends as far as I am concerned. While you are young it is fine but as you get older it is no fun anymore.

My work allows some degree of flex-time. You are expected to work at least 40 hours a week, be in plant (or call in to meetings) during core time (9AM-3PM). make all your appointments, and be there when the boss calls an all-hands meeting. So I could just get up at the same sun time as before, but that would put in the bad traffic an hour later than usual.

Nah, you just want your time to be the same as California's for part of the year. You wannabes are probably glad for the longer DST because now you'll line up longer.

The neat thing about DST is that it serves as a perpetual demonstration of how easily bad ideas *will* be adopted regardless of the effect, inconvenience and cost because the "Everybody else is doing it" and "We Must Do ... Something" decision making.

Hardly.

Most of my business comes from the eastern and central time zones... and Europe and Australia... less than 7% from California.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Right, and whenever I drive from Albuquerque to points-West, I can never figure out when to turn my watch back: at the AZ border, or the Colorado river. The same thing applied to making phone calls the Phoenix -- is it an hour earilier, or the same time?

I finally got it all straight, but it took a while.

,

During DST Arizona is two hours earlier than Mountain daylight time, the same as Pacific daylight time.

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Oooops! Make that one hour earlier :-(

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

In the UK the politicians (otherwise known as 'W@nker5') are talking about DST (Double Summer Time). The clocks will go on to CET and GMT will disappear completely. It will also mean that, in the middle of winter, it will get dark at about 3pm.

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John B