<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">What I don’t understand, is why change time, just change working hours. <div class="">I’m all for giving up the time change, but the standard should probably still be UTC offset.<br class=""><div>If you work 9-5, change it to 10-6. Every company can post working hours on their website.</div><div>Obviously for most of us, it’s a moot point.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>P.S. Anyone working at NIST or a similar org probably needs a raise for dealing with all the exceptions.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2022, at 4:16 PM, Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" class="">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">WaPo has a been there done that item today.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/" class="">https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/</a><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:11 PM Jay R. Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" class="">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In a unanimous vote today, the US Senate approved a bill which would<br class="">
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1) Cancel DST permanently, and<br class="">
2) Move every square inch of US territory 15 degrees to the east.<br class="">
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My opinion of this ought to be obvious from my rhetoric. Hopefully, it will<br class="">
fail, because it's likely to be the end of rational time worldwide, and even<br class="">
if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult.<br class="">
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I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on...<br class="">
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Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their<br class="">
decision on this engineering construct.<br class="">
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Cheers,<br class="">
-- jra<br class="">
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