Re: Error with the leap year

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]>wrote:

> >>>>> "sc" == sc  <[email protected]> writes:
>
> sc> we should start a movement to eliminate DST -- i think i heard
> sc> they got rid of it in Russia -- they don't struggle with it in
> sc> Arizona -- not just the United States, but all countries should
> sc> just eliminate it -- it was a bad idea to begin with, never had
> sc> any merit, and should be relegated to the dustbin of history
>
> Indeed!
>

People offer the argument from authority that Benjamin Franklin suggested
it. He was a very subtle fellow and may have been kidding or making a straw
man argument against some other point.

I like the proposal for US time simplification forwarded at
http://standardtime.com/
and mention it whenever the subject comes up. Initially I found it
oversimplistic but then came around to believing that the compromises
inherent in their proposal are well thought out.

So now whenever there is a daylight savings shift (and accompanying
statistically significant bump in traffic accident numbers) I note which
half of the US is "in compliance" and which is out.