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   From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 3/6/2026 2:21 PM, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 11:20:09 -0700, blank verse wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 12:40:51 -0500 Frank  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 3/6/2026 12:07 PM, Ed P wrote:   
   >>>> On 3/6/2026 12:00 PM, Frank wrote:   
   >>>>> On 3/6/2026 6:32 AM, redacted wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 3/6/26 01:50, T wrote:   
   >>>>>>> USA: Daylight Stupid Time starts on Sunday, March 8, 2026   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I don't know a single taxpayer who wants DST and I've never heard a   
   >>>>>> reasonable explanation to keep it.... yet here we are.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I want it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Wiki DST article is worth reading.  Looks like US, Canada and EU are   
   >>>>> most of the world users and negatives outweigh positives.  I suspect   
   >>>>> US would stop it but undecided between DST and standard time.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Some of that depends on where you are in the time zone.  On the   
   >>>> eastern side, I like the light at end of day, but if I was on the   
   >>>> western end, would not matter much.   
   >>>   
   >>> It is interesting and reminds me of the time I did a couple of days   
   >>> work in western Michigan and people were up and going to work and   
   >>> school in the dark while back home in Delaware it was daylight.  Then   
   >>> there were people I worked with in northern UK that in the winter Went   
   >>> to work and came home in the dark.  First time I was in that area in   
   >>> the summer, sun was up at 5 am and down at 10 pm.  Time zones would   
   >>> make no difference.   
   >>   
   >> Of course they do, did you want dark nights earlier in summer?   
   >>   
   >> If so, why?   
   >> Aridzona likes that because it (slightly) cools off a bit faster after   
   >> work.   
   >   
   >   
   > Arizona is also far enough south that the length of the day doesn't vary   
   > as much. Around here in the summer the birds start raising hell around 5   
   > AM and at the height of the summer I can comfortably read out on the deck   
   > at 10 PM.   
   >   
   > Of course Navajoland marches to its own drummer.   
      
   That was part of point of my post.  All depends where you are.   
      
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