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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 2/17/2007, you wrote:
> This is news that bypassed me, which is not terribly
> surprising.  When I first heard about the change, I thought it was a
> hoax or joke, but, alas, it is neither.

Remember that bit about those who do not remember the past are doomed to 
repeat it?  This change in the date for setting DST (and forcing places 
like parts of Indiana and Arizona to go on DST) is one of those political 
grandstanding that politicians like to do instead of really solving 
problems which might make a campaign contributor upset.  It was done in the 
name of saving energy but pushed several years into the future so we would 
hopefully forget who did it.

The past part, they did the same thing in the mid 70s only then it was 
supposed to be a year round thing.  People did not like being pushed into 
the morning darkness so congress set the dates we were used to.  Now they 
are shifting things around again in the name of energy savings.

> I know how to change the computer date, but will have to play around
> with the cell phone since I don't know enough to always dial the
> numbers correctly.

Cell phones get the date and time from the system so it should not be a 
concern.  As I cross time zones I sometimes watch the cell phone time shift 
back and forth as different cells connect.



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Perhaps they can explain how it will save energy if folks are getting up 
when it is still dark and thus using energy both for lights and heat that 
they wouldn't use otherwise?

I sometimes wonder if one of the pre-req's for being a politician is putting 
common sense in cold storage.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>

> Remember that bit about those who do not remember the past are doomed to
> repeat it?  This change in the date for setting DST (and forcing places
> like parts of Indiana and Arizona to go on DST) is one of those political
> grandstanding that politicians like to do instead of really solving
> problems which might make a campaign contributor upset.  It was done in 
> the
> name of saving energy but pushed several years into the future so we would
> hopefully forget who did it.
>
> The past part, they did the same thing in the mid 70s only then it was
> supposed to be a year round thing.  People did not like being pushed into
> the morning darkness so congress set the dates we were used to.  Now they
> are shifting things around again in the name of energy savings.