<div dir="ltr"><br><div>If you don't like sending the larve ;) to school in the dark, you can always change the school start time!</div><div><br></div><div>When I was a software engineer at JetBlue, engineers spent considerable time fixing daylight saving time and time zone bugs in all their software.</div><div>You'd think an airline company would know how to deal with time (unix time!!) , but jet blue had no idea how to do it.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5908100048391271648"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-5908100048391271648WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Yanks who are old enough may recall this is our second run at making Daylight Savings Time permanent. It was tried once before in my early teens. It lasted only one year, then was voted by congress back to semiannual clock switching, by a larger margin than stopped it. I predict the same will happen again for all the same reasons: sunrise time is more important than sunset time. Switching the clocks makes sunrise time closer to consistent, while exaggerating changes in sunset time. We don’t like to send the larvae to school in the dark: it is more dangerous. It has disadvantages.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Insight: in the early 70s, electronic digital clocks were coming into fashion. Most of us figured out how to set them. As the youngest in my family, that was my job, twice a year, set all the clocks including the ones in the cars. People without children sometimes just let it go, tried to remember the clock was an hour off for nearly half the year.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Now, more clocks set themselves and stay accurate from radio signals (cool.) But I predict that proles will hate DST in December and January, and that congress will revive the clock setting by mid March 2027.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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