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"D. Stussy" writes:

>"Jack Snodgrass" wrote in message
>news:t%xCj.3897$%Y2.3618@trnddc08...
>> ...
>> I wish that they would have just gone up 30 minutes and left it there...
>> no nore DST... just split the difference and added 30 minutes to
>> everything.

>Actually, that would be worse - as our U.S. hour would fall on everyone
>else's half-hour.

>A time-zone realignment would be less damaging. Without regard to political
>boundaries, every timezone would be centered on each longitude divisible by
>15 +/- 7.5 degrees. It's the political alterations that are insane in some
>cases. Fixing that would help in some cases. It's all the railroads' fault
>anyway.

Sure, the airlines would have been happy with sun time:-)

And having a timezone run through the center of a city would have been
fine. Sheesh. Those "political" adjustments were doing exactly what they
should do, make time fit the lives of people rather than the other way
around. Whether or not DST does that may be up for debate, but debate is
part of the poitical process.