Board Time

[Jerry3904]

Hmmm. God, by definition, is outside of time--so that must have been some clock to see!

[lucky9]

I think she was thinking about Sunrise and Sunset.

[GuiGuy]

..............in a fit of virtuosity............

I think it was a fit of virtuousness - virtuosity is something different and does not usually come in fits.
Sorry, BJ, but I was shocked because your English is normally impeccable.
Your story made me chuckle anyway.

BTW I agree with lucky's Granny about God and Government.

[Gaer Boy]

When British Summer Time was first introduced in 1916, the villagers of Llangennith, at the far west of the Gower peninsular, held a parish meeting to discuss the concept. They resolved to try the newfangled idea for one month and revert to GMT if the majority didn't like it. It wouldn't have made much difference - the only transport for the 20 miles to Swansea was the local carter.

Time zone rather than DST, but I liked the note in the rail timetable for the Indian Pacific across the Nullabor Plain. When we visited in 1990, it said that the conductor on the train would tell us when to change our watches, and by how much!

Phil

[Gordon Cooper]

On the Indian Pacific you certainly would not know just where you were by looking out the window. I can reme,ber the watch change
too. In US we ran into problems with those states that do not observe daylight saving, Indiana is one while it's neighbour Illinois does,
an AMTRAK staffer told us that sometimes the train stops in a passing loop to let the clock catch up - though that never happened to us,
in three months of circumnavigating US and Canada by rail, trains were most often late.

[uncle mark]

In US we ran into problems with those states that do not observe daylight saving, Indiana is one while it's neighbour Illinois does,

Used to be the case, but that charged 10 years ago or so. I think Arizona is the only holdout of the contiguous 48.

[richb]

In US we ran into problems with those states that do not observe daylight saving, Indiana is one while it's neighbour Illinois does,

Used to be the case, but that charged 10 years ago or so. I think Arizona is the only holdout of the contiguous 48.

That is correct. And one friend I have does not observe it. So it is Arizona and Don.

[Gordon Cooper]

Is the following view generally accepted?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... me/354753/

[richb]

Is the following view generally accepted?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc ... me/354753/

Not among the people I know. Some grumbling, but mostly a marker that winter is on its way, when Standard Time returns.

[Leo]

My internal clock gets me up every morning (even though, being disabled, I haven't had to get up for anything in over a decade), but it doesn't have a DST button. All of a sudden, I'm getting up at 4 in the morning...