From: Jim McDonald (jmcdon23@CSC.COM.AU)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 23:37:38 EST
Hi
Then you have New Zealand which changed its time permanently to +1 hour
during WW2 then about 25 years later added summer DST just to remove
everything from the realities of longitude.
As regards Aust-WA, OK if you like isolation
Regards
Jim McDonald
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Subject: Re: [aix-l] Daylight Saving
In Australia, we have the Eastern seaboard, New South Wales, switching
to DST in summer. But, we in Western Australia do not. The easterners
live to the right of the longitude line that is used to determine the
"normal" time of day with respect to GMT/CUT. We live to the left of
ours so our daylight is still present at 7:00-8:00pm at night. Another
hour of sunlight would see our children going to bed while it's still
light.
We try to tell the easterners that this is the place to live....
Jef...
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Green, Simon
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:56 PM
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Subject: OT: Daylight Saving
Beats me. Ben Franklin was a smart man, so may well have come up with
it first. However...
The site I posted earlier states that it was invented by William Willett
of London, who published his idea (to much disdain) in 1907, and it was
implemented in the UK as a productivity aid for the war effort in 1916,
and adopted by other countries subsequently. Wikipedia and several other
places carry an article that states that Franklin's letter on the
subject (in the "Journal of Paris": I haven't found a copy) was humorous
and he was proposing that people should get up and go to bed earlier,
not that clocks should change. The same article gives the credit to
Willett, but reckons that it was first implemented by Germany in WWI.
Germany 30/04/16
UK 21/05/16
USA 31/03/18 - ?/?/1919, then 2/09/42 - 30/09/45; 04/66.
(Some big gaps for the USA: those dates are for Federal law: what the
individual States did between 1945 and 1966 was their business. Hawaii
still doesn't operate DST, logically enough.)
Further reading - interesting piece at
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html (and they DO have
the original letter there, apparently - leads me to conclude that
Franklin did publish the concept first - in 1784 - but only as a bit of
whimsy, and for the benefit of Parisians, not farmers. However, he
probably inspired others, leading eventually to Willett, who was the
first to make a serious proposal for it.
Of course, all that is taken from the Internet, so should all be
regarded with some scepticism.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM]
> Sent: 05 January 2004 15:02
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Daylight Saving
>
>
> That is odd - we here in the USA are (perhaps better said - "I was")
> under the impression that Ben Franklin suggest DST as a way to get
> farmers more
> daylight way back when.
>
> Am I in error ?
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