[time-nuts] The future of UTC

[Michael Malloy]

In Australia, Queensland is the only state that does not use daylight
savings time.
There reasons, "it upsets the cows feeding routine"

Maybe we can harness this cow feeding routine instead of an OCXO?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On 17/07/11 16:21, Peter G. Viscarola wrote:
>>>
>>> Call your local politician ?  DST is a national matter, so all you have
>>> to do is convince your politicians[1].
>>
>> Actually, in most countries not a "national" matter... but more typically
>> a local (state/province/canton/prefecture) political matter.
>>
>> For example there are US States that don't observe daylight savings time
>> (a good example is Arizona... they just don't need more daytime hours there
>> apparently), as there are in Australia.
>
> USA is not very representative in this respect.
>
> Here in Europe, except for Russia and Denmark it is vairly easy to bring in
> the county in one time-zone and that's why its been done on govrement level.
>
> Mainland Denmark (which in itself is a lot of islands) is one time-zone, but
> Greenland and Færø-islands don't fit that time.
>
> Actually, if you look at the map some countries is skewed in the time
> compared to their geographical position.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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