[time-nuts] The future of UTC

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Jose,

In many countries, the government has no right to tell companies when they should be open or closed. However, they control when midnight is.

Didier KO4BB

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Jose Camara" <camaraq1 at quantacorp.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:28:39 
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Tony:

	The book is available at my local library - I'll check it out with
an open mind, but I just can't see what would be the difference of telling
people they need to go to work 1hr earlier instead of 'fooling' them by
changing their clocks.

	Wikipedia has a long article, too - it seems the original
justification (power savings) hasn't been realized. 

Thanks,
Jose

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Tony Finch
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 5:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] The future of UTC

Jose Camara <camaraq1 at quantacorp.com> wrote:

> I think before adding to the fire of UTC1, UTC7 etc. why not just abolish
> this silliness called Daylight Savings Time?  If there is any benefit to
it,
> just change business operating hours instead.

If you want to know why your suggestion doesn't work, David Prerau has
collected many many examples. http://www.seizethedaylight.com/

Tony.
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