[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Rob Kimberley rk at timing-consultants.com
Mon Jul 18 16:49:12 UTC 2011


I believe we had double daylight saving over here (UK) during WWII.

Rob K

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Sent: 18 July 2011 5:17 PM
To: aa8k at comcast.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] The future of UTC

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Naruta AA8K <aa8k at comcast.net> wrote:

> If advancing the clocks one hour saves so much daylight, why not 
> advance the clocks by two hours to save even more?

The amount of time to move the clock depends on how far north you live.
Days being even longer at high latitudes.  I think one hour is a compromise.
There have been proposals to do what they call "double daylight saving time"
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Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California

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