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echo: bbs_carnival
to: SEAN DENNIS
from: NANCY BACKUS
date: 2011-03-12 14:18:00
subject: Re: Spring forward

-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to All on 03-10-11  17:18 <=-

 SD> I don't know how many people this applies to in here, but this is the
 SD> weekend that we "spring forward" with Daylight Savings
Time here in the
 SD> US.  I personally think it's a joke (and indeed, when Benjamin Franklin
 SD> proposed it to the French, he meant it as a joke), but unfortunately, I

It's a bad joke... ;0   It saves no time, really... just steals it from
the morning and adds it to the night...  And some of us need it more in
the morning... :/

 SD> This is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detectors
 SD> too. 

Back when we were on one time for about six months, and then changed for
about six months, that was more useful advice... now, if you checked
your batteries when the last changeover occurred, it's only been about 4
months... and they'll have to last for another 8 before the next change.

 SD> ... Do unto others as they have done unto you.

About as productive as " do unto others before they do to you"...  ;0

ttyl      neb

... Sit down, you're rocking the boat!

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