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echo: abled
to: Richard Webb
from: Roger Nelson
date: 2010-03-14 05:34:20
subject: Re: DST

RW>RN> I leave the wall clocks set the way they are.  Too many to change.
 
RW> Yah we've got the one in the living room and the kitchen
RW> stove clock.  IF they're inccurate that's Kathy's problem.
 
That's also one of the two times I touch them.  The other is for battery replacement.
 
RW> i use my braille watch on my wrist, or the computer, or to
RW> get minutes past the hour I use the national bureau of
RW> standards wwv on shortwave just to see if the computer's
RW> setting its clock three mornings a week like it's supposed
RW> to .  WE'll have to make sure time on the alarm clock is
RW> right tonight though as I've gotta get Kathy up, gotta go to the car
RW> wash, vacuum out the van and then go pick up some
RW> new to us office furniture tomorrow.
 
I'm too old for an alarm clock.  (-:  There was a time, when I was in the
workforce, that you could set your clock when I got out of bed.  It was
05:00 for many years.  Not anymore.
 
[...]
 
RW>RN> I didn't vote for it and if it were up to me, I'd abolish DST.
 
RW> I sure didn't either.  Have read that accident rates go up
RW> when they change the time like that.  .
 
One would think that by now the stone heads that enacted that law(?) would
realize it's doing more harm than good.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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